Bishop Gorman, ranked No. 2 nationally by MaxPreps, takes on No. 6 Miami Central (Florida) in its biggest nonleague game of the season Friday night.
Football
UNLV football coach Barry Odom has stressed the importance of recruiting local high school players. Five have committed to the Rebels since April.
Tensions over Bishop Gorman’s football dominance came to a head Monday, when rival public school coaches proposed limiting the Gaels to one out-of-state game per year.
Liberty’s Germie Bernard, a Washington commit, tops the Review-Journal list of the five best wide receivers in the valley.
Liberty ended 10-time state football champion Bishop Gorman’s 115-game winning streak against in-state opponents in the Nevada Preps Game of the Year.
Koy Riggin threw two touchdown passes and ran for another, and Foothill held on for a 29-27 home win over Canyon Springs on Friday night.
Odunze is the latest in a long line of standout Gorman pass catchers, and is in the midst of a breakout season for the Gaels after playing sparingly as an underclassman.
The Las Vegas Review-Journal’s high school football rankings for Class 4A, 3A, 2A and 1A teams.
Kenny Sanchez, the head coach of Bishop Gorman High School’s state champion football team, was found not guilty of domestic violence on Tuesday by a Las Vegas justice of the peace.
Seven-time defending state champion Bishop Gorman and Liberty meet Saturday at Sam Boyd Stadium in a rematch of last year’s Division I (now Class 4A) state title game that Gorman won 62-21.
Desert Pines senior quarterback Marckell Grayson, a UNLV commit, suffered a torn anterior cruciate ligament in his left knee during last week’s 44-41 victory over Centennial and will miss the remainder of the season, Jaguars coach Tico Rodriguez said Tuesday.
The Gaels racked up 585 yards of offense as top-ranked Bishop Gorman rolled to its ninth consecutive league title with a 70-3 whipping of the Panthers for the Southwest League crown.
We’ve reached the unofficial halfway point of the prep football season, and I’m ready to hand out the Fieldies. My midseason awards usually include a free lunch and a T-shirt for the winners, but I’m saving money for a new pair of Jordans, so no dice this year.
Bishop Gorman quarterback Tate Martell replaced starter Danny Hong to spark the Gaels’ offense, while Russell Booze and Tyjon Lindsey each scored three touchdowns in a 48-27 win Friday over Servite at Cerritos College in Cerritos, Calif.