The McDermitt High School volleyball team made its season debut on Thursday, Aug. 26, with a road trip to Pyramid Lake. The Laker knocked off the Lady Bulldogs in three sets, 25-19, 25-10 and 25-17.
Nevada Football claimed a pair of weekly Mountain West honors, as cornerback Isaiah Essissima was named the conference’s Defensive Player of the Week, and kicker Brandon Talton Special Teams Player of the Week.
This year, the Battle Mountains High School girls golf team has eight girls that have joined the team. This past Thursday, the Lady Longhorns took two of those girls to Spring Creek to begin the new fall season. Vanessa Gillogley shot a 152 and Hannah Johnson carded a 176.
Fall sports for Battle Mountain High School will kick into high gear this weekend. After holding a Green/Gold scrimmage this past Friday, the Battle Mountain football team will travel to Winnemucca on Friday to play Lowry at 7 p.m. It is the first meeting between the two schools since 2017,
The Battle Mountain NNA swim team was back in action from Aug. 5-7 at the 2022 High Country Short Course Championship at the Carson Valley Swim Center in Minden. The swim meet is more on the fun side with live music nearby and a theme of the Greatest Show on Earth. After raining the first day, the rest of the meet went smoothly.
Ducks Unlimited (DU) is a nonprofit group with the mission to conserve, restore, and manage wetlands and associated habitats for North America's waterfowl.
The Pershing County High School athletic department will be hosting its annual dinner and parking spot auction on Thursday, at 6 p.m. at the newly designed entrance to Pershing County High School.
We Ustacould won the 2022 Winners Inn Shootout bowling tournament held Aug. 6-7 at Spare Time Bowl in Winnemucca. The Winners Inn and Winnemucca Inn helped sponsor the tournament of 90 players, including 80 of them from out of town. Over $13,000 in prize money was awarded as 30 teams competed.
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.
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.
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.
Making its way through northern Nevada last week and after a stop in Lovelock, the Major League University group was in Battle Mountain on Saturday and Sunday at the youth sports complex next to the junior high to put on a baseball and softball clinic.
Nevada offensive lineman Aaron Frost was named to the Outland Trophy Preseason Watch List, the Football Writers Association of America (FWAA) announced recently. It marks Frost’s second preseason accolade in as many weeks. The fifth-year offensive lineman was named to the Preseason All-Mountain West Team.
Mountain West Football Media Days were held last week at Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas with the conference announcing its 2022 predicted order of finish. Nevada was tabbed to finish fourth in the West Division, earning 66 points in voting done by media members that cover the conference’s 12 teams. Fresno State earned 20 of the 28 first-place votes for 160 points, to top the West, followed by San Diego State, which claimed the remaining eight first-place votes.
This past week the Battle Mountain High School softball team was invited to do a clinic for the elementary summer school kids 1st-4th grade. They learned catching, throwing, and hitting skills throughout the hot week.