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...]
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...]
Railroaders will look much different this spring
More than midway through DI-A North play last season, Sparks sat in the thick of the playoff picture. The Railroaders were 8-8 in league contests and eyeing a return to the postseason, only to drop seven of their final eight and miss out. “We just fell apart, for I don’t know what reason,” Sparks coach Greg Vasko said. “We started off hot. We had five or six wins in a … [Read more...]