This is it. The 4A North baseball and softball regular season end this week. Baseball wraps up Thursday and softball Saturday. The regional baseball tourney begins next Tuesday at host hosts sites. Bishop Manogue will once again host the softball regional tournament, starting two days later. Programs across the region will play their rivals this week with plenty on … [Read more...]
Scheels Athlete of the Week (April 24-29): Jessica Sellers
Jessica Sellers, Reed softball The Raiders’ senior outfielder helped complete a home doubleheader sweep of McQueen on Saturday afternoon by going 3-for-4 with three home runs and four RBIs in an 11-2 game two win. The Nevada signee’s big afternoon lifted Reed to its 21st straight victory. Sellers leads the team in batting average (.562), doubles (10), runs (46), walks (18), … [Read more...]
Saturday Baseball/Softball
Baseball Cougs’ league title aspirations dry up First-year Spanish Springs coach Matt Ortiz knows that to make a move in the 4A North, you must first get past Galena and Reno. His Cougars have excelled in league play this spring, except for against the Grizzlies and Huskies. They’ve won 15 of 16 in games not against those two programs. But on Saturday, they dropped to … [Read more...]
Playoff outlook for Reed, Spanish Springs diamond dwellers
All four local squads boast postseason promise of varying degrees If you are tuning in late, you won’t be judged. You’re getting here just in time. As the 4A North races near culmination (baseball season has four games left per team, softball has six), we get our cameras ready. On the baseball side, six teams separated by two games are darting for four playoff spots … [Read more...]
Thursday Baseball/Softball
Baseball Big inning dooms Raiders, blurs playoff picture Avoiding the dreaded big inning is a mantra preached across all spectrums of baseball, particularly at the prep level. Reed was unable to avoid the sizeable frame on Thursday at McQueen and saw its playoff aspirations take a blow with a 7-4 loss. The Raiders (12-17, 8-10) entered in a four-way tie for the … [Read more...]
Tuesday Baseball
Raiders handle Lancers, sit in middle of crowded race to postseason By Brian Walther, reporting intern Reed built a big lead early and hung on late to get past McQueen, 9-5, at home on Tuesday afternoon. The Raiders (11-16, 8-9) won for the fifth time in seven games and pulled into a four-way tie for seventh place, one game behind McQueen (12-15, 9-8) and Damonte Ranch, … [Read more...]
Shoup Shots: Jensen strikes history books
It didn’t feel out of the ordinary. That’s almost unfair to say. Julia Jensen’s ordinary is atypical. As a sophomore, Jensen was the ace for one of the best softball teams in the nation that broke through for its first state title in nearly two decades. She’s the do-it-all softballer who will throw a complete-game shutout and hit a couple home runs (she ranks … [Read more...]
Scheels Athlete of the Week (April 17-22): Julia Jensen
Julia Jensen, Reed softball Reed’s senior ace became the third pitcher in Nevada history to reach 1,000 career strikeouts. The Nevada commit reached the milestone in Saturday’s 3-2 nine-inning win at Reno when she threw all nine innings, scattering three hits, and did not allow an earned run. She fanned 15. In total for the week, Jensen went 3-0 and gave up a lone earned run … [Read more...]