Students from Southwest Career and Technical Academy, Northwest Career and Technical Academy and Rancho high school presented their inventions in front of a panel of judges at CES 2019, as part of the Future Innovators competition.
Garrett Giles’ bases-loaded walk powered Basic to a 2-1 home win over Rancho in nine innings. Basic scored in the second, Rancho scored in the fourth, and it remained tied until the ninth. Nick Thompson started for the Wolves and pitched 6 1/3 strong innings. Rancho starter Layton Walls went 6 2/3, and neither factored into the decision. Basic improved to 25-5 (15-4 Sunrise League), one game behind first-place Rancho (24-5, 16-3).
Layton Walls went the distance to lead Rancho to a 5-1 home win over Coronado. The Rams righty struck out six, and started two double plays to escape jams. His lone blemish was a solo homer by Cristian Herrera in the fourth. Rancho’s bats chipped away at Coronado, scoring in the third, fourth, fifth and sixth innings. Edarian Williams scored twice for the Rams, and scored the first run after leading off the third with a double. The win moved Rancho to 22-4, and 14-2 in the Sunrise League. Coronado fell to 16-8, 11-4.
Rancho smacked four home runs on Saturday
to beat two-time defending state champion Basic, 16-4. The Rams took advantage of five errors to score seven unearned runs. Layton Walls hit a solo homer to kick off Rancho’s eight-run second inning. Jimmy Gamboa went the distance, allowing 3 ER to pick up the victory.
He threw first-pitch strikes to 21 of 22 batters. Rancho now is 8-1 in the Sunrise League, a game ahead of second-place Basic.
Rancho baseball picked up a 9-1, extra-inning win at Coronado on Thursday. Down a run in the seventh, Rancho did just enough to send it to extras. Rancho exploded for eight runs in the ninth inning, started by Chayse Baker’s two-RBI double. Jimmy Gamboa threw the first six innings, striking out six and allowing one run on six hits. Tanner Ray finished the job with three shutout innings with one hit and three strikeouts. Rancho improved to 11-2, 6-1 in Sunrise League play.
Rancho High earned an 11-1 baseball win over Liberty on Monday, March 12, 2018 at Rancho High School in Las Vegas. (Damon Seiters/Las Vegas Review-Journal)
Rancho is back in the playoffs, claiming a No. 2 seed in the Sunrise Region Kyndal Ricks leads the Rams with 16 points and 2.8 assists per game, and is second with 6.4 rebounds The Rams went 18-10 this year, the second-most wins in the Sunrise Region behind Liberty They also beat league rival Canyon Springs for the first time since 2009 Rancho hosts Coronado in the Sunrise Region quarterfinals Tuesday at 6:30 p.m.
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