Check out the top five performances and scores from Friday’s high school football action.
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Bishop Gorman quarterback Micah Alejado passed for 200 yards in the first half and finished 22 of 24 for 312 yards and three touchdowns in the Gaels’ season opener.
Juice Washington broke loose on a 62-yard run late in the game and scored on the next play, lifting Arbor View past Snow Canyon, Utah, in the Aggies’ season opener.
The Polynesian Football Classic will take place in the valley over two weekends, featuring three games and involving teams from Nevada, Arizona and Hawaii.
Pahranagat Valley has won more state football championships than any other team in Nevada high school history and will look to add No. 22 against Eureka on Saturday.
Desert Oasis opened the high school football season with a victory over visiting Spring Valley on Thursday. It was the first football game after the 2020 season was wiped out.
Bishop Gorman hosts fellow national power St. Louis (Hawaii) to open the season, hoping to get payback after the Crusaders beat the Gaels 31-19 in 2019.
Eight of the 11 teams that make up Class 5A won at least one playoff game in 2019, and all of them reached the postseason.
Southern Nevada’s top 11 football programs reside in the new Class 5A, but Bishop Gorman and Liberty stand head and shoulders above the rest.
Former flag football player Kaleigha Plett is inheriting the starting quarterback role after COVID protocols sidelined two Cheyenne quarterbacks.
Quarterback Grant Wood threw four touchdown passes, and Faith Lutheran cruised to a home victory over Virgin Valley on Friday night.
Bishop Gorman and Faith Lutheran have scheduled out-of-state teams for some of their nonleague games in the past, but that might change this year because of the COVID pandemic.
The Southern Nevada Football Coaches Association on Sunday sent a proposal to school, CCSD and NIAA officials to consider options for a fall or spring season.
Canyon Springs has filed an appeal to be reinstated into the Class 4A football playoffs after it was forced to forfeit its wins this season for using an ineligible player.
The Aggies scored a late touchdown to defeat Faith Lutheran on Friday night, and Centennial needed a late score to keep pace with a win over Shadow Ridge.