South Tahoe Vikings Host Division 1a Playoffs This Week

For the first time in 20 years, the South Tahoe Vikings varsity baseball team has made it to the Nevada State Playoffs. This is only the second time in school history for the team to make it to the post season, and the last time was in 1994, when current Viking coach Starbuck Teevan was a junior on the team.

They join Elko, Churchill County and Spring Creek in this weekend's Division 1a playoffs to be held Friday and Saturday at South Lake Tahoe's Todd Fields.

The Vikings needed just one win out of the three games played on May 9 & 10 to make it to the post season, and they did that with a win over Churchill County, 10-7.

South Tahoe's Dominic Diana ended the regular season by leading the Division in batting average (.547), slugging percentage (.768), runs batted in (48) and on base percentage (.619).

Along with senior Dominic, the varsity team includes sophomore Moises Cuevas, junior Kolby Eymann, junior Jaeden Clelan, junior River Quinn, senior Liam Loftis, senior R.J. Rivera, junior Aaron Pfister, junior Dakota Lynch, sophomore Paul Hoefer, senior Sergio Burgueno, senior Spencer Harnett, freshman Garrett Harley and sophomore Jordan Switzer.

The playoff schedule at SLT Todd Fields:

On Friday
Game 1 - No.4 seed South Tahoe vs No.1 seed Elko at 10 am
Game 2 - No. 2 seed Churchill County vs No 3 seed Spring Creek at 12:30 pm
Game 3 - Loser of 2 vs Loser of game 1 at 3 pm
Game 4 - Winner of game 1 vs. Winner of game 2 at 5:30 pm

On Saturday:
Game 5 - Loser of game 4 vs Winner of game 3 at 10 am
Game 6 - Winner of game 4 vs Winner of game 5 at 12:30 pm
Championship, if needed, will follow