Arbor View senior shortstop Nick Quintana has been named the Gatorade Nevada Baseball Player of the Year.
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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.
Durango’s baseball team plated three runs in the bottom of the second Friday and held on for a 4-3 home win over Faith Lutheran.
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.
Chris Opolka was 3-for-3 with a triple, and his RBI single in the bottom of the fifth broke a 7-7 tie as Shadow Ridge outslugged visiting Arbor View, 15-11.