Foothill rolls past Palo Verde as Kendric Thomas runs wild

Kendric Thomas showed again Friday nighttime wherefore he’s 1 of the valley’s apical playmaking threats.

The elder rushed for 210 yards and 4 touchdowns, including bursts of 70 and 60 yards, and added a 40-yard drawback to pb Foothill to a 42-20 roadworthy triumph implicit Palo Verde to unfastened Class 5A Desert League play.

Michael Gazzana had a 90 gait kickoff instrumentality for a touchdown and a 10-yard people connected a walk from Cameron Paul for the Falcons (2-1, 1-0).

Palo Verde (3-2, 0-1) was riding a three-game winning streak but turned the shot implicit six times. Two of those were interceptions by Christopher Razeeq.

Desert Pines 62, Centennial 0 — At Desert Pines, Rjay Tagataese threw for 152 yards and 3 touchdowns to 3 receivers for the Jaguars.

Jovantae Barnes rushed for 111 yards and 2 touchdowns connected 10 carries for Desert Pines (3-1, 1-0 Class 5A Mountain), which bounced backmost from a 22-21 nonaccomplishment to Arbor View past week. Isaiah Rubin returned the second-half kickoff 99 yards for a touchdown, and Reginald Tiggs returned an interception for a people successful the 2nd half.

This was the archetypal gathering betwixt the schools since the 2019 authorities semifinals, which Centennial (1-5, 0-1) won 20-7.

Las Vegas 41, Clark 0 — At Las Vegas, Elijah Espinoza threw for 4 touchdowns, and the Wildcats defence unopen retired the antecedently undefeated Chargers.

Tommy Vibabul had 2 touchdown receptions, and Andrew Bowen and Alvaro Zetino added 1 apiece for Las Vegas (3-2, 1-0 4A Mountain League). Adonis Jackson had 2 rushing touchdowns to assistance the Wildcats to a 34-0 halftime lead.

Clark fell to 4-1 and 0-1.

Green Valley 46, Basic 21 — At Green Valley, Jaylen McKnight scored 3 touchdowns, and the Gators kept the Henderson Bowl for different year.

McKnight rushed for 2 scores, including an 80-yarder, and caught a 70-yard touchdown walk for Green Valley (4-1), which besides got 3 receiving TDs from Anton Keeling.

Basic fell to 2-2.

Silverado 65, Chaparral 6 — At Chaparral, Brandon Tunnell threw 3 touchdown passes, and the Skyhawks had 8 players score.

Silverado (5-0, 1-0 4A Mountain) is the lone undefeated squad successful 4A aft Clark’s nonaccomplishment to Las Vegas.

Chaparral fell to 1-3 and 0-1.

Desert Oasis 51, Sunrise Mountain 6 — At Sunrise Mountain, Tyler Stott threw for 312 yards and six touchdowns, and the Diamondbacks bounced backmost from their archetypal loss.

Maverick Moore, Hezekiah Johnson and Zion Gonsalves had 2 touchdown receptions apiece for Desert Oasis (4-1, 1-0 4A Desert), which besides got 68 yards rushing and a TD from Isaiah Flasher.

Sunrise Mountain fell to 0-4 and 0-1.

Cimarron-Memorial 32, Cheyenne 2 — At Cimarron-Memorial, Michael Sabina threw for 3 touchdowns and ran for 1 arsenic the Spartans snapped a three-game losing streak.

Ayouba Sumaro caught 2 touchdown passes and Andrew Overland 1 for Cimarron-Memorial (2-3, 1-0 4A Desert), whose defence forced 5 turnovers.

Cheyenne fell to 1-4 and 0-1.

Spring Valley 14, Mojave 0 — At Mojave, Kelze Howard returned a fumble for a touchdown arsenic portion of a nighttime successful which the Grizzlies collected 7 turnovers.

Spring Valley (2-2, 1-0 4A Sky League) had 4 interceptions and recovered 3 fumbles successful handing Mojave (3-1, 0-1) its archetypal loss.

SLAM Nevada 21, Virgin Valley 14 — At Virgin Valley, Blayz McGhee intercepted a walk precocious successful the crippled to assistance the Bulls decorativeness disconnected the Bulldogs.

SLAM Nevada (4-2) jumped to a 21-0 second-quarter pb earlier holding on, arsenic Virgin Valley (4-1) rallied successful hopes of avoiding its archetypal loss. The Bulls person won 4 consecutive aft an 0-2 start.

Moapa Valley 35, Rancho 7 — At Rancho, Gunnar Redd rushed for 2 touchdowns, caught a walk for a people and returned a kickoff 89 yards for different TD for the Pirates.

Moapa Valley (5-0, 1-0 3A Mountain) had a hard clip shaking the Rams (1-2, 0-1) and led 7-0 astatine halftime and 14-7 precocious successful the 3rd quarter. But Redd’s kickoff instrumentality for a touchdown answered Rancho’s lone people arsenic the Pirates scored 21 consecutive points.

Lincoln County 26, Lake Mead 7 — At Lake Mead, the Lynx scored each 26 points successful the 2nd quarter.

Lincoln County (2-1, 1-1 2A Southern) got rushing touchdowns from Kristian Johnson and Cody Howard and a touchdown walk from Marc McClain to Aidan Anderson.

Lake Mead dropped to 1-2 and 0-2.

Pahranagat Valley 64, Spring Mountain 0 — At Pahranagat Valley, Paul Davis rushed for a 60-yard touchdown 15 seconds into the game, and the rout was on.

In a crippled featuring the 2 teams that person won the past 4 Class 1A titles — 2 apiece — the Panthers (4-1) scored 36 points successful the archetypal 4th and led 50-0 astatine halftime.

Spring Mountain fell to 0-2.

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