Over 100 top-ranked wrestlers competed in the NIAA 2A State Championship in Las Vegas on Saturday. The Meadows School filled up with coaches and regional champs from 16 schools. Wyatt Hughes at 145 pounds and Devin Moura (132) represented Pershing County High School. Hughes, a freshman, battled hard but came up just short of medaling. He won the quarterfinal match by fall over Benjamin Rhoades of Ely at 3:10. However, he lost the next two matches.
Four Pershing County wrestlers competed in the NIAA Northern 2A Regional Tournament at PCHS on Saturday. Devin Moura (132), Wyatt Hughes (145), Justin Carruth (126) and Lucian Gonzalez (170) all hoped to qualify for the state tournament at the Meadows School in Las Vegas on Saturday.
The scoreboard tells only part of the story. Just ask Jesse Canchola, Rich Campbell, Charlie Safford and the Pershing County Mustangs boys basketball team. The Mustangs traveled to West Wendover last Thursday. Pershing lost a league match against the Wolverines 59-30. Lovelock is 0-2 against Wendover having lost to them at home in mid-January 53-24. Pershing County was minus a starter. Unfortunately, Diego Gonzalez fractured his nose during the Incline game. Underclassmen Izayuh McGlihin and Luis Sanchez figured prominently against Wendover.
Consistency is the name of their game. The Pershing County High School girls basketball team went 2-0 against West Wendover for the season. They beat the Wolverines at PCHS last month 43-30. This past Friday, they traveled to Wendover and did it again 55-31. It was Pershing County’s last regular game of the year.
NASCAR was the big winner at its glossy Los Angeles gala held inside Memorial Coliseum. In need of an energy boost ahead of its upcoming season, NASCAR broke its dated mold and staged an experimental exhibition race inside one of the most iconic venues in sports. The race itself on a temporary quarter-mile asphalt oval was a sideshow in Sunday’s made-for-Fox Sports spectacular. Just how successful was the Busch Light Clash? Two losing drivers high-fived a pair of NASCAR senior executives as they passed in the USC locker room.
The Pershing County’s JV boys and girls basketball teams have one more game left before the end of basketball season. They travel to West Wendover on Friday. It’s been quite a ride. This past week they played Battle Mountain, North Tahoe and Incline.
Any boys basketball week that starts out with a win over Battle Mountain can’t be all bad. Last Tuesday the Pershing County Mustangs traveled to their rival school and beat the Longhorns 72-68. The Longhorns stomped the Mustangs by two points 52-50 a couple of weeks ago, making Tuesday’s win especially sweet. Ashton Nolf led the scoring with 22 points. Travis Donaldson had 18. Diego Gonzalez added nine more.
There’s not a senior among them. But the PCHS spirit squad was loud and proud on senior night at PCHS. They said farewell to eight senior athletes and a couple of managers.
This Saturday Devin Moura and Wyatt Hughes will wrestle as top seeds in the Northern 2A Regional Championships at PCHS. It starts at 9 a.m. Expect a crowd of dedicated fans from all over northern Nevada as the season careens toward its culmination – the State tournament at The Meadows School in Las Vegas on Feb 19.
The high point of the Pershing County High School girls basketball week happened on Thursday night against North Tahoe. Pershing County didn’t pull off the win. In fact, they lost all three games this week. Two of the losses were close calls. One was a major shellacking from a top-ranked team. But something almost magical happened in the PCHS gym on senior night.
The Pershing County wrestling team started division duals this past week. On Thursday Devin Moura, Wyatt Hughes, Justin Carruth and Lucian Gonzalez traveled to Yerington to compete. “We are heading into the final push,” said PCHS coach Mike Brooks. “We are only wrestling 2A opponents for the rest of the season with duals, regional and state.”
The games for Humboldt County Rural Basketball League, week 2, had to be postponed from Jan. 22 until this past weekend, due to health concerns regarding Covid. Nevertheless, this week’s games were worth the wait. The games were in Kings River and began at 10 a.m.
Money Mac was going to deliver, just as Joe Burrow did a few moments earlier and the Bengals’ defense did for the entire second half and more. They had come too far down this improbable road not to finish things off, even if history and the wrong end of a coin flip threatened to derail their best laid plans. Evan McPherson — aka Money Mac — was as good with his game winner as a handful of $100 bills, not to anyone’s surprise. This was a kicker, you might remember, who told teammates last week that they were going to the AFC championship game even before he hit the winning field goal to beat Tennessee.
Two years ago, the Cincinnati Bengals were the NFL’s worst team. Now they’re headed to the Super Bowl to play the Los Angeles Rams — in the Rams’ home stadium.