Virgin Valley three-sport athlete Jayden Perkins won the Male Athlete of the Year
Track
Centennial and Bishop Gorman won the Class 4A state track and field championships on Saturday at Carson High School.
Mojave and Spring Mountain’s boys track and field programs claimed state championships in their respective classes at Carson High School on Saturday afternoon.
Centennial leads the girls team standings while Bishop Gorman leads the boys.
Sunrise Mountain thrower Kapua Pulotu and Western sprinter Korey Powell-Oliver won their respective events at the Class 3A state track and field meet at Carson High School on Friday night.
Arbor Views’ Esparza won the 400-meter dash in 56.49 seconds to earn the Sunset Region championship and a trip to the Class 4A state meet. Centennial’s girls won the team title and Bishop Gorman won the boys championship.
The Patriots foursome of David Leathers, Tyeese Blackman, Rudy Distrito and Cervantes White won the Sunrise Region championship in 42.84 seconds at Basic High School on Saturday afternoon to clinch aberth in Reno for the Class 4A state track meet this weekend. Coronado swept the boys and the girls titles.
Jordan Howden and Jamel Brown each won two individual events and led the Desert Pines boys track team to victory in the Class 3A Southern Region meet at Overton on Saturday.
Ashlyn Western won two individual events to help host Moapa Valley’s girls track team capture its first Class 3A Southern Region title Saturday.
Basic’s Raquel Chavez won both distance races in the Sunrise Region track meet at Basic High School on Saturday morning.
Jeriel Thomas, Nevada’s fastest 400-meter runner, won his heat in 48.73 and finished second in the Sunset Region preliminary race on Saturday.
David Warren won the triple jump and helped a pair of relay teams to second-place finishes to guide the Mojave boys track team to a first-place finish in the Grant Bushman Invitational in Overton.
Here is a look at some of the week’s top high school sports events.
Kennedy Brace finished first in two individual events and ran on the winning 800- and 1,600-meter relay teams Saturday to lead host Centennial’s girls track team to victory in the the Sunset FAST Classic freshman and sophomore meet.
Thomas Dougherty and Justin Watterson each won two individual events and ran on the winning 1,600-meter relay team Friday to help Coronado’s boys track team win the Sunrise FAST Classic freshman and sophomore meet at Green Valley.
