Check out the scores and top performances from Friday’s high school basketball and flag football action.
Basketball
R’Zha Whittle had a double-double to help Rancho to a home victory over Canyon Springs in a boys basketball game. Here are photos from the game.
Bishop Gorman and Coronado’s boys basketball teams play at 8 p.m. Saturday to highlight the seven-game schedule at this year’s Big City Showdown at Coronado.
Democracy Prep guard Josiah Stroughter scored 25 points in a 77-57 win over Palo Verde on Friday to earn Nevada Preps Boys Athlete of the Week honors.
The times, dates and opponents for all of this week’s boys and girls high school basketball state tournament games.
Liberty guard Dedan Thomas Jr. scored 18 of his 22 points in the fourth quarter and overtime to give the Patriots a win at Coronado on Thursday night.
Check out the scores and top performances from Monday’s high school basketball action.
Dedan Thomas, the top-ranked 2024 Nevada basketball player, according to ESPN, showed in a tournament last week that he could score as well as run an offense.
UNLV, LSU and Washington State have extended scholarship offers to Liberty sophomore point guard Dedan Thomas Jr., and he said Arizona, UCLA and Stanford also are interested.
Check out the top performances from Wednesday’s high school basketball action.
In his first game since being nominated for the McDonald’s All-American Game, versatile Taviontae Jackson scored 34 points to pace Las Vegas’ rout of Green Valley.
The Bishop Gorman, Bonanza and SLAM Nevada boys, and the Centennial, Las Vegas and Moapa Valley girls remained No. 1 in the Review-Journal’s basketball rankings.
Bronny James, a freshman guard at Sierra Canyon High School in Chatsworth, California, is not the best player but is the most popular on the seventh-ranked team in the country.
Noah Taitz drilled a 3-pointer with about three seconds to play to give the Gaels a 70-67 win over Coronado in the Class 4A Desert Region boys basketball semifinals at Foothill.
The Jaguars hit 10 of 17 from the field in the first quarter, including five 3-pointers, opened up a 26-16 lead and never looked back en route to an 84-67 victory over Centennial.
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