Nevada’s 2021-22 athletics 12 months wraps up this weekend with competitors on the NCAA outside observe championships.
The Wolf Pack had plenty of excellent particular person seasons on the lads’s facet in its nine-plus months of competitors from late August by way of June, together with three first-team All-Mountain West efforts in soccer, a record-setting golfer, and a last 12 months from one of many prime hitters in Nevada baseball historical past.
Right here’s a have a look at Nevada’s prime male athletes of the 12 months:
1. Romeo Doubs
Soccer, senior
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Doubs was in all probability the quietest member of the Wolf Pack’s three huge NFL prospects — a bunch that included quarterback Carson Robust and tight finish Cole Turner — however he possible had the largest influence of anybody on the roster all through final season.
His continued growth on the receiver spot peaked in his All-Mountain West senior season of 2021, a 12 months during which he continued to progress as a route-runner whereas additionally forcing defenses to alter total sport plans. Regardless of all that focus from opposing defenses, Doubs completed with 80 receptions for 1,109 yards and 11 touchdowns (all profession highs).
Not dangerous, general, for a man who largely performed quarterback and operating again as a highschool star in Los Angeles.
2. Grant Sherfield
Basketball, junior
In what would become his last season at Nevada — he has since transferred to Oklahoma — Sherfield was a workhorse, operating nearly each possession by way of his level guard spot whereas additionally discovering time to do some scoring of his personal.
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He led the Pack in plenty of main classes, together with scoring (19.1 ppg), assists (6.4 apg), free-throw share (.871), and minutes (35.7 mpg). All of that additionally happened with many defenses keyed in towards particularly slowing him down. Even in a convention filled with high quality guards, Sherfield’s third-team All-Mountain West choice appeared too low.
3. Carson Robust
Soccer, junior
Had he chosen to stick with this system, Robust would have continued to rewrite Nevada’s soccer document guide, a course of he started final season. Together with his resolution to enter the NFL draft, although, Robust — together with Pack followers — must be content material with remembering an excellent 2021 season that included 4,175 passing yards, 36 TD passes and a completion share of higher than 70 p.c.
Robust additionally deserves credit score for his development as a frontrunner. He started his profession as an ignored and under-recruited prospect, was pressured to win a place battle as a freshman, and finally developed into not solely one of many Mountain West’s greatest gamers but in addition a revered chief within the Pack locker room.
4. Joshua Zamora
Baseball, senior
Zamora ended up with good bookends to his Wolf Pack profession, ending each his freshman and senior seasons with first-team All-Mountain West alternatives. He led Nevada in a lot of the main offensive classes within the just-concluded 2022 season, together with hitting (.357), hits (74), runs (58), residence runs (14) and RBIs (66).
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Total, Zamora wrapped up his profession with the Pack with 4 All-MW honors.
5. Quim Vidal Mora
Golf, senior
It doesn’t get a lot better than setting a program document, which Vidal Mora nailed down by averaging a good 70.0 strokes per spherical. He additionally scored a person win on the Saint Mary’s Invitational, a part of a season that noticed him ranked as excessive because the Fifteenth-best particular person within the nation.
6. Desmond Cambridge Jr.
Basketball, senior
Whereas Sherfield directed the present, it was Cambridge who was Nevada’s most harmful shooter. His last season at Nevada — he has since transferred to Arizona State — noticed him hitting pictures from all angles and all distances, together with additionally being a risk to drive and rating close to the basket.
Cambridge completed the 2021-22 season with per-game figures of 16.2 factors and 5.1 rebounds. He hit 37.0 p.c of his 3-point makes an attempt.
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7. Satchel Benn and Loris Zisswiller
Tennis
The Wolf Pack’s No. 1 doubles staff of Benn (New Zealand) and Zisswiller (France) performed a giant function in Nevada finally successful its first Mountain West regular-season and match titles. The duo completed 9-3 general and 4-1 in opposition to Mountain West opponents.
8. Tristan Nichols
Soccer, senior
The Nevada offense tended to hog the highlight for a lot of the previous three seasons, however the Wolf Pack additionally put plenty of strong defensive gamers onto the sector. That group consists of Nichols, who adopted up his breakout efficiency in opposition to Tulane within the 2020 Well-known Idaho Potato Bowl with a senior season that included 10 sacks amongst his 27 tackles. It was his first season of prolonged taking part in time with the Pack.
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Long before Southern Nevada built its winding highways, desert tortoises roamed freely without consequence. For these federally protected animals, crossing the street without a dedicated path could mean a death sentence.
Along a 34-mile stretch of U.S. Highway 93 near Coyote Springs, fencing and underground tortoise crossings will allow for more safe passage.
“We see substantial road mortality and near-misses in this area,” said Kristi Holcomb, Southern Nevada biological supervisor at the Nevada Department of Transportation. “By adding the fencing, we’ll be able to stop the bleed.”
