Review-Journal reporters Ben Gotz and Elaine Wilson preview this week’s biggest basketball matchups in Southern Nevada.
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Isaiah Cottrell, a 6-foot-9-inch sophomore, is the latest elite prospect to man the middle for the top-ranked Gaels. He already has 19 scholarship offers and is the No. 30 prospect in his class, per Rivals.com.
Findlay Prep center Bol Bol believes he can be a one-and-done collegiate player so he can play in the NBA like his late father, Manute, a 10-year veteran and one of the most accomplished shot blockers in league history.
Clark junior Jalen Hill is emerging as one of the top wing players on the West Coast, and already has scholarship offers from UNLV and some Pac-12 colleges.
Gorman entered Saturday’s title game outscoring in-state opponents 526-26 and just kept rolling. Quarterback Dorian Thompson-Robinson caught a touchdown, ran for one and threw for two as the Gaels dismantled Reed 48-7.
Next year the two Bishop Gorman stars will be on opposite sides of one of college football’s best rivalries, with Palaie Gaoteote heading to USC and Dorian Thompson-Robinson committed to UCLA.
Sophomore running backs Michael Lofton and Jyden King each scored three touchdowns as the Jaguars’ cruised to a 50-28 victory over visiting Spring Creek in a Class 3A state semifinal football game.
Arbor View’s football team pitched a second-half shutout, holding Legacy to just 14 yards of total offense in the last 24 minutes, and earned a 48-21 home win in the Class 4A Sunset Region semifinals Thursday night.
Desert Pines scored on offense, defense and special teams to beat Sunrise Mountain on Thursday night and advance to the Class 3A state semifinals next weekend.
Mojave and Tawee Walker bested Virgin Valley and Jayden Perkins in a battle between two of the best in Class 3A, with Walker racking up 221 yards of offense and three touchdowns in the Rattlers’ 46-20 road victory over Virgin Valley on Thursday to send Mojave to the first state semifinal game in program history.