Archive for March, 2009

Girls basketball All Star selections made

    The Arizona Basketball Coaches Association has released the names of this year's selections for the Senior All-Star Teams. All games will be played at the US Airway Center, home of the Phoenix Suns and Phoenix Mercury.
    Boys teams are scheduled to play Saturday, May 23, and the girls teams the following week, on Saturday, May 30.
    In the boys competition, the first game will begin at 4:00 pm and the second at 6:00 pm. Steve Kerr, Suns general manager, is expected to speak to the players prior to the first game. The girls will play in conjunction with a Phoenix Mercury game, with games going at noon and 2:00 pm.
    The All-Star teams have been divided into four teams for girls and four for the boys: 1A, 2A, 3A girls North and South; 4A and 5A girls North and South; 1A, 2A, 3A boys North and South; and 4A and 5A boys North and South.
    Team selections:
    Girls 1A, 2A, 3A North: Chantel Moss (Coolidge HS), Crystal Todachine (Monument Valley HS), Raquel Singer (Winslow HS), Cassie Spleiss (Camp Verde HS), Sanel Smith (Valley Christian HS), Dabrielle Raye (Rock Point HS), Tamika Antonio (San Carlos HS), Crystal White (Coolidge HS), Chrissandria Jackson (Winslow HS), Danya Wilson (Rock Point HS). Alternates: Samantha Sam (Winslow HS), Nicole Baldwin (Snowflake HS), Rhiannon Russell (Salt River HS), Sophia Salazar (Santa Cruz HS).
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Local players get tourney ride on ASU squads


       A handful of former local high school athletes are sitting on ASU men's and women's basketball rosters, enjoying the experience of going to the NCAA's big dance.
    The Nov. 17 regional cover of the Sports Illustrated College Basketball Preview featured Sun Devils Briann January and James Harden, who have lived up to the early-season hype and have been instrumental this season in taking their respective teams to the NCAA tournament.
    The men's team, which got a No. 6 seed and will open with Temple, has included a quartet of home-grown players in its building plans for the future of a program that won 21 games last season and 24 this season.
Ty Abbott is a sophomore guard from Desert Visa HS, Trent Anderson is a redshirt freshman from Ironwood Ridge HS that plays forward, and Taylor Rohde and Stephen Rogers are stepping right from high school onto the college hardwood this year. Both freshmen are forwards, Rohde from Pinnacle HS and Rogers from Mountain View HS.

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