Palo Verde senior third baseman Drew Kaplan earned a prestigious honor Monday after helping lead the Panthers to the 5A state title.
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Riley Schwartz took over for the Crusaders, and he threw for two touchdowns and rushed for one Friday to help Faith Lutheran to a 35-0 win over Cimarron-Memorial.
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Jeriel Thomas, Nevada’s fastest 400-meter runner, won his heat in 48.73 and finished second in the Sunset Region preliminary race on Saturday.
Sydney Washington had 13 kills and four blocks Thursday as Faith Lutheran’s girls volleyball team downed host Legacy, 25-20, 29-25, 25-22, 25-21.
Bishop Gorman’s girls tennis team and Clark’s boys tennis team claimed Sunset Region championships on Thursday afternoon.
Boulder City’s girls tennis team won a tiebreaker to clinch a 10-9 road victory over Foothill on Tuesday afternoon.
Boulder City’s boys tennis team used a 31-25 tiebreaker to earn a 10-9 victory over Foothill on Tuesday afternoon.
Canyon Springs’ boys soccer team scored the go-ahead goal with about seven minutes to play and held on for a 2-1 road win over Foothill on Tuesday afternoon.
Lili Gutierrez hit a two-run home run in the bottom of the seventh Friday, and Rancho’s softball team rallied with nine runs in its final at-bat to stun Foothill, 15-14.
Kevin Clark hit a two-run home run in the ninth inning Friday to lift Liberty’s baseball team to a 6-4 road victory over Las Vegas in the completion of a game suspended on March 9.
James Camp scored on a layup with six seconds remaining Thursday to give Palo Verde’s boys basketball team a 56-55 victory over host Arbor View.
Green Valley’s Omar Rubio was tops among local runners and his performance helped lift the Gators to a second-place team finish in the Class 4A state cross country meet at Craig Ranch Regional Park.
Eric Jordan went 3-for-5 with a double and two RBIs, and the Shadow Ridge baseball team rallied from an early four-run deficit to shock visiting Bishop Gorman 11-7 on Tuesday.
Megan Coyle went 3-for-4 with a triple and two RBIs as the Bishop Gorman softball team stunned host Shadow Ridge, 7-3 on Tuesday.
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The school’s teams will have a new nickname in August after an agreement with Arizona State to use the Sundevils moniker and the Sparky mascot was discontinued.
Faith Lutheran thrower Preston Beery set the unofficial state record in the shot put Friday to earn Nevada Preps Boys Athlete of the Week honors.
Basic’s baseball team has been forced to forfeit all of its league games for using ineligible players, the Nevada Interscholastic Activities Association confirmed.
Former Bishop Gorman standout Rome Odunze was selected ninth by the Chicago Bears, and former Liberty athlete Troy Fautanu went 20th overall to the Steelers.