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RENO _ Most players go a lifetime without hitting 6-for-6. For former Western Nevada College baseball star Brian Barnett, "a while," when it comes to the last time he has gone 6-for-6 was a little more than a year.
Barnett had his second straight game in which he went 3-for-3 as he helped the University of Nevada baseball team (31-19-1) come back for an 8-6 win over UC Davis on Tuesday at Peccole Park. Barnett's 14th home run of the season gave the Wolf Pack that 8-6 lead in the seventh inning.

Carson High baseball players Colby Blueberg, Nick Domitrovich and David Charles have all been invited to a Major League tryout to be held at 8:30 a.m. Sunday at Manogue.
Blueberg, Domitrovich and Charles are among 60 college and high school players who were invited to the tryout which is being held by the Major League Scouting Bureau. Major League and college scouts will attend the tryout.

Former Carson High standout Kayla Sanchez ran to sixth-place in the 400-meter hurdles and ran legs for Arizona State University relay teams that were top-three finishers at the Pacific-10 Conference Track and Field Championships in Berkeley, Calif., on Sunday.

Former Western Nevada College star Brian Barnett had his best day so far with the University of Nevada baseball team as the Wolf Pack rolled to an 11-0 win at Sacramento State on Sunday.

RENO — Richard Shroy went into the last lap of his boys 1,600 meters race merely trying to hang on for third-place and qualify for state. The Carson High senior did much better than that, using a blistering late kick to surge from third-place to a gold medal in the event during the Northern 4A Regional Track and Field Championships at Damonte Ranch High School on Saturday afternoon.

The Western Nevada College baseball team pounded out nine hits and held 17-year-old phenom Bryce Harper to a 1-for-5 day and struck him out three times.
So that led to another win over College of Southern Nevada, right? Not even close. CSN showed why its arguably the best team in the nation  -- and possibly the deepest -- by beating WNC 9-2 on Saturday in the championship round of the Scenic West Athletic Conference postseason tournament in Henderson.

Duane Kuiper keeps using the line when describing the San Francisco Giants, but the Western Nevada College  baseball team might as well steal the term from Kuiper and use it as its slogan.
 
WNC baseball  -- TORTURE!

Reno and Galena will meet to decide the Northern 4A Regional Baseball Tournament championship on Saturday in Minden.

Despite taking an early lead, the Western Nevada College softball team was unable to hang on as it dropped a 6-3 decision to Snow College in an elimination game at the Region 18 Tournament on Friday morning in Salt Lake City.

College of Southern Nevada scored four runs in the first two innings and went on to  a 5-1 opening round victory against Western Nevada College in the Region 18 Softball Tournament on Thursday afternoon in Salt Lake City.

RENO -- Sure, the Carson High softball team had its share of heroes on Thursday afternoon. When all was said and done, however, an all-around performance by "Team" Carson was the difference in an 8-5 victory against Reed at the Northern 4A Regional Softball Tournament at Bishop Manogue High School.

Western Nevada College and College of Southern Nevada will get together to revive their instate rivalry in the opening round of the Scenic West Athletic Conference playoffs on Thursday in a game scheduled to start at noon (MST) in Salt Lake City.

Former Western Nevada College star Lance Ray continued his red hot streak with the best game of his young career so far at the University of Kentucky on Tuesday.
 
Ray hit two home runs, but it wasn't enough for the Wildcats in a nonconference game at Indiana as Kentucky lost to the Hoosiers  in Bloomington,  Ind.,  18-17 in 10 innings. Ray helped Kentucky build a 16-8 lead going into the bottom of the eighth inning, but Kentucky couldn't hold on.

ROSEVILLE, Calif. — The Supermodified Racing Association will participate in a special exhibition this Saturday at All American Speedway in Roseville, Calif. The exhibition will be a part of All American's Open Wheel Challenge, which includes USAC sprint cars headlining a number of other open-wheel divisions.

Despite coming up just short in their quest to extend the season one more week, Carson High's Colin McCulloch and Garrett Gingell still managed to finish strong at the Northern 4A Regional Boys Golf Tournament on Tuesday afternoon at Empire Ranch Golf Course.
In the process, they gained some valuable experience for the future.

The road to the NIAA 4A State Championships is always difficult, but the Carson High softball team seems to have received as favorable path as possible. Two Northern 4A teams will advance to state and it figures that High Desert League champion Spanish Springs is the heavy favorite to earn one of those berths. And since Carson isn't in the Cougars' bracket, the Senators could be one of the darkhorses to grab that second spot to state.

RENO  -- It's the nature of baseball. Former Western Nevada College star Brian Barnett and Carson City's Jesse Rasner played well enough for the University of Nevada baseball team, but in the end it wasn't good enough.
 
For both Barnett and Rasner, each were pondering one at-bat that left them thinking about what could have been. And the end result was a 6-4 win in 12 innings for San Jose State against Nevada on Sunday at Peccole Park. The Spartans avoided the four-game sweep after the Wolf Pack won the first three games of the series.

The NIAA 4A Northern 4A Region Baseball Championship tournament is set to begin on Tuesday and continue through Saturday at Carson High School and Douglas High School in Minden.

It's all come down to the next three weekends as far as Northern 4A track and field athletes and coaches are concerned. Of course, the state meet is the ultimate goal, but first comes the Northern 4A Regionals, which get under way Saturday with the prelims at Damonte Ranch High in Reno.

The finals will be held at Damonte Ranch next Saturday and the top three finishers ineach event qualify to advance to the NIAA State Championships, also at Damonte Ranch.

A pair of Carson High sophomores reigned as champions in their respective events -- Brian Lester in the 1-meter diving and Tim Grunert in the 100-yard breaststroke -- when the High Desert League Swimming and Diving Championships concluded at the Carson City Aquatic Facility on Saturday.

A pennant race is a pennant race no matter if it's for first or second place.
 
And for the Western Nevada College baseball team, the race for second place in the Scenic West Athletic Conference went down to the wire. College of Southern Nevada was finally helping out the Wildcats after losing the first three games of  its series at Salt Lake Community College.

It's all come down to the next three weekends as far as Northern 4A track and field athletes and coaches are concerned. Of course, the state meet is the ultimate goal, but first comes the Northern 4A Regionals, which get under way Saturday with the prelims at Damonte Ranch High in Reno.