Category: Carson High Athletics

Today Carson completed the series sweep of North Valleys at home.  The game started out slowly… With the game tied 1-1, and Carson without a hit going into the 5th then things finally turned their way… 7 hits later and some aggressive base running we’re heading home 11-1…

Here are some hitting shots from the afternoon… I was late to the game today because I was working with the Track team… so not many photos from today… but some of the hits that made the win happen!  More from the season at the link on the side.

Casey laying down a bunt… which advanced two runners!

Nick smacking one deep into the outfield for a triple!

Not a good day for the Carson High Baseball team today… an 8-1 loss to McQueen… they’re on the road Saturday at McQueen to finish the series.  Just a few shots from the day…

Click on them to see them larger… the season’s worth of images at the Carson High Athletics link on the side…

A Senator win!  And they improve to 5-4 heading into their home game against McQueen on Thursday…

It was a different team in the dugout today… and one that I like a LOT better!  🙂  Glad to see it!!

Here are some shots from today’s game… more at the Carson High Athletics link on the side.  Back out on Thursday for McQueen.

The Carson High Baseball team took two league wins this week from Wooster to improve to 5-3 on the season.  After trailing for most of the game Carson pulled out an 8th inning series of hits, with a touch of help from Wooster, to win 4-3.

Here are some shot from tonights game…

First up… Casey’s “Wooster aided” double… the throw to first didn’t hit the spot and off to second base Casey went… I’ve been trying to get this kind of shot for sometime… glad it had some significance when I did!!  🙂

Casey’s double was followed by Charlie’s hit… the game winning hit… no ball in this one but still I think kinda a cool shot…

The fellas were kneeling behind the mound as Gehrig Tucker warmed up late in the game…

Some shots from the game…

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…

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!!

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.

The Carson High Girls took away a first round win tonight in the NIAA Regional Basketball Tournament… They head to a neutral location (Spanish Springs) on Thursday for their next game against Reed High @ 5:00 PM.

Good Luck Ladies!!  Check out the rest of the images from the whole season at the link on the side for Carson High Athletics…

Here’s a few from the night…

CLEARLY the refs don’t see everything… 🙂

The first half was… well, I’ll call it strange… Carson looked about three steps slower than typical… it almost seemed like they were trying to get through the first have without exerting too much energy… the second half was a different story altogether… full court press, offensive execution, the baskets fell, the three pointers fell… and they came away with a win!!

Last home game, last senior to run out for introductions… Remember these times ladies!!  Best of luck in the Tournament!!