Five players scored for Sunrise Mountain, including three in the first half, and the Miners cruised to a 5-0 victory in the Class 3A state title game against Sparks at Spanish Springs.
Soccer
Bishop Gorman’s soccer team scored three times in the second half to beat McQueen 3-0 and win the Class 4A girls state championship at North Valleys.
Sophomore goalie Ashton Murga made several saves during a frantic final five minutes, and the Cougars survived a relentless Wooster attack to win the first state soccer championship in school history, 2-1 at North Valleys.
On the strength of three first-half goals within a stretch of 19 minutes, the Cougars’ boys soccer team beat North Valleys 3-0 to advance to Saturday’s Class 4A state championship game against Wooster.
Bryan Martinez scored a pair of goals of Sunrise Mountain’s boys soccer team Friday, and the Miners scored three goals in the second half to run by Truckee, 3-1, in the Class 3A state semifinals at Spanish Springs.
Pahrump Valley’s Vaniah Vitto scored a second-half goal to tie Friday’s Class 3A state semifinal girls soccer game, but the Trojans could not capitalize and fell to Truckee in double overtime at Spanish Springs, 2-1.
After missing on two scoring chances just moments before, Gianna Gourley scored in the 67th minute to give Bishop Gorman a 1-0 win over the Grizzlies.
Martinez scored two goals in the Class 3A Southern Region title game to lead his Miners to a 3-0 win over the Tech at Bettye Wilson Park on Saturday.
On Saturday afternoon in the 3A Southern Region finale against Pahrump Valley, the Miners showed they had grit in grinding out a 2-1 win to claim the region crown.
Coronado freshman Javier Vasquez checked into the Class 4A title game at the beginning of overtime, and scored immediately to lift the Cougars to a 2-1 victory over the Sundevils at Bettye Wilson Park on Saturday.
Bishop Gorman answered each of the Aggies’ goals with one of their own in the Sunset Region title game Saturday at Bettye Wilson Park, and once they had the lead keeper Hannah Lee would not let it go as the Gaels held on to win, 2-1.
The schedules and results (when available) for the boys and girls state soccer tournaments are here.
Green Valley scored a pair of goals in the first half to score a 2-0 victory over Coronado in the Class 4A Sunrise Region championship game at Bettye Wilson Park on Saturday.
Alexander Daseler junior forward collected the ball in the box and put top-shelf past the diving the keeper two minutes into overtime Saturday to lift the Gaels’ boys soccer team to a 2-1 victory over Durango in the Sunset Region title game at Bettye Wilson Park.
Jacqueline Hillegas drilled the golden goal in the seventh minute of overtime to send the Gaels to their first region title game since 2013 after a 2-1 win against Palo Verde at Bettye Wilson Park.