It was over almost before it started.Carson got goals from Mayra Olivares and Michelle Sandage in the first 13 minutes, and rode those early scores to a 3-0 win over visiting Reed in the opening round of the NIAA Division I Northern Regional on Tuesday night.
FALLON - In Madi they trust.
Q: What are your favorite sports and why?
The Carson Tiny Mite Blue (7-0-1) capped off a championship season with a 36-12 win over the Carson Tiny Mite White to win the city title over the weekend.
Carson High's boys soccer team will be at full strength Monday night when it hosts McQueen in the opening round of the NIAA Division I Northern Region Championships.
I guess it's a good thing that Nevada got off to such a quick start this season, because despite losing to Air Force and San Diego State in back-to-back weeks, the Wolf Pack should qualify for a bowl game.
For the reserve deputies, the Nevada Day celebration will start at 7:30 a.m., before the parade starts. They will be on the street by 8. Come 11 p.m
Happy Nevada Day to one and all.
RENO - Remember the name Evelyn Delgado because you will hear it a lot over the next three years.
RENO - The big cheer was easily heard around Rancho San Rafael Park around noon on Friday.
AIR FORCE ACADEMY, Colo. (AP) - Senior Wes Cobb ran for a career-high 152 yards and a touchdown on 30 carries in place of injured Cody Getz and Air Force stymied Stefphon Jefferson in a 48-31 victory over Nevada on Friday night in the first meeting between the schools.
For the Douglas High School football team, it was only fitting that after two consecutive seasons of losing to arch-rival Carson on a last-second field goal, the Tigers were able to turn the tables on the Senators.
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Gregor Blanco's bunt single dribbled about halfway down the third base line and stopped next to the white chalk, inches fair. Several Tigers stood over the ball, almost in disbelief.
FERNLEY — Taryn Aguilera scored on an 8-yard run with less than a minute left to snap a 28-all tie and give the Dayton Dust Devils a season-ending 34-28 win over Fernley on Thursday night.
Sports fodder for a Friday morning .
The silence in the Carson High locker room was deafening. You could have heard a pin drop. Some players had tears in their eyes, while others tried to hold them back.
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - A Giant dose of small ball, and suddenly San Francisco finds itself in a most unique position - way ahead in a postseason series.
SAN FRANCISCO (AP)
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Justin Verlander pawed at the mound with his feet during warmups, looked flabbergasted when his pitching coach came out for a visit and appeared out of sorts from the start.
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DOUGLAS (3-5, 0-3) AT CARSON (4-4, 0-3) Today, 7 p.m.
Dayton High closes out the 2012 season with a road game today at Fernley.
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - On a team known for stellar pitching, bushy beards and quirky personalities, the unquestioned leader of the San Francisco Giants is their understated catcher, Buster Posey.
MIAMI (AP) - The lingering backlash caused by Ozzie Guillen's praise of Fidel Castro contributed to another Miami Marlins managerial shakeup Tuesday.
Carson High entered its final regular-season game minus midfielder Jon Guevara, defender Carlos Alvarado and defender Zach Smith.
It seemed like yesterday when Matt Nolan put on a Carson High football jersey for the first time, and now he's just one day away from playing the final home game of his career.
Carson High remained in the hunt for a post season berth by knocking off Wooster in five games Tuesday night at Morse Burley Gym.
Steve Panzram has taken over as the new head coach of the Carson Tigersharks swim program.
School: Carson High Year: Junior Sports: Cross country, track
BOSTON (AP) - The Red Sox are preparing to announce that John Farrell will be their new manager, according to a baseball official with knowledge of the deal to bring the former Boston pitching coach back one year after the ballclub first tried to give him the top job.
RENO - It never pays to leave a Nevada Wolf Pack football game early.
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The Giants sure are tough to eliminate this postseason
Offense: The Senators were well short of 300 yards total offense (251) against the Miners, mostly because of a lack of a vertical passing game and two bad snaps that resulted in minus-33 yards.
Nevada Appeal Staff Report
Q: What are your favorite sports and why?
Growing up in the Bay Area, attending the Stanford-Cal football game was always the highlight of the football season.
