Damonte Ranch (12-1) unseated powerhouse Reed last week to capture its first Class 4A Northern Region title and takes on Liberty in the state semifinals at 1:15 p.m. Saturday at McQueen High in Reno.
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Centennial’s Savon Scarver entered the season projected to be one of the area’s top playmakers and hasn’t disappointed through the first two games,attracting the attention of a handful of Mountain West schools in the process.
Desert Pines senior quarterback Marckell Grayson, a UNLV commit, suffered a torn anterior cruciate ligament in his left knee during last week’s 44-41 victory over Centennial and will miss the remainder of the season, Jaguars coach Tico Rodriguez said Tuesday.
Arbor View shortstop Nick Quintana was the only Southern Nevada player named to the Louisville Slugger High School All-America team last Friday.
The Las Vegas Review-Journal announces its 2016 all-state baseball teams.
Arbor View’s Nick Quintana was the highest-rated prospect from Southern Nevada entering the 2016 Major League Baseball draft and was a consensus top-five round talent, but fell to the 11th round.
Faith Lutheran’s Zack Trageton wasn’t supposed to be a pitcher in the Crusader baseball program.
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Arbor View senior shortstop Nick Quintana has been named the Gatorade Nevada Baseball Player of the Year.
Centennial rising senior Jamaal Evans became the second area QB to make an oral commitment for 2017 when he recently pledged to UNR.
Centennial’s Jake Rogers got a strikeout, then induced a grounder back to the mound to end the game and preserve a 5-4 home victory over Shadow Ridge in the Division I Sunset Region baseball tournament.
Palo Verde senior Cobi Fiechtner drove in six runs, including a three-run homer in the fifth inning, as the Panthers earned a 13-10 win over visiting Desert Oasis in the Division I Sunset Region baseball tournament.
Durango’s baseball team plated three runs in the bottom of the second Friday and held on for a 4-3 home win over Faith Lutheran.
Jake Rogers pitched out of a bases-loaded, one-out jam in the bottom of the seventh to help Centennial’s baseball team escape with a 7-6 victory over host Cimarron-Memorial on Wednesday and give head coach Charlie Cerrone his 400th career win at the school.
Tony Fields, a 6-foot-2-inch, 205-pound linebacker, has been one of the area’s most heavily recruited players this spring. He has 19 scholarship offers — Northwestern was the most recent on April 30 — and his family has racked up plenty of hotel points over the past month and a half making unofficial visits on the weekends.