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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.

The Nevada Bighorns summer collegiate baseball team is gearing up for another season in which the Carson City-based club will again bring high level play to the area.
 
The season is less than a month away with opening day set for Saturday, May 29. The Bighorns will host the San Francisco Seals at 5 p.m. at John L. Harvey Field. The Bighorns will then play a doubleheader against the Seals, beginning at 10 a.m. Sunday, May 30, at John L. Harvey Field.

Carson High boys golf teammates Mitch Parra and Niko Brewer will both be in position to earn Northern 4A Regional Tournament qualifying berths when they tee off in their final regular match on Wednesday at ArrowCreek Country Club in Reno.
 
There's just one downside to this story. Four teams and five individuals from non-qualifying teams will qualify for the regional tournament next week at Empire Ranch Golf Course -- and in all likelihood only one of them will make the cut for an individual berth. Parra, a junior, currently holds the No.

Former Western Nevada College star Brian Barnett and Carson City's Jesse Rasner played key roles in helping the University of Nevada baseball team salvage a split of a four-game series at the University of Hawaii on Sunday.

It's a no-brainer. Drudge through another intrasquad scrimmage or play one of Northern Nevada's top baseball teams.
With one of its games rained out early in the season, the Western Nevada College baseball team has always had one contest it could make up and when the chance came to play the Reno Astros semipro baseball team, the Wildcats jumped at the chance.
 
WNC will host the Astros at 3 p.m. Tuesday at John L. Harvey Field. The game will help the Wildcats prepare for a crucial series against Colorado Northwestern Community College.

If you ask Sam Herceg or Tim Kniffen, there is simply no better sight than that of young ballplayers hitting, pitching and fielding on a diamond. Now, the shared vision of father and son has led to the organization of the Carson WildCats Softball program to provide opportunities for young players in Carson City and the surrounding area.

The thrilling four-game sweep of College of Southern Nevada to put the Western Nevada College baseball team in first place seems like an eternity ago.
 
Since that series, the Wildcats have lost six of eight games, with the slump continuing on Sunday when WNC was swept in a doubleheader at Salt Lake Community College. Salt Lake won the opener 3-2 in nine innings and the nightcap 5-1. The four-run loss was the largest margin of defeat this season for the Wildcats.

Yeah, the season's pretty much over for skiing and riding except at Mammoth where they plan to run through July 4. But there are some deals coming up and expiring. Check this one out.

Squaw Valley USA announces its start of the countdown to next year’s season pass purchasing deadline. After an epic winter season and an even more remarkable spring, Squaw Valley is again offering adult season passes starting at just $369 — but prices are slated to rise after May 9, 2010.

Now that all of the preliminaries are out of the way, the Carson High swimming and diving team is ready to focus on the final three weeks of its season -- the High Desert League, Northern 4A Regional and NIAA state championship meets.

A chance at winning the Scenic West Athletic Conference regular season title seems to be slipping away, but Western Nevada College baseball coach D.J. Whittemore isn't giving up hope, yet.
 
"It's not over until it's over," said Whittemore about his team split of a doubleheader at Salt Lake Community College on Saturday. "Stranger things have happened."

The Carson High J.V. baseball team ran into a hot-hitting Bishop Manogue squad on Saturday, losing both ends of a Sierra League doubleheader at home, 16-4 and 15-4.

The quad injury he nursed through the month of April was a distant memory when Richard Shroy ran at the 30th annual Sacramento Meet of Champions on Saturday night.

While the Western Nevada College softball team couldn't pull off another upset against one of the nation's top teams, the Wildcats came away from this weekend's series against College of Southern Idaho knowing it could compete with one of the Scenic West Athletic Conference's elite clubs.

CSI swept a doubleheader against WNC on Saturday in Twin Falls, Idaho, winning the opener 6-3 and the nightcap 14-7. WNC was tied with CSI 3-3 going into the bottom of the fifth inning in the opener and led 7-5 in the nightcap.

It was a demonstration of what could have been. But it also showed what might could be.

Colby Blueberg provided six solid innings on the mound for the win as the Carson High baseball team went on to salvage the final game of a three-game series against Manogue, beating the Miners in the nightcap of a doubleheader 10-5 on Saturday at Ron McNutt Field. Carson lost the opener 14-7.
 

Hannah Dudley won the girls discus, setting a meet record in the process, to lead a small contingent of Carson High athletes that competed at the High Desert Invitational in Sparks on Friday.

It's been a long time in coming for the Western Nevada College softball program and a marquee win on Friday demonstrated how far the Wildcats have come.