When it comes to the value of your collection you are the key. Knowing which coins are rare, ones you paid extra for, which ones have special meaning, or the coins' condition helps the value. All of these factors are important in a coin's price.
NASCAR takes to the newly-repaved Kansas track this weekend, and teams were allowed to test during the week.
DAYTON - The Dayton Dust Devils football team vented a lot of its frustrations Friday night, and celebrated Senior Night in style by crushing Sparks, 68-6.
RENO - Chris Ault walked into the Nevada Wolf Pack's halftime locker room last Saturday afternoon at Sam Boyd Stadium in Las Vegas with a purpose.
RENO - The Carson High boys cross country team finished third at Friday's Sierra League meet at Rancho San Rafael Park.
Win Thursday or watch the playoffs on the sidelines.
DETROIT (AP) - Prince Fielder waved his arms franticly, gleefully calling off his teammates while the crowd at Comerica Park roared.
ST. LOUIS (AP) - The St. Louis Cardinals are oh so close. They know better than to start celebrating yet.
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - The San Francisco 49ers sit alone atop the NFC West for now - hardly the kind of firm hold on the division they owned last October.
Colby Brown readily admits he had some concerns about making the transition from freshman to varsity football.
Sports fodder for a Friday morning . . .
DAYTON - After 54 holes of the PGA Tour Qualifying tournament at Dayton Valley Golf Club, the only certainty is that three players are tied for the top spot on the leaderboard.
DAYTON - European Tour player Oliver Fisher shot the low round of the tournament with a 6-under 66 to take a one-shot lead after two rounds of Stage One PGA Tour Qualifying at Dayton Valley Golf Club.
ALAMEDA, Calif. (AP) - Linebacker Aaron Curry has returned to practice with the Oakland Raiders for the first time since May after dealing with nagging knee problems in recent months.
ST. LOUIS (AP) - The San Francisco Giants had every opportunity to grab control of the NL championship series Wednesday.
A winning record has been out of the question for a couple of weeks. Ditto for a playoff berth. With two games left in the season, the Dayton High football team has very little to play for.
DAYTON - The annual Dayton Valley PGA Qualifier at Dayton Valley Golf Club has turned into a family affair for the Wiebes.
DETROIT (AP) - Justin Verlander and Detroit's stellar starters are one win from the World Series.
RENO - Carson High's girls soccer team knocked off Damonte 3-1 Tuesday night in a Sierra League match.
DAYTON - "Pretty good for these conditions" was the common answer that golfers used when questioned about their play in the first round of the PGA Tour Stage One Qualifying Tournament at Dayton Valley Golf Club on Tuesday.
The Eagle Valley seventh and eighth-grade girls basketball teams both their respective titles at the TahNeva tournament over the weekend.
The pressure is on Carson High's volleyball team.
SCHOOL: Carson High YEAR: Senior SPORT: Soccer
Carson City The following people were booked into the Carson City Jail. All suspects are innocent until proved guilty in court:
WASHINGTON (AP) - Carlos Beltran and the never-give-up St. Louis Cardinals began their latest comeback celebration quietly, plucking cans of beer from a blue bin that was hurriedly wheeled from the home to the visiting clubhouse in the middle of the ninth inning.
NEW YORK (AP) - CC Sabathia boosted the New York Yankees past the Baltimore Orioles, ending a spellbinding six-week drama that drove and drained both teams.
Dayton fell to Lovelock in three games Friday night
RENO - Zach Sudfeld remembers the first time he saw the Fremont Cannon.
RENO - Galena recovered an onside kick to start the game and went in to score on its opening possession.
DAYTON - It was the best of times. It was the worst of times.
CINCINNATI (AP) - Not just any comeback would get San Francisco back to playing for a pennant. It would take one of Giant proportions.
OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) - Almost as soon as Omar Infante threw out Seth Smith to end the Oakland Athletics surprising season, despair turned to appreciation.
Sports fodder for a Friday morning . .
There are unsung heroes on every team; guys who make plays week in and week with very little fanfare.
Carson coach Robert Maw said he saw improvement in his team, but it wasn't near enough to stop Bishop Manogue on Thursday night.
CARSON (4-2, 0-1) AT GALENA (2-0) Friday, 7:30 p.m.
