Las Vegas High School Football Games - Superintendents Cup Semifinals 2026 | Centennial Stuns Liberty in Overtime

The Inaugural Las Vegas Superintendents Cup Semifinals

Division II went chalk at the top. #3 Basic beat #9 Legacy 36-20 at home to win its crossover, and #4 Green Valley beat #5 Palo Verde 28-21. That puts the Wolves and the Gators in the Division II final, The Henderson Bowl II next Friday. Trisha LaCoste and Alon Sowell shot Basic for us.

Division III came down to one point. #8 Sunrise Mountain beat Bonanza 16-15, and senior Kaylin Mills ran for both Miners touchdowns. Amazon was there for us. Valley went on the road to Cimarron-Memorial, the West’s top seed, and won 42-20. The Vikings get Sunrise Mountain for the Cup.

There was still a full slate of games on the Independent side. Shadow Ridge beat Las Vegas High 35-14. Senior Isaiah Ruiz scored twice, including the go-ahead 52-yard run in the third quarter. David Cook shot this one for us.

#10 Foothill beat Desert Pines 48-30. Silverado beat Spring Valley 27-20, Eldorado beat Rancho 35-7, Clark beat Durango 13-6, and Del Sol beat Cheyenne 43-20.

Desert Oasis left Mojave with a Krispy Kreme donut, 35-0  (Tanesha Towns was there for us); Sierra Vista went to Canyon Springs and came away with a 43-22 victory; and Western beat Chaparral 12-6

Out in the boondocks: Tonopah 62, Spring Mountain 20. Virgin Valley 35, Boulder City 6. Laughlin 26, Indian Springs 6.

Week 10 High School Football Games: NIAA

The NIAA Private schools and academies had a business-as-usual Week 10. #1 Bishop Gorman hosted #7 SLAM! Nevada, and it got out of hand early, 69-0. Ace Amina went 8 for 8 for 190 yards and four touchdowns. Eight passes. Four touchdowns. Good Lawd.  Austyn Schaffner shot this one for us.

#3 Mater East beat Layton Christian Academy 44-22 at home, and the Knights are now two weeks out from their trip to Gorman on Oct. 29. #5 Faith Lutheran handled #9 Somerset Losee 31-13, and #8 Lake Mead beat #10 The Meadows 49-6.

#4 CIVICA shut out Pinecrest Cadence 57-0. #2 Sloan Canyon had the week off. #6 GV Christian hosted White Pine, and we don’t have a final on that one yet. The NIAA schedule will follow the traditional playoff schedule, and we have late-breaking news. Bishop Gorman has clinched the #1 seed and home-field advantage throughout.

Um… Good luck to all involved. Tighten up your chinstraps. They say South Hualapi is God’s country. I’m saying, in the words of the great American poet, DMX, “It’s dark, and hell is hot” over there.😬

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FSM Prep Rally Independent Game of the Week: #7 Centennial at #1 Liberty

The Liberty Patriots walked in as our No. 1 seed, the Division I East champ, fresh off a 37-14 win at Coronado last week that I also shot (our Week 9 recap), and no Southern Nevada team had scored more than 17 on them all year. Centennial came in as the West’s No. 2 seed and our #7 on the FSM Top 10. Hannah and our newest member of the FSM news team, Keira Orton, were on the sideline for this one, and it turned into the game of the year so far.

The defenses owned the first half.

Liberty took the opening kickoff and drove it all the way down to the red zone, and the Bulldogs stopped them on downs at the 4. Then junior Matthew Soriano picked off senior quarterback Blake Nadler at midfield, and Centennial blocked the 33-yard field goal that came after it. The first points came from the defense too. Senior defensive end Rahkai Jones snatched a pass right out of junior quarterback Madden Delacruz‘s hand and beat him in an 80-yard race to the end zone. Centennial 7, Liberty 0.

Liberty got it back on special teams. A Patriots punt bounced off a Bulldog; junior linebacker Tuitakali Croker scooped it up at the Centennial 23, and Delacruz hit senior Selby Griego from 8 yards out to tie it.

Then the fourth quarter went CRAZY. Centennial stuffed senior Anthony Alberro on fourth down near the goal line, drove the length of the field, and Nadler found senior and FSM Athlete of the Week winner Jayden Thomas in the corner from 15 yards out. 14-7. Liberty answered right away: Delacruz to Alberro for 69 yards, and Alberro hurdled a defender on the way in. Dunlap-Myvett went 24 yards on the ground to make it 21-14, and a minute later Alberro tied it again from the 12. 21-21, and we’re going to overtime.

Liberty went up 24-21 on its overtime possession. Centennial got down to fourth and goal at the 1. Nadler handed it to Dunlap-Myvett; he cut to his right, and the Bulldogs were in the Cup final.

