Coronado softball’s Bailey Goldberg went 2-for-3 with a home run in the 5A state title game to earn Nevada Preps Girls Athlete of the Week honors.
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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.
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.
Koy Riggin threw for 233 yards and three touchdowns, and the Falcons’ defense shut down the usually potent Palo Verde ground game in a 28-13 road victory.
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.
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.
Madison Knoblock was 3-0 in singles and Liberty’s girls tennis team edged visiting Eldorado 10-9 on a tiebreaker on Tuesday.
Jonathan Lai and Marshall Nelson went 3-0 in doubles to lead the the Bonanza boys tennis team to a 10-8 home victory over Spring 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.
Jack Wold singled off the right-field fence with one out in the bottom of the seventh to score Christian Rivero and lift Basic’s baseball team to a 3-2 home victory over Las Vegas on Wednesday.
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.
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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.
Bishop Gorman announced Wednesday that its baseball team was forfeiting games over paperwork related to the eligibility of a transfer student.