Sports

The Shrine Bowl committee is full steam ahead following Governor Pete Ricketts announcement that contact sport activities and competitions could begin July 1st.

Season three for the Western Nebraska Pioneers is set to begin on June 26. The preparations for the season opener starting at Oregon Trail Park Stadium in Gering as the team holding workouts throughout this week and next week .

NSAA member schools may hold open gyms for basketball, football, soccer, and wrestling

The 2020 Platte Valley Companies Monument Marathon will take place September 26th at 7:30 am. The PVC Monument Marathon is the largest annual fundraiser for the Western Nebraska Community College Foundation, which supports students, facilities and programs at WNCC.

Wisbech, England-native Jade Ovendale will be joining Hastings College as the new Head Women's Soccer Coach Athletic Director BJ Pumroy announced on Tuesday. Ovendale comes to Bronco Nation after spending the past two seasons as the head women's coach at Northern Oklahoma College following three seasons as assistant men's coach.

The season will span 52 games in 55 days. There will be 26 Pioneer home games in which all pioneer home games will start at 6:35pm in Gering except on Sundays which will start at 4:35pm.

Wide Receiver J.D. Spielman has officially entered the transfer portal and will be leaving the Husker football program.

Ten students from Western Nebraska will be going into the National Guard. These students have showed hard work and resilience traits of a great citizen-soldier.

The Hastings Sodbusters have 22 days to prepare for the start of the Expedition League season on June 26. The league announced yesterday they would hold a shortened regular season.

His final season at Grand Island, Cole Evans won the 2019 Nebraska Gatorade Baseball Player of the Year Award. That season he posted a .556 batting average and 30 RBI's.

In a statement released Wednesday night, the Expedition League announced it will hold a 52-game season starting on Friday, June 26 and the regular season will end on Wednesday, August 19. Then the winner of the Lewis Division and Clark Division will play in the Expedition League Championship Series, a best-of-three series from August 21-23.

The Expedition League announces that their 2020 season will officially begin on Friday, June 26 and teams will play a 52 game schedule.

Baseball is finally underway in Central Nebraska, and teams are adjusting to the new changes due to COVID-19.

Grand Island Senior High grad Cole Evans is transferring to Parkland College, a junior school in Champaign, Ill. Evans spent a year at Creighton before deciding to make the move to Parkland.

It was like coming back home for several local athletes on Monday as Governor Pete Ricketts allows baseball and softball teams to begin practices.

Across the state, legion baseball teams held their first practices of the summer. It was over two weeks ago when Nebraska Legion begin preparations to hold a regular season this summer.

Hastings College football has a new man in charge of its offense. John Grinde takes over for long-time coordinator, Clint Head. Grinde played wide receiver at the University of Central Missouri before starting his coaching career.

Chantae McMillan competed for Nebraska from 2007 to 2011. In her time with the Big Red she was a four-time Big 12 champion in Track & Field. She also earned a bid to the 2012 London Olympics where she competed in the heptathlon.

Hi-Way 92 Raceway in Gering is set to open next month. Track officials make the announcement that June 5 and June 6 the season will begin.

The grandstands have been closed but the sites and sounds of Fonner Park have kept going up until the final day of races at the track.

The Expedition League gives a timeline of when they hope to open the 2020 season. Under the potential schedule teams would report around mid June in preparations for a July 1 season opener.

Players will finally be able to take the field again this summer starting June 18 with new directed health measures in place.

The Nebraska Golf Association is planning its rules and regulations for their 2020 summer schedule which is set to start June 16 at Oakland Golf Course with the Nebraska Match Play Championships.

Former Western Nebraska Community College volleyball player Adia Sherbeyn is taking her talents to the four year level. Sherbeyn will become a student athlete at Lyon College in Arkansas and play volleyball.

The NSAA Representative Assembly met Thursday and voted on the motion to sanction bowling as a high school varsity sport for the 2020-21 school year. High school girls wrestling is considered an emerging sport.

Practices can begin on June 1 and teams can begin playing games on June 18.

Ty Roseberry's time on the diamond began in Kearney. He played for Nebraska-Kearney his first two years of college. During his time with the Lopers, he batted .311 with 16 HR and 51 RBI's before the program shut down following the 2018 season.

All NCAA sports will be able to begin voluntary on-campus workouts starting June 1.

The season will abide by the Nebraska Governor Pete Ricketts COVID-19 guidelines regarding baseball and softball.

In a normal world football teams would be gearing up for voluntary workouts in June. That will not be the case for the Nebraska-Kearney football team with their weight rooms closed until at least July. When it comes to lifting weights, no position is it more important than for an offensive lineman who is reliant on their size and strength.