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Arizona Sports (AZCentral)
Archive for March, 2010
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NCAA invites 11 Sun Devils to Indoor T&F Championships
A pair of true freshmen will make the trip to the University of Arkansas this weekend to represent Arizona State in the long jump at the NCAA Indoor Track & Field Championships. They will be the only women in the group of 11 ASU participants who earned entry to the national meet, and the only [...] -
Pac-10 honors Sendek for ASU’s best hoops finish in 30 years
Score one for the over-achiever. Herb Sendek was just selected the Pac-10 basketball Coach of the Year. Score one for Lisa Love. She looks like a genius right now. Sendek, the ASU head coach hired away from North Carolina State four years ago to resurrect the basketball program, has just led the Sun Devils to [...] -
Sahuarita HS lassoes title in Wrangler Classic softball tourney
There she was again, lassoing the competition in the annual Wranglers Classic softball tournament in Wickenburg. Yvette Alvarez dominated from the mound and intimidated opposing pitchers at the plate. Last year, Alvarez pitched her Sahuarita High School team to the tournament title. She was there again this year, this time posting a 9-6 victory over [...] -
NAU has top Big Sky freshman, but women’s hoops struggle
Laurie Kelly knew what she was getting when she recruited Amy Patton out of McClintock High School in Tempe. She led McClintock to the state finals last year and was named the Arizona Republic Player of the Year. But the head women’s basketball coach at Northern Arizona University could not have anticipated the extent to [...] -
ASU baseball one of just two teams still undefeated in Pac-10
And then there were two. That’s how many undefeated baseball teams remain in the Pac-10. And Arizona State is one of them. Going into the weekend, there were three undefeated teams still standing, but Washington State dropped the last game of a three-game series to Utah, 4-1, and then it was just No. 4 ASU [...] -
Safford, Sunnyside wrestlers get all but two All-Arizona picks
After wrestlers from Safford HS and Sunnyside HS were added to the All-Arizona wrestling team, there were just two spots left for other high schools. The dominance of the two schools in Arizona high school wrestling continues, as Sunnyside won this year’s 5A-II dual state tournament and Sunnyside won the 3A team title. For Sunnyside, [...] -
Third time is charm for Mesa CC, new Region I hoops champ
Some of the best college basketball in Arizona can often be found in junior college gyms. And this year was no exception. Cochise College had beaten Mesa Community College twice this season – by a combined total of four points! Last night they met for the third time, but this time with the Region I [...] -
Thoughts of John Wooden and UCLA hang over ACCAC play
Futile. Webster’s Dictionary defines the word as “pointless, trifling, worrisome.” That might also define life in women’s college basketball in Arizona. At least, if your team is a member of the Arizona Community College Athletic Association (ACCAC). “It was great to get to this point two years in a row,” Arizona Western College coach, Patrick [...] -
Track records fall as Dome Classic spotlights small schools
It’s a pretty good bus ride from Sedona to Flagstaff, especially in a school bus. But the kids on the Red Rock HS track team made the trip worth their effort. Red Rock took first place in both the men’s and women’s team competition at the annual Dome Classic high school meet at Northern Arizona [...] -
One last game… ASU, UA basketball still hanging in there
As if carefully scripted, the ASU and UofA basketball games last night played out very similarly. Both schools won over L.A. teams, both won by five points, and both had to fight hard for one more win in a desperate run to season’s end. For the Sun Devils (21-9, 11-6), their 59-54 victory over USC [...]
