Coronado overcame a bad first inning to defeat Palo Verde and will play Douglas on Saturday at Bishop Gorman for the Class 5A state softball championship.
Softball
Centennial and Palo Verde’s are looking to add to their success as they compete for a state title at the Class 5A softball state tournament in Reno beginning Thursday.
Eldorado defeated Desert Pines in a high school softball game Friday. Here are photos from the game.
Bishop Gorman is the clear favorite in the Class 4A state softball tournament and will play Legacy in the winners bracket Wednesday at College of Southern Nevada.
Senior Shea Clements hit a home run to lead off the bottom of the sixth inning to help the Mustangs to a 7-6 victory over Coronado on Friday in the winners’ bracket final.
Phillips’ single keyed a four-run fourth that lifted the Mustangs to an 8-7 win over White Pine in the winners’ final of the Class 2A state tournament at The Meadows.
Basic couldn’t complete a rally and fell to Douglas, while Shadow Ridge could not stave off Spanish Springs’ rally.
Bailey Bennett-Jordan tossed an eight-hit shutout and struck out five Thursday to help Boulder City’s softball team to a 5-0 win over Lowry in the opening round of the Class 3A state softball tournament at Reno High.
Maggie Whipple scored the game-winning run in the seventh inning Tuesday as Faith Lutheran’s softball team rallied to edge host Arbor View, 6-5.
Clara Heislen went 2-for-3 with a home run and three RBIs on Saturday to help Faith Lutheran’s softball team to a 13-7 road win over Cimarron-Memorial.
Shelby Carvalho hit an RBI single in the bottom of the ninth inning to lift Liberty’s softball team to an 8-7 home win over Basic on Monday.
Deanna Barrera threw a two-hitter with four strikeouts as Centennial’s softball team beat Golden Valley (Calif.) in four innings at the National Tournament in Torrance, California.
After dropping the first two games of the series against rival Sierra Vista, the Desert Oasis softball team bounced back at home Friday to defeat the Mountain Lions 5-4 and earn its first Southwest League win of the season.
Tatum Spangler went 3-for-4 with a home run, a double and two RBIs to help the Coronado softball team to a 13-4 win over Frontier (Calif.) on Thursday in the Torrance National Tournament in Torrance, California.
Palo Verde’s softball team treated the ball like a hand grenade much of Friday afternoon, committing six errors as it frittered away an eight-run lead.
