Douglas High’s Johanna Ruelas knocks a ball down to her feet during a contest earlier this season. Ruelas scored her first goal of the season in a 7-0 win over Spanish Springs.
Photo by Ron Harpin.
After falling to Carson High, the Douglas girls soccer team took out its frustration on Spanish Springs with a 7-0 win over the weekend. Bliss Moody led the way with a hat trick for the Tigers while Douglas’ leading scorer, Aleeah Weaver, netted two goals. Johanna Ruelas saw her first score of the season while freshman Morgan Davis also tallied a goal for the Tigers. The win moves Douglas to 7-5-1 overall and 5-3-1 in Class 5A North play, leaving the Tigers in fifth place in the league standings. UP NEXT: Douglas hosted its Senior Night on Tuesday against Reno (7-2-2, 7-2-2) before traveling to McQueen (6-3-4, 4-2-3) to end the week. Douglas girls tennis takes down McQueen in regional opener The No. 5 seeded Tiger girls tennis team had to travel to Reno on Monday to take on No. 4 McQueen to open Class 5A North regional team play. Douglas was able to extend its team season behind an 11-7 win over the Lancers. UP NEXT: Douglas will take on No. 1 Reno at 3 p.m. Wednesday with the winner getting a spot in the regional finals against either Bishop Manogue or Galena. Tiger cross country runs in California The Douglas High cross country teams finished a meet in Clovis, Calif., over the weekend. The Tigers were 17th of 41 teams on the boys side of the meet while the Douglas girls took 28th as a team. Jackson Davis was the first Tiger runner across the line for the boys, finishing in 16:06 to take 14th overall. Luke Davis was just off his pace, taking 31st in 16:39.5. Romaine Smokey was 110th in 17:39 and junior Dennis Jorgensen took 164th in 18:25. Overall, 265 runners posted times in the boys meet. For the Tiger girls, it was sophomore Ayla Nelson, who crossed the line in 21:51 for 118th place. Douglas had two freshmen finish next in Lucy Nord and Logan Axtell, who posted times of 22:11 and 22:20, respectively. Tarkanian to host basketball clinic Danny Tarkanian is having a couple of coaches from his nonprofit basketball academy in Las Vegas come up to Douglas Country for a pair of free basketball clinics. One of those clinics will be held at the Douglas Community and Senior Center on Oct. 22 from 9 a.m. to noon. Space is limited to the first 30 people that RSVP. For information or to RSVP, email info.tarkball@gmail.com Editor’s note: Stats need to be posted to MaxPreps or submitted to sports director, Carter Eckl, via email at ceckl@recordcourier.com in order to be published.
