The Desert Oasis boys cross country team is expected to contend for the Class 5A state title, and senior Kenan Dagge delivered a message Saturday.
Dagge covered the 5-kilometer course in 15 minutes, 9 seconds to win the Red Rock Running Company Invitational at James Regional Sports Park.
Shadow Ridge placed three runners in the top 10 of the event, which featured about 600 athletes competing in two separate boys heats and two girls heats.
Dagge finished four seconds ahead of Shadow Ridge’s Carson Wetzel, who placed third in last year’s state meet.
Carter Prater of defending Class 4A state champion Sky Pointe was third, followed by Justin Rawe (15:25). Faith Lutheran’s Logan Scott rounded out the top five in 15:34.
Green Valley won the first heat of the day, and Shadow Ridge took the second heat.
Girls cross country
Sky Pointe, the defending Class 4A state champion, showed it is ready for another title fight by placing three runners in the top five of the event.
Aislin McMahon won her 5K race in 18:42. Teammate Mackenzie Teel (19:08) was second, and the Eagles’ Ella Christensen finished fifth in 19:20.
Shadow Ridge, another state championship contender, also made a strong showing with 2023 state champion Ryen Hughes finishing third in 19:13 and Elynn Okuda fourth in 19:16.
The Mustangs finished first in the second heat. Coronado rolled to victory in the first.
Girls golf
Faith Lutheran’s Maddie Perez shot 7-under 65 to win Wednesday’s Class 5A Desert match at Revere.
Perez’s performance helped the Crusaders win the team title with a score of 18-over 306. Defending state champion Coronado finished 15 strokes behind in second, and Palo Verde was 21 shots back in third.
Coronado’s Berlin Biddinger finished second individually at 3 under, and teammate Grace Oh was third at even par.
Bishop Gorman shot 21 over to win the Class 5A Mountain match Tuesday at Paiute-Snow. Clark finished nine strokes back in second, and Arbor View was third at 99 over.
Samantha Harris shot 1-under 71 for the individual title, followed by Sierra Vista’s Nya Palmer (even) and Clark’s Cydney Ha (5 over).
In Class 4A Desert action, Desert Oasis took first with a score of 148 over.
Brittani Stone of Las Vegas High was the individual winner at 26-over 98. Legacy’s Kali Patterson and Desert Oasis’ Lexie Rosenthal tied for second at 30-over 102.
The Class 4A Mountain teams did not play.
Boys tennis
Basic’s boys won two of their three matches last week to improve to 3-1 on the season with an 11-7 win over Moapa Valley, a 10-8 victory over Foothill and a 13-5 loss to Palo Verde.
Bishop Gorman improved to 2-0 by defeating Foothill 12-6 on Aug. 20. Boulder City also improved to 2-0 with Wednesday’s 15-3 win over Silverado.
Girls tennis
Bishop Gorman improved to 2-0 with a 16-2 victory over Foothill on Aug. 20.
The Falcons bounced back Wednesday with an 18-0 win over Basic to improve to 2-1.
Cross country, golf and tennis coaches are asked to submit their top performances each week to jwollard@reviewjournal.com.
A recent Review-Journal letter to the editor mischaracterized Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto’s Southern Nevada Economic Development and Conservation Act, also known as the Clark County Lands bill. As the former executive director of the Nevada Conservation League, I wholeheartedly support this legislation, so I wanted to set the record straight.
Sen. Cortez Masto has been working on this bill for years in partnership with state and local governments, conservation groups like the NCL and local area tribes. It’s true that the Clark County lands bill would open 25,000 acres to help Las Vegas grow responsibly, while setting aside 2 million acres for conservation. It would also help create more affordable housing throughout the valley while ensuring our treasured public spaces can be preserved for generations to come.
What is not correct is that the money from these land sales would go to the federal government’s coffers. In fact, the opposite is true.
The 1998 Southern Nevada Public Lands Management Act is a landmark bill that identified specific public land for future sale and created a special account ensuring all land sale revenues would come back to Nevada. In accordance with that law 5 percent of revenue from land transfers goes to the state of Nevada for general education purposes, 10 percent goes to the Southern Nevada Water Authority for needed water infrastructure and 85 percent supports conservation and environmental mitigation projects in Southern Nevada. This legislation has provided billions to Clark County and will continue to benefit generations of Southern Nevadans. Sen. Cortez Masto’s lands bill builds upon the act’s success.
So here’s the good news: All of the money generated from land made available for sale under Sen. Cortez Masto’s bill would be sent to the special account created by the 1998 law. Rather than going to an unaccountable federal government, the proceeds would continue to help kids in Vegas get a better education, bolster outdoor recreation and modernize Southern Nevada’s infrastructure.
I know how important it is that money generated from the sale of public land in Nevada stay in the hands of Nevadans, and so does the senator. That’s why she opposed a Republican effort last year to sell off 200,000 acres of land in Clark County and other areas of the country that would have sent those dollars directly to Washington.
Public land management in Nevada should benefit Nevadans. We should protect sacred cultural sites and beloved recreation spaces, responsibly transfer land for affordable housing when needed and ensure our state has the resources it needs to grow sustainably. I will continue working with Sen. Cortez Masto to advocate for legislation, such as the Clark County lands bill, that puts the needs of Nevadans first.
Paul Selberg writes from Las Vegas.
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Las Vegas High’s baseball team claimed a 3-2 home win over Coronado on Friday.
Las Vegas (9-13-1) next hosts Rancho at 10 a.m. Saturday. Coronado (13-14) hosts Chaparral at 3:30 p.m. Monday.
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LAS VEGAS (FOX5) — Nevada’s jobless rate is holding steady, but the state is still adding jobs.
A new report from DETR shows February’s unemployment rate unchanged at 5.3 percent, with the labor force growing by nearly 3,800 people.
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Nevada now has about 1.6 million nonfarm jobs, up 2.2 percent over the past year and 1,500 more jobs than in January.
“This month’s report shows a strengthening labor market,” said David Schmidt, Chief Economist. ”Compared to the report for January, the pace of job gains in the past year increased from 1.9% to 2.2%, building on what was already the fastest pace of job growth in the country. While the unemployment rate remained stable, the labor force participation rate rose to 63.7%, 1.7 percentage points higher than the national level.”
In Las Vegas, employment ticked up by 1,100 jobs in February, about 0.1 percent, and is up more than 25,000 jobs compared to last year.
Reno added 1,000 jobs on the month, while Carson City shed about 200 but is still slightly above where it was a year ago.
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