The Pershing County Mustangs softball team (Lovelock, NV), was routed 5-0 in Saturday's league test with the host Battle Mountain Longhorns (Battle Mountain, NV)

Coming up next, the Longhorns clash with the Pershing County Mustangs (Lovelock, NV) in a Northern 2A test, on Saturday, April 11. Battle Mountain will attempt to improve on its 10-6 season record.

The Mustangs (6-5) will now prepare for their test against Battle Mountain (Battle Mountain, NV). The Longhorns come into the Northern 2A test with a 8-6 record. In their last test, Battle Mountain was routed by Spring Creek (Spring Creek, NV), 10-6, in a non-league test.

Anticipating this conference game excitement was in the air. With a one hour rain delay to fix the field both teams were ready to play. The first three innings were scoreless with Lovelock leaving four runners on base and one in scoring passion. The Longhorns left four runners on base and in the third inning had bases loaded with one out and failed to score. Top of the sixth Longhorns sat Lovelock down three in a row. In the bottom of the sixth Led off batter Hannah Jones hit a single followed by a single from Brittany. Jillian Itza hit a RBI single to put the Longhorns on the board first. With two outs two runners on Kayci Hits a RBI single followed by a RBI double from Megan Lenz to put the Longhorns up 3 to 0. Bottom of the sixth Haley Malone hit a leadoff single, Hannah Erquiaga was hit by the pitch. Two runners on one out Megan Lenz hit a single to load the bases for the second time in the game. Satica hits a foul ball for the second out steel bases loads Felycia Itza hits one to