This Thursday, the Lovelock Softball Association names its 2021 league championship team. The title game starts at 8 p.m. at McDougal Park.
The high school rodeo season came to a close on Saturday night as the National High School Finals Rodeo concluded its week stay at the Lancaster Event Center in Lincoln, Neb. A handful of Humboldt County and Battle Mountain club members took part in the event. Humboldt County’s Billy DeLong competed in three events. He finished 29th in the nation with 275 points. In his first performance, he scored 137 points, which was good enough for sixth and 37th in the first go-around.
Three Nevada players were named to the Biletnikoff Award Watch List Thursday morning, as wide receivers Romeo Doubs and Elijah Cooks, and tight end Cole Turner were tabbed candidates for college football’s award for top receiver. The three candidates for the Wolf Pack led all schools in the country on the list, and continues a first week of watch list reveals which has featured plenty of Nevada presence.
Barring a dramatic change of direction, Texas and Oklahoma are moving toward taking the Red River Rivalry to the Southeastern Conference in a seismic shift that will have repercussions in college sports from coast to coast. According to multiple reports, the first and significant formal step of the process could come as soon as Monday with the two schools informing the Big 12 they will not renew the contractual agreement that binds conference members until 2025.
Last weekend, the Lovelock Speedway had its first nights of racing in two years. On Friday, Heather Bonderer, from Battle Mountain, registered about 25 drivers at the pit gate while her son Eric, 4, played nearby. On Saturday night, everyone came back for more. “It takes a lot of people to get a race going, including volunteers, officials, drivers and their pit crews,” said Bonderer. The spectators and racers enjoyed the balmy weather and almost-full, red moon. Drivers from Susanville, Fallon, Winnemucca, Silver Springs and Lovelock raced in the season-openers.
Watch List Season 2021 got underway Monday morning, and three members of the Wolf Pack found their names called on the Maxwell Award powered by Mammoth Tech and Bednarik Award powered by Mammoth Tech Preseason Watch Lists. Quarterback Carson Strong and wide receiver Romeo Doubs were named to the watch list of the Maxwell Award, given annually to the nation’s College Player of the Year.
In a year of firsts in the majors, Collin Morikawa might have topped them all. His performance over four days at the British Open was unlike anything seen at Royal St. George’s, even in such ideal weather for the English coast. In his first real test of links golf, Morikawa didn’t make a bogey over his final 31 holes, blowing past mistake-prone Louis Oosthuizen and never flinching as Jordan Spieth made one last charge late Sunday afternoon.
Recently, 100 pre-K through third-graders shared a cherished tradition – Future Mustangs Basketball Camp. Later in the week, 40 fourth through eighth-graders met in the high school gym to play one of Lovelock’s favorite sports. “We had more campers than we have ever had, I think,” said organizer and Coach Lee Houston.
Committed coaches watch out for their kids all year, even after school lets out. That’s why Pershing County High School athletic director Mike Brooks began offering Flag Football Under the Lights a couple of summers ago. “I came up with it to give the kids in Lovelock something to do on summer nights,” he says. “I wanted to give them a chance to be active and develop some football skills.”
Watch List Season 2021 got underway Monday morning, and three members of the Wolf Pack found their names called on the Maxwell Award powered by Mammoth Tech and Bednarik Award powered by Mammoth Tech Preseason Watch Lists. Quarterback Carson Strong and wide receiver Romeo Doubs were named to the watch list of the Maxwell Award, given annually to the nation’s College Player of the Year.
Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said Tuesday that the U.S. military will allow Naval Academy graduate Cameron Kinley to pursue a career in the NFL with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.
Nevada Football has continued to rack up the preseason honors ahead of the 2021 campaign, landing a total of 33 selections, including 15 to the first teams, on the Phil Steele and Pro Football Focus (PFF) Preseason All-Mountain West Teams. The Pack’s 15 selections to the Phil Steele Preseason All-Mountain West Team shared the conference lead with Boise State and San Jose State, but its eight first-team selections far out-paced the field, being twice that of the next-best program (Fresno State, with four). On the PFF teams, Nevada led the way in both overall selections (19) and first-team nods (seven).
The Weekend Warriors lost a lot of battles over the years. According to Lovelock Softball Association president Jared Jensen, “The Warriors have been playing since our first season (2018). The first few years, they struggled.” Last season they finished below league champs Thick N Wild, the Swingers, Sandlot Junkies, Outkast, Brew Crew, Swamp Donkeys and Thunder Ducks. But that’s all changed.
Former champion Zach Johnson tested positive for the coronavirus before getting on a charter flight to the British Open, forcing him to join the growing list of withdrawals and ending his streak at playing 69 consecutive majors. The R&A said Johnson, who played in the John Deere Classic in Illinois on Sunday, and local qualifier Louis de Jager of South Africa had positive COVID-19 tests and withdrew.
Nevada Football has continued to rack up the preseason honors ahead of the 2021 campaign, landing a total of 33 selections, including 15 to the first teams, on the Phil Steele and Pro Football Focus (PFF) Preseason All-Mountain West Teams. The Pack’s 15 selections to the Phil Steele Preseason All-Mountain West Team shared the conference lead with Boise State and San Jose State, but its eight first-team selections far out-paced the field, being twice that of the next-best program (Fresno State, with four). On the PFF teams, Nevada led the way in both overall selections (19) and first-team nods (seven).