Centennial’s Savon Scarver entered the season projected to be one of the area’s top playmakers and hasn’t disappointed through the first two games,attracting the attention of a handful of Mountain West schools in the process.
Baseball
The Las Vegas Review-Journal announces its 2016 all-state baseball teams.
Follow the link for postseason baseball honors, as selected by coaches. All-league and all-region teams will be posted as they are received.
Centennial rising senior Jamaal Evans became the second area QB to make an oral commitment for 2017 when he recently pledged to UNR.
Centennial’s Jake Rogers got a strikeout, then induced a grounder back to the mound to end the game and preserve a 5-4 home victory over Shadow Ridge in the Division I Sunset Region baseball tournament.
Palo Verde senior Cobi Fiechtner drove in six runs, including a three-run homer in the fifth inning, as the Panthers earned a 13-10 win over visiting Desert Oasis in the Division I Sunset Region baseball tournament.
Jake Rogers pitched out of a bases-loaded, one-out jam in the bottom of the seventh to help Centennial’s baseball team escape with a 7-6 victory over host Cimarron-Memorial on Wednesday and give head coach Charlie Cerrone his 400th career win at the school.
Tony Fields, a 6-foot-2-inch, 205-pound linebacker, has been one of the area’s most heavily recruited players this spring. He has 19 scholarship offers — Northwestern was the most recent on April 30 — and his family has racked up plenty of hotel points over the past month and a half making unofficial visits on the weekends.
Zach Murphy drew a bases-loaded walk to force home Austin Wishard with the winning run with one out in the bottom of the seventh inning Friday as Boulder City’s baseball team rallied for a 5-4 win over visiting Spring Valley.
Jake Rogers’ two-out single in the third inning plated courtesy runner Josh Sierra with the eventual winning run Thursday as Centennial’s baseball team nipped visiting Legacy 2-1 in a game shortened to five innings by rain.
Isaiah Blaylock blasted a pair of home runs and drove in six runs Tuesday to lead Shadow Ridge’s baseball team to a 7-4 home win over Palo Verde.
Garrett Holden went 2-for-3 with a triple, three runs and two RBIs Friday to help Centennial’s baseball team hold off visiting Shadow Ridge, 11-8.
Blake Porter hit for the cycle, going 4-for-4 with three RBIs, to help Palo Verde’s baseball team stun top-ranked and host Bishop Gorman, 13-7 on Wednesday.
Faith Lutheran’s Kyle Poser occupies a rare position in high school baseball as his team’s closer.
Garrett Giles’ sacrifice fly with one out in the top of the seventh inning plated Ryne Nelson with the deciding run as Basic’s baseball team edged host Las Vegas, 5-4 on Monday.