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and a strikeout. Vakiner handled the final three innings on the mound and let in one earned run on no hits and three strikeouts.

After winning the East division during the regular season, the Central City Seniors faced off with the winners of the West, McCook, and coasted to a 9-1 victory behind a dominant pitching performance from Colbyn Peters.

Central City Seniors move to 12-0 The Central City Post 6 Seniors improved their record to 12-0 last week, notching impressive wins over Grand Island USave Pharmacy and Doniphan-Trumbull- Giltner (DTG) on Thursday and Sunday, respectively.

The Central City Juniors trailed for six complete innings before evening the score against Grand Island Pro Team Design in the seventh frame. Despite that late surge, the hosts won in walk-off fashion, edging out the Green and Gold 8-7.

Ten hits, six errors, and a standout pitching performance from Kayden Morner resulted in a dominant 16-1 win for the Central City Seniors in last Wednesday’s road battle with Aurora.

The top senior basketball players from the Lou-Platte Conference got one last chance to showcase their skills on the hardwood last Thursday as they took on the best of the best from the Southwest Conference in the 2026 New West All-Star Classic in Minden.

Central City was well-represented at last Thursday’s New West All-Star Classic basketball game in Minden, with standout graduates Payton Burbach and Reagan Fousek taking to the court one last time.

The Central City Post 6 Juniors kicked off last week with a 12-9 win over Doniphan- Trumbull-Giltner (DTG) on Monday, but saw their record slip one game under .500 after falling to Aurora and Centura on Wednesday and Thursday.

There was a slugfest in Central City last Wednesday. In the hometown Juniors’ battle with Kearney Jerseys, the two teams combined for twenty-one hits and twenty-five runs, with a walk-off hit by Jayden Carlson cementing a 1312 victory for the Green and Gold.

After five games, the Central City Seniors remain perfect on the year. Last week, the Green and Gold rattled off three consecutive wins to improve their regular season record to 5-0, beginning with an impressive 12-0 shutout victory over Kearney Jerseys on Wednesday at Kernel Field.