Bishop Gorman hosts Coronado and Shadow Ridge plays at Liberty in the Class 5A Division I state semifinals to highlight Friday’s high school football playoff action.
Coronado
When Green Valley running back Jaylen McKnight went out with an injury Friday, Josiah Edwards stepped in and helped the Gators to a 21-14 victory at Desert Pines.
Logan Bleazard was 3-for-4 with a home run, two RBIs and two runs scored Tuesday as Coronado’s baseball team handed visiting Silverado its first loss in Desert League play, 13-3 in five innings.
Jaden Delchambre singled home the eventual winning run to cap a six-run sixth inning that lifted Foothill’s softball team to a 9-8 win at Liberty on Tuesday.
Kaeden Camat-Toki singled home pinch runner Joseph Rush in the top of the seventh inning to break a tie, and Liberty’s baseball team tacked on two more runs to defeat host Coronado 7-4 on Wednesday.
Leah Becker was 3-for-3 with a double, a home run, two runs and three RBIs to lead Foothill’s softball team to an 8-2 home win over Basic on Wednesday.
Boulder City had eight wrestlers post 4-0 records on Saturday as the Eagles claimed the team title at the Boulder City Duals.
On Saturday, Green Valley’s Milton Amezcua had the biggest moment of his high school career, winning the junior-senior boys race at the Labor Day Classic at Palo Verde with a time of 16 minutes, 40 seconds for 3.1 miles.
Palo Verde’s Jack Trent earned medalist honors with a 5-under-par 66 at TPC Las Vegas on Tuesday, six strokes better than the second-place finisher, to carry the Panthers’ boys golf team to victory in a Northwest League match.
Paige Smith and Andrea Busicescu each went 2-0 in singles Wednesday to help Clark’s girls tennis team to a 10-8 win at Bonanza.
Bishop Gorman’s Vashti Cunningham concedes she used to get nervous when people cheered for her at big events.
Trevor McDonough got involved with pole vaulting before he even stepped foot on the Centennial campus four years ago.
Iris Martinez scored with about 15 minutes to play Wednesday to allow Rancho’s girls soccer team to earn a 2-2 tie with visiting Eldorado.
Macee Barlow scored twice, including the match-winning goal with two minutes left Tuesday to lift Palo Verde’s girls soccer team to a 2-1 win over host Faith Lutheran in the Las Vegas Kick-Off.