Melanie Isbell scored 20 points, including a back-breaking 3-pointer in the third quarter. She led four double-digit scorers as Centennial cruised to a 75-45 victory over Spring Valley in the Sunset Region title game at Legacy.
Justin Emerson
Former reporter: Nevada Preps
Justin Emerson reported for the Review-Journal from May 2016 to November 2018. He graduated with a master’s degree from Arizona State University. He covered prep sports and had previous bylines with MLB.com, NFL.com, Sports Illustrated, USA Hockey Magazine and the Arizona Republic. He was born and raised in Phoenix.
Bishop Gorman’s girls basketball team led by as many as 14 points in the fourth quarter, but Cimarron-Memorial tied it with 1.2 seconds left to force overtime. Caira Young had a pair of buckets in the extra period, and helped her Gaels win 75-73 on the road in the quarterfinals of the Sunset Region playoffs.
The Rams open the region playoffs Tuesday as the No. 2 seed from the Northeast League and host Southeast League No. 3 seed Coronado at 6:30 p.m. in a rematch of last year’s first-round game.
Last week, Spring Valley 132- pounder Andres Garcia placed third at the Sunset Region tournament, and was seeded at the bottom of the bracket for state.
Quarterback Kaden Renshaw is a star wrestler for Durango, and after claiming his first Sunset Region championship last week, he’ll enter the 152-pound bracket of the Class 4A state tournament Friday at The Orleans with one goal in mind.