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Archive for February, 2010
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Two high-profile careers end with 3A basketball finals
A couple of prominent names in high school basketball closed out careers this weekend. One left the court to move on to bigger challenges, the other wrapped up 41 years on the bench. The 3A state championships set the stage for the last game of Corey Hawkins’ prolific high school career. The senior, who set state [...] -
Freshman leads NAU basketball to second-best game score
Amy Patton has been on the Northern Arizona campus less than a year, but already she is making her mark on the women’s basketball program. Just as she did in her first year playing for McClintock HS in Tempe. The 5′10″ guard scored 35 points in a shoot-out with Sacramento State, as the 202 combined points [...] -
ASU divers deliver at Pac-10 Championships
ASU’s diving team got off to an impressive start at the Pac-10 Championships in Washington. The men’s 3-meter diving crown seems to have found a semi-permanent home at Arizona State University. For the eighth consecutive year, a Sun Devil has won the 3-meter conference championship. And it was a sophomore who won the title at yesterday’s first [...] -
Something for everyone at 4A hoops championships
Revenge. Frustration. Prolific scoring. And one Cinderella. That’s the mix of great story lines we get with this year’s 4A state championship high school basketball games on tap for tomorrow. The REVENGE comes on the boys’ side, where second-ranked Sunnyslope HS in 4A-I gets a chance to even the score with No. 1 McClintock HS, which beat [...] -
It’s the ‘Pat Murphy thing’ again… and ASU is bobbling the ball
Lisa Love’s stock just took a hit. And along with it, the credibility of ASU’s sports programs. An article appeared on the front page of this morning’s Arizona Republic bringing out new information from just-released documents that detail some of the inner strife that took place when baseball coach Pat Murphy was fired last fall. It wasn’t [...] -
Xavier Prep’s Murphy is still ballin’, gets GCU scoring record
One thing about small schools with evolving sports programs… there are plenty of records to set in the early stages. Grand Canyon University in Phoenix is a small (25,000 enrollment), private college in Phoenix and, although it was founded in 1949, its sports programs have been really growing and evolving in recent years. A week ago its [...] -
UofA softball pounding the fences, just like last year
The UofA softball team had an early test Sunday. It got a passing grade, but results were not quite conclusive. After rolling through the season-opening Kajikawa Classic tournament in Tempe, winning all six games, the No. 2-ranked Wildcats decided they needed a stiffer test to get a better feel for just where their game was this [...] -
ASU deflates Wildcats’ hopes for another trip to the Big Dance
The hissing noise emanating from Tucson last night could be heard as far away as Casa Grande. It was the air being let out of the Wildcats’ basketball season following the 73-69 loss to arch-enemy ASU. This one really hurt because it meant so much more than a loss to a cross-state rival. A team, by [...] -
4A-I gets a new wrestling champion, but little else changes
Big-school wrestling competition is getting pretty predictable. There was a changing of the guard this year in 4A high school wrestling. But it was more of the same in 5A as Sunnyside HS won its 12 straight title in 5A-II and Corona del Sol HS repeated as state champions in 5A-I. Sunnyside rode its group of youngsters [...] -
Salt River girls took on all comers enroute to 1A hoops title
It’s not quite the story for another Hoosiers movie. But it’s a basketball story worth repeating, as the Salt River HS girls basketball team finished it’s long journey this year by capturing the 1A state championship. The Eagles beat Gila Bend HS, 66-51, even though Ashley Wirtzberger scored 28 points. Wirtzberger, Gila Bend’s senior guard who [...]