Silverado edged Las Vegas, and defending state champion Mojave whipped Rancho in the Class 4A boys basketball state semifinals Tuesday at Cox Pavilion.
Boys Basketball
Durango junior forward Taj Degourville scored 22 points in the Trailblazers’ 65-59 win over Liberty in Saturday’s Class 5A Southern League title game.
The Class 4A state basketball tournament begins with the boys and girls semifinals Tuesday at Cox Pavilion. 5A begins Friday with semifinals at Cox Pavilion.
The times, dates and opponents for all of this week’s boys and girls high school basketball state tournament games.
Durango’s Taj Degourville and Tylen Riley combined for 38 points to outlast Dedan Thomas Jr. and Liberty in the Class 5A boys basketball Southern League title game.
After building the Centennial girls basketball program into a perennial power, Karen Weitz added duties as the boys’ coach this season. She’s already making her mark.
Caleb Roston nailed a 3-pointer from the corner with 3.8 seconds remaining in the fourth overtime to lift Rancho past Legacy in a Class 4A state quarterfinal.
Durango defeated Bishop Gorman in the Class 5A Southern League semifinals Thursday, securing a spot in the state tournament and ending the Gaels’ run of state trips.
Liberty junior point guard Dedan Thomas Jr. scored 23 points as the No. 1-seeded Patriots rolled past No. 4 Coronado in a Class 5A Southern League semifinal Thursday.
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.
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.
Liberty is the favorite in the highly-competitive 5A, and Mojave is the clear favorite in 4A. The high school boys basketball playoffs begin Tuesday for 5A, 4A and 3A.