The Winnemucca Junior High wrestling team traveled to Lovelock this past Saturday to end its season at the Tah-Neva Championships. All weight classes represented Winnemucca well.
The Ladies Golf Club held their opening scramble tournament at the Winnemucca Municipal Golf Course on Tuesday, March 19. Della Domingo, Gail Janhunen, and Adua Boyle took first team low gross honors with an 84.
The McDermitt High School track team went to Spring Creek last Saturday with five boys to compete in its first contest of the year and they emerged with all personal best performances. MHS junior Jagger Hinkey had the best finish for the Bulldogs in Spring Creek, coming in third place with a personal record of 16 feet, 10.5 inches in the long jump.
The Lowry High School swimming team took to the road last Saturday and competed in the Northwest Pool in Reno against Incline Village. Despite a small Buckaroo team, both squads were able to emerge victorious, as the men posted a convincing 65-16 win over Incline, and the women grabbed a 34-29 title. “We took four boys and three girls, we are a similar size school to Incline," said LHS coach Shelby Ruff. "We had some interesting relays, but they did well overall; we just kind of threw them together with what I could fix. It was Matthew Lizanetz’s first showing this season; he shows a lot of potential with some of his strokes and his technique.”
The Lowry High School track and field team traveled to Spring Creek last Saturday for its first league meet with a large squad and posted some good numbers. Eleven teams competed from the 1A, 2A and 3A. Lowry was matched up against Elko and Spring Creek in the 3A Division. “It was a great first meet," said LHS coach Grant Beatty. "Sometimes the weather there is an issue. It was a little chilly, but there was not a whole lot of wind. They represented themselves well; there were no issues or injuries. Everybody came back that we brought, so it was a good start to the season.”
The Nevada Interscholastic Activities Association (NIAA), the non-profit governing body of high school athletics in the Silver State, and One Nevada Credit Union, one of the largest locally-owned credit unions in the Silver State, are proud to announce the formation of a new title sponsorship whereby One Nevada is the presenting partner of all postseason prep contests in the Silver State.
The University of Nevada (29-4) men’s basketball team has earned an at-large berth into the NCAA Championships and will play Florida (19-15) on Thursday at the 14,039 seat Wells Fargo Arena in Des Moines, Iowa.
The Lowry High School boys golf team started its season on the road with a couple of third-place finishes in Dayton and Fallon last week. In Dayton on Wednesday, March 13, the Buckaroo’s top four finished with a 351, behind champion Truckee (302) and second- place South Tahoe (339). Fernley was fourth with 360, Elko shot 369, Spring Creek finished with 451, and Fallon carded a 458. Dayton, North Valleys, and Sparks did not post a team score due to a lack of players.
The Lowry baseball team brought a 1-2 record into their series with Spring Creek last weekend and played three hard-fought games but could not improve their league standing, losing all three games to go to 1-5 on the year.
The Lowry High School softball team went to Elko last weekend to start league play against Spring Creek and brought back two “mercy-rule” victories for a 2-0 record in the Northern 3A. Lowry had lost all of its preseason games on a road trip to California before heading into conference play, but they turned up the heat when it mattered, giving hitting and pitching clinics to the Lady Spartans on Friday and Saturday.
Winnemucca Junior High School hosted a Bi-County volleyball tournament last Saturday against teams from Lovelock, Pyramid Lake and McDermitt. The eighth-grade squad won both of their matches in straight sets against Lovelock and Pyramid Lake to end the regular season on their home court. “Our season was really good," said eighth-grade WJHS coach Tawnya Root. "I think that the girls have grown a lot. They have a little more team cohesiveness, so they are playing better together. It doesn’t take them quite so long to wake up and realize that we are playing volleyball. “Belen (Barocio) has had a really good season as a setter; she and her sister Alex played really well together. Jada (Matheny) and Kailey (Franklin) as outside hitters, and my other setters, Megan (Cook) and Shelbie (Hoyt) have also stood out this year, getting the job done.”
The Winnemucca Events Complex was the site of the 3D Indoor Archery Challenge last weekend and was a big bulls-eye with locals and visitors. “This event is sponsored by the Winnemucca Convention and Visitors Authority, but they have started a local archery club and hopefully by next year they will be ready to take the reins of it,” said director of the WCVA Kim Petersen. “We have about 250 archers here from Nevada, California, Idaho and Utah. This is 3D archery; we have very realistic-looking animal targets and other challenging twists.”
The Winnemucca Junior High School wrestling team had numerous first place finishers last Saturday on their own mats, but there was success all the way across the team. “It was a good weekend for the Warrior wrestling team,” WJHS wrestling coach John Brooks said. “We entered 33 wrestlers in our home tournament and came out of it with 15 champions!”
The Lowry High School swim team started the season with a trip to South Tahoe last Saturday and finished with mixed results. The men’s team notched a victory over South Tahoe 97-81, but the women’s team went down hard to the Vikings 159-36. “The entire team looked strong at what is typically a tough meet, and I am impressed that the boys won because South Tahoe is about twice our size,” said LHS coach Shelby Ruff. “In the past we would win with numbers, and now we are winning with speed.”
For Division I Orovada took the Championship for the second year in a row and McDermitt took second. In Division II McDermitt-Blue, the third place seed, came out victorious as the champion and McDermitt-White second.