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Saturday: Game 1Bottom of the 4th

To beat any conference leader, a team needs to bring its "A" Game to the field. Make that "A-plus" if you want to beat a team that is ranked No. 2 in the nation, and even then, it still doesn't hurt to have a little luck on your side.
The Western Nevada College baseball team was successful on both of those counts Friday afternoon to beat College of Southern Nevada twice on the last pitch of the game during a Scenic West Athletic Conference showdown.

Saturday will be a new day and a clean slate for the Carson High softball team at the Reed Easter Tournament in Sparks.

The Western Nevada College softball team has had its share of close calls when it comes to breakthrough wins this season. But the Wildcats just haven't been able to pull off that big win and the trend continued on Friday.
 

Friday: Game 1Bottom of the 4th

Eleven schools will be represented when Carson High hosts the Capital Classic track and field meet on Saturday.
The meet, which will mark the season home opener for Carson's varsity team, is scheduled to begin at 8:30 a.m. with the throwing events and 9 a.m. with the running events. Northern 4A schools Galena, Damonte Ranch, North Valleys, Douglas and Carson will be joined in the field by North Tahoe, Incline, Whittell, Rite of Passage, Tonopah and Sierra Lutheran.

Carson High senior Katie McFarren was announced as one of the Nevada Interscholastic Activities Association's Northern Nevada Top 10 Student-Athletes of the Year award recipients this week.

Carson High edged rival Douglas by a mere half-point to win the girls division at home during the inaugural Duel in the Desert at Sundown frosh-soph track and field series meet on Wednesday.

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"We took two steps backward," said CHS coach Cody Farnworth after his team's 14-4 loss against Reed in a nonleague game on Wednesday at Ron McNutt Field. "We really did."

Megan Hein is just the player that the Western Nevada College softball team is looking for to build its program: A local player who's a talented player and also a quality person.
  

Luke Maher and Danny Okimura collected two hits each to help the Carson High J.V. baseball team to a 4-2 victory against Reed at the Bishop Manogue Easter Tournament on Wednesday in Reno.
 

SCHEDULE CHANGE:
WHAT: Senators vs. Reed Raiders
WHEN: 5 p.m. today
WHERE: Ron McNutt Field 

Gee, I wish I could be up there on the hills, making a few turns and enjoying the weather and the snow. But modern medicine says no, two herniated disks in the back rule it out for the time being. Doc advises against skiing until the spine expert has an eyeful and decides what I can and can’t do for now.

Carson High graduate Anthony Fagan emerged as the pitcher of record and junior right fielder Brian Barnett drove in two runs on three hits, including a home run, to help the University of Nevada baseball team to a 8-5 nonconference victory against Saint Mary’s College at Peccole Park on Tuesday afternoon.

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A daunting task awaits the Western Nevada College baseball team when instate rival College of Southern Nevada comes to John L. Harvey Field this weekend.
CSN is the nation's No. 1 ranked team and has a three-game lead over the Wildcats in the race for the Scenic West Athletic Conference regular season title. The first place Coyotes are 21-3 in the SWAC while WNC (30-9) is 18-6.
 

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It's mid-April and the Carson High baseball team stands fifth in the Sierra League with some ground to make up if it wants to qualify for the Northern 4A Regional Tournament. Don't count the Senators out just yet because they're looking to move up.

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Coming off its most successful season in school history, the Carson High football team has virtually completed its schedule 2010 with an attractive beginning to the season.

With so many of the mountain resorts staying open well into May there's a marvelous chance to combine skiing and hiking in one glorious wind-up of a great season.

I did this once and enjoy it immensely, hiking in the low and then turning around and skiing on the high. It was May of a couple of years ago when I loaded the car with camping gear and tucked a pair of skis on the roof rack. I headed south down 395, inflated with the idea of hiking around Death Valley National Park and then stopping off at Mammoth Mountain on the way home to ski.

Squaw Valley USA reports the longest and most complete season in Lake Tahoe
After receiving seven feet of fresh snow in seven days, Squaw Valley is once again offering the longest and most complete ski season in Lake Tahoe with plans to stay open for skiing and riding through May 9, 2010. Squaw Valley’s annual snowfall of 450 inches and mountain topography featuring acres upon acres of upper elevation North-facing terrain are among the natural attributes that enable the resort to remain open through the middle of May each ski season.

Carson City product Christy Works ran a personal record time for 800 meters for the University of Nevada women's track and field team on Friday night during the the distance carnival of the Rafer Johnson/Jackie Joyner-Kersee Invitational at UCLA's Drake Stadium.

Carson City product Christy Works ran a personal record time for 800 meters for the University of Nevada women's track and field team on Friday night during the the distance carnival of the Rafer Johnson/Jackie Joyner-Kersee Invitational at UCLA's Drake Stadium.

Offense was the name of the game during the University of Nevada-New Mexico State baseball series and nothing changed in the final game on Sunday afternoon when the two Western Athletic Conference teams battled to a 10-10 tie in Las Cruces, N.M.

Carson High's Eric Garcia and Hannah Dudley did more than set personal records at the Thunder Invitational in Rocklin, Calif., on Saturday. They provided some thunder of their own with gold medal performances as Garcia won the boys pole vault and Dudley took the girls discus.

Given a chance, the Carson High softball "Cardiac Kids" have shown they know how to come back and win in the last inning.

Winning baseball games away from home in the Scenic West Athletic Conference is never an easy chore. And nothing came easy for Western Nevada College while taking both ends of its doubleheader against the College of Eastern Utah on Saturday.

(Story to come)

Once again, Western Nevada College was one inning away from an important Scenic West Athletic Conference softball win. However, the Wildcats were unable to slam the door shut as North Idaho College rallied to score twice in the top of the seventh inning to pull out a 7-6 victory on Saturday afternoon. 

The Carson High J.V. baseball team swept a doubleheader from Damonte Ranch on Saturday, scoring seven runs in the fifth inning to win the opener 13-10. The Senators then rode a complete game pitching performance from Casey Wolfe to take the second game 2-1 at Ron McNutt Field.

As of Friday, April 9