Coronado and Faith Lutheran won their Class 5A state semifinals and will play for the title Saturday at Valley High.
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Coronado’s boys soccer team is the heavy favorite to win its third straight Class 5A state title because of senior standouts Gavin Flickinger and Dylan Flores.
Review-Journal reporters predict the winners of select high school football games each week. Here are their picks for the second round of playoff action.
The final four teams and state tournaments are set in all classifications of boys and girls soccer, and girls volleyball. Here’s a breakdown of this week’s action.
Bishop Gorman’s girls volleyball team swept Coronado on Saturday to win the Class 5A Southern Region title. The state tournament begins Friday at Sunrise Mountain.
Dasha Rosas scored in double overtime to lift Doral Academy to a win over Palo Verde in the 4A Southern Region girls soccer title game Saturday.
Coronado routed Palo Verde in the Class 5A Southern Region boys soccer championship game on Saturday and set a state record with its 53rd consecutive win.
Six lower-seeded high school football teams won their opening-round playoff games across the Class 5A and 4A Southern Region playoffs Thursday night.
Green Valley’s football team stopped Desert Pines on the final play of the game to win its Class 5A Southern Region quarterfinal and advance in the playoffs.
Sixth-seeded Faith Lutheran held No. 3 seed Desert Oasis to 132 total yards on Thursday in a victory to open the 5A Southern Region football playoffs.
Centennial’s Brogan Church rushed for 219 yards and caught the go-ahead touchdown to help the Bulldogs beat Shadow Ridge in a 5A Southern Region playoff game.
Bishop Gorman and Coronado’s girls volleyball teams won their region semifinals Wednesday to advance to Saturday’s region title game and next week’s state tournament.
A stunning late goal lifted Palo Verde to a win over Las Vegas High in a Class 5A Southern Region boys soccer semifinal Wednesday.
The Nevada Interscholastic Activities Association made its second change to the Open Division playoffs after a team did not report the changed result of a forfeited game.
Bishop Gorman senior setter Trinity Thompson is on the verge of setting a Nevada record for career assists and leading her team to a third straight state title.