HENDERSON, Nev. (February 16, 2021) – A full week of sports continues for the College of Southern Nevada Athletic Department, with one of the CSN teams returning to competition.
 
The CSN Volleyball team will play its first matches of the season, opening Scenic West Athletic Conference play on Wednesday at Colorado Northwestern. Other highlights in the CSN department this weekend include the annual 'Manny Guerra Memorial Coyote Border Battle – Presented by Sunset Station Hotel and Casino', along with the SWAC Preseason Softball Tournament. 
 
Visit csncoyotes.com for game recaps, updated schedules and other Coyotes-related information throughout the week.
 
Baseball: The CSN Baseball team will return to Morse Stadium for a four-game set as part of the annual 'Manny Guerra' tournament.
 
CSN will play Southern Idaho on Thursday at 6:00 p.m., hosting Arizona Western for a doubleheader on Friday before finishing with Colorado Northwestern on Saturday. This will be the second-to-last weekend of preseason play for CSN.
 
Coyotes coach Nick Garritano said his team is excited to return home for this week.
 
Men's Basketball: After going 0-3 in their opening week of games, the CSN men's basketball team will return to the floor for a pair of away games this week at Colorado Northwestern Community College.
 
After holding tough with Salt Lake and Southern Idaho, CSN will try for its first victories against the Spartans, who finished the week at 1-2 in the SWAC play. The Coyotes will finish the week at USU Eastern.
 
CSN coach Russ Beck said he is encouraged with the progress his team made in week one of the season.
 
"We are seeing a lot of growth in our team in the first week of our season. Going into week two, we are hungry for a win. In all this will be the longest road trip I have experienced in 17 years of coaching. We embraced that challenge and we see improvement in our team. We know we will be playing our best basketball in late March and April."
 
Softball: CSN's softball program will return to the field to host the annual SWAC Preseason tourney. 
 
The Lady Coyotes will play six games over the course of the weekend, beginning the series with an 8:00 a.m. game with the College of Southern Idaho on Friday. CSN will play doubleheaders each day.
 
Southern Nevada coach Ashley Johnston said she looks forward to seeing her team in action in the preseason tourney.
 
Women's Basketball: After an 0-3 start to the season, Southern Nevada will look forward to three more road games this week.
 
The Lady Coyotes will play a pair of games at Colorado Northwestern before finishing up the weekend at USU Eastern, marking six straight road games to open the 2021 season. CSN will make its home debut on Feb. 24 against Snow College. 
 
CSN coach Dorothy Kendrick said she was impressed with the strides her team made during the first week of the season.
 
"These first three games have allowed us to recognize the pieces of our puzzles that we must put in place to complete our foundation towards building a strong program," she said. "With a combined group of seven freshmen and five sophomores -- establishing our identity as a unit will be a key. 
 
"We are experiencing some developing spurts in every game, but that is not enough to be competitive within our conference. We need to have that gritty-grinding attitude of wanting it more than our opposing team and when that starts to become a regular expectation of our daily routine, then success will follow.  Therefore, we must step up offensively and defensively and leave everything on the floor."
 
Volleyball: The Lady Coyotes will take to the court for the first time this week, opening with a series of Scenic West Athletic Conference matches.
 
CSN will open with a Wednesday match at Colorado Northwestern and a Thursday match at USU Eastern, marking the first matches for the program since Fall of 2019. Southern Nevada will make its home debut on Feb. 26 against Snow College.