Bishop Gorman kicker Colin Ditsworth celebrates with teammates after the Gaels beat Cimarron-Memorial in the Sunrise Division championship game Friday. Bishop Gorman won the game, 31-7, to advance to the state semifinals.
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The Clark County School District number crunchers need to send a thank you note to the Bishop Gorman High football team.
The district, which has slashed its budgets across the board over the last two years to deal with the state’s economic crisis, will have roughly $7,000 more in its athletic budget because of the Gaels’ gridiron dominance.
Gorman, the state’s largest private school, defeated public school Cimarron-Memorial Nov. 20 in the Sunset Regional title game to advance to this Saturday’s state semifinals in Northern Nevada.
The win means Gorman, not the financially-strapped district, will have to foot the traveling bill for about 40 players and a handful of coaches.
For the district, that would have been $3,500 for a charter bus, $59 per room for about 25 rooms at a Holiday Inn and $25 per player in meal money, District Athletic Director Ray Mathis said.
The district budgets annually for travel to state events in all sports, meaning this might not be the lone time the Catholic school does its share during tough times.
Gorman is expected to contend for state in basketball and baseball — two events also scheduled to be contested in the Reno area this school year.
“I haven’t added it up yet,” Mathis said of the savings from the football travel. “But I’m glad we don’t have to spend.”
The district trimmed the number of games played in each sport this year as part of efforts to manage the inadequate funds it is working with.
It will be a little more this year — and all thanks to hated (at least by most) Gorman.
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