Douglas High senior Hunter Myers spent the bulk of his Tuesday placing phone calls to college coaches around the country.The message was the same to each recipient:
Carson High's Michael Samii said the Carson Senators spent a lot of time thinking and talking about the first game against Bishop Manogue during practice.
Q: What are your favorite sports and why? A: Football, basketball and track
CINCINNATI (AP) - Joaquin Arias hit a grounder toward third base and took off, covering those 90 feet in a blink as a full-to-capacity ballpark went silent with angst.
OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) - The Oakland Athletics will play another day in this improbable season full of remarkable rallies.
BELLEFONTE, Pa. (AP) - In what sounded at times like a locker room pep talk, Jerry Sandusky rambled in his red prison suit about being the underdog in the fourth quarter, about forgiveness, about dogs and about the movie "Seabiscuit."
The Carson Tiny Mite Blue Pop Warner football team remained unbeaten and in first place with a 24-6 win over the Sparks Cardinal over the weekend.
DAYTON - The grueling quest for a PGA Tour card begins for 79 hopefuls at Dayton Valley Golf Club for an unprecedented 18th consecutive year next week.
Kenzie Tillitt headed in a ball off a corner kick in the second half to snap a scoreless tie and give Carson a 1-0 win over Bishop Manogue Tuesday night at Carson.
STEAD - Heather Evans shot a first-round 86 for 11th place after the first day of the Division I girls golf tournament at Sierra Sage Golf Club.
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - NaVorro Bowman and Patrick Willis will harass the quarterback. The defense will probably force a turnover. Frank Gore will run for around 100 yards and Alex Smith will protect the ball.
DETROIT (AP) - Justin Verlander allowed a home run to the first batter of the game - and quickly shrugged it off.
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - An uncharacteristic start from ace Matt Cain has left the San Francisco Giants in unfamiliar territory to start this postseason run.
After watching my first Dayton game of the season Friday night, one thing is readily apparent.
SPARKS - The Carson Senators have been the class of Northern Nevada's large-school girls soccer field so far this fall.
RENO - The Wyoming Cowboys dared Devin Combs to beat them Saturday at Mackay Stadium.
A look at the best-of-five National League division series between the Cincinnati Reds and San Francisco Giants:
ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) - Buck Showalter and the Baltimore Orioles will get another chance to overtake the New York Yankees.
ATLANTA - Talk about a wild card.
The Dayton volleyball team swept Silver Stage on Friday. Dayton won 25-19, 25-20 and 25-20.
Fernley 95A Speedway wrapped up its 2012 season with a two-day show last weekend that drew 90 cars in six racing divisions.
RENO - It has been almost impossible to separate Nevada Wolf Pack quarterback Cody Fajardo and Wyoming Cowboys quarterback Brett Smith so far during their young college football careers.
RENO - The drought is over.
Sports fodder for a Friday morning . . .
Nose tackle in a three-man front or tackle in a four-man front is a thankless job. You can get double or sometimes even triple teamed; hit from every angle. It's a position where glory seldom comes your way.
The Carter name in Carson City is synonymous with athletic excellence. It comes with certain expectations however, and maybe even a little pressure
ST. LOUIS (AP) - Sam Bradford missed high, low, left, right.
OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) - Same chaotic, champagne dance-party scene in the clubhouse just two days later. New T-shirt: AL West champions.
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Buster Posey has gone from missing most of last season after a violent collision at home plate to winning the NL batting title.
It's just past the halfway point of the regular season for the Carson High football team, and Carson is once again in good position to win or share a fourth consecutive league title.
Q: What are your favorite sport(s) and why?
RENO - Francisco Barrios and Jon Guevara scored a goal apiece to lead Carson to a 2-0 victory over Galena in Sierra League boys soccer match Wednesday afternoon.
SANTA CLARA, Calif. (AP) - Every week, 49ers tight end Vernon Davis anxiously awaits the game plan offensive coordinator Greg Roman is conjuring up
Minden is becoming a haven of sorts for the Carson High volleyball team.
RENO - Carson High's girls soccer team avenged the only blemish on its record with a 3-0 win over Galena on Tuesday afternoon.
Carson High School’s winter sports sign-ups are Oct. 29 from 5:30 to 7 p.m.
School: Carson High Year: Senior
