The Battle Mountain High School boys golf team was in West Wendover on Monday, May 9, for the Northern 2A Regional Championships at Toana Vista Golf Course.
The Battle Mountain High School softball team was looking to book a trip to Las Vegas if they could get through the Northern 2A Regional Championships this past weekend in West Wendover.
The Battle Mountain High School track and field team shined at the Northern 2A Regional Championships this past weekend at Reed High School and brought a handful of individual champions. Sean Scherer and Zach Duggan led a 1-2 finish in the pole vault for Battle Mountain, as Scherer cleared the bar 8 feet, 6 inches and Duggan set a personal best at 8-0.
The Nevada Interscholastic Activities Association (NIAA) and One Nevada Credit Union are pleased to announce $20,000 in scholarship funds will be awarded for the NIAA / One Nevada Top Ten Student Athletes of the Year program. 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.
The regular season for the Lowry High School boys golf team and the rest of the Northern 3A came to a close last week at Genoa Lakes Golf Course with the South Tahoe High School tournament.
The final high school regional tournaments of the school year get under way throughout Northern Nevada this week. Lowry High School will host the Northern 3A baseball and softball regional championship, beginning Thursday and running through Saturday. In softball on Thursday, Lowry takes on Elko at 10 a.m., with the winner to face Fernley at 2:30 p.m. on Thursday. Churchill County takes on Spring Creek at 12:15 p.m. and the winner plays North Valleys at 4:15 p.m.
The Battle Mountain High School softball team concluded its regular season this past week with a three-game series in West Wendover. The Lady Longhorns blanked the Wolverines in the opener on Thursday 10-0 and split a doubleheader on Friday, winning 14-13 and losing 12-11. attle Mountain ended the regular season at 18- overall and 12-6 in the Northern 2A.
The Battle Mountain High School track and field team concluded its regular season with a short trip this past Saturday to Winnemucca for the Lowry Invitational.
The Northern 3A and Lowry High School boys golf team was back on the course last week for a pair of tournaments in Elko County. The week began with a trip to Spring Creek on Monday, April 25, where the Buckaroo finished second with a round of 366. Truckee maintained its lead in the league, winning the tournament with a 347. Elko was third at 370 and Fernley (372) and Spring Creek (403) rounded out the top five.
The Battle Mountain High School softball team all but clinched a spot in the Northern 2A Regional Championships with a come-from-behind win against rival Pershing County on Saturday in Battle Mountain. The three-game series tarted last week on Tuesday, April 26, in Lovelock with Pershing County holding on for a 7-6 win. The series moved to Battle Mountain this past Saturday, with the Mustangs winning game one 13-2. The Lady Longhorns trailed 11-10 in the series finale but score a pair of runs to secure a 12-11 win. The Lady Longhorns are 16-7 overall and 10-5 in the Northern 2A.
Producers of the world’s richest one-day roping competition – the annual Bob Feist Invitational – moved the 45-year-old BFI to Oklahoma amid the pandemic after 37 years in Reno, but are bringing their $2.9 million event back to Reno for one “final showdown” this summer. In the last year of its contract with the Reno Rodeo, Ullman Peterson Events’ BFI will produce Championship Week this June, including the Resistol Reno Open presented by The Silver Legacy Resort & Casino.
Battle Mountain senior Nolan Chopp swept the shot put and discus at the Eureka Invitational on Friday, April 15. Chopp set season-bests in each event, throwing the shot put 42 feet, 4 inches and the discus 120-0. Aydan Samuelson was the runner-up in the discus with a toss of 110-0 and the senior was fourth in the shot put at 37-0. Sean Bengoa set a personal best in the 100-meter dash to finish with a time of 11.84 and he ran a personal best as well in the 200 meters to place fourth in a time of 24.50.
Mother Nature left the Battle Mountain and North Tahoe high school baseball teams in a struggle to find a place to play their three-game Northern 2A series. The games were scheduled to take place in Tahoe City, Calif., but recent snow storms did not allow that to happen. The series still took place but in two different locations. The opening game on Friday was played at Golden Eagle Regional Park in Sparks, with North Tahoe winning 11-1. The two squads moved to Pershing County High School in Lovelock on Saturday and the Lakers swept a doubleheader 13-3 and 16-1. The Longhorns dropped to 9-0 overall and 5-6 in the Northern 2A.
Kyle Busch backed into the record book by stealing a win at dirt-covered Bristol Motor Speedway. That’s what he’d say if it had been anyone else, right? Busch won his first race of the season Sunday night by sliding past the leaders as Tyler Reddick and Chase Briscoe spun racing for the win. Busch tied Hall of Famer Richard Petty’s NASCAR record for victories in consecutive years at 18.
Apparently, no one in the Northern 2A want to play the Battle Mountain High School softball team. For the third time this year, the Lady Longhorns had a league three-game series wiped off the board. Silver Stage and Incline forfeited games earlier this season and North Tahoe did the same this past weekend.