Nadler finished 22 of 34 for 320 yards and a touchdown. Anthony Alberro was a problem all night for Liberty, 171 yards and a touchdown on 29 carries, plus that 69-yard score through the air. He definitely deserved better. First time I wanted to interview a losing player. Look, I’m not gonna lie. I love the Patriots. My kid went to school there. I love the culture, the coaches, and the program’s stability. When you go to Liberty, you come out a better football player and a better man…

Centennial was the better team last night

“It’s been a ride, man. Just to see what these seniors have done… and just believing in me and taking the program over, when there was no confidence in the program. Nobody believed in this program,” Centennial head coach DJ Campbell told Keira. He was right. Keira graduated from Centennial, and her brother still attends “The Hill.” He didn’t even want to come to the game… He just figured they’d get smashed. NOBODY gave the Bulldogs even a puncher’s chance in this one. Liberty has been passing out BTA’s like the offering plate at church since they finished their out-of-state schedule.

I’ll tell you who did give them Dawgs more than a chance. Our player of the game, Jayden Jet Thomas, who went HAM on both sides of the ball. “Preparation. Monday through Thursday. We came together. Blake, my quarterback, went crazy. He trusted his teammates, and the work paid off. Jet, who’s headed to the University of Minnesota this January, told Keira in their Athlete of the Week conversation that he wanted to end his high school career with the first Superintendents Cup and a 4.0 GPA. He’s one game away, and the latter is secured, baby.

What this all means: Centennial goes to Arbor View on Oct. 23 for the first Division I Superintendents Cup. The Aggies beat the Bulldogs 55-34 during the season, so Centennial gets a shot at the one team in the West that already handled them. Liberty hosts Coronado for third place, a St. Rose Bowl rematch. Every seed and result is on our Las Vegas high school football rankings and bracket page.

FSM Prep Rally Independent Game of the Week: #6 Coronado at #2 Arbor View

Thaddeus Thatcher is the best quarterback in Las Vegas. This was supposed to be his night, and it was, eventually. But the defense had to get the offense going first. It was 6-6 going into the second quarter, and Thatcher had just thrown his second straight interception with the Aggies in scoring range.

So the defense did it themselves. Kamareion Bell had already picked one off and recovered a first-quarter fumble, which Thatcher cashed in with a 9-yard touchdown to UNLV commit Kai Cypher for the first score of the game. Then senior defensive end Ryden Kaltsas hit quarterback Beau Ventling in the end zone and fell on the ball for a touchdown. That put Arbor View ahead for good.

From there, Thatcher found his groove.

The Oregon State commit hit Texas A&M commit Damani Warren for 40 yards to make it 19-6. Kaltsas recovered ANOTHER fumble with 1:13 left in the half, and Thatcher hit UCLA commit Zac Fares from 15 on the very next play. 25-6 at the break. Coronado didn’t go away quietly and found the end zone again in the second half, but the Aggies kept feet on necks. Thatcher added two more touchdown passes after halftime, one of them Cypher’s second of the night, and Arbor View closed it out 37-13.

Thatcher finished 25 of 33 for 367 yards, five touchdowns and two picks. Cypher caught two of them, and Fares had 124 receiving yards. For the Cougars, senior Matthias Rantissi ran for 111 yards and a touchdown in the first half.

The Aggies won this game with defense, and Kalani picked Kamareion Bell and Glade Hales as the co-players of the game, but he could’ve picked the whole Aggie defense. They balled out last night. “Our coaches preach: if you watch film, in the game, everything moves slower.” Bell, normally an offensive standout, won player of the game honors a couple of weeks ago vs Shadow Ridge, and did WORK on the defensive side tonight. Glade Hales added, “We already knew what they were running… it felt like it was just there all night.” 

Defensive Coordinator Keelan Flores took the honors last night with his unit as the winning coach. “I’m only as good as the guys around me,” Coach Flores said.

What it means: the Aggies played for the top NIAA title the last two seasons and ran into Bishop Gorman both times. This year Gorman isn’t on the other side. Arbor View hosts Centennial on Friday, Oct. 23 at 7 p.m. with the first Division I Superintendents Cup on the line. Ethan DeLeon shot this one for us.

Next Friday is Cup night. Centennial goes to Arbor View for the Division I Superintendents Cup at 7 p.m., Basic and Green Valley play for Division II, and Sunrise Mountain and Valley play for Division III. Liberty hosts Coronado for third place. On the NIAA side, Mater East goes to Gorman on Oct. 29. Our NIAA Top 10 drops Monday morning. Nominate your player for Las Vegas High School Athlete of the Week, and find every Las Vegas high school football story in one place. Make sure you keep coming back to FSM for all your 702 High School Football game coverage. Thanks for visiting FranchiseSportsMedia.com for your Las Vegas Sports news today.

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