Nevada
College of Southern Nevada baseball team qualifies for JUCO World Series
LAS VEGAS (KTNV) — The College of Southern Nevada Coyotes are back in the JUCO World Series for the first time since 2017.
A huge portion of this team includes born-and-raised Las Vegans, some even having ties to the 2003 championship team, and players say the best part about it is representing their hometown.
CSN is no stranger to success. The team won the national championship back in 2003 and has produced a laundry list of Major League Baseball players.
Nick Garritano has been the team’s head coach for 14 years and has seen it all, from past trips to the World Series to watching 22 of his players get drafted and make it to the big leagues.
He says what makes this group of players special isn’t just their talent. It’s also their bond with each other.
“They’re a family,” Garritano said. “They really pull on the same end of the rope. They play for each other. We have a phrase here called “For the Front”. There’s no selfish guy here, whether it’s our leading hitter, whether it’s our 16th guy on the bench, whether it’s our number one arm or 15th guy on the bullpen.”
The players say they have their own memories of CSN’s winning history.
Coach Garritano’s son Nicky says he fondly remembers watching his dad coach the 2017 team that also made the World Series.
Infielder Mikey Cruz’s dad was a member of the ’03 championship team.
Both say now, it’s their turn to make history for Southern Nevada.
“It’s awesome to follow in my dad’s footsteps and do exactly what he did,” Cruz said. “Hopefully, we can accomplish what that team in 2003 accomplished.”
“Seven years ago, when they went, I was just a kid in the stands watching,” Garritano said. “To be able to share the field with him, at this level, is awesome and to go to Grand Junction with him is even better.”
The team will be traveling to Grand Junction, Colorado this week, with their game against Northwest Florida State College set for this Saturday.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom won’t admit it, but a move by President Donald Trump is especially helpful to drivers in California — and Nevada.
Gasoline prices are pressuring consumers around the country. On Friday, the average U.S. price was $4.55 a gallon. In California, that would be a bargain. The average there was $6.16 a gallon. Nevada’s average was $5.23 a gallon, the result of around 88 percent of the state’s gasoline coming from California.
It might be getting worse — regardless of what happens in Iran.
In recent months, two major California refineries have shut down. That represented a 17 percent reduction in California’s refining capacity. Their closures weren’t caused by the Iran war, but by Gov. Newsom and California’s relentless attacks on fossil fuels.
To make up for the fuel it won’t extract or refine in-state, California depends on imports from foreign countries.
“We are importing 30 percent of our crude oil from the Middle East,” Mike Ariza, a former control board supervisor at the Valero Benicia Refinery, said in an interview. He has been warning the public about California’s potential fuel shortage. “There are not very many ships left on the way that have fuel,” he said last month.
Last week, KCRA-TV in Sacramento reported that “about 2 million barrels of oil are in the process of being unloaded in Long Beach off of the last California-bound tanker that got through the Strait of Hormuz.”
At a California legislative hearing Tuesday, Siva Gunda, the vice chairman of the California Energy Commission, said the state has enough gasoline to accommodate demand for the next six weeks. That’s not a very long time, especially given that it takes weeks or months for oil to travel from the Middle East to California. And that process won’t begin until the Strait of Hormuz reopens.
There is a region, however, with abundant oil available for sale and safe passage — the southeastern United States. Unfortunately, the Jones Act, an antiquated 1920 law, mandates that only U.S.-flagged ships may move cargo between U.S. ports. But only 55 of the more than 7,000 oil tankers worldwide comply with this requirement.
This is where Mr. Trump rode to the rescue. Late last month, the White House announced Mr. Trump would suspend the Jones Act for another 90 days. In March, he originally waived it for 60 days. This will make it easier for California and Nevada to obtain domestic product.
If only Mr. Trump could also suspend the destructive energy policies imposed by Gov. Newsom and California Democrats.
LAS VEGAS (KSNV) — An adoptable pet is in the spotlight for “Furever Home Friday,” with Amy from the Nevada SPCA featured in a segment highlighting an animal available for adoption today.
The Nevada SPCA encouraged viewers looking to add a pet to their family to consider adopting.
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