Things were enactment into position for the Faith Lutheran shot squad Friday nighttime successful the Crusaders’ crippled astatine Bakersfield Christian successful California.
Nearly 15 minutes distant from the tract Faith Lutheran’s back-and-forth conflict with Bakersfield Christian, a shooting occurred astatine Independence High School during a antithetic prep shot game.
Reports from Bakersfield said a 17-year-old died from the shooting. Faith Lutheran manager Jay Staggs said the schools learned astir the incidental conscionable earlier halftime. That led to some teams taking a infinitesimal of soundlessness astatine halftime and coming unneurotic for a radical supplication astatine midfield.
“It was a lot. There was a batch going on,” Staggs said. “We got unneurotic and prayed for everybody that was astatine that different game.
“For those precocious schoolhouse kids to person to bounce backmost from that — due to the fact that we got that accusation successful the 2nd 4th and for Bakersfield Christian, that’s pugnacious due to the fact that they person a batch of friends that each spell to that schoolhouse — determination were immoderate dense hearts.”
On the field, Faith Lutheran came up with a halt connected a Bakersfield Christian 2-point conversion effort and recovered an onside footwear to clasp connected for a 28-27 roadworthy triumph implicit the Eagles, who are coached by Darren Carr, the member of erstwhile Raiders backmost Derek Carr.
“The matchup with Bakersfield Christian, each twelvemonth I’ve been progressive successful it, it’s ever a one-score game,” said Staggs, whose squad lost past Saturday to Mater East 43-35. “It comes down to a fewer cardinal plays and thing changed this year. The quality from past week to this is we played complementary football.”
With the crippled tied astatine 21, Ace Brimmer came up with an interception for Faith Lutheran and returned it to the 45-yard line. On the adjacent play, Crusaders backmost Dominick Folino connected with Ryan Rowan for the go-ahead touchdown.
Faith Lutheran’s defence appeared to person sealed the crippled with a fourth-down halt with 27 seconds left, but the Crusaders were called for a idiosyncratic foul aft Staggs said a Crusaders subordinate whose helmet was thrown disconnected and continued playing.
Bakersfield got a caller acceptable of downs and scored connected 3rd down and elected to spell for a 2-point conversion but was stopped. Faith Lutheran recovered the onside footwear and went into triumph formation.
Staggs praised Folino, Brimmer and linebacker Ky-Mani Blas-Barlow for helping the Crusaders navigate a back-and-forth game. The manager besides credited his unit helping instill the beingness lessons that allowed the squad to enactment its opponent.
“We privation to emotion each other,” Staggs said. “We emotion the crippled of football, and it was a infinitesimal for america to beryllium capable to travel unneurotic with different shot family.”
Coronado crushes California school
Coronado shot manager Shawn Dupris said his players had a “bad sensation successful their mouth” aft their play opener past week against Centennial was called astatine halftime with the Cougars trailing 7-0.
The Cougars took retired their vexation against Lancaster (California).
Coronado forced six turnovers, 4 fumbles and 2 interceptions, and elder moving backmost Matthias Rantissi rushed for 2 touchdowns arsenic the Cougars rolled to a 42-16 location triumph implicit Lancaster connected Friday.
“We could person been easy up (against Centennial) going into halftime and past to get the crippled called — they were acceptable astatine halftime,” Dupris said. “They were excited to get backmost retired determination and that near a atrocious sensation successful their mouth.
“They were fired up to play a California team. It’s the archetypal California triumph since I’ve been astatine Coronado, truthful it’s large deal. Pretty excited astir it.”
It was a coming retired enactment for Rantissi, who broke his ankle connected a just drawback successful Coronado’s play opener past twelvemonth to Losee and missed the Centennial crippled owed to a bony bruise. Rantissi rushed for implicit 100 yards.
“The kid’s a baller,” Dupris said. “He tin play. He’s a dude. To spot him beryllium capable to get backmost successful determination contiguous and tally … helium was crippled changer for definite tonight.”
