The Legacy Tip-Off Classic shrunk in size this season. But what the boys basketball tournament lacks in quantity, it more than makes up for in quality.
Schools
Spring Valley’s Tyson Perkins told his coach before each of the last four seasons that he would break the school record for goals scored in a season.
Shadow Ridge goalkeeper Jenna Gallagher broke her finger midway through the season in practice while scrimmaging the boy’s junior varsity team.
Bishop Gorman, the three-time defending Division I state champion, was ranked No. 4 in the USA Today Super 25 preseason boys basketball rankings.
Ron Smeltzer’s goal as president of the Clark County High School Football Coaches Hall of Fame has been to honor people whose contributions date back several years.
Erik Karnehed needed a rest, and the junior midfielder for the Palo Verde boys soccer team did what he could to get the attention of the Panthers’ bench.
Arbor View girls soccer coach Jay Howard could see how nervous his team was in the opening 15 minutes Saturday.
Michaela Morris sat out the last 10 minutes of regulation Friday and left the game twice late with cramp issues.
Valley’s Marco Gonzales came up short on his first shot Friday when the ball dinged the crossbar just three minutes into the match.
Cimarron-Memorial boys soccer coach Mark Bailey vaguely remembers what he was doing in the fall of 1996.
Cimarron-Memorial’s boys and Palo Verde’s girls earned the final spots in the Division I state soccer tournaments by virtue of their wins in play-in matches Monday at Clark.
Eric Sanchez was quiet for 87 minutes on Saturday.
Coming from behind has not been a strength of the Palo Verde boys soccer team this season.
Haley Vicente has a remarkable sense of timing.
Coronado’s Michaela Morris draws plenty of attention and for good reason, as the senior leads the area’s Division I girls soccer players with 43 goals.