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My son's senior night was last Monday 4/26 which was the 2nd to last home game.  Last night was the last home game but it was used to honor the school's baseball coach who retired after 2019.  He was there 26 years and collected a lot of hardware.  They wanted to do it last spring, but Covid shelved it.  District seeds/pairings come out out tomorrow and Districts will be wrapped up by Sunday.  Next weekend is State and that'll be all she wrote for high school baseball here in Nebraska.

After State is done, the mass scatter/exodus occurs.  Most of the best players bolt for travel ball leaving legion ball a shell of what it once was here.  Up until a couple years ago, legion still ruled the summer roost here.  High school baseball would end, everyone would put on their legion uniforms and baseball continued with all the same teams and coaches.  Simply a different official name, but otherwise a direct continuation of the spring high school season.  What we have now is a very unhealthy distaste by high school coaches to those who "stole" their best players who wanted to be recruited more than they valued loyalty to their high school coaches and teammates.

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