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2013 Carson High Basketball Freshman & JV Girls host Damonte Ranch

Three wins for the Senators as they host their last home games of the season!  Certainly a good way to end your home season for these three teams.  I cannot say officially but we thought that every player on the Girls Freshman team scored points tonight!

It’s always interesting to see what another year brings… next year will be no different.

Here are some shots from the night….

I didn’t get a chance to ask… but each of the kids had a different “style” on… these were my favorite.130201_Carson_instaimage_Boys Basketball_socks An amazing night for Kyle!  19 points, FIVE three pointers… happy I got one!130201_Carson_instaimage_Boys Basketball_three 130201_Carson_instaimage_Girls Basketball_under the basket130201_Carson_instaimage_Girls Basketball_drive

2013 Carson High Basketball vs. Spanish Springs, something new…

The Senators went 1 for 3 on the night but the one was a convincing win for the Boys Varsity over Spanish Springs!  The standings are hard to come by but I believe there’s a good chance they’ll meet again in the playoffs so this is a good sign for Carson.

… and I tried something new with a remote setup… cannot say it was a success… but the first time out it wasn’t a complete failure either. 🙂

Here’s a look… I’ll be making some adjustments for the next game… and then Regionals… The next game will be Douglas visiting Carson on Friday, February 8th. (I’m out of town all next week for my studio in Monterey…).

130129_Carson_instaimage_Boys Basketball_board2… and I think a crop like this would be better…130129_Carson_instaimage_Boys Basketball_board2-2

This is kinda fun… shooting two cameras at one time… one is triggering the other so I’m getting two shots of the same action from two positions… now if it had just been action on the same side of the basket that I set up the remote! 🙂  Maybe next time…130129_Carson_instaimage_Boys Basketball_floor130129_Carson_instaimage_Boys Basketball_board

2013 Carson High Basketball vs. Bishop Manogue High

Carson hosted Bishop Manogue tonight, the boys Jr Varsity, girls Varsity and boys Varsity…  The Senators dropped the first two games to Manogue… the Varsity boys game went to Carson….  The Senators pulled away early and never really looked back.  What a different game vs. Manogue than I saw last week at Douglas!  Only two more weeks of the regular season!!  (Douglas beat Galena at Douglas tonight… not sure what all this means for the playoffs but…).

Onto the photos!

I almost forgot!  Royalty!  Winterfest this week at Caron High!  Congrats to Kenzie Tillet and Sergio Zarate!130125_Carson_instaimage_Homecoming

I tried shooting a longer lens tonight for a bit in the 1st quarter of the girls game… great background, TOUGH to follow… have to work on it more. 🙂130125_Manogue_instaimage_Girls Basketball_1130125_Manogue_instaimage_Girls Basketball_2

I’ve been talking about it all season… THIS is what the crowd gives the photos!  Better Carson… but I see some empty areas… 😉130125_Manogue_instaimage_Boys Basketball_1 130125_Carson_instaimage_Boys Basketball_3130125_Carson_instaimage_Boys Basketball_1

Dilyn Rooker putting two more free throws in after what I think was called an intentional foul on Manogue…130125_Carson_instaimage_Boys Basketball_2

2013 Tahoe Invitational Hockey Tournament

Time files when you’re having fun… well this weekend FLEW by!  So I must have had fun… but I’m too groggy to really remember… 🙂

Between 6:00 AM on Friday morning and 4:00 PM on Monday (so roughly 82 hours) we spent 51.5 hours at the South Tahoe Ice Arena for the 2013 MLK Tahoe Invitational Hockey Tournament.  This event is in every way a very challenging event for us, long hours, little sleep (11 hours of sleep total, 4.5 hours of driving), very cold conditions… but this year I figured out something that made a HUGE difference…. There’s a power outlet right behind where I stand for two of the three periods of each game.  I know, you’re thinking “… so what, what’s the big deal…”… well… can you say heater?  I plugged in two heaters and went from miserable to happy in no time flat!  Next year… I’ll be MUCH better prepared! I still need some help with what to wear, I never quite seem to get it right… but the heaters made things MUCH more comfortable.  I was even “loaning” them out during the times I wasn’t there to the other Photo Moms and Dads that were shooting around where I was…

So onto the photos!  I’m really excited about a lot of the photos this year.  I think being warmer helped a lot, it certainly helped me concentrate better… here’s a selection of the some that I really liked from the weekend.2013 Oakland Hockey_South Tahoe_Goalie Save 2 2013 Tahoe Hockey_South Tahoe_Shot on Goal2013 Oakland Hockey_South Tahoe_Goalie Save 2013 Oakland Hockey_South Tahoe_No Goal 2013 Portland Hockey_South Tahoe_Goalie Save 2013 Santa Rosa Hockey_South Tahoe_Shot on Goal 2013 Stockton Hockey_South Tahoe_Shot on Goal Eyes 2013 Tahoe Hockey_South Tahoe_Goalie Save

2013 Douglas High Basketball vs. Bishop Manogue High

Douglas hosted Bishop Manogue tonight for the Jr Varsity Boys, Varsity Girls and Varsity Boys basketball games.  Manogue won the JV Boys and Varsity Girls games but Douglas’ Varsity Boys rolled away with a pretty easy win… Douglas will host Carson this coming Friday night for the first of the home and away series between Carson and Douglas….

