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Archive for June, 2011
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GCU women’s hoops adds D-I transfers in rebuilding effort
What do you do when your team graduates the No. 1 scorer in the nation, and the top two scorers in program history? If you’re Grand Canyon University basketball coach Trent May, you begin re-stocking the cupboard with the best talent you can find. And make the necessary adjustments to compensate for the losses. GCU, [...] -
Escobedo leads ASU vs. Florida for national softball title
Depending on how you want to look at it, the match-up with the Florida Gators in tonight’s series opener for the NCAA softball championship is either a bad omen for Arizona State – or an opportunity to settle a score. The Sun Devils have to be thinking about last year as they prepare for the [...] -
ASU, UA in regional baseball finals, but Cats are in a hole
Arizona and Arizona State have both advanced to the championship games in their NCAA baseball regionals. But the Wildcats had to do it the hard way…and still hold the short end of the stick. (Update: Senior second baseman Bryce Ortega led the Wildcats against Texas A&M with a 3-for-3 performance at the plate, and Josh [...] -
Central Arizona College is 1 win from JUCO baseball title
The Central Arizona College baseball team was rolling through the field at the junior college world series when it tripped over the Catamounts, just short of the championship game. CAC had beaten the Potomac State Catamounts earlier in the week, 12-2, but got caught looking past them a second time Thursday. The 11-3 loss to [...] -
ASU drops Sooners, 3-1, on march to nat’l softball title
If Oklahoma hadn’t made a couple of defensive miscues in the fourth inning, Katelyn Boyd‘s solo home run in the fifth would have made her the hero of Arizona State’s opening game of the Women’s College World Series. Instead, her 18th round trip of the season, over the left field fence at ASA Hall of [...] -
UA slips at NCAA golf championships, but ASU moves up
The Arizona State men’s golf team fired a 5-over 293 in yesterday’s second round of the NCAA Championships to give them a shot to advance to match play on the long road to the national title. ASU and University of Arizona were just one notch apart after Tuesday’s first round at the Karsten Creek Golf [...] -
Cron, Haeger records make 2011 the ‘Year of the Long Ball’
The 2011 baseball/softball season may go down in the Arizona high school record books as The Year of the Long Ball. Home-run records were set in both sports. Or perhaps it should be The Year of the Dual-Threat Pitcher. Both of the players who set new home-run records this season are pitchers. Not just wannabe [...]
