As final minutes of basketball games go, Jayden Eggleston’s last minute on Tuesday is pretty difficult to top.
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With her team leading by 38 points less than two minutes into the third quarter Monday, Centennial girls basketball coach Karen Weitz sent five subsitutes to the scorer’s table.
Canyon Springs’ girls basketball team would have done just about anything to shave the last three minutes off of its second game Saturday.
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The old saying that football games are won in the trenches holds true in all-star games, too.
Tea Rivera tossed two touchdown passes and rushed for a score Friday to help Canyon Springs’ flag football team hold off visiting Las Vegas, 20-19.
Teconna Dyer hit a tie-breaking free throw with 24 seconds to play, and Bianca Matlock added a layup eight seconds later to lift host Las Vegas High’s girls basketball team to a 53-50 win over Shadow Ridge on Thursday.
Eldorado’s Carmonte Jones hit two free throws to break a 63-63 tie on Thursday, and the Sundevils held on for a 67-63 road win at Liberty in boys basketball.
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Cameron Burton poured in 32 points, including 11 in the fourth quarter, to lead Valley’s boys basketball team to a 67-63 win at Foothill on Tuesday.
Justice Ethridge scored 28 points Tuesday to help Centennial’s girls basketball team down visiting Liberty, 59-53.
Deja Siaki’s 3-pointer with 2.5 seconds left in the game Tuesday lifted Silverado’s girls basketball team to a 45-44 win over visiting Cimarron-Memorial.