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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The Liberty boys and Bishop Gorman girls remain No. 1 in the Review-Journal’s Class 5A basketball rankings, with both having big games at Saturday’s Big City Showdown.
The Bishop Gorman boys basketball team trailed most of the second half but rallied to defeat Desert Pines 61-56 in a Class 5A Southern League quarterfinal matchup Tuesday night.
Las Vegas High junior point guard Layla Faught scored 30 points and surpassed 1,000 points for her career in a 75-19 road win over Cheyenne on Wednesday.
Arbor View sophomore forward Brian Townsend scored 20 points and grabbed eight rebounds to lead the Aggies to a 78-41 road win over Palo Verde on Thursday.
The Boulder City boys basketball team won its appeal Monday afternoon after the Nevada Interscholastic Activities Association originally ruled it would have to forfeit 16 games for using an ineligible player.
The times, dates and opponents for all of this week’s boys and girls high school basketball playoff games.
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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.