After a slow start to the season, the Lowry High School softball team is starting to play some of its best ball of the year. The Lady Bucks were in Fallon last weekend to play league-leading Churchill County.
The Lowry High School baseball team made its final road trip of the season this past weekend with a three-game series against Churchill County in Fallon. The Greenwave maintained their playoff push to Spring Creek, winning all three games. Churchill County won 7-3 on Friday and swept a doubleheader 4-0 and 14-0 on Saturday. The Buckaroos dropped to 5-18 overall and 0-12 in league play.
After nearly a month off since its first two tournaments at the end of March in Dayton and Fernley, the Lowry High School boys golf team and the Northern 3A got back on the course with tournaments in Winnemucca and Fallon last week.
McDermitt High School’s Shandon Camas and Laeloni Tobey came back home with individual wins at the War Coates Invitational held this past Friday at Spring Creek High School. Camas posted a personal best of 40 feet, 6.25 inches to lead the way in he shot put and he placed third in the discus (114-6) another top throw for him.
The Battle Mountain High School track and team rolled to the team titles at Friday’s Eureka Invitational with a number of strong individual performances. Battle Mountain senior Andy Wall swept the top spot in both hurdle events, setting personal bests in both. He stopped the watch at 16.4 in the 100-meter hurdles and 45.8 in the 300-meter hurdles.
Before the Fernley Invitational ended early due to high winds and a power outage, a number of Lowry High School track and field athletes had outstanding days.
Even though the scores didn’t all go as the Mustangs hoped, they had an epic baseball week. On Monday, April 8, they traveled to Battle Mountain to complete their sweep against the Longhorns (11-4, 17-11). The Mustangs went 3-0 against their rival school.
After having last weekend off with Sierra Lutheran not having a squad, the Battle Mountain High School softball team is back in action this week with five important games.
Fortunately, Winter disappeared so we had a couple of great days of golf.
Following a bye week in the schedule, the Lowry High School baseball team began a six-game road trip this past weekend in Spring Creek. The Spartans entered the series as the Northern 3A East leader with just one loss on the season. Spring Creek remained on top of the standings, winning all three games 9-2, 4-0 and 8-4. Lowry dropped to 0-9 in league play and 5-15 overall.
The Pershing County High School track and field team competed in the Fernley Invitational last Friday. Angelo Gibson placed first in the 400 meters with a personal best and 800 meters.
When Mother Nature intervened a couple weeks ago, it created a busy week for the Battle Mountain High School baseball team. Battle Mountain made up a pair of games on Monday, April 8, in its home finale against Pershing County. The Mustangs collected wins in both ends of the doubleheader 11-4 and 17-11.
Nevaeh Serna represented the Battle Mountain NNA swim team at the Pacific Swimming Far Western Championships from April 4-7, at the Dolores Bengtson Aquatic Center in Pleasanton, Calif.
It has been a rough couple weeks for the McDermitt High School track and field team — due to bad luck and even worse weather.
With the end of the regular season quickly approaching, the Lowry High School softball team was desperately looking to get some wins to remain in playoff contention. The Lady Bucks did just that winning the final two games 11-2 and 9-6 after dropping the opener 9-7. Lowry improved to 3-6 in the Northern 3A East and 9-15 overall.