Essence Booker scored 28 points and Ella Zanders drew a late charge to lift No. 3 Spring Valley to a 67-65 victory over No. 2 Liberty in the Gator Winter Classic platinum championship game on Saturday night.
Basketball
UNLV commit Justice Ethridge poured in a season-high 32 points Friday to power the Bulldogs to a 59-39 victory over Etiwanda (California) in the championship game of the Las Vegas Holiday Classic’s platinum bracket at Centennial.
Cimarron-Memorial’s girls basketball team fell behind 18-3 early in the second quarter and couldn’t recover in its 54-45 loss to Spanish Springs in the Gator Winter Classic at Green Valley on Thursday.
Green Valley finished 26.5 percent shooting from the field, including 1-for-11 in the third quarter, to allow visiting Beverly Hills (California) to pull away from a 21-all halftime score and claim a 52-39 victory in the Gator Winter Classic.
Here are this week’s Review-Journal high school basketball rankings.
Sophomore Noah Taitz hit five 3-pointers and finished with a game-high 26 points to lead Bishop Gorman to a 69-56 home victory over Clark in the Platinum Division championship of the Tarkanian Classic on Saturday.
Noah Taitz knocked down three 3-pointers in the first 6:30 of the second half to lead Bishop Gorman to a 69-63 win over Overland (Colorado) in the Tarkanian Classic at Orleans Arena.
This week’s Review-Journal’s high school basketball rankings.
Joe Epstein scored a game-high 17 points, and added 11 rebounds and two assists, to lead The Meadows to a 57-43 home win over Calvary Chapel in a Class 2A boys basketball matchup.
Review-Journal reporters Ben Gotz and Elaine Wilson preview this week’s biggest basketball matchups in Southern Nevada.
Jalen Hill scored 11 of his game-high 23 points in the fourth quarter as Clark rolled to a 66-51 home victory over Liberty on Friday.
Keith Seldon scored 25 points, and Del Sol unleashed a 1-2-2 trapping zone defense in the second quarter to secure a 67-49 victory over Tech on Thursday night.
Cimarron-Memorial senior Tasia Moore scored 25 points to spark the Spartans to a 58-41 home victory over Legacy on Tuesday night.
Essence Booker scored 10 of her 20 points in the fourth quarter to lead Spring Valley’s girls basketball team to a 56-50 home victory over Bishop Gorman.
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