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.
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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.
Here are the 2018 boys golf honors, as selected by the coaches.
Centennial leads the girls team standings while Bishop Gorman leads the boys.
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.
Caitlyn Covington was 3-for-4 with two home runs and four RBIs to lead Shadow Ridge’s softball team to a 7-5 road victory over Centennial on Friday afternoon.
Starting pitcher Nik Dobar threw a perfect game to lift Centennial’s baseball team to an 11-0 home victory over Shadow Ridge in five innings on Friday afternoon.
Tyler Edlefsen and Trajan Houston each won two individual events Saturday at Pavilion to lead Palo Verde’s boys swimming team to a 213-70 win over Faith Lutheran.
Allison Wiegand won two individual events on Saturday to lead Silverado’s girls swimming team to a 116-85 victory over Canyon Springs at Multi-Generational.
Bishop Gorman’s John Gaughan came in with the tying run on third base and one out in the seventh inning, and induced a groundout and a strikeout to record the save and help the Gaels’ baseball team stave off visiting Durango on Tuesday, 5-4.
