The Sparks baseball team fell to 3-6, 0-5 in the DI-A North with a 10-0 loss at South Tahoe on Friday afternoon. The Vikings improved to 1-11, 1-6 with their first league win of the season. Sparks mustered just five hits in the loss compared to South Tahoe’s nine. Errors did the Railroaders in. They committed eight. Matt Longland was 2-for-3 with a pair of singles in … [Read more...]
Softball: Railroaders pick up first win
The Railroaders fell at home to Spring Creek on Friday morning before heading up to South Tahoe and picking up their first win of the season, 11-4. Sparks, which snapped a season-opening six-game losing streak with the win over South Tahoe, now sits at 1-6, 1-6 in the DI North. It will now try to piece together its first winning streak of the season with a doubleheader at … [Read more...]
Softball: Jensen keeps Raiders perfect, Railroaders swept
RENO—The Reed softball team is capable of scoring runs in bunches. It didn’t do that Thursday afternoon at Damonte Ranch. It didn’t need to. It has Julia Jensen. The junior Nevada commit threw a complete game, allowing just one run on three hits while striking out 10 as the Raiders won 4-1 on the road. “She’s Julia. She’s gotten some games under her belt. She’s in a … [Read more...]
Lowry sweeps Sparks squads, again
The Sparks softball team was outscored 23-8 in a pair of losses on Saturday at Lowry. The Railroaders dropped to 0-3, 0-3 on the season after falling 12-1 to the Buckaroos (6-2, 6-0) on Friday. After getting swept in its first series of the season, Sparks will look to pick up its first win on Wednesday when it hosts Spring Creek (5-5, 3-3). First pitch is at 3 … [Read more...]
Sparks baseball, softball swept at Lowry
The Sparks baseball team was six outs from stealing its league opener at Lowry on Friday afternoon. Two weeks after losing a non-league contest to Lowry, 12-0, the Railroaders (3-2, 0-1) led the Buckaroos 5-3 going to the bottom of the sixth. They say the final outs are the toughest to get. Lowry (4-4, 1-3) scored four times in the bottom of the sixth and went on to … [Read more...]
Baseball: Another strong day for local trio
The Raiders wrapped up a perfect 5-0 weekend in the Mike Bearman Memorial Tournament with a pair of one-run home wins over Damonte Ranch and Fernley on Saturday afternoon. While Reed coach John Phenix was pleased with the hot start on a brutally cold and windy weekend, he was just as happy with the production he got from the bench. “I love it,” Phenix said. “Winning’s not … [Read more...]
Baseball: Local squads go 5-1
Spanish Springs led Wooster 4-3 after four and a half innings on Friday afternoon at Wooster. Then the flood gates opened. Literally. As the strong wind gusts become steady and as rain began to fall, the Colts broke the game open with six runs on seven hits – all singles. They also got the help of three wild pitches. The Cougs failed to chip into the dent their next at … [Read more...]
Sparks enters season with expectations
Expectations aren’t entirely new to the Sparks softball program. However, legitimate preseason hope has avoided the Railroaders in recent years. That is not the case heading into the 2016 season. Sparks brings back seven starters from last year’s team that missed out on the postseason by four games and has realistic aspirations of qualifying for the dance this … [Read more...]