Hartington Pony team takes regular season title

HARTINGTON — The Hartington Ponies captured the Quad County League regular season title and will be the No. 1 seed heading into its tournament.

The Ponies (15-3) will open their tournament journey 5:30 p.m. Thursday at the Neligh baseball park against Neligh/Elgin, which won its first-round game Monday night over Plainview. “The boys worked hard and came together as a team to earn the No.

“The boys worked hard and came together as a team to earn the No. 1 seed in the tournament and win the regular season title,” head coach Don Whitmire said. “As long as we continue to play as a team like we have all year long we should be in really good shape in the tournament.”

All 14 league teams will play in the tournament and the Ponies have played all of them except Summerland this season.

“I am excited for a strong tournament showing,” Whitmire said.

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