Frank Sessa hit a three-run home run in the third inning to lead the Sunset to an 8-3 win over the Sunrise in the Division I All-Star Game at the College of Southern Nevada.
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Centennial rising senior Jamaal Evans became the second area QB to make an oral commitment for 2017 when he recently pledged to UNR.
Basic scored five runs in the bottom of the first inning and rolled to a 9-1 win over Centennial for the Division I state championship at Bishop Manogue High.
Trent Bixby’s two-run triple highlighted a three-run fourth, and Basic went on to beat Galena 7-3 to move into the championship game at noon Saturday at Manogue. Basic (35-4) faces Centennial (29-10), and the Bulldogs would have to beat the Wolves twice to take the title.
Ryne Nelson, wearing No. 29, singled home Gehrig Timmons with one out in the bottom of the ninth inning to give the Wolves a 3-2 win over Reno in the Division I state tournament at Bishop Manogue High.
It’s the fifth time Cerrone has delivered the Bulldogs to this desirable moment of any season, and it might define his program’s best chance yet at standing alone at the top when a final out is made.
Basic (33-4) plays Reno (28-6) in the second Division I game at 4 p.m. Thursday at Bishop Manogue High in Reno. Centennial (27-9) plays Galena (27-7-1) in the 1 p.m. game.
Tanner Wright drove in four runs, and Centennial rallied for four runs in the bottom of the sixth inning to defeat visiting Bishop Gorman 8-4 for the Division I Sunset Region baseball title and a berth in the state tournament.
Centennial shrugged off a pair of seventh-inning mistakes, and Jake Rogers completed a three-hitter as the Bulldogs topped visiting Cimarron-Memorial 5-1 in the winners’ bracket final of the Sunset Region baseball tournament.
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.
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.
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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.
Jorel Hingada’s RBI single with two outs in the top of the seventh inning sparked a four-run rally as Bishop Gorman’s baseball team escaped with a 5-2 win at Cimarron-Memorial and clinched at least a share of the Division I Sunset League title on Monday.