Members of the Centennial High School shot squad are pictured during the Las Vegas Sun's precocious schoolhouse shot media time astatine the Red Rock Resort connected July 7, 2026. They include, from left, Jayden "Jet" Thomas, Maxwell Miles, Kolten Silbernagel, and LaSeth Bryant. Photo by: Christopher DeVargas
By Ray Brewer (contact)
Friday, Oct. 16, 2026 | 11:02 p.m.
Centennial shot manager DJ Campbell had a determination to marque successful overtime tonight.
Trailing Liberty by 3 points with the shot astatine the 1-yard enactment connected 4th down, Campbell could person easy settled for a tract extremity and a 2nd overtime.
Instead, helium stayed calm, trusted his players and called elder moving backmost Nehemiah Dunlap’s number. Dunlap scampered into the extremity portion for the winning points successful a 27-24 victory.
Just similar that, Centennial pulled disconnected the biggest upset of the season, advancing to look Arbor View successful adjacent week’s Superintendent’s Cup finals.
Liberty was the favourite to triumph the Cup, and galore expected Centennial to beryllium blown out.
“We stepped up to the challenge,” Campbell said. “It wasn’t trying to beryllium the doubters wrong, it was to beryllium america right.”
Centennial trailed lone once, successful overtime.
Rahkai Jones returned an interception for a touchdown, Jayden Thomas caught a touchdown walk and Dunlap different ran for a score.
“We heard (the doubters) each week,” Campbell said. “We virtually had radical connected our field saying we were going to lose.”
Arbor View won the archetypal gathering betwixt the schools 55-34. But this appears to beryllium an improved Centennial team, and the Bulldogs thin to elevate their crippled successful the playoffs.
They won authorities championships successful 2023 and 2024 and were 1 atrocious 4th distant from a state-title crippled quality past season. That, of course, was earlier Clark County School District programs opted for autarkic presumption successful the spring, mounting up the Superintendent’s Cup format.
Centennial believes it tin beryllium the archetypal champion.
“This is simply a selfless group. We genuinely attraction astir each other, and that makes america highly dangerous,” Campbell said.
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