The Nevada Interscholastic Activities Association’s Board of Control voted Tuesday to expand the Class 4A state tournament of nonfootball team sports to six teams, as well as expanding region tournaments to include every team.
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.
Valley won an appeal Monday to move down to Class 3A instead of playing in Class 4A.
Former Pahranagat Valley football coach Ken Higbee, charged last April with a 225-count criminal complaint that includes forgery, misconduct and theft, had his case thrown out of the Seventh Judicial District Court in Lincoln County, the Review-Journal learned Monday.
Layton Walls pitched the distance and struck out six to lead Rancho’s baseball team to a 5-1 home victory over Coronado on Saturday.
Samantha Wade drove in a pair of runs to restore the Panthers’ lead, and Palo Verde held on for a 5-3 home win over Centennial on Thursday. It completed a three-game sweep, and it was the 15th straight by Palo Verde dating back to 2014, including five postseason meetings.
Carson Wells has been the sparkplug at the top of the lineup for Gorman’s baseball team this season, and brother Austin Wells has been the hitter that pitchers hate to face.
Centennial’s Nik Dobar gave up 10 hits and a walk against Cimarron-Memorial, but none scored. Dobar threw 85 pitches in a complete game to give the Bulldogs a 3-0 home baseball victory Friday.
If a team is going to give you free bases, you better make them pay for doing so. Boulder City’s softball made sure to do just that.
Sophomore right-hander Shelby Basso pitched a complete game with eight strikeouts, and junior Mikayla Berg had two runs and a two-run single to power the No. 6 Wolves to a 4-3 victory over Coronado.
Parker Aquino scattered three hits over six strong innings with eight strikeouts, and shortstop Tyler Curtis backed him with a first-inning homer and three RBIs in Bishop Gorman’s 6-2 win over visiting Clearfield (Utah).
Mojave high jumper John Harper already has the best height by a Nevada athlete this year, but that’s not good enough
Shadow Ridge scored five runs in the first inning of the seventh-place game of the Spring Jamboree on Saturday and coasted to an 8-2 victory over El Camino Real (California).
The Panthers went 1-1 in the Spring Jamboree at Majestic Park, but Makall Whetten shined in both. Her two-run double in the second game opened the floodgates in a 10-0, five-inning win over San Diego.
Hours after learning her friends were killed in a car accident in California, Kiana Tate smacked a game-tying home run to spark Centennial’s rally and eventual 6-5 softball victory over North Torrance (California).
Playing in their 12th game in nine days, the Mustangs did not record a hit until the fourth inning and fell to Birmingham (California) in the semifinals of the Blazer Spring Bash’s Centennial bracket at Centennial, 6-2.