Category: Athletics

The College of Southern Nevada baseball team wrapped up the 2013 regular season at home last weekend, sweeping a four-game series against Colorado Northwestern Community College. The first win of the series clinched the Scenic West Athletic Conference championship for the Coyotes, giving them the No. 1 seed and the hosting rights of this week’s Region XVIII Baseball Tournament, being held at Morse Stadium on the CSN Henderson campus.

Presently, the Coyotes have won five games in a row and boast a 38-15 season record. CSN won the SWAC championship with a conference record of 26-10, finishing a full three games ahead of both in-state rival Western Nevada College and Salt Lake Community College. For head coach Nick Garritano, this is his first SWAC title – the school’s seventh – and it is quite an achievement for a team that has 10 less scholarships to offer than any other team in the nation.

The Coyotes are also ranked No. 8 in the nation in the most recent NJCAA Top 20 National Baseball Poll. CSN’s first game of the tournament is Thursday, May 9 at 12:00 PM against the winner of Wednesday’s game between fourth-seeded College of Southern Idaho and fifth-seeded Colorado Northwestern Community College.

The winner of this week’s Region XVIII Tournament advances to the Western District Tournament, which this year will be hosted by the Region IX champion (either Northeastern Junior College or Lamar Community College) in Colorado.  The winner of the district tournament will advance to the Junior College World Series in Grand Junction, Colo.  CSN has been to JUCO only twice before, most recently in 2010. The first time the Coyotes went in 2003, they won the national championship.

The CSN women’s softball team also wrapped up the regular season with a series sweep last weekend against in-state rival Western Nevada, improving their record to 33-25 overall, 26-21 in the SWAC.  The ladies are on a 9-game winning streak, and hope to carry that momentum into this week’s Region XVIII Softball Tournament being held at the College of Southern Idaho in Twin Falls, Idaho.  The consecutive victories helped vault CSN up to the No. 3 seed after spending much of the season in 4th place.

The Coyotes’ first game is today (Wednesday) at 5 p.m. MDT against sixth-seeded Western Nevada College.  You can follow the game live by clicking on the live box score link below:

http://www.sidearmstats.com/sidaho/softball/scoreboard.aspx

The winner of the Region XVIII Softball Tournament will advance to the Women’s Junior College World Series in St. George, Utah.

 

Congratulations to the CSN Baseball Team, which has improved its ranking from seventh in the nation a couple weeks ago to fourth in the country as of yesterday, March 13, 2013!

Coach Nick Garritano and all of the students and staff involved in our athletics program are to be commended. Please try to make it to one of their games this weekend at the Henderson campus to show your support as they take on the College of Southern Idaho. They are scheduled to play Friday at 1 p.m. and Saturday at 12 p.m.

CSN Baseball and Softball schedules are available at http://www.csncoyotes.com/.

Office of the President

 

Greetings CSN,

The CSN baseball and softball teams are excited to begin another year of competition after a successful fall semester in the classroom and on the practice field. Academically, the Coyotes had 20 student-athletes achieve over a 3.0 GPA while averaging about 15 credits.  Another reason for celebration is Jack LaMarca’s acceptance of an academic scholarship to Ohio Northern University. Having former CSN baseball star, Bryce Harper, named Rookie of the Year for Major League Baseball was another proud moment for CSN athletics.

A very positive turnout accentuated a successful event as the Coyotes held their first annual Alumni Weekend on December 14-16.  CSN Athletics has received a new online look to our web page (www.csncoyotes.com), providing new resources to current and incoming student-athletes.

This spring the baseball team will be hosted three pre-season tournaments;The Annual Coyote Border Battle (Jan. 25-27), The CSN Coyote Classic (Jan. 31-Feb. 2), and The CSN Coyote Slugout (Feb. 15-17).  The softball team hosted the largest Junior College tournament in the country, the CSN Kickoff Classic (Jan.25-28). On Jan. 15^th, the Coyotes signed 15 local recruits who are expected to contribute toward the teams in the classroom and on the field.

Please visit the new website http://www.csncoyotes.com/ and come out to support the Coyotes!

Marc Morse
Athletic Director
College of Southern

HENDERSON (January 11, 2013) – Sixteen local high school baseball and softball athletes will be making the College of Southern Nevada their official choice on Tuesday, Jan. 15, the first day of the 2013-14 NJCAA signing period.

Eight baseball players and eight softball players will be signing their letters-of-intent with the Coyotes.  The baseball players (with high schools in parentheses) include Josh Nuernberg (Cimarron-Memorial), Josh Yocum (Western), Nate Bennett (Liberty), Brett Bovee (Palo Verde), Logan Hold (Shadow Ridge), David Kuzma (Silverado), Anthony Martine (Durango) and Julian Burrola (Coronado).

The softball players are Gabrielle Canibeyaz and Hanna Russo (Foothill), Lauren and Nicole Lesniak (Chaparral), Mia Acuna (Centennial), Sarina Creswell (Cimarron-Memorial), Vanessa Sanders (Cheyenne) and Christian Wilson (Desert Oasis).