Baseball and softball

Local baseball and softball players are invited to participate in a free Cap City Baseball Hitting Clinic. RSVP now to reserve your spot! Boys and girls ages 8-13 are welcomed to attend and participate. The clinic will be held on Oct. 1, 2020 at 5:30 PM at the John L. Harvey Field located at Western Nevada College, 2201 W. College Pkwy, Carson City.

Local baseball and softball players are invited to participate in a free Cap City Baseball Hitting Clinic. RSVP now to reserve your spot!

Boys and girls ages 8-13 are welcomed to attend and participate. The clinic will be held on October 1st, 2020 at 5:30 PM at the John L. Harvey Field (Western Nevada College, 2201 W. College Pkwy, Carson City, NV 89703).

Junior Giants at Home is a free virtual season that brings the fun of the field to your home, according to Carson City Parks and Rec.

Editor’s Note: Patt Quinn-Davis is adviser for the Carneta yearbook. She also teaches Honors American Literature and English IV. Before jumping into teaching, Quinn-Davis worked many years at The Nevada Appeal as city government reporter, columnist, and city editor. She was also editor of The Nevada Appeal and previously was editor of The Daily Democrat newspaper in Woodland, Calif.

Editor's Note: The following Senator Square column was submitted before the Carson City School District's announcement regarding school activities. All school, district, and non-district sponsored athletics, extra-curricular activities, assemblies, concerts, practices, and events are suspended effective Monday, March 16, 2020 until further notice. Activities and events scheduled later in the school year, including graduation ceremonies will be evaluated closer to the date. Go here to read the notice.

Carson High School senior Cesia Enriquez is working to complete her Senior Project graduation requirement with the Carson City Sheriff’s Office 2018 CHS Seniors Academy, specifically designed for those seniors interested in making law enforcement their future career.

Open Field has started and February 25 is the First day of Tryouts and Practice for Spring Sports. Dayton High School Parents - It’s time to get your registrations done for Boys Golf, Track, Baseball, and Softball. Athletes CAN NOT be on the field without its completion!

It seems appropriate at this time of year we acknowledge the amazing young people in our community.

Even though plans are in place to eliminate the Western Nevada College baseball and softball programs after the 2016 season due to funding shortfalls, most of the incoming freshman recruits plan to honor their letters of intent.

It will be a HUGE mistake by Western Nevada College if they allow the athletic programs to walk. Period. I have kept a low profile in this just mainly to sit back and observe what is going to happen. Now, I’m coming off the sidelines to express my opinion.

The college is doing this to save money and I do sympathize with them in that regard but, they are not looking at what the college AND the city will lose if the programs are gone. The loss of money to the city and college far outweighs the money that would be saved.

After dropping two of the first three games to Snow College by two runs or less, the Western Nevada College softball team found the winning formula in the series finale Saturday in Ephraim, Utah.

WNC outscored Snow, 7-4, to avoid the series sweep in Ephraim, Utah. The win followed 2-0, 11-4 and 6-5 defeats to the Badgers on Friday.

With the victory, WNC remained in fourth place in the SWAC standings with a 14-21 record - one and a half games ahead of Snow. The Wildcats improved to 19-26 overall, with four games remaining against College of Southern Nevada.

As the 2015 Western Nevada College baseball and softball seasons near completion, it’s time to come out and cheer on the Wildcats at their last weekend home stands. “Stack the Stands” days will offer outstanding college softball and baseball, along with multiple opportunities to win great prizes while supporting the athletics programs.

With agency budgets currently being wrapped up in committee, one budget, for the Nevada System of Higher Education, is of special concern to residents of the rural counties. Chancellor Klaich requested bridge funding for Great Basin and Western Nevada Colleges to facilitate their smooth transition to the more austere funding model approved by the Legislature in 2013. The current leadership at these colleges have taken a can-do, entrepreneurial approach to the task, pulling out all the stops to grow their institutions into sustainable long term viability within the new budget constraints.

The Athletic Foundation of Western Nevada College and Buffalo Wild Wings have partnered to help raise funds for the WNC baseball and softball teams.

This Friday and Saturday, March 27-28, Buffalo Wild Wings will donate 15 percent of all proceeds from the tickets in the photo above to the athletic programs. You are welcome to print as many tickets from this page as you like. Buffalo Wild Wings is located at 3815 S Carson St, Carson City.

An outside group has raised $129,500 to help save athletics at Western Nevada College. Helaine Jesse Morres, a former vice president at WNC, is organizing the fundraising effort. She said a group of about 50 people met Tuesday morning in Carson City as part of the effort save WNC baseball and softball.

The wine walk is on the top of the weekend to-do list for many of you, but Carson City has a lot more going on. Ascent Runs is hosting a 5/10K and a half marathon at C-Hill on Saturday. You can register at the race, just make sure you aren’t late. Youth Football season has arrived with sign-ups for SYFL and Pop Warner on Saturday. Cheer on the Western Nevada College Wildcats as their Baseball and Softball teams battle against Salt Lake City Community College.

For the first time in the seven-year history of the Western Nevada College softball program, the Wildcats will open their conference season at home. WNC will meet 13th-ranked College of Southern Idaho in doubleheaders scheduled at 1 p.m. Friday and noon Saturday, weather permitting, at Edmonds Sports Complex in Carson City. Coach Leah Wentworth said the series starting times could be adjusted if the predicted wet weather moves into the area.

Kansas Wesleyan’s Daria Leid has been selected as the AstroTurf-KCAC Pitcher of the Week for her efforts in helping the Coyotes to a 4-0 record last week.

Leid, a senior from Carson City, Nev., went 2-0 on the week, as Wesleyan beat Friends 3-2 behind her complete game performance and beat Bethel 10-0 in a run-rule shortened game on Saturday in Newton.

Against Friends, Leid held Friends to just three hits and two runs, while striking out six as KWU beat the Falcons 3-2. Friends batted just .130 as a team in the game, well below their season average of .329.

With the 2014 season a little more than five months away, the Western Nevada College baseball and softball teams will take advantage of the mild fall months ahead in Carson City to prepare their rosters for the spring season.

Baseball coach D.J. Whittemore’s fall scrimmage schedule includes eight home dates at John L. Harvey Field in Carson City.

Major League Baseball’s Matt Williams is coming home. The Carson High School graduate who is a World Series winner and five-time All-Star will headline the 10th annual Western Nevada College Wildcats Athletics Gala Dinner on Thursday, Jan. 24, at the Downtown Reno Ballroom. The event will also benefit Carson High School baseball and softball.

Tickets are $100, with tables of 10 for $850 through December 31 and $1,000 afterward. They are available through the WNC Foundation at 445-3240 or at www.wnc.edu/wildcatsgala/.

The Western Nevada College athletic program continued its success in the classroom as both the WNC baseball and softball teams maintained a cumulative grade point average above 3.0 for the fall

CARSON CITY – Western Nevada College’s baseball and softball teams have yet to play a 2010 season game on their home fields, but they have already earned accolades on campus.

Saturday, January 16

Grade point average matters as much as batting average when you play for the Western Nevada Wildcats. Both the baseball and softball teams are receiving academic honors from the National Junior College Athletic Association.