With summer coming to an end, despite the temperatures saying something different, the start of the school year is just around the corner and high school athletes are hitting the field and court this weekend.
Bruce Medeiros hosted his twelfth horseshoe tournament at Frontier Days last weekend. The event takes place at Candy Beach campground. Dave Skoglie and Jesse Canchola won the doubles championship. Lee Houston won the singles.
Twenty-four Lovelock volleyball players got a jump on the season last week. They attended Gold Medal Squared Volleyball Camp at the high school.
High school football teams took to the field last week and now all the other fall sports (cheer, dance, volleyball, boys and girls soccer, girls golf and cross country) are under way as well. The Battle Mountain High School football team will host a scrimmage on Saturday, starting at 10 a.m.
They say there's no need to use your turn signal in Lovelock. Everybody already knows where you're going.
Two-time All-Mountain West defensive tackle Dom Peterson was named to the preseason watch list of the Chuck Bednarik Award. The Bednarik Award has been awarded to the College Player of the Year since 1994.
Dozens of bicyclists age three through 10 raced down Elmhurst Avenue on Sunday morning. The Lovelock Volunteer Fire Department sponsored its annual Frontier Days bicycle race.
Each year the Winnemucca Men’s Golf Club awards Lowry seniors that are members of the girls and boys golf team scholarships. This past spring the Men’s Club gave three $750 scholarships to Bailey Hayes, Cal Peters and Seamus Maloon.
Stephanie Crawford shot a score of 27 to win the first flight of the Winnemucca Ladies Golf Club Mutt & Jeff tournament held Tuesday, Aug. 2, at Winnemucca Municipal Golf Course.
The Pershing County High School athletic department will be hosting its annual dinner and parking spot auction on Thursday, Aug. 18 at 6 p.m. at the newly designed entrance to Pershing County High School.
The Winnemucca junior golf season concluded last Wednesday with the Jeff Wade Memorial Tournament, as Landon Esquivel won with a round of 6-over par 78.
Thick N Wild won their fourth consecutive softball title at McDougal Park on Thursday night. They defeated their arch-rival, Wolf Pack, with a final score of 21-5.
To the Pershing County Mustangs, teamwork is everything. That's why coaches Jared Jensen and Jesse Canchola teamed up with the 4-H to bring Major League University Baseball Camp to Lovelock last weekend.
Winnemucca Regional Raceway featured two nights of action this past weekend with seven different classes of racing for fans that were looking to beat the heat as the sun went down. In addition, between the heat races and main events, there was timed UTV course racing that drivers competed on a separate course.
