Eight of the 11 teams that make up Class 5A won at least one playoff game in 2019, and all of them reached the postseason.
Green Valley
The Aggies scored a late touchdown to defeat Faith Lutheran on Friday night, and Centennial needed a late score to keep pace with a win over Shadow Ridge.
The good far outweighed the bad, though, as the Gaels pulled away for a 79-48 win over Lone Peak (Utah) in their Tarkanian Classic opener at Orleans Arena.
Led by its Green Valley 400-yard freestyle relay, the Green Valley girls swimming team brought home a state championship.
Christian Mixon had six kills, and Eddy Garcia added five kills and an ace Monday as Tech’s boys volleyball team beat host Sunrise Mountain, 25-17, 25-17, 18-25, 25-23.
Senior guard Haley Tyrell scored 21 points to guide Coronado’s girls basketball team to a 55-47 home victory over Foothill on Friday evening.
Hailey Stevenson and McKenzi Hall each shot 2-over-par 74 as Centennial’s golf team edged Palo Verde to win the team title in a Northwest League Match at Palm Valley on Tuesday.
Gizelle Reid won the title in the 400-meter dash with a time of 54.98 seconds at the Class 4A state track meet at Foothill on Friday.
Haylee Makue-Vasconcello’s two-out single in the bottom of the eighth inning drove in Katy Orellana from second base with the winning run to lift Tech’s softball team to a 4-3 home win over Chaparral on Wednesday.
Dylan Fritz fired 6-under-par 66 on Wednesday at Southern Highlands as Coronado’s boys golf team rallied to win the Southern Nevada Invitational.
Bishop Gorman saw a nine-point lead fizzle away in the final 4:43 of regulation and went on to lose 86-79 in overtime to nationally ranked Mater Dei (California) in the semifinals of the Tarknanian Classic’s Platinum Division.
A look at some of the top performances for the week of Oct. 10 to Oct. 15.
Annie Damm and Kendra Reid went 3-0 in doubles Monday to help Bonanza’s girls tennis team edge host Sierra Vista 10-9 on a tiebreaker.
Andrew Hauck and Ben Gonzalez went 3-0 in doubles to lead Foothill’s boys tennis team to an 11-7 road win over Silverado on Monday.
Shadow Ridge’s Tanner Johnson shot a 4-under-par 67 at TPC Las Vegas on Tuesday to earn medalist honors in a Southwest League match.