Ian White had 25 points and 12 rebounds to lead Bonanza’s boys basketball team to an 84-67 home win over Basic on Friday.
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Kimberlyn Tanner scored 15 points as Silverado’s girls basketball team held on for a 36-34 road win at Western on Friday.
Nicholas held off hard-charging Massimiliano Swenson of Bishop Gorman to become Desert Oasis’ first region cross country champion. The Diamondbacks also won the boys region team title, another first in school history.
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.
Puskas surged to the lead entering the final mile and held off the rest of the field to finish the 3-mile course in 18 minutes, 25.7 seconds, for her biggest cross country win of a still-young prep career.
Here is the Las Vegas Review-Journal’s 2018 all-state softball team.
Caitlyn Covington was 3-for-4 with two home runs and four RBIs to lead Shadow Ridge’s softball team to a 7-5 road victory over Centennial on Friday afternoon.
Starting pitcher Nik Dobar threw a perfect game to lift Centennial’s baseball team to an 11-0 home victory over Shadow Ridge in five innings on Friday afternoon.
Chaison Miklich belted a pair of home runs to help Desert Oasis’ baseball team to a 14-3 road victory over Bishop Gorman in six innings on Tuesday evening.
Max Leuga’s sixth-inning single plated Scott Gruber with the go-ahead run Monday and Green Valley’s baseball team held on to beat visiting Basic, 3-2
Morgan Matsumoto went 2-for-3 with an RBI Monday as Foothill’s softball team defeated host Las Vegas, 8-4.
Devin Contreras scored on an error in the bottom of the seventh inning as Liberty’s baseball team earned a 3-2 home win over top-ranked Basic on Monday.
Clara Heislen went 2-for-3 with a home run and three RBIs on Saturday to help Faith Lutheran’s softball team to a 13-7 road win over Cimarron-Memorial.