Improvement has been the central theme for most high school football coaches whose teams played this spring, a six-week season that concludes Friday.
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David Jenkins scored 20 of his game-high 26 points in the second half, and the Rebels erased a six-point halftime deficit to beat Air Force 69-64.
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.
The UNLV men’s and women’s basketball programs received an $8 million donation from the James J. Baumberger estate.
Desi-Rae Young, a freshman forward from Desert Oasis High School, leads UNLV with 12.5 points per game and is second on the Lady Rebels with 6.1 rebounds a game.
UNLV will get a second shot at Colorado State on Saturday after letting a 13-point second-half lead slip away in a 74-71 loss to the Rams on Thursday.
The Aces (4-2) will go for their fourth straight win when they meet the New York Liberty (1-5) at 2 p.m. Sunday
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.
Top-seeded Oregon shot 63 percent from the floor over the last three quarters and cruised to the Pac-12 tournament championship over No. 3 Stanford.
Jaden Hardy scored 26 points and had a bevy of highlight-reel passes that led to easy shots for teammates, and Coronado ran away for a 100-86 win over Liberty.
Cam Barfield rushed for 209 yards and Rome Odunze caught 10 passes for 217 yards as the Gaels defeated Servite (California) on Saturday in the Polynesian Football Classic.