The Lowry High School JV football team was originally scheduled to travel to Reno this past Friday to face Galena.
Drivers were back at Winnemucca Regional Raceway this past weekend for Hot August Nights and two days of action. Over 60 cars raced over the weekend. The season is quickly coming to an end, with races taking place on Sept. 17 and Sept. 18.
Gail Piquet shot a two-day total of 184 to win the 2021 Winnemucca Ladies Club Championship held Aug. 17 and 24, at Winnemucca Municipal Golf Course.
Coming off a shortened spring season from just a few months ago, the Lowry High School boys soccer team was back on the field this past weekend at Spring High School for the Spring Creek Tournament.
After all of the junior high sports were wiped out the last school year, they are back this year and the Winnemucca Junior High School girls basketball team is set and ready to get the action going.
No one ever questioned that Patrick Cantlay had the chops to be among golf’s elite. What he might have lacked in number of PGA Tour victories, he made for it with the way he won or the field he beat. His victory Sunday in the BMW Championship — the fifth of his career and his PGA Tour-leading third of the season — was a little of each. On a Caves Valley course that suited the biggest hitters, facing the biggest masher of them all in Bryson DeChambeau, he delivered a moment that will be remembered for the ice in his veins and nerves of steel.
It wasn’t as pretty as week one was, but the Lowry High School football team rallied from a slow start on Friday night to beat Galena 29-13 on Jerry Tobin Field in Winnemucca. The game was originally set to be played in Reno, but smoky conditions forced the move to Winnemucca. The Buckaroos improved to 2-0 on the season, with both victories over Northern 5A schools. “It wasn’t our best performance tonight,” said LHS coach Taua Cabatbat. “The boys dealt with some adversity and came out in the second half and got the job done.”
The Mountain West released its 2021-22 men’s basketball schedule Friday, as the slate returns to its 18-game format. With the conference schedule returning to its traditional look after a 20-game slate in 2020-21, Nevada will play home-and-homes with eight schools, while playing one opponent at home only (New Mexico), and one on the road only (Air Force).
Matt Lisle, who holds more than 16 years of coaching experience at the collegiate and professional level, has been named Nevada baseball’s director of player and program development, head coach T.J. Bruce announced Aug. 18. In 2020, Lisle helped lead the Fresno State softball program to an unprecedented turnaround. The Bulldogs, who finished No. 64 and No. 89 in the RPI the last two seasons, improved to No. 12 in 2020.
Nevada quarterback Carson Strong and running back Toa Taua found their names on a pair of 2021 preseason watch lists, with Strong being tabbed a candidate for the Johnny Unitas Golden Arm Award, and Taua a candidate for the Polynesian College Football Player of the Year Award. Strong has previously, this summer, been named a candidate for the Maxwell Award, Davey O’Brien Award, CFPA National Performer of the Year Trophy, and Manning Award, while the announcement is Taua’s second recognition, following his addition to the Reese’s Senior Bowl Watch List last week.
The last time a Friday night high school football game was played at Jerry Tobin Field at Lowry High School in Winnemucca was on Nov. 1, 2019, over 660 days ago. While much of the opening weekend of the high school football season was wiped out because of smoke and Covid and contact tracing issues, Douglas High School was able to make the trip east to Winnemucca on Friday night to open the season against Lowry. The two schools were together in the “AA” back in the 1970’s and 1980’s.
The Lowry High School varsity volleyball team opened its 2021 season on a strong note at the Yerington Invitational this past weekend in Yerington
With smoke in the northern Nevada air, the Lowry High School cross country team got back to normal racing for the first time in nearly two years. The Buckaroos traveled to Minden on Friday for the Douglas Class Races. The event breaks up the runners into freshmen, sophomore, junior and senior races and is just 2.55 miles, a bit shorter than the normal 5K or 3.1-mile race.
Asami Morita has been named assistant coach for the Nevada women’s basketball program, head coach Amanda Levens announced Monday. In her seven seasons at Robert Morris, the Colonials made five Northeast Conference Championship Games, winning titles in 2016, 2017, and 2019. RMU went 133-78 (.630) since 2014-15 and notched 91 wins in league play.
Gail Piquet shot a low-net score of 69 to win the first flight of the Winnemucca Ladies Golf Club accuracy tournament held Tuesday, Aug. 11, at Winnemucca Municipal Golf Course.