School district documents offer a likely explanation for why Dustin Romero didn’t coach the defending state champions in this year’s playoffs.
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Puskas surged to the lead entering the final mile and held off the rest of the field to finish the 3-mile course in 18 minutes, 25.7 seconds, for her biggest cross country win of a still-young prep career.
Leilani Vitale had 12 kills on Thursday to lead Sierra Vista’s girls volleyball team to a 25-23, 19-25, 27-25, 18-25, 16-14 road win over Liberty.
Foothill’s Stefan Sretenovic and Ben Crawford each went 3-0 in singles as the Falcons nipped host Silverado 10-8 in boys tennis on Wednesday.
Ava Nhaisi and Sidra Wohlwend went 2-0 in doubles on Wednesday as Coronado’s girls tennis team earned an 11-7 road win over Clark.
McKenzi Hall shot a 3-under-par 69 at Paiute on Tuesday to share medalist honors and lead Centennial’s girls golf team to victory in Northwest League match.
Connor Mikkelson went 3-0 in singles play Thursday to lead Boulder City’s boys tennis team over visiting The Meadows in a tiebreaker, 10-9.
Vanessa Booth and Cathereine Snow each went 3-0 in singles on Thursday as Silverado’s girls tennis team edged visiting Durango, 10-8.
Christopher Rose’s walk-off hit capped a three-run seventh inning for Cheyenne’s baseball team in a 6-5 home win over the Mojave on Thursday.
Western’s Alexa Camacho was 2-for-3 with a double and two RBIs Thursday as the visiting Warriors held on to beat Desert Pines, 13-11.
Cody Prince won the 100-yard freestyle with a time of 52.06 seconds and a margin of victory of .32 seconds to lead the Shadow Ridge boys swimming team to a 149-145 victory over Centennial at Pavilion on Saturday.
Maddy Pewtress won two individual events and swam on two winning relay teams Saturday at Multi-Generational to lead Eldorado’s girls swimming team to a 118-62 win over Chaparral.
Matt Wilson had 77 assists, six digs, three kills, three aces and two blocks Wednesday to power the host Coronado boys volleyball team over Liberty, 25-19, 24-26, 23-25, 25-23, 15-10.
Max Leuga’s sixth-inning single plated Scott Gruber with the go-ahead run Monday and Green Valley’s baseball team held on to beat visiting Basic, 3-2
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Three state championship flag football games were contested Thursday at Allegiant Stadium. The Raiders played an instrumental part in making it happen.
All three Nevada high school flag football state championship games will be held in the state’s largest football venue Thursday.
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