Photos by Ron Eland/Boulder City Review
Sports
Picking up their first victory of the season, Boulder City High School football routed 4A Sunrise Mountain 33-0 in their home opener on Aug. 22.
Starting their season off hot, Boulder City High School boys tennis defeated a pair of 4A schools, Basic and Silverado, during their opening week of play.
Advancing to 3-7 on the season, Boulder City High School girls volleyball continues to impress early on, despite suffering a league loss.
A game away from making the 3A state tournament a season ago, Boulder City High School girls volleyball has their eyes set on being better in all aspects of the game this season.
The rapid growth of basketball internationally has given college and professional scouts another arena to find talent in during the past 20 years. If the research is done diligently enough, a scout might find themselves somewhere such as Bahia Blanca, a small barrio in Argentina taking notes on a kid named Manu Ginobili, who now plays for the San Antonio Spurs in the National Basketball Association. Or Wurzburg, Germany, watching a goofy looking 7-footer by the name of Dirk Nowitzki, who now plays for the Dallas Mavericks, practicing his fall-away jumper.
Avalon Frantz will play Division I women’s volleyball next fall at the University of Houston. But before she went, the all-state setter got one last memory of high school competition.
Boulder City’s high school baseball program has dropped its longtime American Legion summer-league affiliation in favor of joining the newly formed Connie Mack League.
It was not only a successful year overall for Boulder City High athletic teams in a new league, but it also was a good year for scholarship signees.
Waterfalls are rare in the Southwest except for seasonal examples that appear after snowmelt or briefly after a heavy rain. For that reason we treasure the few that put on their show year-round, including Lower Calf Creek Falls in Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument, Utah.
Boulder City first-year baseball coach Bobby Reese knew he had a talented team despite the Eagles making the jump to a new, larger and more competitive league.
It took photo finishes to decide the winner in several events at the Division 1-A State Track and Field Championships May 17 and 18 at Silverado High in Las Vegas.
The Boulder City boys and girls swim teams capped off their strong 2013 seasons by winning their state title team meets.
The two-day state golf tournament did not start off as well as Luke Logan had hoped.
In a game with little room for error, the Eagles baseball team just made too many mistakes in the 1-A state championship game.
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With a couple of significant amendments, the city council voted unanimously to pass an ordinance regulating the use of e-bikes and e-scooters in Boulder City. The ordinance passed unanimously Tuesday and will take effect on Sept. 18.
The main topic of discussion was color. As in color of a building when the board of the Boulder City Redevelopment Agency (aka the city council) met two weeks ago.
September kicks off the busiest time of the year in terms of community events in Boulder City.
It’s been seven months since an officer-involved shooting took place in Boulder City that resulted in the death of a man.
