Taylor Barnum’s layup at the buzzer gave Virgin Valley’s girls basketball team a 40-39 road win over Moapa Valley on Friday.
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Bishop Gorman’s Chuck O’Bannon nailed two long 3-pointers in the final four minutes as the Gaels held off host Clark, 70-63.
Centennial’s Karen Weitz is expected to become the first basketball coach in state history to reach 600 career victories when the Bulldogs host Legacy in a Northwest League game at 5 p.m. Thursday.
Kavon Williams scored a game-high 16 points to help Cheyenne’s boys basketball team upset visiting Desert Pines, 56-52 on Tuesday.
Adrianna Jones dropped in a game-high 21 points, and Western’s girls basketball team held on for a 51-48 victory over visiting Mojave on Tuesday.
Hogan Fowles scored eight of his 12 points in the third quarter and provided a momentum-changing play Saturday as Virgin Valley’s boys basketball team captured the Lake Mead Holiday Classic title with a 50-40 win over West Wendover at Lake Mead Christian Academy.
Centennial led for most of the first half, but the Bulldogs couldn’t hold on and lost 66-59 to Paul IV (Virginia), ranked No. 1 in the nation by USA Today.
Taiga Miyano scored 18 points on six 3-pointers Saturday to lead Desert Oasis’ boys basketball team to a 70-55 win over Palo Verde in the championship game of the Southwest Rotary Classic in Yuma, Arizona.
Brian Lang is returning to the high school basketball sidelines for his first head coaching job, as he takes over The Meadows.
Centennial senior forward Jayden Eggleston made an oral commitment to Iona for women’s basketball on Sunday.
Bishop Gorman senior guard Christian Popoola made an oral commitment Wednesday to play at Brigham Young.
On July 25, Fretz made it official that he would be leaving Desert Oasis for a job at Clyde High School in Northwest Ohio, where he will be teaching and coaching basketball.
Centennial’s Troy Brown had nine points, four rebounds and two steals Sunday as the USA Men’s U17 basketball team won its fourth consecutive gold medal after defeating Turkey 96-56 in the final of the FIBA World Championships in Zaragoza, Spain.
Colin Darfour couldn’t pass up an opportunity to take over head coaching duties for the winner of the last three Division I-A state championships.
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.
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