Moving up to the next level, senior Boulder City High School girls volleyball star Sophia Kelso committed to Menlo College to play Division II volleyball.
Sports
On her way to etching her name into the Nevada Interscholastic record book, Boulder City High School girls golf knows they have something special in sophomore sensation Emmerson Hinds.
Finally healthy, Boulder City High School girls volleyball split a pair of playoff matches, ultimately bowing out to rival Moapa Valley in the regional semifinals on Oct. 31.
Boulder City High School girls soccer finished their season on Oct. 30, falling to Equipo Academy 4-2.
Both Boulder City High School tennis programs finished as the 3A state runner-up, falling to Northern Nevada challengers.
The Boulder City flag football team, one of the few unbeaten teams in the county, is earning respect among opponents countywide but the girls are still fighting for respect at home.
It’s early in the season but already Tyler Newby and Marcus Walker have shown they will be two of Boulder City’s leading scorers. Xavier Steel showed signs of dominating the boards for rebounds and Lane Worrall’s game energy gave opponents fits.
First-year coach Paul Dosch knows that despite the easy wins, his Lady Eagles basketball team still has plenty of hard work ahead.
The way Boulder City girls flag football coach Chris Morelli sees it, there is a difference between a young team and a team that is young and talented.
When Coach Chris Pingree decided to organize several local boys to play baseball this fall, his intention was to keep them involved in the sport until Little League started up in January. He persuaded his friends at Denali Builders to help with the costs of the registration and hoped for the best. He had no idea of the roller-coaster season the boys would take him on.
Beckoning seductively to city dwellers who long for elbow room, the 1.6 million-acre Mojave National Preserve lies in Southern California, barely an hour’s drive south of Las Vegas. While it has fewer than a dozen developed hiking trails, some of those are great ones. Among the best is the Teutonia Peak Trail, which boasts spectacular views of the east Mojave and beyond.
The Boulder City boys basketball team may not be as tall as most opponents this season, but the Eagles hope to make up for it with speed and transition play.
The Boulder City boys bowling team thinks it has a target on its back this season. That’s usually what happens when a team is favored to win a state championship.
The Boulder City girls’ basketball team will debut a new look today as the Lady Eagles play in the Lake Mead Invitational. It is the fourth new look in as many years.
Michial Polk, head coach for the Boulder City/Henderson Heatwave amateur swim club, was all smiles as he shook hands with well-wishers after the four-day Nevada State Short Course Swimming Championships ended Nov. 11.
It’s been nearly a decade since 28-year-old Annika Huff found herself at just 93 pounds and clinging to life after just being sold from one sex trafficker, or pimp, to another.
Boulder City’s leash law and the controversy over the potential for permitted pet breeding within city limits were not the only animal-oriented items on the city council’s agenda for last week’s meeting.
The Southern Nevada State Veterans Home has gone through a rough few years that came to a head earlier this year when the facility lost its vaunted 5-star rating and got hit with a warning on their website advising of patient abuse.
“Don’t forget you are up for a column this week,” read the text on my phone Monday morning. It was a message from Review Editor Ron Eland and, oops, I had forgotten.
