Las Vegas High School Football Games - Week 9 - 2026 | Liberty Wins the St. Rose Bowl and the East

Las Vegas High School Football Games – Week 9: NIAA

#1 Bishop Gorman hosted #3 Sloan Canyon and made it look easy, 48-3. The Gaels are 6-1, and the Pirates fall to 5-2. Tanesha Towns and Ethan DeLeon shot this one for us. (Missed last week? Catch up on our Week 8 recap.)

#2 Mater East handled #5 SLAM! Nevada 52-7 at home. The Knights are 6-1, and the clock is ticking toward Oct. 29, when they go to Gorman. Amazon shot this one for us.

#6 GV Christian won 40-20 at Needles, and #9 Somerset Losee beat Pinecrest Cadence 27-6.

#7 Faith Lutheran made the trip to St. George, Utah, to play Desert Hills, and #8 Lake Mead played at Lincoln County in Panaca. We don’t have a confirmed final from either one yet.

Las Vegas High School Football Games – Week 9: The Independents 

Centennial beat Shadow Ridge 32-27, and that one mattered. The winner got the second spot out of Division I West and a crossover at the Division I East champ. That is now Liberty. Austyn Schaffner shot this one for us.

#8 Green Valley went to #6 Legacy and won a shootout, 54-44. Legacy put up 44 and still lost. A week after the Gators scored 84 on Silverado, they put up 54 more. That is 138 points in two weeks. The Gators are 6-1, and Legacy falls to 6-2. Trisha LaCoste shot this one for us.

#5 Arbor View beat Desert Pines 49-0, and Thatcher did his damage in limited time: four touchdown passes and one on the ground. The Aggies are 5-3, all three losses out of state, and they already locked up the top spot in Division I West. Coronado comes to them next Friday.

#3 Basic beat Silverado 38-18, and #4 Palo Verde shut out Canyon Springs, with sophomore quarterback Cooper Roberts throwing two touchdown passes. Both teams are 7-1 at the top of Division II East, and Basic beat Palo Verde 37-34 last week.

#10 Del Sol lost at home to Valley 32-8. Junior Humberto Roldan ran for three touchdowns in the second quarter alone. The Dragons have lost two straight and are 5-2.

#7 Sunrise Mountain hosted Cheyenne, and #9 Foothill had the week off. No final reported from the Sunrise Mountain game yet.

Outside the list: Las Vegas High beat Desert Oasis 28-14. Clark shut out Sierra Vista 27-0. Cimarron-Memorial shut out Rancho 39-0, with senior quarterback Joseph Noel throwing two touchdown passes and running for another. Bonanza beat Western 27-6 behind two touchdown catches from junior John Willard. Spring Valley beat Mojave 44-6, and Durango won 30-22 at Boulder City. Chaparral at Eldorado and Moapa Valley at Pahrump Valley: no result reported yet.

Out in the rurals: Tonopah 30, Pahranagat Valley 0. Indian Springs 26, Beatty 6. Mohave Accelerated 48, Spring Mountain 28.

FSM Prep Rally Independent Game of the Week: #2 Liberty at #1 Coronado

This was the St. Rose Bowl. The two schools sit on opposite sides of St. Rose Parkway, and this year it came with a lot more than neighborhood bragging rights. Both teams walked in 3-0 in Division I East, so the league title and the top seed for the Superintendents Cup were on the table. Coronado was our No. 1 at 6-1, and its only loss all year was a 7-0 opener at Centennial. Liberty was our No. 2 at 5-2, with both losses out of state, and no Southern Nevada team had scored more than 17 on them. TQ was on the sideline with our newest shooter, Brad, on the camera.

After an interception early in the first quarter by Jermari Arnold led to an Ezra Sanelivi touchdown, the Liberty offense slowed down significantly as Coronado matched the Patriots score-for-score in the first half. This game was actually a lot closer than many expected at halftime, with a score of 16-14.

Then something happened in the locker room.

The best defense in the city woke up, and the Cougers never scored again. Coming into this game, Liberty had only given up 17 points this season to Las Vegas teams. Last night, they only gave up 14 to the #1 team in The Valley, while putting up 37 of their own. Coach Rich Muraco told me, “he always feels like he has a shot against teams” because of the emphasis his Patriots team puts on stopping their opponents from scoring. Tune in across social media to catch my interview with Coach Muraco.

Final Score: Liberty 37, Coronado 14. The Patriots have won five straight, and against Southern Nevada teams they are 5-0 with a 207-31 scoring edge. I think we know who our final #1 is. The Cougars‘ six-game win streak is over.

Our player of the game was #7 Free Safety Carter Christensen, one of the leaders on the Liberty defense, who picked off Coronado twice in this one. Carter talked about the culture and family atmosphere at Liberty, where he noted that his coaches are “father figures” for the team. Unfortunately, we won’t have Carter’s interview this week due to some technical difficulties. We talked to him after the game, but the audio didn’t record. I owe you one, Carter.

What it means: Liberty is the Division I East champion and hosts Centennial on Friday, Oct. 16. Coronado goes to Arbor View, the Division I West champ, which beat Centennial 55-34 and Shadow Ridge 49-13. The winners meet for the Superintendents Cup on Oct. 23. And if Coronado gets there, they might just see Liberty again.

Next Friday the Superintendents Cup crossovers kick off. In Division I, Centennial goes to Liberty and Coronado goes to Arbor View. On the NIAA side, SLAM! Nevada goes to Bishop Gorman and Layton Christian Academy comes to Mater East, two weeks before Mater East at Gorman. Our latest FSM Top 10 Rankings drop Monday morning, and our #1 just lost the St. Rose Bowl, so there will be movement. 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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