With the sports world turned upside-down this year due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the 35th annual Silver State Rodeo was able to take place last week at the Winnemucca Events Complex.
Area drag racers made their way out to the Good Times Drag Strip this past weekend for the Post Covid Spectacular. Over 30 drivers took part in the two-day event that kicked off to the start of the season at the drag strip on Jungo Road.
Gail Piquet show a low-gross score of 46 to win the Winnemucca Ladies Golf Club better nine tournament on June 23.
Young football players as far away as Ely, Fallon, Lovelock and along with Winnemucca players attended the Up From the Mucc Football Camp, put on by Jace Billingsley. Billingsley brought in NFL players Haloti Ngata, Cole Wick, Anthony Zettel and Steve Longa to help with the camp. The NFL players shared their message of where they came from to get in the NFL and spoke to the campers to believe in themselves and be the best player and person they could be.
Oregon and Oregon State have agreed to drop the name ``Civil War’’ for their rivalry games. The move Friday was made after discussions between officials at both schools and current and former student-athletes. Oregon State President Ed Ray said the Civil War name ``represents a connection to a war fought to perpetuate slavery.’’
The deals are done. The NBA is coming back. The season will resume on July 30 at Disney’s ESPN Wide World of Sports complex in Florida. Here are 10 things to know about the restarted season:
Forget about those halcyon first few days of spring training, when arranging for the right tee time on the right golf course is often more challenging than the work on the field. When major leaguers report next week for spring training 2.0 — or perhaps more accurately, baseball’s first summer camp — time will be one precious commodity with about three weeks to go before opening day.
Athlon Sports has announced its 2020 preseason All-Mountain West team and the Nevada Wolf Pack football squad is well represented on the list with 10 selections. Those earning first team honors include junior defensive end Dom Peterson and sophomore kicker Brandon Talton. Junior wide receiver Romeo Doubs was the Pack’s lone second team selection. The Wolf Pack had five student-athletes placed on the third team with junior running back Toa Taua, senior wide receiver Elijah Cooks and senior offensive lineman Nate Brown representing the offense and senior linebacker Lawson Hall and senior defensive back EJ Muhammad representing the defense.
The Humboldt County High School and Jr. High Rodeo team had an outstanding showing at the recent Nevada State High School and Jr. High Rodeo Finals held in Alamo, Nevada. Two cousins, Cade Bell and Billy DeLong, topped the field by taking home the Nevada State High School and Jr. High All Around Championships, respectively. Both boys were also awarded the AQHA Horse of the Year Awards. In addition, Cade won the High School Saddle Bronc Riding Championship, and Billy won the Jr. High Saddle Bronc Steer Riding and Tie Down Roping Championships. Teammate, Emma Garijo was the Jr. High Girls Breakaway and Pole Bending Champion. While Kayleigh Marshall was named Nevada State Jr. High Rodeo Princess.
Chelsea Cabatbat shot a low-gross score of 96 to win the first flight of the Winnnemucca Ladies Golf Club gross/net tournament on Tuesday, June 16, at Winnemucca Municipal Golf Course.
Tiz the Law has been good and lucky, two ingredients essential to success in horse racing. He’s been dominant, too. He raced to a 3 3/4-length victory Saturday in the Belmont Stakes to open the rescheduled Triple Crown. His five wins in six career starts have been by an average margin of 19 1/4 lengths. His only loss came at Churchill Downs in the Kentucky Jockey Club Stakes last year, when he finished third on a sloppy track.
An email from baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred to union head Tony Clark led to a balk in the drawn-out talks to start the pandemic-delayed season, which now won’t begin by July 19. The executive committee of the players’ association was set to vote and reject Major League Baseball’s latest offer for a 60-game season on Sunday. “I really believe we are fighting over an impossibility on games,” Manfred said in the email, a copy of which was obtained by The Associated Press. “The earliest we will be ready for players to report is a week from Monday, given the need to relocate teams from Florida. That leaves 66 days to play 60 games. Realistically, that is the outside of the envelope now.”
The Nevada Interscholastic Activities Association (NIAA) and One Nevada Credit Union awarded $20,000 in scholarship funds to Nevada student-athletes for the NIAA / One Nevada Top Ten Student-Athletes of the Year Awards. The student-athletes of the year awards are presented to the top students who excel in sports, maintain a high academic status, and volunteer in their community.
Terri Kracaw claimed first place in the first flight of the Winnemucca Ladies Golf Club Pro’s Posse tournament held Tuesday, June 6 at Winnemucca Municipal Golf Course. Kracaw shot a net score 71 to win the flight.
After being named a CoSIDA Academic All-District honoree last month, Nevada junior right-handed pitcher Julia Jensen has been selected to the 2020 Academic All-America Division I Softball Third Team.