Sophomore Jasten Theno stepped up to play backmost for Coronado connected Friday aft Gavin Maalouf went retired with a genu injury. Dupris said the Centennial crippled led to a large week of signifier for Coronado.
“We had the 3 champion practices that we’ve had successful a agelong clip this week,” Dupris said. “They carried that implicit to Friday. We’re playing a batch of sophomores and they grew up immensely successful a week. … It was large effort.”
First wins
A fistful of coaches astir Southern Nevada enjoyed their archetypal victories arsenic caput coaches of their caller schools.
Shadow Ridge, nether caller manager Ethan Lewis, rolled to a 41-7 triumph implicit Durango. Lewis took implicit aft longtime manager Travis Foster stepped down past season.
“Anytime you’re pursuing a feline who successful my sentiment is simply a (Southern Nevada Football Coaches Association) hallway of famer, there’s evidently the added unit of trying to support the contented of Shadow Ridge alive,” Lewis said. “Me having been determination (since 2016), I person a affirmative narration with a batch of the kids and that’s helped with the transition.”
Other coaches who recorded their archetypal wins arsenic caput coaches of their teams include: Rob Robles (Desert Pines, 27-26 implicit Las Vegas High), Brandon Harton (Green Valley, 43-8 implicit Canyon Springs), Zachary Blanchard (Del Sol, 45-6 implicit Western) and Eric Shufford (SLAM! Nevada, 52-48 implicit Virgin Valley).
Princeton Leyva rushed for implicit 100 yards and a touchdown for Shadow Ridge, who besides got rushing scores from Isaiah Ruiz, Xavion Cross, Isaiah Jones and Mu Gilliard. The Mustangs rushed for 315 yards.
The squad has dispersed it retired much connected discourtesy compared to the triple-option strategy it has tally successful the past, but Lewis said moving the shot volition inactive beryllium a portion of Shadow Ridge’s identity.
“Our kids expect to beryllium competitive,” Lewis said. “They look guardant to the competition. They don’t backmost down to anybody. We’re a bluish collar radical and it’s breathtaking to spot wherever we’re headed.”
Other notable performances
Foothill rules Highway: Foothill backmost Ryder Dobbs completed 13 of 18 passes for 324 yards and 4 touchdowns to pb the Falcons to a 42-8 triumph implicit Henderson rival Basic successful the “Battle for Boulder Highway.” Foothill wide receiver Nixon Gasperosky had 4 catches for 170 yards and 2 touchdowns.
Clark wins up North: Clark made the astir seven-hour thrust up to Northern Nevada to instrumentality connected Douglas and volition instrumentality with a victory. The Chargers won a back-and-forth crippled 39-35 implicit Douglas. According to the Nevada Appeal, Clark moving backmost Felix Romero rushed for 4 touchdowns and caught a pass, and scored the game-winning touchdown with 3:27 left.
Sloan Canyon wins rematch: The rematch of past year’s 4A authorities rubric crippled did not disappoint, and Saturday astatine UNR, Sloan Canyon came retired connected top. Kalepo Mose scored connected a 1-yard touchdown tally precocious successful the 4th fourth to assistance Sloan Canyon to a 28-21 triumph implicit McQueen. Sloan Canyon lost to McQueen 27-20 past twelvemonth successful Allegiant Stadium for the rubric successful what was Sloan Canyon’s lone nonaccomplishment successful 2025.
Up next
The apical crippled adjacent week involving a section squad takes spot successful Florida connected Saturday erstwhile Bishop Gorman, ranked No. 2 nationally by MaxPreps, faces Columbus (Florida) astatine 11 a.m. Saturday. The crippled volition beryllium broadcast nationally connected ESPN2.
The Gaels defeated St. John Bosco 38-28 connected Friday and volition apt beryllium ranked No. 1 by MaxPreps connected Monday.
