Check out the top performances from Tuesday’s high school baseball and softball action and look forward to Wednesday’s schedule.
Schools
Rayshon Funches and Emmanuel Austin combined to score 22 points in the final 10 minutes as the Longhorns held on for a 68-66 win over Fairmont (California) in the Tarkanian Classic’s Eastbay Division at Faith Lutheran.
Palo Verde’s Michael Andre rolled to a 6-0, 6-0 win over Green Valley’s Andre Millet to capture the boys singles championship in his first year of high school tennis.
Bishop Gorman put together an impressive second-half rally before finally falling to Oklahoma’s Putnam City West 66-64 in the Tarkanian Classic’s Diamond Division third-place game at Durango.
Tara Hilton was 3-for-4 with three runs and two RBIs to help Green Valley’s softball team to an 11-5 home win over Foothill on Monday.
Jake Portaro singled home Jared Drizin with no outs in the bottom of the eighth Monday to give Centennial’s baseball team a 1-0 home win over Cimarron-Memorial.
Ashlyn Ames’ hit off the wall with no outs in the bottom of the ninth inning Thursday scored Kayla Stephens for the game’s only run as Arbor View’s softball team nipped visiting Rancho, 1-0.
Basic’s baseball team strung together its only three hits of the game to score two runs in the bottom of the fifth in a 2-1 home win over Spring Valley on Thursday.
Zaire Franklin had 16 kills and nine digs, and Trent Compton added 14 kills and 10 digs on Thursday to help Legacy’s boys volleyball team outlast visiting Palo Verde, 25-17, 11-25, 23-25, 25-12, 15-8.