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Cimarron-Memorial senior shortstop Niko Decolati has been named the Division I Southern Nevada Player of the Year by area baseball coaches. He hit .411 with 10 home runs and 25 RBIs this season for the Spartans.
Trailing by four runs entering the bottom of the seventh inning, Bishop Gorman rallied to tie the game on Austin Cram”s two-out, two-run homer, then won it when Cadyn Grenier led off the bottom of the ninth with a homer to give the Gaels a 6-5 win over Green Valley in the Division I state baseball championship game.
A right hamstring injury limited Brandon Wulff’s effectiveness during the Sunset Region tournament last week, and the senior still hadn’t quite felt like himself through most of the team’s first two state tournament games.
After a long playoff run that included a play-in game to get to the Division I state tournament, Arbor View’s baseball team needed innings from starter Ben Cutting on Thursday.
State tournaments usually mean close games.
An intentional walk brought Green Valley’s Drake Maningo to the plate with a runner in scoring position and one out in the bottom of the seventh inning Saturday.
Green Valley’s baseball team had six home runs by six players in its first 32 games this season.
Green Valley coach Corey Gehlken has had plenty of tight games in his career, and he shows off the gray hair to prove it.
Dane Wasden doesn’t always find his name in the starting lineup for Coronado’s baseball team, but he got the nod at designated hitter on Tuesday.
After pitching 5 2/3 innings against Foothill on Tuesday, Rancho’s Kavion Kealoha could only give his team 5 1/3 innings on the mound Friday.