In section competition, Friday’s apical crippled includes 2-0 Palo Verde hosting Desert Oasis (1-0) astatine 6 p.m. Friday. Spring Valley (1-0) and Bonanza (0-1) look disconnected astatine 6 p.m. Friday successful the yearly “Banner Game” astatine Bonanza. Foothill heads up to Northern Nevada to look defending 5A authorities champion Spanish Springs astatine 7 p.m. successful Sparks.
Several of the area’s apical teams proceed to look apical out-of-state teams connected Friday: Liberty hosts Tafuna (American Samoa), Centennial hosts Burbank (California), Shadow Ridge plays astatine Simi Valley (California) and Mater East hosts Victor Valley (California). All games are astatine 7 p.m.
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Southern Nevada precocious schoolhouse shot scores and schedule
Week 2 scores
Friday
Bishop Gorman 38, St. John Bosco (California) 28
Faith Lutheran 28, Bakersfield Christian (California) 27
Carlsbad (California) 24, Arbor View 17
Cathedral Catholic (California) 52, Centennial 49
Desert Pines 27, Las Vegas High 26
Coronado 42, Lancaster (California) 16
Foothill 42, Basic 8
Palo Verde 28, Legacy 26
Desert Oasis 36, Sierra Vista 28
Shadow Ridge 41, Durango 7
Green Valley 43, Canyon Springs 8
Tafuna (American Samoa) 38, Mojave 0
Clark 39, Douglas 35
SLAM! Nevada 52, Virgin Valley 48
Barstow (California) 19, Losee 16
Sunrise Mountain 40, Bonanza 20
Del Sol 45, Western 8
Valley 40, Cimarron-Memorial 33
Cheyenne 26, Chaparral 24
Hurricane (Utah) 49, Moapa Valley 20
Galena 47, Pahrump Valley 7
CIVICA Academy 42, Army-Navy Academy (California) 0
Desert Star (Arizona) 62, Cadence 18
Parker (Arizona) 45, Needles 8
Lincoln County 37, West Wendover 28
Pahranagat Valley 44, Beatty 0
Battle Mountain 54, White Pine 13
Tonopah 70, Virginia City 0
Water Canyon (Utah) 50, Beaver Dam 34
Saturday
Sloan Canyon 28, McQueen 21
Week 3 schedule
All games astatine 7 p.m. unless different noted
Friday
Desert Oasis astatine Palo Verde, 6 p.m.
Muir (California) astatine Sloan Canyon, 6 p.m.
Las Vegas High astatine Mountain View (Arizona), 6 p.m.
Spring Valley astatine Bonanza, 6 p.m.
Cimarron-Memorial astatine Silverado, 6 p.m.
Pahrump Valley astatine Durango, 6 p.m.
Valley astatine Rancho, 6 p.m.
Western astatine Chaparral, 6 p.m.
Tafuna (American Samoa) astatine Liberty
Canyon Springs astatine Coronado
Burbank (California) astatine Centennial
Foothill astatine Spanish Springs
Faith Lutheran astatine Valor Christian (Colorado)
Desert Pines astatine Cheyenne
Shadow Ridge astatine Simi Valley (California)
Reed astatine Legacy
Sierra Vista astatine Basic
Victor Valley (California) astatine Mater East
Mojave astatine Moapa Valley
Valley View (California) vs. SLAM! Nevada astatine Bishop Gorman
Clark astatine Virgin Valley
Douglas astatine Losee
Eldorado astatine Boulder City
CIVICA Academy astatine Shadow Ridge (Arizona)
GV Christian astatine The Meadows
Lincoln County astatine Cadence
American Leadership Academy astatine White Pine
Pahranagat Valley astatine Eureka
Spring Mountain astatine Laughlin
Sandy Valley astatine Beaver Dam
Pyramid Lake astatine Indian Springs
Round Mountain astatine Tonopah
Saturday
Bishop Gorman astatine Columbus (Florida), 11 a.m.
Monument Valley (Arizona) vs. Needles, noon astatine Northern Arizona University
Providence (Utah) astatine Lake Mead Academy
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