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Western Nevada College Wildcats’ play-by-play announcer Chris Graham will be making a trip to West Jordan, Utah, for the third week in a row to broadcast each of Western Nevada College's NJCAA Western District baseball tournament games later this week.

Follow the Wildcats online at online at www.ustream.tv/channel/western-nevada-baseball and through a live stat tracker provided by Salt Lake Community College here.

The Western Nevada College softball team got close, but didn’t bring home the wins over the weekend. Two one-run defeats and two squandered leads stunted the Wildcats momentum during an April 20-21 road series at Snow College.
Snow edged the Wildcats 2-1 and 7-6, then completed the four-game sweep with 8-0 and 8-5 victories in Ephraim, Utah.

Wildcats' Melanie Pfeiffer dives safely back to second base under the tag of College of Southern Idaho's TJ Surrage during a college softball game in Carson City, on Friday, March 16, 2012. CSI defeated WNC 12-3, 11-3 and 14-0. Weather permitting the teams will face off Saturday, March 17 at noon at the Edmonds Sports Complex.
Photo by Cathleen Allison/Nevada Photo Source

Four Western Nevada College baseball student athletes are signing with Division I programs during the early signing period that began this week. Players include:

Dear Fans,

First and foremost I would like to thank each and every one of you for your continued support of my broadcasting. As most of you already know, it is my dream to become a professional play-by-play announcer for baseball. With the feedback that I have received by professional announcers I know, as well as the fans, I believe that I am ready to take my dream to the next level.

Western Nevada College's baseball team has been named one of the top academic teams in the country, earning All-Academic Team honors by the National Junior College Athletic Association.The Wildcats...

Yesterday was a bright sunny day in the beautiful city of San Francisco. I went to the Giants game with a press pass in my hand, excited for my chance to cover a Major League Baseball game. Little did I know that this day was going to be a humbling experience for me. 

Western Nevada College Wildcats Baseball team will be offering open try-out at John L. Harvey Field, WNC Carson City campus. Players must be at least 16 years old to preticipate.

Plated dinner, dessert & no-host bar. $100 per person or $800 tables of 8.
To benefit Wildcats Athletics, Jack C. Davis Observatory, Western Nevada Musical Theatre Company, and Fallon Campus scholarships.

Western Nevada College claimed its third regular-season Scenic West Athletic Conference title by sweeping College of Southern Idaho, 12-2 and 3-2, Saturday afternoon at John L. Harvey Field.WNC imp...

For the second time in three games, Western Nevada College found itself in an early hole against Eastern Utah, and for the second time roared back to grab a win.The Wildcats fought back from a 5-0 ...

The final details are in place for the CSN/WNC game on Friday, April 22nd where the WNC Baseball program will give half of the ticket sales to the Memorial Funds each honoring the boys ("The Stephen Anderson Memorial Fund" and "The Keegan James Aiazzi Memorial Fund"). Blue and White rubber bracelets will also be sold at the game that will read: RIP Stephen & Keegan (on front) and 'Forever Strong' (on back). Each bracelet will be sold for $3.00 and 100% of those proceeds will go to the boy's funds. Come out and show your support for Stephen and Keegan on Friday, April 22nd!!!

Three was the key number for the Western Nevada College Wildcats Friday afternoon.The Wildcats got a three-run homer in each game of the doubleheader en route to 7-4 and 10-0 Scenic West Athletic C...

The road warriors of junior college baseball, also known as the Western Nevada College Wildcats, are finally home.WNC has played 36 of its 40 games away from the friendly confines of John L. Harvey...

Tune in at noon today, Saturday, to hear live play-by-play action with Chris Graham as the Western Nevada College Wildcats baseball team takes on Salt Lake Community College. Click here to listen.

Hello Fans,

The undefeated WNC Wildcats (16-0) take on the just as tough Salt Lake Bruins (15-1) this weekend in Salt Lake for the prize of owning first place in the Scenic West Athletic Conference (SWAC). The games will be exclusively broadcast live by audio right here on CarsonNow.org by going to the following link: http://carsonnow.org/play-play-chris-graham Tune-in and fasten your seat-belts for what sure is to be one big dogfight all weekend long!

Regards,

Chris Graham

Voice of WNC Baseball

Chris Graham will be doing play-by-play for the Western Nevada College Wildcats doubleheader today against the College of Southern Nevada from Henderson, starting at 1 p.m.

Click here for the live audio broadcast.

We have heard from multiple inside sources about the abrupt departure Wednesday of Editor Peggy Santoro from the Nevada Appeal newsroom. We don't know the details, and understanding how these things work inside that company, we may not know for a while, if ever.

A full evening of dinner, speaking and an auction will support Western Nevada College athletics at the college's annual fund-raising event on Saturday, Jan. 15 at the Peppermill Hotel-Casino, Reno. Call (775) 445-3240 for exact time of event.
This year's dinner will feature pitcher Kevin Jepsen of the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim. Jepsen, a Bishop Manogue High School graduate, is a right-handed reliever and a member of the bronze medal-winning team at the 2008 Beijing Olympics.



Whether they plan to enter the work force or continue on with their education, the 451 Western Nevada College graduates walked away Monday and Tuesday with one certainty: It's up to them to use their education to push ahead in one of the most trying economic times in Nevada's history.

With the state's 13.7 percent unemployment rate for April, it may be "tough out there" to find a job, but the education the graduates earned at WNC is top-notch and will take them far if they apply themselves and are patient, College President Carol Lucey told the class Tuesday night.

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.

Everything is magnified in the postseason. Every left baserunner. Every error. So what could be considered just another loss in the regular season that really wasn't that bad of an effort, isn't so in the postseason.
 
Or as Western Nevada College baseball coach D.J.

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.

"Athlete-speak" calls for all players to shrug off so-called snubs. But athletes are human beings, too, and the Western Nevada College baseball team may have some extra motivation going into Thursday's game against Salt Lake Community College.

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.

While the Western Nevada College baseball team, Salt Lake Community College and College of Southern Idaho have all had their moments this year, WNC baseball coach D.J. Whittemore said College of Southern Nevada is still unquestionably the class of the Scenic West Athletic Conference.
"They know they're going to win," said Whittemore about CSN being the favorite in this week's SWAC postseason tournament. "Everyone else thinks they're going to win."

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.

The Western Nevada College baseball team took care of business on Friday.

Kyle Conwell was happy to be reunited with his Western Nevada College baseball "family" this week. The feeling was certainly mutual on Friday afternoon when the Wildcats came together to bang out 29 hits while sweeping Colorado Northwestern Community College 11-2 and 15-1 during a Scenic West Athletic Conference doubleheader at John L. Harvey Field.

For a team that's been struggling, this went about as well as could be.
The Western Nevada College baseball team rolled to a 10-2 win over the Reno Astros semipro team on Tuesday at John L. Harvey Field. The Wildcats were able to schedule the game to make up for a rained out game early in the season and the contest couldn't have come at a better time for a club that has lost six of its last games.