The Faith Lutheran boys defeated Palo Verde to win their first state championship, and the Palo Verde girls rolled past Faith Lutheran to claim their sixth title.
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Braxton Bruschke allowed three hits and struck out 13 in 6⅔ innings on Friday to lift Spring Valley’s baseball team to a 3-1 win at Durango.
Playing its eighth game in 10 days, Spring Valley had trouble boxing out on key rebounds and lost a 60-56 decision to Centennial (Arizona) in the consolation final of the Las Vegas Prep Championship at Las Vegas High.
Claire Rawlins trailed Basic’s Raquel Chavez for much of the race, but stayed within striking distance to the end. She then raced past Chavez and held off Sierra Vista’s Sarriah Brown to win the 3.1-mile race in 19 minutes, 16 seconds.
The Coronado girls soccer team scored a pair of first-half goals to hold off Arbor View on Wednesday and win 2-1 in the Las Vegas Kick-Off at Green Valley.
Shad Gettman and Andrew Spencer 3-0 in doubles to lift Basic’s boys tennis team to a 12-6 home victory over Tech on Wednesday.
Adriana Benjamin, McKenna DeMarce and Raquel Roshak all posted 3-0 records in singles to help Desert Oasis’ girls tennis team to a 10-8 road victory over Silverado on Wednesday afternoon.
Edarian Williams went 2-for-3 with a double, a grand slam, two runs and four RBIs to lead the Las Vegas Aces to a 12-2 victory over the Southern Nevada Blue Sox in a rematch of the last two state championship games
Shadow Ridge’s Garin Macfarlane scored the go-ahead basket with 20 seconds left and Quinshon McGee blocked a shot at the basket to help the Mustangs to a 52-51 victory over Silverado in the Tri-State Invitational’s Elite Bracket championship game.
In its return to the gridiron Friday at Silverado, Basic couldn’t have scripted a more perfect ending, as quarterback Paul Myro tossed a 34-yard touchdown pass to Zack Grismanauskas on the final play of the game to give the Wolves a 34-30 victory over the host Skyhawks.
Clark had a pair of undefeated doubles teams on Tuesday as the visiting Chargers edged defending Class 4A state champion Palo Verde 10-8 in boys tennis.
Bonanza’s Kelsey Spence and Carla LaRosa went 3-0 in doubles, and the Bengals won the tiebreaker 4-2 to edge visiting Sierra Vista in girls tennis on Tuesday.
Semi Penor carded a 2-under-par 70 to earn medalist honors and help the Coronado girls golf team win a Southeast League match at Anthem on Tuesday.
Deborah Grant swept the sprints on Saturday to lead Green Valley’s girls track team to victory at the Sunrise FAST Classic at Green Valley.
Ashley Ward went 3-for-3 with a double and three RBIs for Coronado’s softball team, and winning pitcher Tatum Spangler went the distance with eight strikeouts and was 2-for-3 with a triple and an RBI as the host Cougars edged Basic on Wednesday, 5-4.