Palo Verde and Coronado won their first games of the Class 5A baseball state tournament Thursday. The two teams will play Friday for a spot in the title game.
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Bishop Gorman is the No. 1 seed and favorite in the Class 5A South Region tournament, but Palo Verde leads a group of other teams talented enough to make a run.
Pinch hitters Kaiden Smacka and Kody Bialas had RBI doubles in the eighth inning to lift Palo Verde to a 4-3 road win over Basic to open the season.
Jake Riding tossed a five-inning no-hitter Tuesday to lead Pahrump Valley’s baseball team to an 11-0 win over Legacy in the Blazer Spring Bash at Shadow Ridge.
Follow the link for postseason baseball honors, as selected by coaches. All-league and all-region teams will be posted as they are received.
The Summerlin Panthers rolled past the Las Vegas Cats 9-3 in the championship game of the Connie Mack state baseball tournament at the College of Southern Nevada.
Jason Herrera’s base hit and aggressive baserunning in the 10th inning led to the game’s decisive run, and the Las Vegas Cats defeated the Southern Nevada Falcons 7-6 in the losers’ bracket final of the Connie Mack state baseball tournament at the College of Southern Nevada.
The Las Vegas Review-Journal announces its 2016 all-state baseball teams.
Sam Powers tripled home the go-ahead run and scored an insurance run during a seven-run sixth inning that lifted the Palo Verde baseball team to an 8-6 win at Centennial on Saturday.
Kyle Horton hit a two-run homer in the sixth inning to give the Centennial baseball team the lead, and the Bulldogs rallied from a 6-0 deficit to earn a 14-8 road win over Palo Verde on Wednesday.
A quick spin through the archived history of the Durango Fall Classic reveals some grim news for local girls volleyball teams.
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.
Hunter Junge hit a go-ahead two-run home run in the bottom of the third inning Thursday, and Bonanza’s baseball team held on for a 10-5 home win over fourth-ranked Arbor View in a Northwest League game.
Jesse Keiser went 2-for-2 with two runs and two RBIs on Wednesday to help Liberty’s baseball team win the Grizzly-Bengal Spring Break Tourney with a 12-2, five-inning victory over Bonanza at Spring Valley.
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