Hawks just keep running along - Explorer - 03/31/10 It'd be easy to get lost in the shuffle of runners at Ironwood Ridge High School. The program has high standards. "Our goal is always the same ... to win the state championship," said coach Gary Forrest.
Page baseball wins doubleheader - AZ Daily Sun - 03/22/10 Solid pitching and timely hitting lifted host Page to a doubleheader sweep of Washington Saturday, 7-2 and 10-5. Right-handers Justice Boldin and Levi Hall each pitched out of bases-loaded jams with none out in the fourth inning of their respective games. Boldin stranded 10 runners in the first game and Hall scattered six hits in the nightcap.
Coconino won its second game of the season with the lively bats the Panthers have been waiting for as they downed Buckeye 16-7.
San Luis No. 1s tread separate paths at Magin Invite - Yuma Sun - 03/19/10 It's been a bumpy start to the season for San Luis' Rafael Rodriguez. The Sidewinders' No. 1 singles player has started the season 1-2 against region opponents but will look to make up for the setback during this weekend's Magin Invitational, which will kick off at 4 p.m. today at Yuma High.
Blue Devil pitching dominates PUHS - Nogales International - 03/17/10 Friday, when Valley Union High visited Patagonia Union High on the baseball diamond, the flip came up heads for the Blue Devils, who mangled the Lobos 13-3 in five innings and sent them running with their collective tail between their legs.
Keefer goes the distance in Skyline win - East Valley Tribune - 03/16/10 Trent Keefer didn't have an enjoyable season last year, getting his turn to pitch occasionally against the likes of Horizon, Desert Ridge and Pinnacle in the old Pima Region. But the Skyline High junior lefty-hander has shown vast improvement in the early going of 2010.
Who knows what would have happened if Brad Lindsay's older brother Mark would have never came home with a wrestling flyer while he was in middle school.
Bordow: High school sports stories don't die; they evolve - AZ Republic - 03/12/10 It doesn't look like the proposed Scottsdale Chaparral-Chandler Hamilton football game for late August will take place. Chaparral coach Charlie Ragle said there may be too many issues to iron out in regards to the game, which would have been played on Aug. 28 and was the brainchild of Arizona Football Coaches Association executive director Lee Brush.
Lady Rams knock off Mohave, 9-2 - Mohave Daily News - 03/12/10 The Rio Rancho Lady Rams mercy-ruled the host Lady T-birds, 9-2, in five innings during the first round of the Max Preps Softball Tournament of Champions at the Dave Kops Sports Complex at Mohave High School on Thursday afternoon.
Down 7-0, Basha rallies past Red Mountain - East Valley Tribune - 03/12/10 The fences were packed with people. Cox TV trucks in tow. A rowdy crowd. Two of the best teams in Arizona. If not for the shivering and long sleeves worn by Red Mountain and Basha, you’d have thought this was a state softball tournament matchup in early May.
Ross retires, Sessions joins Dust Devils’ staff at Mohave multi - Mohave Daily News - 03/11/10 The River Valley High School Dust Devils track and field team competed in a meet for the first time in 18 years without head coach Dan Ross at the helm. Bill Patterson, Randall Guzik and Jessi Sessions are the new head coaches, and they led their Dust Devils into the Mohave multi at the Dave Kops Sports Complex on Wednesday after Ross retired on Monday.
Dobson's Andrea Jones has night to remember - AZ Republic - 03/10/10 Andrea Jones has a confession to make. You know that 3-point bank shot she made with three seconds left in the Mesa Dobson Mustangs' Class 5A Division I state championship game against Phoenix St. Mary's? She didn't call glass.
Ormsby is giving Chargers optimism - AZ Daily Star - 03/10/10 Nearly three decades after Jerry Gastellum took the Cholla softball squad to the peak of program history - an appearance in the 5A state final - the next generation of the family owns a shot at similar success.
Tbirds’ bats awaken in victory over ’Devils - Mohave Daily News - 03/10/10 After playing poorly as the hosts at the T-bird Baseball Classic on Thursday-Saturday, the T-birds roared back to defeat the River Valley High School Dust Devils, 9-6, at the Dave Kops Sports Complex at Mohave High School on Tuesday afternoon.
NHS rebounds from 5-2 deficit; wins 7-5 - Nogales International - 03/09/10 After signing in November to play for the University of Arizona next season, most people expected a star-studded performance from Nogales High pitcher Keith Zuniga in his 4A-I Apaches’ home-opener Thursday against 5A-II Ironwood Ridge.
Cesar Chavez has chance at first state title - Arizona Republic - 03/03/10 Laveen Cesar Chavez finally has a chance to live up to its nickname. No sports team from the school has won a state championship since it opened in 1999. Eleven years is a long time for a trophy case to go without a centerpiece, particularly when the name on the school stationary says "Champions."
Amphi, Brown humble Pueblo - Arizona Daily Star - 03/03/10 Amphitheater's Alan Sandoval slides into home to score before Pueblo's catcher Ruben Parra can tag him in the first inning of a game at Amphitheater High School on March 2, 2010. Amphi won 12-2 after the 10-run rule was applied in the bottom of the fifth.
Hawks take to the field - Nogales International - 03/03/10 Former coach Sal Ceballos returns to take the head coach position for the Rio Rico High Hawks this season. Along with Ceballos, four seniors and two juniors return from last season’s team. “We have five or six guys who are coming back and we’re still trying to get to know each other a little bit,” Ceballos said.
Mohave boys fall to Havasu, 12-2 - Mohave Daily News - 03/03/10 The Knights exploded for six runs in the bottom of the sixth inning to send the T-bird baseball team home with a loss Friday. Mohave High School fell, 12-2, in six innings in the season opener for both teams Friday at John M. Wade Memorial Field at Lake Havasu High School.
Greg Hansen: 'It's a dream, boys' - Arizona Daily Star - 03/01/10 For 32 minutes the pace never changed; it was fast at the beginning, and it was fast to the end. It was as if the basketball teams at Amphitheater and Santa Rita decided the 4A-II state championship game would be a test of manhood.
The moment seemed like an eternity. Bouncing similar to a ball cascaded through a pinball machine, Terrin Elam’s put-back in the final seconds took several agonizing bounces before falling through the cylinder. Elam’s basket came with 4.2 seconds remaining and lifted McClintock to a 73-71 win over Phoenix Sunnyslope to win the boys basketball 4A-I state title at Jobing.com Arena in Glendale.
Daniel Bejarano missed four 3-pointers in the first half, including an airball, and didn't convert a field goal from outside the key to accumulate just nine points.
Desert Mountain baseball seeks closure - Arizona Republic - 02/24/10 Scottsdale Desert Mountain's baseball team has been practicing with heavy hearts since the unexpected death of pitching coach Terry Kellen. Kellen died Jan.26 of heart failure at 43. He assisted the baseball program since the school opened in 1995. He worked as a guidance couselor.
The seasons and rosters change for the city's four baseball coaches, but not much else seems different year-in and year-out in the weeks leading up to the prep baseball season.
Power ranger - Arizona Daily Star - 02/24/10 Samantha Lund (SAMANTHA LUND-cq), of Rincon, puts some top spin on the forehand shot during a match against Cheyanna Bratt (CHEYANNA BRATT-cq), of Mountain View.
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