Brad Horn/Nevada Appeal
In their first home meet of the season, the Carson boys track team finished third at 55.5 points and the girls came in second on Saturday with 62. Reno won the boys (69) and Bishop Manogue took the girls (71.5).
The next time Carson hosts a meet is April 18, which is the Carson Invitational.
In the 110-meter hurdles, Carson's Luke Carter (17.55) and James Simmons (17.58) took first and second, finishing just 0.03 seconds apart. The duo also finished 1-2 in the 300-meter hurdles.
Richard Shrog took home the 3200-meter win with a 10:25.16, nearly nine seconds faster than the second-place finisher while Blake McCoy grabbed first place in discus with a throw of 137-8, almost 20 feet longer than the second place finisher.
In the girls, Carson took the first three positions in the 100-meter with Julianne King taking first and Krista Baumgartnier and Haleigh Ward coming in behind her.
The Senators won the 4x100-meter relay with a time of 52.1.
Also, Emily Field took the 200-meter (28.6) and Alex Fallon grabbed the triple jump (32-3).
Baseball
Douglas completes sweep of Fallon
Just when things looked like they might be looking up for the Fallon baseball team Saturday afternoon, the Greenwave suffered a tough break.
Junior pitcher Teryn Smith had keep Fallon in game two of a doubleheader at Douglas through four innings, but some extra effort while trying to avoid a tag on the base paths actually ended his afternoon prematurely.
Fallon had cut the score to 6-4 in the top of the fifth when Smith, who had four strikeouts in as many innings pitching, grounded back to Douglas pitcher Kameron VanWinkle and turned his ankle while trying to avoid the tag at first.
He came out of the game immediately and Douglas proceeded to score six runs over the final two innings to take a 12-4 win and complete a three-game series sweep of the Greenwave. The Tigers claimed a 12-1 win in five innings earlier in the day and beat Fallon 13-0 in Fallon on Thursday.
"We played a much better game in game two today," Fallon coach Robbie Wickware said. "We still have things to work on, but we stayed more consistent.
"A lot of credit goes to Douglas, they played well for three games. Teryn was throwing a pretty good game. Douglas hits the ball very, very well but he was throwing a lot of strikes and more than one pitch for a strike. That's what allowed him to keep us in the game for a bit."
Fallon got out to an early 1-0 lead in the game when Smith doubled Colton Oney home in the top of the first.
Douglas answered in the bottom of the inning when Tyler May scored on a two-out passed ball from third and took the lead in the bottom of the third when May hit a solo home run and VanWinkle hit a two-run single to set the score at 4-1.
Carson JV boys sweep South Tahoe
Carson swept South Tahoe 25-2 and 14-4 Saturday at Carson High.
Drew Moreland fanned five in a five-inning effort in the first game, while Nick Domitrovich also fanned five in his five-innings of work. Danny Okimura went 3-for-4 in the first game with two doubles and Cole Dufresne went 3-for-4 in the second game.
Softball
Douglas sweeps Fallon on road
Stephanie Harper allowed just three hits over 14 innings to lead Douglas High's softball team to a sweep of Fallon in a Sierra League softball double-header Saturday afternoon.
Harper pitched a 1-hitter in the opener which Douglas won 3-2. She fanned seven and walked four. In the second game, Douglas won 6-0. Harper fanned nine and allowed only two hits.
Douglas scored all of its runs in the first two innings, as Katrina Morgan and Harper had run-scoring hits, and Marinza Diaz walked to force in a run. Harper finished with two hits.
In the second game, Harper doubled home a run and hot a solo homer. Maddy Gilbert had a two-run single while Morgan and Emily Weaver had run-scoring hits. Weaver, Morgan, Harper and Mia Townsell contributed two hits each in the second game.
Douglas improved to 4-5 overall and 2-1 in league.
Dayton swept by Lowry Buckaroos
Hits were hard to come by, as Dayton's softball team lost 3-2 and 7-0 to Lowry in a Northern Nevada 3A doubleheader.
Dayton managed only three hits in the first game " Mariah Collins, Melissa Coyle and Lindsie Cross collected a hit each.
Dayton trailed 2-0 entering the fifth inning, but Cross singled in two runs. Lowry pushed across the game-winning run in the sixth.
Dayton managed just three hits in the second game. Collins, Melissa Goetz and Cross all had one hit.
Dayton (2-5, 0-3) hosts Tillamook Tuesday at 2 p.m. and Truckee Wednesday at 3:30 p.m.
Carson grabs two league wins
The Carson junior varsity softball team picked up two wins against Galena on Saturday, 15-1 and 23-2.
Christa McGahuey picked up the win in the first game in a five-strikeout, complete game.
She added to her cause with a 3-for-4 performance at the plate with three runs scored and an RBI.
Danielle Morrow went 3-for-4 with three RBIs.
In the second game, Allison Vondrak got the start, also pitching a complete game and striking out eight.
The Senators had five players with three runs batted in: Morgan McEwan, Taya Raines, Chrsitina Gallegos, Catlain Sinclair and Vondrak.
Additionally, Christa Lei Wolfe went 1-for-4 with 2 RBIs and Nicole Strickland went 2-for-4 with two runs and an RBI.
Track
Douglas girls dominate meet
Douglas girls win track meet
The Douglas girls track team dominated a conference meet at Reed High with 120 points, 53 more than second-place Hug.
Among the eight winners was Jessica Waggoner in both the shot put (39-0) and discus (131-3). The team also won the 3200-meter relay, 1600-meter and the 800-meter.
The boys finished third at the same meet with 60 points. Reed won with 108.