Desert Pines junior forward Trista Mabry scored 21 points in the Jaguars’ 55-18 win over Palo Verde on Dec. 5, earning her Nevada Preps Girls Athlete of the Week honors.
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Ten Las Vegas Valley basketball players — five boys and five girls — have been nominated to play in the McDonald’s All-American Games in March in Chicago.
Spring Valley opened a 21-6 lead over Coronado in the second round of the Desert Region tournament and coasted to an 82-55 home win. The 82 points are a season high for the Grizzlies, who led by as many as 30 points in the second half.
Wesley-Nash finished with 25 points, six rebounds, eight assists and two steals to lead the Spartans to a 58-44 road win over Desert Pines in the Mountain Region girls basketball tournament.
Ellie Howard had 18 points and 10 rebounds on Tuesday to lead host Boulder City to a 45-32 win over Sunrise Mountain’s girls basketball team.
Spring Valley held Liberty without a field goal in the third quarter Saturday on the way to a 37-28 girls basketball victory over the Patriots in the Battle Born Classic at Durango.
Green Valley girls basketball coach Rey White knew that his team might have a rough start to the season. But the difficult early schedule might start paying dividends. When adversity came against Class 3A Boulder City on Wednesday, Green Valley had the answers en route to a 57-38 nonleague home victory.
Desi-Rae Young scored 22 points Wednesday to lead the Desert Oasis girls basketball team to a 42-37 win at Spring Valley.
Las Vegas scored a 35-33 victory over rival Eldorado in Class 4A Sunrise Region play-in game on Monday night at Sunrise Mountain.
Sierra Vista’s Shania Harper had 23 points and 15 rebounds Friday to power the host Mountain Lions’ girls basketball team past Clark, 43-35.
Desi-Rae Young scored a game-high 17 points and took a momentum-swinging charge late in the fourth quarter to stave off a second-half rally and give Desert Oasis’ girls basketball team a 69-61 win over Bishop Gorman on Friday.
Essence Booker scored 10 of her 20 points in the fourth quarter to lead Spring Valley’s girls basketball team to a 56-50 home victory over Bishop Gorman.
Sierra Shaw scored nine points to lead Chaparral’s girls basketball team to a 28-24 road win over Del Sol on Thursday.
Desert Oasis shot poorly from the foul line on the night, but made their shots at the end to lift them over Spring Valley.
Niara Smith had 17 points Monday to lead the Cimarron-Memorial girls basketball team to a 46-43 home victory over Palo Verde.