HIGH SCHOOL BASEBALL: East Hosts A-3 District Tournament Starting Friday

LINCOLN–(KFOR May 5)–Lincoln East is the third-ranked team overall based on the Nebraska School Activities Association’s power points for baseball, giving the Spartans the role as the host team of the A-3 district tournament Den Hartog Field starting Friday.

District pairings were released for Class A teams on Wednesday.  In the A-3 tournament, East will play an 11am Saturday semifinal game against the winner of Friday’s game between No. 5 seed Lincoln Northeast and No. 4 seed Bellevue East.  The other semifinal game will be 1:30pm Saturday featuring No. 2 seed Omaha Creighton Prep against No. 3 seed Columbus.

The A-3 District championship would be played 4pm Saturday at Den Hartog Field.

Here are the district pairings in Class A involving Lincoln teams:

A-1 District
A-2 District
A-3 District
A-6 District