Basic’s junior pitcher was in control from the start, tossing a six-hitter and striking out 10 to help the Wolves to a 7-1 home win over Liberty in the winners’ bracket semifinals of the Desert Region Tournament.
Schools
The Class 4A all-region flag football teams (as selected by coaches) are here
Ruth Cano caught three passes for 75 yards and two touchdowns as Sunrise Mountain’s flag football team rallied for a 13-12 home win over Moapa Valley on Friday.
Here are the all-Southern Nevada, all-region and all-league boys soccer teams, as selected by coaches.
Here are the all-Southern Nevada, all-region and all-league girls soccer teams, as selected by coaches.
After splitting their 18 regulation sets, the teams also split six tiebreaker games, but the Diamondbacks outscored the Wolves, 34-32 in the tiebreaker games to clinch the win.
Ariana Stanciu finished 2-0 in singles to propel Sierra Vista’s girls tennis team to an 11-7 road victory over Silverado on Friday afternoon.
Brandon Smith fired a no-hitter on Saturday to lead the Las Vegas Cats to a 3-0 win over the Las Vegas Mustangs in the Connie Mack state baseball tournament at Las Vegas High.
Brandon Nellis swam the 50 freestyle in 22.27 seconds to help Coronado’s swim team to a 176-136 winover Foothill at Heritage on Saturday.
Skylar Shannon and Samantha Difulvio each won two individual events Saturday to help Clark’s girls swimming team to a 166-128 win over Faith Lutheran at Pavilion.
Kamari Burnside scored five points in the final 1:30, and his alley-oop to Desert Oasis teammate Jacob Heese with 11 seconds to play sealed the Sunset Region’s 115-110 win over the Sunrise.
Taeha Pankey led all scorers with 16 points Thursday to lead Legacy’s girls basketball team past visiting Shadow Ridge, 46-42.
Ameila McManus and Riley Divich scored goals to lift Faith Lutheran to a 2-0 home victory over Western on Thursday evening.
Here is this week’s boys tennis coaches poll.
Here is this week’s girls tennis coaches poll.