The Durango High basketball team made its way to the state tournament in the last contested season, upsetting Coronado in the regional tournament on the way to an appearance in the state semifinals.
Durango High senior Darryl Gaynor Jr. played the waiting game in the college basketball recruiting process. The 6-foot-2 senior guard had scholarship offers from ...
Martrel Johnson could have done anything he wanted on the basketball court. Against any opponent. “We called him the man child,” says Al La Rocque, his former coach at Durango High. “When he came in as a freshman ...
Southwest League champions Gorman broke loose in the third quarter to march past Durango, the Northwest’s No. 2 seed, 74-46 in a game where the Gaels wore their home jerseys but played in their opponent’s gym.
Not much was expected from the Durango High basketball team after its first game. Paris Estrada, the Trailblazers’ unquestioned leader and a four-year varsity point guard, tore the ACL in his knee in a loss against Canyon Springs. Durango did something today that wasn’t expected back in December when Estrada went down, winning a playoff game by topping visiting Cimarron-Memorial 76-71 in the Sunset quarterfinals.
At halftime, the game was playing out the way many thought it would. Centennial went on a substantial run in the second quarter to build a double-digit lead over a talented, but outgunned Durango team. That mentality changed after the Trail Blazers reeled off a big run of their own to start the second half.
Al La Rocque surveyed the basketball practice floor last week and noticed he was a little different than the other coaches. La Rocque, 61, is one of the most accomplished high school coaches in Southern Nevada history. For the next six months, he’ll try his hand in the college ranks as an assistant at Northern Arizona University, working alongside three coaches in their mid-to-late 20s or early 30s. Jack Murphy, La Rocque’s former student manager at Durango, is Northern Arizona’s first-year head coach.
Jack Murphy wasn’t a good enough basketball player to make the team at Durango High School in the mid-1990s. But he still was involved in the sport he was passionate about, serving as the team’s manager his final two years in starting a journey in basketball that continues to reach new heights.
Legacy High’s Zach Lane scored 25 points and Cardon Harris added 24 points Wednesday to lead the host Longhorns to a 101-82 victory against Durango in the Sunset Regional quarterfinals for the school’s first playoff win
Durango High basketball player Joe Tuss has verbally committed to Air Force, Trailblazers’ coach DeShawn Henry said. Tuss, a 6-foot-7 shooting guard who is averaging 18.4 points and seven rebounds per game, was also recruited by Eastern Washington and Loyola Chicago.
If someone made a movie poster about Tuesday night’s game between Palo Verde and Durango, its tagline would have to say something like “exhilarating suspense.” The Panthers and the Trailblazers provided edge-of-your-seat excitement in the Sunset Region quarterfinals with a contest featuring a furious pace and a dramatic four lead changes in the final two minutes and 30 seconds. In the end, Palo Verde held on for a 79-75 victory.
The Sierra Vista High basketball team Friday clinched the No. 2 seed from the Southwest Division in next week’s Sunset Regional playoffs with a 76-71 overtime victory against host Durango.
It didn’t take long for members of the Bishop Gorman High basketball team to be reminded of how they typically receive an opponent’s best effort each game.