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I AM ready for some BASEBALL!!! Carson High Baseball today!

The weather… well, I’m speaking softly so as to not alert Mother Nature that it’s BASEBALL SEASON!!!  The weather was amazing tonight… a bit breezy but the sun was out… this opening tournament should see great weather throughout!!

Carson High kicked off their season today at home in the Mike Bearman Memorial Tournament against Fallon.  Carson won… I don’t honestly remember the score… (I should be better about that… opps…)  It’s opening day for me too… gotta get the cobwebs out… 🙂  (… it hasn’t helped being sick for the last three weeks…) and I’m shooting this season with some “new to this season” equipment… I’m anxious to hear any feedback… 🙂

So… why you really came to the site… here are some photos from today… more in the gallery on the side…

Carson is up at Spanish Springs and Reed tomorrow and then back home at 10:00 AM (Elko) and 3:00 PM (Douglas) on Saturday for the tournament wrap up.

See you out at the ball park!!  It’s BASEBALL SEASON!!!

Here’s a little gallery… click to see them larger…

The way the Carson High field sits… typically you get pretty hard shadows for baseball… but right as the sun is setting you can get some really nice warm light on the pitcher… like this one of Tyler…

2012 NorCal Mite Jamboree… South Lake Tahoe Ice Arena

This past weekend the South Lake Tahoe Ice Arena (and Tahoe Sports & Entertainment) hosted the 2012 Mite Jamboree Hockey Tournament.  Saturday the played three simultaneous games cross ice, this was something completely new for me shooting… can’t say I was a big fan as it meant throwing out all I know about shooting hockey and more or less just winging it for the day… each team played six 20 minute games with a running clock and shift changes every two minutes…  Sunday went back to “normal” hockey.  I say “normal” because there were some kids playing for different teams but still in their own team jersey… that was interesting, there were times when there were up to three different team jerseys on the ice at one time…. 🙂

Always fun to watch and shoot… here are some images from the weekend… the gallery can be found at the link on the side or under League & Events under Hockey Tournaments.

A “clank” off the post for a GOAL!!!!

… and here’s some great after dinner debate… is that puck hitting his stick?  🙂

A new experience for me… Carson High Bowling

A friend at Carson High mentioned to me, all the way back during football season… that he bowled for Carson High… well, I had NO idea Carson had a bowling team!  So after a lot of schedule conflicts I finally made it out to one of their “events”… and what an education!  Here are some images from last night… They may not want to remember yesterday’s match, although I’m guessing they’ll come back next year with some vengeance… but Carson lost last night 23-22 to the Reed High Bowlers…

For those of you that understand bowling and high school matches you “get” why this score is significant… for those of us bowling “ignorants”… they play a series of games, three vs. three, and they “share” ten frames rotating between the three players per team… after all these games are played the scorers then count the total number of pins knocked down… so you have win/loss per game then total pins knocked down… after all that counting, Reed came away with the win…. … and this is significant because Carson has won for the last 10 years… so a tough loss for Carson last night…

I took the whole family with me last night, we had a good time and would like to thank the bowlers and families for welcoming us!!  It’s always nice to be places where people are so great to be around!!

Here are some shots from the evening… the rest are at the link on the side for Carson High Athletics… (I’m hoping to be a little on the ball next time and get the organizers to let me put a remote camera down by the pins and shoot back at the bowlers… something to work on…)

I love how high this fella gets that follow through leg up… it’s above his head! 🙂

Well done everyone!  And a very big good luck to those moving on next year!!

Baseball Season is here!!!!

Do you know how I know Baseball Season is here?  It’s snowing!  🙂  I wonder what it’s like to NOT have snow the first week of baseball season….

Saturday I spent the day “playing around” with some new ideas… and I took a few photos at Carson’s tryouts…  stay tuned and see if I can make these ideas work…

Here are the shots that I kept from Saturday…. click on them to see them bigger.

NIAA 4A State Basketball Semifinals… more action… Reno High, Reed High, Hug High, Green Valley High

Here are some more images from last night’s NIAA State 4A Semifinals….

Tonight, the Reno Ladies face off against the Reed Ladies for the State Championship… they faced each other a week ago with Reed taking the Northern Region Title… who knows what tonight will bring, should be a great basketball game!!

The Bishop Gorman fellas face the Hug High fellas… this will be a very interesting match-up.  Hug nearly let the semifinal slip through their hands last night against Green Valley… a missed three pointer at essentially the buzzer last night by Green Valley secured Hug’s entry into the State Championship… but a lot of energy was expended getting to the two point win… Gorman had their starters out for most of the 4th quarter (and they played three hours earlier…) so tonight it going to be interesting… Hug is smaller and quick, Gorman… well, they’re big fellas AND quick… should be a treat for Northern Nevada fans at the games tonight!!

Click on the images to see them larger…

Douglas High Boys Basketball… off to the State Tournament Thursday @ UNR!

The Douglas Boys Basketball team faced a very good Hug High team tonight, they pulled close, even tying the game at one point but in the end it just wasn’t quite enough… Both teams will play Thursday at Lawlor Arena on the UNR Campus in the State Semifinal games… Douglas will play Bishop Gorman (Vegas) at 4:40 PM and Hug will play Green Valley (Vegas) at 8:00 PM.  The State 4A Championship will be Friday night @ 8:00 PM.  The 1A, 2A and 3A State Championships are also at Lawlor during this upcoming weekend…

Here are some shots from the night…

This one goes in my “… clearly the refs don’t get all the calls “right”…”  This was called an offensive foul agains Douglas (note the hand in the upper left corner…  I don’t recall that being “legal” 🙂   )

… and some action shots from the night… Good luck on Thursday Fellas!!