Tomorrow is Championship Day for the 10’s and 11’s… the 12’s will continue through their tournament through Tuesday (assuming no “if” game…).
Come on out and see two championship Little League games tomorrow night, one at 5:30 and one at 8:00 on Field 2 at Governor’s Field in Carson City.
Photo of the Day… going for “Style Points” tonight… this Carson right fielder made the catch… probably made it look a bit harder than it really was but I’ll give him the Style Award for the night. 🙂
The tournaments are winding down… only two more days until the 10 and 11 year old Championships!! The competition is heating up! Back to a “Jube” photo for tonight with a little story to explain…
Bottom of the 6th inning (they play 6 in Little League…), South Tahoe just went up two runs to make the score 4-2… Two outs… Reno Continental runner on 1st after a cracking hit deep to the outfield… the next batter smacks one, and I mean smacks it hard… the South Tahoe shortstop jumps up and snatches it right out of the air to end the game… this is the reaction after… I could REALLY do without that SUV in the background but the faces make up for it all…
Monday Night Baseball… at Governor’s Field in Carson City!! It got a bit warm tonight during the first set of games… our typical wind wasn’t blowing… the later games were quite amazing! Even a very cool display of clouds in the sky tonight…
… but onto the important things… the Photo of the Day!! Love the action here… love then intensity on that ball! Good stuff!
The two longest days of the tournament are now behind us… whew! Made it, pretty tired… roughly 2,500 photos are now up in the photo galleries… 🙂
Here’s the Photo of the Day… a rough rough night for the Carson City 12’s in their opening game… here’a play by their shortstop that helped a bit… the sun is a bear around 7:45ish but it makes this photo look pretty nice! Love how the sun lights up the ball!
See you out at the fields tomorrow!
The long day… 15 games, was at the fields today for 15 hours… I’m tired… so just a quick post with the photo of the day…
Sports photographers refer to it as “jube”… or Jubilation… this is what it’s all about, how happy can you be to smack a home run!?!?!? You can always tell when the 12’s start their tournament, the balls go flying out of the park! Congrats on your home run!
Day three already! Rolling fast through the tournament… ALL DAY tomorrow at the park… 15 total games! There will also be a Challenger game on field 5… well worth taking a look at these kids… it’s truly one of those “for the love of the game” kinda things…
The Intermediate’s (50/70) kicked off tonight as well… Just two teams in that bracket (that’s one more than last year…), Carson and Centennial… Carson came back from a 3-1 deficit in the 7th inning to win 4-3… should be another great game tomorrow night on field 6.
Hope to see you out at the park!
Photo of the Day… I’d like to call this one player of the night really… South Tahoe shortstop Jaden made several plays tonight that helped his team eek out a 2-1 win in a VERY close and competitive game against Reno American.
Day Two and the competition is heating up! Some very very closely matched teams out there… Stop by and check out a game or two… or four… 🙂 It’s easy to do, depending on the day there are as many as four games playing at one time!
See you out at the ball fields!!
Photo of the Day! I can’t let this one go… the annual tournament ball on bat photo…
And we’re off…!! The first day of the Nevada District 1 Little League Tournament kicked off today! And like the past few years I’ll be posting a Photo of the Day! Tonight’s was a very simple one, not sure I even need to say much about it! Check it out!
Each night of the Tournament I will post a photo here as well as on Twitter and Google +… Sorry, won’t be posting to Facebook… If you’re the photo of the day, stop by our tent, we have a water bottle for you! See you out at the park!!
Here’s a link to the full gallery of the entire tournament. www.instaimage.com/NVDIST1
You can also get there by clicking the link in the menus on the side.
Photography is a very multifaceted hobby/profession/art… The 2014 NIAA State Track meet this weekend was an event that I went out to try a few things photographically as well as record some important events in the lives of some of these athletes… saw some broken State records… saw some real gut level performances of some kids that clearly wanted that impressive title… “State Champion”… There were a lot of impressive athletes to watch!
Track is very different than most of the other sports that I cover… it’s all about you, the athlete, putting your very best out yet right next to you is the next guy/gal also trying to do the same, who’s the fastest today? Gotta love competition!
So here are some photos that I shot… Congratulations to all the athletes for making “the big game”… I hope our time in Carson for this great event was enjoyable and fruitful for your athletic careers!
Friday “night” this was our sky… cleared up a lot for Saturday but the clouds gave us a nice show and kept the temperature down a bit on Friday…
Carson Freshman Valerie Meyer starting in the 400m. … this was the STATE meet… looking forward to seeing her compete for the next few years! She’s also a great soccer player for Carson High.
Here’s some of that photographic “trial”… slow the shutter speed and pan with the action… 
I’m gonna call him Mr. Carson High Track… Corey Reid competing in the high jump… 
This was a great thing to witness… Randal Cunningham, Jr. was attempting to set a new national mark at 7 feet, 2 ½ inches… he already had won the State Championship but was pushing for more! His sister also won the State Championship… you would think it’s in the blood or something… 😉
Mr. Carson High Track again… here’s the start…
… and the finish… Corey squeaked out a 0.02 second win this time… The Regional final went to the thousands of a second… State Champion Corey Reid! Bet that feels great! … and a shout out to Josie Daggs in the background cheering!
Southern Nevada Centennial’s Tiana Bonds easily striding to her State Championship in the 300m hurdles…