WNC picked up the biggest win in the program's two-year history with a 6-5 victory at College of Southern Idaho in the second game of a doubleheader in Twin Falls, Idaho. CSI won the opener 8-0.
 

The Scenic West Athletic Conference baseball series between Western Nevada College and Salt Lake Community College has been rescheduled for Saturday and Sunday.

With two regular season matches remaining, the Carson High boys golf team faces a serious uphill climb to achieve its season goal of qualifying for the Northern 4A Regional Tournament at Empire Ranch Golf Course. However, the door remains open for some of the Senators to qualify as individuals as they preparer for the home stretch of their season.

MINDEN -- It's time for the stretch run.

With the Northern 4A Regional Championships just two weeks away, the Carson High track and field team will be looking to make its final adjustments at the High Desert Invitational on Friday in Sparks and then the Sacramento Meet of Champions on Saturday. The latter meet will offer competition at an elite level for a handful of Carson's top athletes.
 
 

RENO -- Even on a day when weather conditions were so unpredictable, it was difficult to find an explanation for the offensive performance of the Carson High softball team on Thursday afternoon.

RENO -- When Bishop Manogue's 14th run crossed the plate on an RBI sacrifice fly in the bottom of the sixth inning, the race was officially over for the Carson High baseball team.
Manogue's 14-4 win in six innings over Carson on Thursday eliminated the Senators from the Northern 4A playoff race. CHS fell to 4-9 in the Sierra League while the Miners improved to 10-6 in league.

RENO -- Two runs in the bottom of the seventh inning was the difference as the Bishop Manogue J.V. baseball team rallied to beat Carson 2-1 on Thursday afternoon.

Carson High graduate Darrell Rasner had his second straight outstanding start on the mound late Wednesday night, but was the tough luck loser for the Rakuten Eagles in their 4-0 defeat to the Fakuoka Hawks.
Coming off a complete game effort in which he earned his first win of the year, Rasner allowed three runs, two earned, on six hits while striking out six and walking three in six innings against the Hawks. Rasner (1-4) lowered his earned run average to 5.52 in the process.

"Take your passion ...and make it happen" – What a Feeling

  
Much like Irene Cara's Academy Award winning song from "Flashdance," Carson High senior Kendra Krupp is taking her passion for volleyball to a new level – across the country to Methodist University in Fayetteville, N.C.

Richard Shroy has made his decision. The Carson High senior, who has won individual state championships in both cross country and on the track, says he will move on to run for Washington State University.
There was no signing, just a handshake, when Shroy made the decision after visiting the Washington State campus in Pullman, Wash., on Sunday and Monday. Needless to say, the 14-hour drive back home to Carson City was enjoyable.
 
 

Dodging through snow flurries in a chase for postseason berth. It must be a playoff race on a "typical" spring day in Northern Nevada.
 
The Carson High softball team took one step closer to realizing its goal of qualifying for the Northern 4A playoffs by winning the opener of a doubleheader against Manogue, 7-2, on Wednesday at CHS. The second game was called in the bottom of the fourth inning with Manogue leading 4-3 due to heavy snow flurries that began to fall.

Former Western Nevada College star Lance Ray has been putting up big numbers throughout his college career and his performance has earned him a spot in the country's most prestigious summer amateur baseball league.
Ray, a junior at the University of Kentucky, has signed to play this summer with the Yarmouth Dennis Red Sox in the Cape Cod League. Ray had a huge series this past weekend at Auburn to solidify his spot in the lineup for the Wildcats.

Dayton Valley Golf and Country Club is temporarily closed and will re-open again in the near future, according to Rick Vaughan, head pro.

The Arnold Palmer-designed golf course and the site of the annual PGA Tour Qualifiers since 1995, is undergoing a change of ownership, Vaughan said in an e-mail.

For more information call (775) 220-8093 or go to the Dayton Valley Golf and Country Club Web site at www.daytonvalley.com.

Former Western Nevada College star Lance Ray solidified his spot in the lineup for the University of Kentucky baseball team with a huge series this past weekend at No. 29 Auburn.
Ray, a junior, went 6-for-12 in the series with five doubles and his fourth home run of the season as Kentucky (23-17, 6-12 in the Southeastern Conference) lost two of three at Auburn. Ray, who played outfield and first base in the series, also had seven RBI in the series and now has seven doubles on the season.

University of Nevada outfielder Brian Barnett, who played at Western Nevada College the last two years, continued his hot month of April at the plate this past weekend against Fresno State at Peccole Park.