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A one-hit shutout by freshman pitcher Kristina George and a three-run homer by Lauren Lesniak carried Western Nevada College to a dominant 7-0 victory over Snow College in the first game of a Scenic West Athletic Conference softball doubleheader on Saturday at Edmonds Sports Complex in Carson City.

Freshman left-hander Matt Young on Friday nearly became the third Western Nevada College pitcher to throw a no-hitter. Young no-hit Mount Hood Community College of Gresham, Ore., until catcher Louis Wolf bunted down the third-base line for the Saints' first hit with two outs in the seventh inning at John L. Harvey Field in Carson City.

Young and reliever Kyle Johnson combined on a two-hit shutout as the Wildcats won the opening game of the doubleheader, 3-0. Both hits never left the infield.

About 150 pro-union protesters gathered in front of the Capitol and Legislature Thursday afternoon to denounce Republican-backed legislation they say aims at ......

Hundreds of union members rallied in front of the Nevada Legislature on Thursday to protest Republican efforts to curb collective bargaining and push public employee retirement reforms....

Finding a way to win games that require a concerted comeback effort is one of many reasons why Western Nevada College coach D.J. Whittemore is on the cusp of his 400th victory with the Carson City baseball program.

Eliminate two big offensive innings for Salt Lake Community College and Western Nevada College played the 18th-ranked Bruins pretty even on Saturday.

The Bruins scored seven runs in the seventh inning to break open a tight game on their way to an 11-2 softball victory and followed that by erupting for eight runs in the second frame in a 10-1 win in game two at Edmonds Sports Complex in Carson City.

By winning both Scenic West Athletic Conference games, the Bruins completed a four-game sweep of the Wildcats, raising their overall record to 17-3.

WNC Wildcats baseball resumes at noon today with a double-header at John L. Harvey Field in Carson City. Fans who are unable to attend Wildcat home games can follow Charles Whisnand's play-by-play broadcast of the action by going here.

Meanwhile, in Thursday's baseball action: Hitters don't often receive the sign to hit away on a 3-0 count with their team trailing.

Mayor Carolyn Goodman, on the campaign trail for a second term in office, is expected to rally for support Wednesday morning from a group of politically influential Latinos ......

Several hundred people gathered Monday at rallies in Utah and Nevada to demonstrate their opposition to efforts by some Western states to seize control of federal lands. At a rally hel...

Protesters gathered outside the Nevada Legislature today to preemptively rebuke a Republican-backed resolution calling for the federal government to transfer public lands to the state. Detractors say a state land grab ......

“The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.”
― Dr. Seuss, I Can Read With My Eyes Shut!

It’s never too cold, too wet or too hot
To pick up a book, and share what you’ve got
You’re never too old, too wacky, too wild
To pick up a book, and read to a child...
― Anita Merina, 1997

Final-inning comebacks don't ever get old, even for 10th-year Western Nevada College coach D.J. Whittemore.
Even after College of Southern Idaho decisively swung the momentum to its side by scoring the tying run in its last at-bat and forged in front on Mikey Ortega's home run an inning later, the Wildcats didn't flinch Friday in the first game of a Scenic West Athletic Conference baseball doubleheader.

Corey Pool homered as Western Nevada College slammed five extra-base hits in defeating College of Southern Idaho, 7-4, in its Scenic West Athletic Conference baseball opener Thursday at John L. Harvey Field in Carson City.
CSI, however, bounced back to take game two, using a small-ball approach that its counterparts have succeeded with in the past. The Golden Eagles beat out three bunt singles and executed two sacrifice bunts to overcome home runs by Pool and Kody Reynolds in an 8-4 victory.

Las Vegas activist Astrid Silva will be in Miami this week to join President Barack Obama at a town hall-style meeting to rally support for his executive actions on ......

After permitting just one run in 25 innings over four games, Western Nevada College gave up six runs in a game-turning seventh inning on Saturday in Henderson.
Brandon Eyring stroked a tiebreaking two-run single and Hadley Thorpe smashed a three-run homer as Utah State University Eastern rallied for a 6-3 nonconference baseball victory over the Wildcats of Carson City.

A Carson City rally on behalf of Rise Up America, will be held on Saturday, March 28, 2015 from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the Nevada Legislature Building on South Carson Street.

The event is being coordinated by P.J. Degross of Carson City, who was the admininstrator for Overpasses for America and GRAA. This year’s event is part of a national protest movement hosted by Overpasses and joined by many other groups. Many states are having city wide rallies the entire weekend, said Degross.

