Sunday, April 6, 2008 | 10:09 a.m.
The College of Southern Nevada baseball team stumbled a bit over the weekend at Carson City in its three-year-old rivalry with Western Nevada.
The Coyotes salvaged the final game of the four-game series, but going 1-3 to their Silver State enemy dropped them below the Wildcats in the Scenic West Athletic Conference standings.
WNC (22-15, 16-8 in the league) eked to within three games of Salt Lake Community College (27-10, 19-5) atop the SWAC.
CSN (26-13, 15-9) has some work to do with four weeks left in the regular season. The winner of the conference will play host to the league tournament.
The Coyotes play only one of their final four series at home, against Salt Lake in three weeks.
Meanwhile, CSN and WNC, coached by D.J. Whittemore, became a full-bore rivalry last week when Coyotes coach Tim Chambers told the Sun that his team should always be better than the Wildcats.
If CSN finishes below WNC in the standings, he said, then he's done a poor coaching job.
With the 3-1 series victory, the Wildcats improved their all-time record over the Coyotes to 16-7, which includes three victories by forfeiture in 2006. WNC recently took three out of four games from CSN on the Coyotes' Morse Field in Henderson.
CSN won the NJCAA College World Series in 2003.
Last year, WNC beat CSN in the conference tournament finale, at Morse, and advanced to its first World Series, where it went 2-2.
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