Check out the top five performances and scores from Friday’s high school football action.
mc-nevada preps
Coronado scored 14 consecutive points after a power outage delayed the game in the third quarter and defeated Shadow Ridge to take the Class 4A Sky League lead.
Jayden Maiava completed 18 of 24 passes for 364 yards and four touchdowns to help Liberty overcome 15 penalties in a key Class 5A game Friday night.
Bishop Gorman has shut out all three of its Class 5A Desert League opponents, including a road victory against Legacy on Friday night.
This is the third game that has been canceled for Foothill and the first for Arbor View. The game probably would have decided second place in the Class 5A Desert League.
Liberty High School will be a huge underdog against Mater Dei of California, the nation’s top-ranked football team, when the schools meet Friday at Bishop Gorman.
Bishop Gorman keeps the No. 1 spot in the Review-Journal’s Southern Nevada Class 5A football rankings after edging Miami Central (Florida) last week.
No. 1 Silverado was off last week, and No. 2 Shadow Ridge held off Durango. No. 3 Coronado, No. 4 Desert Oasis and new No. 5 Clark posted impressive wins.
Moapa Valley dominated No. 3 Boulder City 54-14 last week to strengthen its grip on the No. 1 spot in the Review-Journal’s Southern Nevada Class 3A football rankings.
The Palo Verde boys and Faith Lutheran girls are ranked No. 1 in the Southern Nevada Soccer Coaches Association Week 2 polls.
Improvement has been the central theme for most high school football coaches whose teams played this spring, a six-week season that concludes Friday.
It’s been nearly 11 months since Nevada shut down high school sports because of the COVID-19 pandemic. All neighboring Western states have done so as well, to varying degrees.
Desert Pines wide receiver Michael Jackson, a four-star commit by rivals.com, announced he will play at Southern California. He caught 34 passes for 627 yards last season.
Liberty two-way standout Zyrus Fiaseu, ranked as the No. 5 recruit in Nevada for the Class of 2021, announced his commitment to San Diego State.
Nevada has the second-most high school flag football teams with 36 and athletes with 1,881 — all of them in Southern Nevada — trailing only Florida.