Western Nevada College didn't take any cuts against 2013 Major League Baseball top-10 draft pick Phil Bickford on Wednesday night in Henderson, but the Wildcats did face some quality pitching.
Anthony Martine and three relievers combined to limit the Wildcats to six hits and second-ranked College of Southern Nevada held on for a 5-4 nonconference baseball victory.

"We schedule good teams on purpose so our mistakes get exposed," said WNC coach D.J. Whittemore. "We have to work on a lot of things to improve."

A day after sweeping three games at the Great Western Shootout, Western Nevada College concluded its best performance at the Yuma, Ariz., softball tournament with another victory on Saturday.

Kelsie Callahan smashed a two-run homer and Makaylee Jaussi hit a solo homer as the Wildcats defeated Golden West College of Huntington Beach, Calif., 7-4. It was a program-best fourth victory of the tournament for WNC.
Earlier on Saturday, Yavapai College of Prescott, Ariz., avoided losing to the Wildcats for a third straight time, extinguishing a final-inning rally for a 6-4 victory.

In a preseason survey of National Junior College Association baseball programs, the Cochise Apaches were the choice to win their third straight Western District title.
However, the third-ranked Apaches have learned over the past two days that a third straight title won't come easily. The Western Nevada College Wildcats of Carson City fought back with their third straight comeback win over the Apaches, sweeping a doubleheader on Saturday in Henderson.

It was a history-making day for the Western Nevada College softball team on Friday in Yuma, Ariz.
The Wildcats upset Great Western Shootout tournament host Arizona Western College, 2-1, and Eastern Arizona College, 11-7, to beat those programs for the first time ever.

WNC also defeated Yavapai College for the second time in a week, winning 8-3 in eight innings.

The victory over third-ranked Arizona Western College is the highest-rated team WNC has ever beaten. To do so, the Wildcats used aggressive baserunning to push across the deciding run in the seventh inning.

Nothing short of a wild finish could separate Western Nevada College and Cochise College on the baseball diamond on Friday at Morse Field in Henderson.
Tied at 4 in the 10th inning, the Wildcats parlayed two wild pitches into a come-from-behind 7-4 victory over the third-ranked team in the country.

An estimated 500 students, parents and teachers %u2014 many wearing bright yellow scarves and carrying signs that said "I trust parents" %u2014 gathered near the Capitol in Carson City on Wednesday to show their support for measures that would make it easier for families to move their children to charter or private schools.

CARSON CITY, Nev. (AP) - Students, parents and teachers are expected to rally in front of the Capitol in Carson City to show support for school choice measures.

Well ladies and gentleman, it is officially that time of the year again. Next week, Jan. 26-31 is going to be filled with activities going on at Carson High School and other locations around Carson City with the annual Winterfest spirit week.

The January 13th Common Core "symposium" at the legislature didn't go off quite as advertised. The announcement posted by organizer Ann Bedarski on the Nevada Trends website listed the Department of Education participants as:

JUDY OSGOOD, Public Information Officer, Nevada Department of Educa_on
STEVE CANAVERO, Deputy Superintendent of Student Achievement, NDE
AMY SALGO, Teacher Ambassador, NDE

Former Nevada Governor Jim Gibbons had a very interesting term as Nevada's 28th governor from 2007-2011

Happy 2015, Carson City! Let’s whet your appetite for some of the fun to be had in the next twelve months.

January: Youth Theater Carson City’s Annie, Jr; Winter, Wine, and All that Jazz at the Brewery Arts Center, and the Thirsty Boy Home Brewing Competition.

An awareness rally to prevent law enforcement from encroaching on our 4th Amendment Rights and to put a stop to the killing of our family pets. For questions, please call (775) 881-8131.

The mission and main goal of the FREEZE DON'T SHOOT organization is to bring awareness and resolution to the deadly encounters of family pets with law enforcement officers. This means training and proper containment of our pets, especially when in an emergency situation. We know our dogs personalities and can properly determine when our dog is a true threat.

The 2014 annual Street Vibrations motorcycle officially came to a close on Sunday Sept. 28. Organizers expected between 50,000 and 100,000 participants. We do have a definitive number of participants but know that there was a phenomenal increase in highway traffic. Over the 4-day event that lasted from Thursday through Sunday, local residents saw an influx of motorcycle riders from all over the U.S.

Even with beefed up patrols in Carson City this weekend for the Street Vibrations motorcycle rally, riders were not involved in any significant arrests during its peak Friday, Saturday and early Sunday, said Carson City Sheriff Ken Furlong.

“The crowds were happy, they were here for the events and nobody was here to cause a problem,” said Furlong. ”We had extraordinary patrol coverage everywhere this weekend and we were well prepared for any incident to come up and it never did.”