With three weeks left in the regular season, high school football teams are preparing to make a playoff run and compete for a state championship.
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Liberty scored two touchdowns in the fourth quarter to pull away from Arbor View and set up a showdown with Bishop Gorman.
Arbor View’s Israel Mann and Rickey Jones, Legacy’s Lee Wilson and BJ Phillips, and Bishop Gorman’s Mark Person and James Petrie will play at Southwest Minnesota State.
Here are the preps athletes who signed for national signing day on Wednesday or during the fall.
Senior Jordan Smith has rushed for 1,711 yards and 24 touchdowns and eclipsed the 100-yard mark eight times in helping Centennial reach its first state championship game.
Riley Schwartz took over for the Crusaders, and he threw for two touchdowns and rushed for one Friday to help Faith Lutheran to a 35-0 win over Cimarron-Memorial.
Four valley high school teams meet out-of-state opponents as part of the Polynesian Football Classic, which will be Friday and Saturday at Bishop Gorman.
Cervontes White, a 5-foot-10-inch, 175-pound wide receiver and defensive back, has accepted a scholarship offer from Southern Utah on the eve of National Signing Day and will sign a national letter of intent Wednesday.
Liberty girls basketball player Dre’una Edwards visited Utah last week and tweeted on Aug. 31 that she’ll be playing for the Utes.
Faith Lutheran wide receiver Elijah Kothe committed Wednesday to play at San Diego State.
Liberty quarterback Kenyon Oblad threw three touchdown passes and Darion Acohido returned a pair of punts for scores as the Patriots stormed to a 54-0 victory over Valley.
Maybe Bishop Gorman didn’t play the best team in California, or the best team in Florida, or the best team in Texas. But the Gaels played more good teams than anybody else, and that’s all that matters when it comes to prep football rankings.
Here is the latest Southern Nevada football coaches poll.
Liberty, fresh off last week’s 21-14 upset of Westlake (Texas), is ranked No. 23 in USA Today’s Super 25 poll that was released Monday.
As Bishop Gorman’s football team lined up for a postgame photo in the north end zone at Sam Boyd Stadium on Saturday, junior running back Biaggio Ali Walsh came bounding down the field on one leg, hollering “Wait!”
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