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It volition beryllium a rematch of the Hammer Game for the Class 3A authorities shot title aft Moapa Valley and Virgin Valley won their semifinal games Saturday.
Moapa Valley pulled distant from Churchill County precocious for a 42-21 location win, and Virgin Valley near Elko with a 23-16 victory. The teams volition play for the authorities rubric astatine 7 p.m. Thursday astatine Allegiant Stadium.
Peyton Neilson threw for 293 yards and 3 touchdowns for Moapa Valley (11-0). Two of the TDs went to Austin Heiselbetz, who finished with 134 yards receiving, a team-high 76 yards rushing and threw a walk to Elias Cox for a 2-point conversion.
Benjamin Jolley caught Neilson’s different touchdown pass, and Landon Wrzesinski scored a rushing TD for the Pirates.
Churchill County (7-4) scored precocious successful the 3rd 4th to chopped the shortage to 21-14, but the Pirates scored 21 consecutive successful the fourth.
Virgin Valley 23, Elko 16 — At Elko, Ashten Roman hauled successful a 65-yard touchdown walk aboriginal successful the 4th fourth to springiness the Bulldogs the pb for good.
The crippled was adjacent throughout, with Virgin Valley (10-2) scoring connected a information successful the archetypal quarter, an 11-yard walk from Gavin Brown to Jimmy Kelly successful the 2nd and a Brown 3-yard tally successful the third.
Elko (7-3) had a touchdown and 2-point conversion successful the archetypal and 3rd quarters that tied the people astatine 16.
Class 2A authorities semifinals
The Meadows 43, Battle Mountain 14 — At The Meadows, Sean Gosse threw for 235 yards and 4 touchdowns, and the Mustangs dominated the Longhorns to scope the 2A authorities title game.
Cole Cateenwalla caught 2 of Gosse’s touchdown tosses, and John McGill, who had a team-high 91 receiving yards, and Tanner Woods pulled successful 1 apiece for The Meadows (11-1). Gage Rinetti ran for 93 yards and a touchdown for the Mustangs, who scored 36 consecutive points aft Battle Mountain (7-3) struck first.
The Meadows volition conscionable Yerington (8-0), a 26-18 victor implicit Democracy Prep (6-4), for the title.
Class 1A authorities semifinals
Pahranagat Valley 64, Virginia City 12 — At Beatty, Jaren Leavitt ran for 237 yards and 3 touchdowns for the Panthers.
Paul Lewis ran for 90 yards and 3 touchdowns and caught 2 passes for 93 yards and a people for Pahranagat Valley (9-1), which volition conscionable Eureka (6-0), a 50-12 victor implicit Spring Mountain (6-3).
The title crippled volition beryllium played astatine 1 p.m. Saturday astatine White Pine High successful Ely.
Contact Jason Orts astatine jorts@reviewjournal.com. Follow @SportsWithOrts connected Twitter.
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