Jack Tarango didn’t intend for the Legacy Tip-Off Classic boys basketball tournament to grow this year.
Baseball
Legacy football coach John Isola watched the highlight film from Derriyon Shaw’s junior season and thought the transfer from Sugar Hill, Ga., was a talented player. But Isola needed to see it with his own eyes.
For the first five innings of Thursday’s elimination game against the LV Spartans, the GV Elite hardly looked like the top-seeded team in the Connie Mack state baseball tournament.
Through the first six innings Monday afternoon, the LV Bengals looked overwhelmed at the plate against LV Grizzlies ace Nick Rupp.
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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.
Jacen Yergensen made a diving catch for the final out of the Division I Sunrise Region baseball tournament losers’ bracket final and lay on the grass in center field for an extra couple of seconds.
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.
Rylee Campbell’s one-out suicide squeeze with the bases loaded in the bottom of the seventh Wednesday brought home Sebastian Fitzgerald and gave Tech’s baseball team a 6-5 win over Chaparral at Arroyo Grande Sports Complex.
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Liberty’s Jacob Klein didn’t have his best pitching outing last week in a nonconference game with Bishop Gorman, so the junior right-hander was champing at the bit to get back on the mound.
Tyler Baca went 4-for-4 with a double, three runs and two RBIs on Friday to help host Cimarron-Memorial’s baseball team outslug Silverado, 17-14.
Chris Opolka walked and came around to score the go-ahead run on an error with no outs in the top of the seventh inning as Shadow Ridge’s baseball team topped host Arbor View 13-8 on Thursday.