When the Pershing County High School track and field team competed in Yerington last week, two Mustang athletes became airborne for the first time in several years. Despite less-than-ideal weather conditions, pole vaulter Howard Mitchell cleared seven feet while Laura Gomez cleared five feet six inches.
The Pershing County High School baseball had a rough weekend on the road against West Wendover. The Mustangs lost all three games of the triple-header to the Wolverines (9-1, 15-5, and 9-8 in eight innings) but the scores tell only part of the story. This was most evident in the last game of the series which the Mustangs lost by one run in extra innings.
The Battle Mountain High School boys golf team was scheduled to hit the course in its league debut on Thursday, March 13, at Toana Vista Golf Course in West Wendover. However, Mother Nature had other ideas and the tournament was canceled due to poor weather.
It wasn’t a complete washout for the Lowry High School baseball team, who saw its crossover match-up with Truckee this past Friday postponed due to weather. The game was scheduled to be played in Reno but the Tahoe-Truckee School District declared a snow day for the Lake Tahoe school, which prohibited them from traveling. However, Mother Nature gave the Buckaroos a break on Saturday morning, as Lowry traveled to Reno and swept Hug 15-0 and 18-5 in cold conditions to improve to 5-5 on the season.
The McDermitt High School track and field team has its first two meets of the season under its belt with strong performances from its athletes. On Friday, March 7, the squad traveled to Dayton for the Dust Devil Invite. Junior Shandon Camas posted a personal best in the shot put to win the event with a throw of 45 feet, 4.5 inches. He placed third in the discus with a toss of 129-8. AJ Farmer posted a seventh-place finish in the shot put (34-10) and 10th in the discus (94-0) and freshman Trevor Smart placed 11th in the shot put (32-11.5) and 14th in the discus.
While most other teams have been struggling with the recent bad weather, one is enjoying the wet because that is what they do. The Lowry High School boys swim team remained perfect on the year beating North Valleys 66-54 on Friday, March 7, at Alf Sorenson Pool in Reno.
After going through a dry and mild November, December and January, you knew spring sports was going to take the brunt of the winter weather with an early start in late February and now into March. The Lowry High School softball team saw its doubleheader with South Tahoe scheduled this past Saturday at Lampe Park in Gardnerville postponed until March 25 back at Lampe Park. On Saturday, March 8, Lowry was scheduled to host North Valleys in its home debut, only to have Mother Nature waive her finger and day no.
The Lowry High School track and field continued to challenge itself in the early going with a trip to Las Vegas for the Bishop Gorman – NTS Invitational on Saturday, March 8. The Buckaroos returned to northern Nevada with strong performance under their belt, as Kianna Bazile won the girls triple jump with a leap of 32 feet, 8.50 inches. She beat Bishop Gorman’s Colette Archambeault by three inches.
The Battle Mountain High School split four games as part of the Pershing County tournament to start the 2025 season. Battle Mountain traveled to Winnemucca on Thursday, Feb 27, and beat the Lowry JV 9-1.
There’s nothing like the end of a Pershing County High School sports season. Last week, on winter sports awards night, Lovelock families gathered in the high school auditorium to honor the spirit squad, the boys and girls basketball teams and wrestlers. The 2024-25 sports year was loaded with firsts, almost and dramatic moments. For the first time, the spirit squad cheered not only for basketball but for wrestling.
The NCAA Football Rules Committee announced Friday it would propose that a team be charged with a timeout if one of its players falls to the ground on the field because of an apparent injury after the ball is spotted for the next play. Feigning injuries, sometimes at the coach’s instruction, has become a tactic defenses use to slow down tempo offenses or as a way for an offense to avoid a delay-of-game penalty or get an extra timeout.
The spring weather lasted just long enough for Lovelock to host its three-day softball and baseball tournament last weekend. Visitors included the Elko and Lowry JV teams, Battle Mountain, Oasis Academy, Dayton, White Pine, Yerington, Quincy, and Sparks. The Pershing County High School baseball team went 2-2 over the weekend, beating Sparks 9-7 and the Lowry JV 13-10.
With the spring sports season starting earlier and earlier on the calendar, one never knows what to expect weather wise. In the past, the Lowry High School track and field team did its best to avoid rain or snow in beautiful northern Nevada in early March. The Buckaroos changed that all up and headed to Patterson, Calif., this past Saturday to open its season with the 6th annual Tiger Rustbuster Invitational.
The Lowry High School baseball team packed its bags and gear up and made its way to Needles in Southern California last week to begin the year at the Colorado River Invitational. The Buckaroos were competitive all weekend, picking up one win in four games and are 1-4 after a busy three days in the California desert.
It was long days and seemingly later nights but the Lowry High School softball team accomplished what it needed to during the Colorado River Invitational in Needles, Calif. The Lady Bucks left last Wednesday for southern California and didn’t finish play until late Saturday afternoon, reaching the bracketed semifinals before getting eliminated. Lowry, with some new faces in the lineup, along with some veterans, went 4-2 in six games. One of those new faces, freshman Makinley Hislop threw a perfect game against Elko.