Valley won the class 4A academic state championship, where the players’ combined 3.45 grade-point average was better than the roughly 20 teams statewide in the classification.
Alex Hernandez spent many long days in the gym working to get the Gonzaga basketball team to this moment. First, as a player and then during a near decade-long career working ...
Brian Farnsworth was contacted last week by one of his former Valley High School basketball players looking to get together for dinner. Another former player ...
The Palo Verde High basketball team wasn’t ranked in the preseason top-10. Now, the Panthers are two games away from winning the state championship ...
The basketball bounced off the front of the rim and then the backboard before falling through the net for three points. It was that kind of second half for Valley High senior guard Cameron Burton ...
Valley senior guard Darrion Daniels took two dribbles past half-court, noticed the Las Vegas High defense sagging off him and flung the ball towards the basket ...
While most of the high school basketball teams in the Sunrise Region have young and inexperienced players at key positions, Valley High is the exception. The Vikings' 14-player roster ...
The Canyon Springs High basketball team has become unstoppable this season with a trio of Division-I players leading the way. Shaquile Carr (UTEP) along with brothers Gerard and Jordan Davis (Eastern Washington) have the Pioneers one game away from winning a second straight Sunrise Regional championship, combining for 61 points today in a 99-82 semifinal victory against Valley.
Gerard Harden and Spencer Mathis each scored 18 points today for the Valley High basketball team in a 83-56 victory against host Coronado in the Sunrise Regional quarterfinals.
Valley High basketball coach Bill Bobier had several rules he strictly enforced with his players. One stands out for former star Freddie Banks: If you were going to dunk during a game, you better make it. So, when Banks missed a dunk against Western, he immediately realized there would be a price to pay — even if Banks’ miss was the result of being fouled. Bobier got the most of his players through tough love, winning four straight state championships at Valley from 1980 to '83. Friday, Bobier will receive the most prestigious honor for a local sports figure when ...
With the Centennial High basketball team trailing Valley Monday by 10 points midway through the second quarter of the state play-in game, several in the gym assumed a player with the last name Allen would be the one to step up. And, twins Marcus and Malcolm Allen eventually took over the game. But, at this junction of the game, the Bulldogs had help from an unlikely source.
Jordan Davis always believed he would be leading his basketball team onto the floor at the high school state tournament. But not even Davis, a sophomore guard at Canyon Springs High, could imagine it happening at this stage of his career. Davis, after all, wasn’t promoted to the varsity team until two weeks ago.
When the Valley High basketball team fell behind by three points Tuesday at halftime against Basic in the first round of the Sunrise Regional tournament, the Vikings’ players could have easily been discouraged. After all, they went from being undefeated in the Northeast League two weeks ago to closing the regular season on a two-game losing streak — a skid not expected from a team expected to contend for the region crown.