The Patriots foursome of David Leathers, Tyeese Blackman, Rudy Distrito and Cervantes White won the Sunrise Region championship in 42.84 seconds at Basic High School on Saturday afternoon to clinch aberth in Reno for the Class 4A state track meet this weekend. Coronado swept the boys and the girls titles.
The team championships for both boys and girls at Friday’s Class 4A Sunrise Regional swimming championships came down to Coronado and Green Valley and the final event of the day — the 400-yard freestyle relay.
Led by medalist Brett Sodetz, Coronado shot a total of 7-under-par 569 as a team, setting a state record for a 36-hole tournament. It was more than enough to give the Cougars their fourth straight title at the Sunrise Region tournament at Paiute on Wednesday.
Soraya Seumalo threw a complete game and propelled the Patriots to a 5-1 road victory over Basic to advance to the winners’ bracket final of the Sunrise Region tournament.
Abigail Cordova’s change-up made Foothill look off-balance all afternoon, allowing visiting Green Valley to ride a seventh-inning rally to a 4-2 victory in opening-round play of the Sunrise Region softball tournament.
Basic’s Raquel Chavez won both distance races in the Sunrise Region track meet at Basic High School on Saturday morning.
Tai Foster had 15 kills and 20 digs Friday to help Durango’s boys volleyball team pick up a 25-19, 18-25, 25-16, 25-21 road victory over Green Valley.
Eldorado’s softball team scored four runs in the third inning and five in the fourth Friday to rally from a 6-0 deficit and beat Las Vegas 11-9 at Coronado to claim the final Sunrise Region postseason spot.
Basic’s Skylar Freitas had 19 kills to lead the Wolves to a 25-16, 18-25, 24-26, 25-17, 15-9 boys volleyball victory over visiting Rancho.
Kaeden Camat-Toki singled home pinch runner Joseph Rush in the top of the seventh inning to break a tie, and Liberty’s baseball team tacked on two more runs to defeat host Coronado 7-4 on Wednesday.
Tanner Lester had 11 kills and 11 digs Tuesday to lead Foothill’s boys volleyball team over visiting Silverado, 24-26, 25-15, 27-25, 25-17.
Gavin Amelburu hit a solo homer to right field with one out in the bottom of the seventh to give Green Valley’s baseball team a 4-3 win over visiting Coronado on Monday.
Angela Santillanes doubled home Sanoe Helenihi in the bottom of the seventh Monday to lift Basic’s softball team to a 7-6 home win over Rancho.
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.