Onto the action!

A few shots from the Girls game…

130115_Douglas_instaimage_Girls Basketball_1130115_Manogue_instaimage_Girls Basketball_1… and the Boys game…
130115_Manogue_instaimage_Boys Basketball_1As everyone knows, Hunter Myers is a force on the court… There was a Harvard representative in the stands tonight observing the game (you can actually see him in this photo… he’s next to Hunter’s dad between the two Manogue players…). 🙂  Sometimes you get lucky!
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Not everyone will have the “opportunity” to play with someone this dynamic… when you can practice an alley-oop… and pull it off in a game, that’s fun stuff!  Enjoy the ride Douglas High, these opportunities don’t come around very often!130115_Douglas_instaimage_Boys Basketball_Hunter Meyers_2

2013 Carson High Basketball vs. North Valleys

Carson hosted North Valleys for the JV Boys, Varsity Girls and Varsity Boys games.  It was a sweep for the Senators!  The crowd was… well… I know it’s a new year and… well… I’ll be nice… the place was empty (come on people… the weather wasn’t THAT bad and you missed some good action last night…)

Carson’s next games will at Douglas Friday the 18th… I will not be able to attend the games at Douglas this year… it’s our annual Tahoe Invitational Hockey Tournament in South Lake Tahoe….

On to the action…

Some second half action in the Boys JV game… the referee that you can see behind pretty easily called this one… have two shots from the line Cody! 🙂130111_Carson_instaimage_Boys JV Basketball_Foul2Now that I have some “inventory” of images of the teams I’m looking around for something different… new angles, etc…. trying a different angle here… but as you can see… bare stands… would be pretty cool if there were people in those stands…!!!130111_Carson_instaimage_Boys JV Basketball_Drive99 times out of 100 I’d delete this image in camera because it’s not making anyone look particularly “good”… but I just couldn’t resist this one.  Yes, the referee called this one (how could you NOT?) so to the free throw line Carson went… moments like this captured in time make me wonder what the intent of the player fouling was… 🙂130111_Carson_instaimage_Boys JV Basketball_FoulThe Girls started out quick, full press and then a few layups later they were cruising to a pretty easy win.  I’ve been very impressed with the Varsity Girls and what new Coach Nate Tolbert has accomplished this year.  After the first game at Reno I think people had concerns, they’ve put their head down and gone after playing what fits the tools they have, it’s been fun to watch.

130111_Carson_instaimage_Girls Basketball_DriveI think Elena is one of the most intense players in Northern Nevada.  Always giving everything she’s got, laying it all out there!  Great to see!130111_Carson_instaimage_Girls Basketball_ShotOnto the Boys Varsity… again, working on a different angle… (I need that crowd in the stands please…!!!  please…)…130111_Carson_instaimage_Boys Basketball_LayupAnd shooting wide… this resulted in a foul… we’ll take two from the line, thank you…130111_Carson_instaimage_Boys Basketball_Shot… and Kyle “floating” out of the corner…130111_Carson_instaimage_Boys Basketball_DriveI like the intensity in Dylin’s eyes.  Great to see you out there Rooker!130111_Carson_instaimage_Boys Basketball_Eyes

2012 Capital Classic Basketball Tournament @ Carson High

The Carson City Lion’s Club hosted their annual Capital Classic Basketball Tournament this week at Carson High.  There were five Northern Division 1 teams and two Northern Division 1A teams… Here’s the list… (if you click you’ll go to the school’s photos too…) 🙂

Carson High

Damonte Ranch High

Incline High

Hug High

Reed High

Sparks High

Wooster High

As usual, I’ll leave the “reporting” to the newspapers… I enjoyed the games, saw some good hard play, teams going for it, teams working to get better… one injury of note to one of the Carson fellas… seven stitches later…. He looked like a boxer in the ER.  🙂

For Carson there’s a break in action for about ten days… they’ll be back in action on December 18th when they travel to McQueen…. See you out at the courts soon!

On to some photos from the event!

Night two… sorry I’m starting out of order… pay close attention to his left hand and his head in the middle and right frame… that backboard is roughly 9 feet off the ground…!!!Sophomore Guard Kyle Steele getting into the mix on night two…Incline High showed a lot of heart never backing down to the Hug High team, Incline when hard until the last whistle.I should have used a photo of this fella making one of his three blocked shots (you’ll have to see the gallery for those…) but I liked this shot too so… 🙂  so many to choose from….

2012-2013 Carson High Basketball vs. Galena…

The home opener for Carson High Jr Varsity Boys, Varsity Girls and Varsity Boys tonight against Galena.  Looks like there are going to be some battles for the Boys Northern Region League Titles this year!  A tough close game for the boys varsity… not so much for the girls varsity… It was a good environment tonight, the crowds were into the game… the Galena students taunting the Carson kids a bit… something about a football game… 😉

Here are some photos from the night…  See many more in the galleries for Carson High Athletics.