Reed dropped out of a five-way tie for third place in the DI North with a 10-9 loss at Damonte Ranch on Tuesday afternoon. Following the one-run defeat, the Raiders sit at 15-5, 8-5. The Mustangs improved to 10-10, 9-4. Reed lost the game in the fourth and fifth innings. The game was knotted at 3-3 with three complete before the Mustangs scored three times in the fourth … [Read more...]
Baseball: Cougars fall at Carson, Houston lifts Raiders over Tigers
Momentum only goes as far as the next day’s starting pitching. Or hitting. After walking off 1-0 winners over Carson on Friday, Spanish Springs went to the state’s capital on Saturday and was blanked 8-0 by the Senators. It was a missed opportunity for the Cougars (15-5, 10-2) who would have taken sole possession of first place in the DI North with a win. Instead, they … [Read more...]
Baseball: Reed upset at Douglas
The Raiders’ league title aspirations took a blow on Thursday with an upset loss in Minden. Reed allowed eight runs in the fifth and sixth innings of a 12-8 loss at Douglas and fell to 14-4, 7-4—three games back of first place. The Tigers improved to 6-12, 3-7. Douglas outhit Reed 16-11 and won despite handing out eight walks. The Tigers’ pitching worked around the … [Read more...]
Baseball: Cougs wear first L, Raiders plate 19
Spanish Springs coach Ben Hofmann said his team wasn’t going to run the table. He was right. Three days after saying it was too difficult to go unbeaten in the DI North, his Cougs dropped their first league contest, 15-4, at home to McQueen. The Cougars dropped to 14-4, 9-1 with the lopsided defeat on Tuesday afternoon. The Lancers improved to 5-12-1, 3-7. Spanish … [Read more...]
Baseball: Cougs’ bats go ballistic, Reed handles Hug, Sparks drops two
RENO—Hitting a round ball with a round bat is hard. Anyone who’s played the game will admit that. That’s what made Spanish Springs’ 18-9 comeback win at McQueen on Saturday afternoon so ludicrous, so unpredictable. Trailing 9-3 going to the top of the sixth, the Cougars’ bats warmed up, then they were blistering. The guests banged out 11 hits over the next two … [Read more...]
Baseball: Anderson stymies Douglas, Galena runs past Reed
Ryan Anderson strengthened his Pitcher of the Year bid on Thursday afternoon. The lanky lefty allowed just two hits in six shutout innings as Spanish Springs blanked Douglas, 6-0, at home. He struck out six and walked just one batter. The Cougs improved to 13-3, 8-0. The Tigers fell to 5-11, 2-6. Anderson only allowed one runner to get past second in the win. That … [Read more...]
Baseball: Raiders upended, Cougs roll, Sparks drops marathon
Reed entered Tuesday’s home contest against Galena relatively untested. It owned a shiny 12-1 overall record and a 5-1 mark in DI North, but the five league wins came over teams that entered Tuesday with a combined 5-13 league record. So the Raiders’ showdown with the Grizzlies, who came in at 8-3-1, 5-1, was their first real chance to see how they measured up with the … [Read more...]
Baseball: Reed sweeps Aragon, Cougars fall in California
Reed didn’t get to go to Sacramento or San Diego for spring break. It got to far-less-warm Carson. Reed was scheduled to host a three-game set with Aragon (San Mateo, Calif.) this week before Monday’s snow storm got in the way. Because Reed’s field was left under a blanket of snow, the Raiders and Dons were forced to play a single doubleheader in Caron on Wednesday. The … [Read more...]