“Great is the art of beginning, but greater the art is of ending,” — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882), American poet and professor, Elegiac Verse (1881)
Here’s a look at what happened during Week 5 of the high school football season.
The Vikings rolled to a 25-12 home victory over Sunrise Mountain on Friday night.
It took a late goal-line stand, but Chaparral held off a fourth-quarter rally by visiting Eldorado for a 21-13 victory.
After falling behind 14-7 with 4 minutes, 18 seconds left in the third quarter Friday night, De La Salle scored 20 unanswered points and held on to defeat the Gaels, 27-21, and drop the nine-time defending state champion to 1-3 on the year.
Arbor View scored its first two touchdowns of the game on interception and fumble returns before finally getting its vaunted running game going in an eventual 28-13 Northwest League victory over Centennial.
Noah Hawthorne took a fourth down shotgun handoff and plowed through the left side of the Legacy defense to give the Gators a thrilling 26-21 road victory.
Justin Johnson and Tau Fotu each rushed for a pair of touchdowns as Durango outran the Wildcats for a 42-21 victory — its first of the season.
Palo Verde built a 30-0 lead in the first 20 minutes and then cruised to a comfortable win.
The Falcons had another impressive outing Friday at Canyon Springs that left coach Marty Redmond giddy. They didn’t allow a point in the second half and picked off two passes in a 17-14 win.
JSerra Catholic (California) scored 28 second-quarter points en route to a 50-10 home win over Faith Lutheran.
UNLV junior Justin Kim shot a 4-under-par 66 to sit alone in second place, one stroke behind the leader, helping the Rebels tie for third after one round of the season-opening Olympia Fields/Fighting Illini Invitational.
Thorsten Balmer ran for a game-high 152 yards and four touchdowns as Boulder City rolled to a 41-3 win over Western.
Braeden St. John had 15 rushing attempts for 73 rushing yards and three touchdowns on Friday to lead Moapa Valley to a 21-6 home win over Cheyenne.
Wyatt Delano had 33 rushing attempts for 320 yards and four touchdowns to lead Virgin Valley’s football team to a 33-18 home victory over Democracy Prep on Friday.
Marcus Turner ran for 107 yards and three touchdowns as Needles rolled to a 58-0 road win over Lake Mead on Friday.
Lincoln County scored three touchdowns in each of the first two quarters and rolled to a 49-12 road victory over The Meadows.
Preston Higbee completed all six of his passes for 152 yards and threw three touchdown passes as Pahranagat Valley’s football team rolled past visiting Beaver Dam on Friday, 50-8.
Cameron Wiley recorded his second straight 100-yard game and scored all three of his touchdowns in a span of about 11 minutes to power Class 4A’s fourth-ranked Jaguars to their third straight win.
Government continues to find ways to make it harder for people to work for themselves — for their own good, of course.
In the third quarter, Shadow Ridge forced three turnovers and scored three touchdowns en route to a 29-11 home victory over Cimarron-Memorial, its third on-field win of the season.
The name of the paper should be changed to the Las Vegas Raiders Journal. More articles are regularly written about a bad football team from California than articles about our community.
First, I’d like to say that my heart goes out to the family of the young man who was shot outside Canyon Ridge High School on Tuesday. Now, I’d like to address the ones who want to destroy our Second Amendment rights.
The recent campaign commercials by Sen. Dean Heller suggesting that Congresswoman Jacky Rosen has not had any bills passed are a misrepresentation.
Team USA ousted Uruguay 114-57 on Friday night at Cox Pavilion, moving to 6-1 in the second round of the qualifiers with a dominating effort.
Audrey Dayton had 18 kills and 21 digs as Sierra Vista’s girls volleyball team defeated visiting Las Vegas 24-26, 25-14, 23-25, 25-21, 15-9 on Friday night.
Grant Enfinger survived three attempts at a green-white-checkered overtime finish and a red flag for a multitruck crash to win the caution-plagued World of Westgate 200 on Friday night at Las Vegas Motor Speedway.
Western’s boys soccer team scored a pair of second-half goals on Friday to earn a 2-2 draw with visiting Palo Verde.