Cimarron-Memorial senior Amoura Whitney is headed to Morgan State on a basketball scholarship and is leading the Spartans to their best season in more than a decade.
Girls Basketball
Essence Booker scored 28 points and made the game-winning free throws with 13 seconds left to lift Spring Valley to a 67-65 victory over in the Gator Winter Classic’s diamond division championship game on Saturday night,
Eliyjah Pricebrooks and Desi-Rae Young each scored 14 points for the Desert Oasis girls basketball team Saturday, but the Diamondbacks dropped a 71-43 decision to Southridge (Oregon) in the championship game of the Nike Interstate Shootout at Lake Oswego, Oregon.
Liberty’s girls basketball team went on a 13-0 run to start the game Friday night en route to its 62-20 victory over Foothill in the Diamond bracket quarterfinals of the Gator Winter Classic at Green Valley.
Desi-Rae Young scored 16 points for the Desert Oasis girls basketball team Friday to send the Diamondbacks past Oregon City (Oregon) 47-35 in the semifinals of the Nike Interstate Shootout in Lake Oswego, Oregon.
Senior guard and UNLV commit Justice Ethridge scored a season-high 32 points Friday, powering the Bulldogs to a 59-39 victory overEtiwanda (California) in the championship game of the Las Vegas Holiday Classic’s platinum bracket at Centennial.
Cimarron-Memorial’s girls basketball team fell behind 18-3 early in the second quarter and couldn’t recover in its 54-45 loss to Spanish Springs in the Gator Winter Classic at Green Valley on Thursday.
The Desert Oasis girls basketball team allowed a buzzer-beating 3-pointer to end regulation, but rebounded to defeat Marist Catholic (Oregon) in the extra frame Thursday in the Nike Interstate Shootout at Lake Oswego, Oregon.
Melanie Isbell and Eboni Walker led a balanced attack for Centennial girl’s basketball team with 11 points apiece Thursday as the Bulldogs took down visiting Millennium (Arizona) in the Las Vegas Holiday Classic, 59-38.
Tied going into the fourth quarter, Bishop Gorman’s girls basketball team used a 13-0 run in the final frame and rode 27 points from Shaira Young to knock off Oak Ridge (California) 52-47 in the So Cal Holiday Prep Classic in San Diego on Wednesday.
Every player who dressed for Centennial’s girls basketball Wednesday scored as the Bulldogs rolled to a 79-20 victory over visiting Beckman (California) in pool play on the first day of the Las Vegas Holiday Classic.
Green Valley finished 26.5 percent shooting from the field, including 1-for-11 in the third quarter, to allow visiting Beverly Hills (California) to pull away from a 21-all halftime score and claim a 52-39 victory in the Gator Winter Classic.
Here are the Review-Journal’s girls basketball rankings.
The schedule and results (when available) for the post-Christmas boys and girls basketball tournaments in Southern Nevada are here.
