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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Jaden Hardy scored a game-high 23 points to lead Coronado’s boys basketball team to a 75-61 victory over Durango in the Orleans Division at Desert Oasis on Saturday.
Bishop Gorman sophomore forward Isaiah Cottrell scored 20 points, and the host Gaels made 9 of 12 free throws in the final 36 seconds, to hang on for a 69-63 victory over Salesian (California) in a Platinum Division semifinal on Friday.
Daniel Plummer scored 14 of his game-high 23 points in the first half, and Democracy Prep stormed to a 30-13 halftime lead en route to its 61-41 victory over Palo Verde in the Gatorade Division bracket on Thursday night.
Jaden Hardy scored a team-high 23 points to help Coronado to a 72-59 win over Maranatha (Calif.) in the Orleans Division bracket of the Tarkanian Classic at Bishop Gorman on Wednesday.
Gabriel Taledo won by pin as time expired at 106 pounds to clinch Shadow Ridge’s 36-34 wrestling win over host Centennial on Wednesday.
Tarika Poullard scored on a 12-yard reverse in overtime for Del Sol’s flag football team Wednesday, and supplied the game-winning extra point to lift the Dragons over host Silverado, 31-30.
Las Vegas High’s Nathan Rhoads pinned his opponent at 132 pounds on Saturday to clinch a 40-34 win over Foothill in the championship match of the Spring Valley Duals.
Jacob Heese was 11-for-11 from the free-throw line and scored 26 points Friday to lead the Desert Oasis boys basketball team to an 84-78 road win over Sierra Vista.
Jamal Bey had 37 points and 15 rebounds to help Bishop Gorman’s boys basketball team put away Sierra Vista at home for an 86-71 victory on Wednesday night.
Kyndal Ricks scored a game-high 20 points for Rancho’s girls basketball team Wednesday, and the Rams held Westerm scoreless in the second quarter en route to the 39-27 road victory.
Spring Valley’s girls basketball team took the lead with 46 seconds to play on Thursday and held on for a 47-45 win over Regis Jesuit (Colorado) in the La Jolla (California) Sweet 16 Tournament.
Arbor View’s Keith Williams led at the front of a pack of five runners early. Eventually, he managed to hold off PahrumpValley’s Bryce Odegard and Centennial’s Alexander Miller in the final quarter mile, putting in a good finishing kick to cross the line in 16 minutes and 13 seconds.
Eden Whitmore had 22 kills and Aria Messer had 34 assists to lead the Pirates to lead Moapa Valley’s vollyeball team to a 25-22, 14-25,15-25, 25-23, 15-8 home victory over The Meadows on Tuesday night.
Las Vegas is a special kind of resort city. In the city, you get The Strip (along with the Sphere); on the outside, you get the vast Mojave Desert with its nostalgic attractions. In the past, people visiting Las Vegas would do so with the phrase in mind: “What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas.” […]
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.