The federal Department of Transportation awarded Nevada’s transportation agency a $16.8 million grant to build 61 wildlife crossings and 68 miles of fencing along the highway. Clark and Lincoln counties, as well as private companies such as the Coyote Springs Investment group, will fund the project in total.
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Under the Endangered Species Act, the federal government listed Mojave desert tortoises as threatened in 1990. The project area includes the last unfenced portion of what the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service considers to be the desert tortoise’s “critical habitat.”
In Clark County, some keep desert tortoises as pets, adoptions for which are only authorized through one Nevada nonprofit, the Tortoise Group. Environmentalists in the area have long worried that sprawling solar projects may have an adverse effect on tortoise populations. As many as 1,000 tortoises per square mile inhabited the Mojave Desert before urban development, according to the Center for Biological Diversity.
Crossings prevent inbreeding
One major reason that connecting critical habitat across a highway is paramount is to prevent inbreeding, Holcomb said.
“When you build a highway down the middle of a desert tortoise population, they become shy about crossing the highway,” Holcomb said. “By installing tortoise fences, we’ll give the tortoise population a chance to recover.”
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Desert tortoises tend to walk parallel to the fences, which will lead them to the crossings they need to go to the other side. Promoting genetic diversity is one way different tortoise populations can be stabilized, Holcomb said.
The Nevada Department of Transportation doesn’t have a set timeline, and the project will need to go through an expedited federal review process to ensure full consideration of environmental effects.
“Be mindful, not only of tortoises that might be on the roadway, but also of our impacts on tortoises,” Holcomb added.
Contact Alan Halaly at ahalaly@reviewjournal.com. Follow @AlanHalaly on X.
RENO, Nev. (Nevada Athletics – Nevada women’s basketball returned home Wednesday night, hosting San Diego State and dropping the game to the Aztecs with a final score of 81-62.The Pack struck first with a driving layup by Audrey Roden. Defensively, they held off the Aztecs and didn’t allow them to score until three minutes into the game. It was their only basket through the first four and a half minutes of the opening quarter.
Imbie Jones, Lexie Givens and Izzy Sullivan contributed to a seven-point run that put Nevada up, 9-2, halfway through the first.
San Diego State came back to tie it up before Nevada found itself playing from behind for the first time. With just under two and a half remaining and the Pack down by six, Roden splashed a three to cut into the lead. 30 seconds later, Sullivan hit one of her own.
Heading into the second quarter, the Pack was trailing, 20-18.The Aztecs opened up the second attempting to pull away, going up by six, before the Pack cut it back to two with layups by Olivia Poulivaati and Dymonique Maxie.
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Momentum didn’t favor Nevada as San Diego State extended the lead. At halftime, the Pack was down, 43-29.
Into the third quarter, each time Nevada began to cut into the lead, San Diego State extended it again. Both Givens and Roden hit major baskets for the Pack, but they still trailed, 61-48.
Nevada began the final 10 with threes by Givens and Sullivan, followed by a jumper by Roden to cut the lead to 10. Despite the good start to the fourth quarter, the Pack wasn’t able to continue with it, ultimately coming up short.
Givens ended the night leading the Pack in scoring with 17, followed by Roden with 15. Jones led both teams in rebounding with seven.
Nevada will remain at home to host Utah State on Saturday at 1 PM.
Grass Valley, CA – January 8, 2025 – Nevada County fire agencies have mobilized to assist in combating the Palisades Fire, a fast-moving wildfire in Southern California that has prompted widespread evacuations and significant firefighting efforts.
In a coordinated response, the following Nevada County resources have been deployed to the incident:
Higgins Fire – Brush 23
Ophir Hill Fire – Engine 523
Penn Valley Fire – Brush 44
Nevada County Consolidated Fire – Brush 89
North San Juan Fire – Engine 6168
Grass Valley Fire – OES Engine 4609
These engines and their crews are part of a regional mutual aid system designed to provide critical support during large-scale emergencies. The Palisades Fire has already consumed thousands of acres, challenging firefighters with steep terrain and unpredictable winds. Nevada County’s highly trained personnel are working tirelessly alongside other fire agencies from across the state to protect lives, property, and natural resources.
“We are proud to contribute our skilled crews and equipment to assist in this critical situation,” said Sam Goodspeed, Division Chief of Nevada City Fire Department. “This is what mutual aid is all about—neighbors helping neighbors, even across great distances, when the need arises.”
While Nevada County fire resources are committed to the Palisades Fire, the agencies remain fully staffed to address any local emergencies. Additional personnel and resources have been made ready to ensure the safety of Nevada County residents.
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Editor’s note: Real-time updates on the Palisades Fire are posted here.
