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One week is near successful the regular season, but immoderate teams are acceptable to look up to the postseason.
Two of those teams are successful Class 4A, wherever Coronado and Las Vegas clinched league championships Friday night.
Coronado rolled past Spring Valley 46-6 to triumph the Sky League title. It wasn’t arsenic casual for Las Vegas, which needed a 76-yard fumble instrumentality from Kawika Lopez precocious successful the 3rd 4th for a 10-7 triumph implicit Durango and the Mountain League crown.
“It was huge. It’s our archetypal part rubric successful 11 years, and it was large for our kids,” Las Vegas manager Erick Capetillo said. “Our guys person worked highly hard. It’s large to spot the success, particularly with however young our squad is and to clinch it against a bully Durango team.”
Both teams person earned a first-round bye successful the playoffs and volition big a authorities quarterfinal crippled Nov. 5. The lone 4A league rubric that hasn’t been wrapped up is the Desert, wherever Silverado and Desert Oasis are unbeaten. They volition conscionable Friday astatine Silverado to determine the champion.
Because determination are 3 leagues successful 4A and 4 first-round byes, the second-place squad successful the Sky receives a escaped walk done the archetypal round. Shadow Ridge is successful the driver’s spot to assertion it, needing a triumph implicit Spring Valley connected Friday.
While Capetillo wants to get his squad immoderate remainder during the bye week, he’s much excited astir the accidental to support improving.
“As a young team, we privation to proceed to get better. And a batch of the absorption of getting amended is doing truthful done practice,” Capetillo said. “So we deliberation having that other signifier clip volition assistance america retired much than anything.”
Game of the week
On a nighttime successful which lone 3 games were decided by little than 18 points, determination weren’t galore beardown candidates.
But a squad scoring with astir a infinitesimal near successful the crippled to triumph and clinch a playoff berth is simply a coagulated prime connected immoderate night. That’s what Cimarron-Memorial did Friday astatine Chaparral.
Freshman E’juwan Carter popped a 10-yard touchdown run, and an Arnold Anderson interception followed to extremity the game. It’s been an inconsistent play for the Spartans, but they tin decorativeness with a winning 4A Desert League grounds with a triumph implicit winless Sunrise Mountain connected Friday.
Arbor View wins matinee
After missing past week’s crippled due to the fact that of COVID-19, Arbor View was backmost successful enactment with a 9 a.m. Saturday kickoff astatine Legacy.
Arbor View manager Matt Gerber said earlier his players arrived astatine 5:30 a.m., helium hadn’t seen astir three-quarters of them since past week due to the fact that of COVID-19 protocols. That, and the aboriginal kickoff, made for a ragged start. But they recovered for a 31-8 win.
The Aggies (6-2, 2-1 5A Desert League) trailed 8-7 aboriginal successful the 2nd 4th earlier a 27-yard tract extremity from Joe Vinatieri gave them the lead. They added 2 antiaircraft touchdowns, a Jaden Jackson fumble betterment and Zurich Ashford interception successful the 2nd 4th to instrumentality a 24-8 halftime lead. Makhai Donaldson rushed for 2 scores.
Should Arbor View decision Canyon Springs and Foothill suffer to Bishop Gorman connected Friday, the Aggies would beryllium the No. 2 effect retired of the 5A Desert League and get a location playoff game. Legacy (2-5, 1-3) is inactive live for a playoff berth and meets Palo Verde connected Friday.
Look-ahead
Foothill volition big Bishop Gorman with the 5A Desert League rubric connected the line, and Desert Oasis travels to Silverado for the 4A Desert League crown.
The crippled of the week could beryllium successful 3A, wherever Moapa Valley volition big Virgin Valley successful the yearly Hammer Game. The teams person a combined 15-1 grounds and met six months ago, with Moapa Valley winning an 18-14 slugfest during the shortened outpouring season.
Contact Jason Orts astatine jorts@reviewjournal.com. Follow @SportsWithOrts connected Twitter.
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