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Moapa’s Conner Mortensen carries the ball during a game between Virgin Valley High School and Moapa Valley High School in Overton on Friday, Oct. 14, 2011. The Moapa Pirates shut out the Bulldogs 18-0.
Friday, Oct. 28, 2011 | 12:45 a.m.
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Final push for the postseason
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Las Vegas Sun sports reporters Ray Brewer and Case Keefer look across the Las Vegas valley at the playoff races still alive entering the last week of the regular season. Does Canyon Springs have a shot against Las Vegas? What about Foothill vs. Liberty? Listen in for discussion on these topics and more.
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Moapa Valley’s defense had carried the team the past two weeks. It was the offense’s turn in a 41-19 victory over league opponent Boulder City Thursday night.
An offensive explosion led the Pirates out of an early 13-7 hole on the road and gave them the top seed in the 3A South division.
“It was a good one for us to get into the playoffs with,” Moapa Valley coach Brent Lewis said. “We had mental mistakes. We felt a couple of their scores, they got because of our mistakes. But I thought we played pretty solid. We’re kind of banged up and we got through it.”
Bruising junior running back Conner Mortensen scored four times for Moapa Valley. Mortensen finished with 137 of the Pirates 223 rushing yards.
Boulder City had 99 yards on the ground, but 82 of it came on a single play in the first quarter. The Pirates held the Eagles to -2 rushing yards in the second half.
Moapa Valley will host bitter rival Virgin Valley in a first round playoff game next week. The Pirates are three wins away from their ultimate goal — a state championship.
“We accomplished our first goal,” Lewis said. “That was to win the league and host a home playoff game.”
Case Keefer can be reached at 948-2790 or case.keefer@lasvegassun.com. Follow Case on Twitter at twitter.com/casekeefer.
Wow, I was shocked last night at how dirty Boulder has gotten. After almost every play Boulder players were cheap shotting Moapa players way away from the ball and after the play was over. And after they were getting killed they still wouldn't shut up. The officiating needs to clean things up. I was not impressed.
That said, Boulder played tough for the first quarter, then after they saw they just couldn't hang, they quit like usual.
Moapa will be playing with something more to prove after last night against Virgin next Saturday.
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I wasn't able to be there but I heard the same thing about the game last night. And then I was trying to remember the last time Boulder won a league game. The last time was 2008 against Faith Lutheran. Been a while. They're sick of getting taken out to the woodshed, by Moapa at least. Since 2000 (against Moapa) it's been something like 12-2 or 13-1. Instead of trying to work harder, get better, and do what it takes to win they'd rather play like that since they know they're not gonna win. Pathetic.
*Or in Boulder's books, 2-12 or 1-13
DJ, there were times over the years that I was convinced that the cheap shots were encouraged, if not coached, and not just in football. My daughter was knocked out of 2 basketball seasons from injuries by cheap shots from Boulder, even as early as middle school. I realize that injuries do happen, even though basketball is a "non-contact" sport, (and she did have several other injuries) but Boulder was the only team I was ever worried about her getting hurt from what appeared to be intentional take-downs. I'm sorry to hear it apparently hasn't changed.
It'll be a great day when the Boulder City News is written from a Boulder City perspective.
Clockwork... BC perspective meaning....?
Unless I'm mistaken, there are no quotes by any BC coaches or players. Nor is there any information on upcoming news for Boulder sports. We seem to need to know where Moapa will be though.
They mostly quote the winning team. Also they receive those quotes through emails from the head coaches. So there either wasn't an email from BC coaches or nothing good to quote.
There isn't any upcoming news about Boulder sports is because you're looking on the football page, and Boulder City's football season is over, no upcoming news there, just the same old story.