What was to be a long Saturday trip to Tahoe City Calif., turned into an extra day off before Battle Mountain hosts Incline for homecoming on Friday night. North Tahoe’s football field and stadium was not ready for play this week and the Lakers traveled to Battle Mountain on Thursday night.
The Lowry High School girls golf team and the remainder of the Northern 3A got hit with a dose of nasty weather from Mother Nature last week. Spring Creek hosted the Northern 3A on Monday, Sept. 16, in cool and wet conditions. Despite the bad weather, the top of the leaderboard looked the same as it did in the first two tournaments of the year.
Last Thursday night, the Pershing County football team returned from an extended bye and routed Silver Stage 58-0 on Joe Yanni Field. The week before, smoke from the Davis fires scrapped the Incline/Pershing game for a while.
Sophomore Alyla Thomas led the way for the Lowry High School cross country team, as the young sophomore runner placed sixth in the girls race at the Lazy 5 Invitational in Sparks on Friday afternoon. The 3.1-mile race was held at Lazy 5 Regional Park near Spanish Springs High School. Thomas finished the race in a time of 21:12.
The Battle Mountain High School cross country team made the short trip to Elko this past Friday for the Run the Rubies Cross Country Invitational at the Powerhouse Picnic Area.
Even though the first half of the Northern 3A East came to end this past Friday, it was fair to say that it was a must-win situation for the Lowry High School boys soccer team against Churchill County. The Buckaroos entered the day fifth in league play at 4-2 and a loss would not help their cause.
Coming off three straight road wins over Northern 3A West opponents, the Lowry High School volleyball team returned to its home floor this past weekend to begin Northern 3A East play against Spring Creek and Elko. The Lady Bucks came up short in both matches, losing 33-31, 25-9, 25-23 to the Spartans on Friday night at 25-23, 25-8, 25-19 to the Indians on Saturday afternoon to fall to 0-2 in league play.
After opening the season at home in mid-August, the Lowry High School football team have been road warriors ever since. With a bye week thrown in, the Buckaroos completed a three-game road trip at Spring Creek on Friday night. The two rivals provided fireworks and the scoreboard operator busy with a combined 88 points.
It was a busy three days for the McDermitt High School volleyball team, who improved to 4-1 in the 1A East with two wins in three matches.
It was a tough weekend for the Battle Mountain High School volleyball team, as they hit the road for the first time in September after hosting four straight Northern 2A matches. Battle Mountain was in Lovelock on Friday night to take on league-leading Pershing County. Even though each of the three sets were close, the Mustangs won 25-18, 25-19, 25-22.
The Elko/Pershing County girls soccer game got rained out last Tuesday because of thunder and lightning in Elko. However, the Mustangs stormed Battle Mountain on Saturday. Lovelock beat their rival school 12-0. "We were excited to play them because we did not get to play them last year," coach Kelly Brooks said.
Last week, the Pershing County High School volleyball swept Battle Mountain 25-18, 25-19, 25-22 and West Wendover 26-24, 25-16, 25-16, bringing the Mustangs’ Northern 2A record to 9-0. Pershing County played the first of two homecoming week games against Oasis Academy on Wednesday. Results were not available at press time.
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