PREPS: Carson baseball squad wins 4th straight

RENO - Carson High's baseball team extended its win streak to four with an easy 11-0 win over North Valleys Thursday afternoon in a 4A game.

For the second straight day, Carson reached double-digits in hits (16). Carson improved to 10-3 overall and 6-2 in league play.

"it's been nice," Carson coach Cody Farnworth said. "We're swinging it like we should."

Farnworth made one change in the batting order, moving Rory Petersen to the second spot in place of Brock Pradere, and both players hit the ball well in their new spots. Petersen went 3-for-4 and drove in three runs, while Pradere went 2-for-2 and drove in a run.

"Rory has been hitting the ball, so we thought we'd give it a try," Farnworth said. "We decided that Brock would get to see more fastballs."

Besides Petersen's three hits, Nick Domitrovich, Pradere and Chance Quilling had two hits apiece.

Carson scored twice in the first when Domitrovich was hit by a pitch and scored on Petersen's double. Petersen also scored on the play thanks to a North Valleys error.

Carson made it 6-0 in the second, scoring four times off NV starter Mason Blake, who allowed 10 runs and eight hits in four innings. The big blow in the inning was a two-run double by Petersen.

Carson added two in the third, one in the fourth and two more in the fifth to end the game on the mercy rule.

Casey Wolfe worked the first three innings, striking out two and walking one while allowing three hits. Carter Nuckolls finished up, walking one and allowing one hit over the final two innings.

"Casey finished up the other day," Farnworth said. "We needed somebody to chew up some innings. he did a nice job for us. Carter did a good job on the mound, too."

Carson returns to action Saturday at 11 a.m. at Damonte Ranch for a single game. Carson lost a 4-3 game to Damonte in the opening game of the Mike Bearman Invitational.

SWIMMING

CARSON SWEEPS McQUEEN

Carson High's boys and girls' swim team swept McQueen Thursday in a High Desert meet at the Carson Aquatic Center.

The boys won 145-134 while the girls won 159-111.

Abi Pittman won the 200 IM (2:29.35) and the 500 free (5:54.48), while Elizabeth Everest won the 200 free in 2:09.33, Sophie Holmes won the 50 free (27.00) and Nicole Updegrove won the 100 (1:03.12).

Erin Chang had second-place finishes in the 200 IM (2:36.07) and the 100 fly (1:13.33). Holmes had a second in the 200 free (2:11.33). Everest took second in the 500 free (5:54.99), Updegrove was second in the 50 free (28.13) and Alexandra Schlager was second in the 100 free (1:05.43).

Carson won both the 200 and 400 free relay events.

The boys' team had four individual winners - Gary Showalter in the 100 breast (1:10.61), Ashton McIntosh 50 free (24.78), Zach White 100 free (55.36) and Tim Grunert 200 IM (2:11.91).

Grunert was second in the 100 back (1:01.45), Ashton was second in the 100 free (55.77) and Showalter was second in the 200 IM (2:27.57). Andrew Peckham finished third in the 200 free (2:20.32) and the 500 free (6:32.79).

The Carson boys won both free relays.

JV BASEBALL

Carson wins in extras

Chase Blueberg's RBI single in the eighth inning lifted the Carson JV baseball team to a 3-2 victory over North Valleys on Thursday.

Blueberg's hit scored Rafe King who had earlier walked to make a winner out of Jace Zampirro who came in to pitch in the seventh inning.

Cody Schmidlin went 2-for-3 with an RBI to lead the Senators. Logan Krupp, Zampirro, King and Gehrig Tucker all collected hits for the 6-5 Senators.

Carson returns to action at 11 a.m. Saturday at Damonte Ranch.

JV SOFTBALL

REED BLANKS CARSON

Reed blanked the Senators 6-0 Thursday in Carson.

Becka Breuer pitched the complete game, holding Reed scoreless through four innings.

Carson was led by Aubrey Northrup and Malia Tiffer who were both 1-3.

Carson returns to action Saturday with a doubleheader at Manogue starting at 10 a.m.