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Roundup: Centennial collects victory in Nike tournament

Daejah Phillips poured in 21 points Thursday to lead Centennial’s girls basketball team to a 67-50 win over Sanford (Del.) in the Nike Tournament of Champions in Phoenix.

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Centennial continued its run as the state’s most dominant girls basketball program by rallying for a 74-65 overtime win over Liberty in the Class 4A state championship game.

Roundup: Centennial girls fall to nation’s No. 1 team

Riverdale (Tennessee) limited Centennial’s girls basketball team to 23 second-half points on Wednesday, and the Warriors earned a 71-60 win over the Bulldogs in the Tournament of Champions in Gilbert, Arizona.

GIRLS BASKEBALL: Bishop Gorman falls in third-place game

Bishop Gorman put together an impressive second-half rally before finally falling to Oklahoma’s Putnam City West 66-64 in the Tarkanian Classic’s Diamond Division third-place game at Durango.

RECRUITING: Centennial’s Pam Wilmore chooses New Mexico State

Centennial senior point guard Pam Wilmore made an oral commitment to New Mexico State, continuing the Aggies’ pipeline into one of the state’s top girls basketball programs.

COMMENTARY: No blowout for a change, but Centennial reigns again

The overall record is 29-1, and the national ranking is a robust fifth, and the goal of reaching another Division I state tournament has been realized, and everything they say about the Centennial High girls basketball team and its prominent place in Nevada history seems more than trustworthy.

And yet there is a good chance Karen Weitz’s mother today still thinks she screams at players too much.

SUNSET GIRLS: Ethridge sparks Bulldogs by Gaels in region final

Justice Ethridge scored four points in two seconds, including a back-breaking jumper off an inbound steal that lifted the Bulldogs to a 71-56 win over the Gaels and their sixth straight region title. Centennial (29-1) heads to Reno next week for the Division I state tournament. Gorman, ranked No. 23 by USA Today, had its season end at 29-2.