Sophomore Jo Stroughter scored 18 points, and the Democracy Prep boys basketball team pulled away in the fourth quarter for a road victory over The Meadows.
Basketball
The Liberty boys and Bishop Gorman girls remain No. 1 in the Review-Journal’s Class 5A basketball rankings, with both having big games at Saturday’s Big City Showdown.
Liberty junior point guard Dedan Thomas Jr. announced Sunday that he is committing to UNLV, choosing the Rebels over Arizona, Florida, Gonzaga, Houston and UCLA.
The Bishop Gorman boys basketball team trailed most of the second half but rallied to defeat Desert Pines 61-56 in a Class 5A Southern League quarterfinal matchup Tuesday night.
Coronado’s Sebastian Mack was 17-for-22 from the line to help the fourth-seeded Cougars to a 70-61 home win over fifth-seed Arbor View in the Class 5A Southern League quarterfinals.
Las Vegas High junior point guard Layla Faught scored 30 points and surpassed 1,000 points for her career in a 75-19 road win over Cheyenne on Wednesday.
Arbor View sophomore forward Brian Townsend scored 20 points and grabbed eight rebounds to lead the Aggies to a 78-41 road win over Palo Verde on Thursday.
The Boulder City boys basketball team won its appeal Monday afternoon after the Nevada Interscholastic Activities Association originally ruled it would have to forfeit 16 games for using an ineligible player.
The times, dates and opponents for all of this week’s boys and girls high school basketball playoff games.
John Mobley scored 25 points, Darrion Williams added 16 points and 13 rebounds to lead top-seeded Bishop Gorman over Foothill in the Class 5A Southern Region quarterfinals.
Coronado trailed by as many as 10 in the fourth quarter but rallied to beat Canyon Springs in the Class 5A Southern Region quarterfinals.
Centennial has been its usual dominant self during the regular season in search of its seventh straight state championship.
The Border League, a preseason basketball tournament that includes some of the country’s best teams, will be played in Las Vegas this weekend.
Mwani Wilkinson scored 25 points and pulled down 11 rebounds to lead Bishop Gorman to an 81-48 home win over Basic on Friday in the Desert Region quarterfinals.
Cottrell, a four-star recruit, will play his senior year at Huntington Prep in West Virginia. And Isaacs, a five-star recruit, is transferring to Wasatch Academy in Utah.