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Baseball tourneys give high schools early-season test
High school baseball teams are working their way through some of the early-season tournaments, using them as barometers to test their readiness for the coming region competition. Some of the better squads in the Phoenix area used the Scottsdale Quarterback Club Invitational in Gilbert to get a read on their games. As expected, the 5A [...] -
ASU baseball rebounds after upset in Coca Cola tourney
Arizona State baseball hit the same bump in the road on their schedule that got in the way of University of Arizona last year. It was a small college in California with less than 8,000 students and playing their first year of Division I ball that knocked ASU off course. Cal State Bakersfield upset the [...] -
AZ colleges debut new sports programs for track, baseball
The options in Arizona are growing for high school athletes who want to move on to play at the college level. Two new sports programs debut this weekend, as Grand Canyon University launches its new track & field program and Arizona Christian University throws out the first ball in its new baseball program. Arizona Christian [...] -
NCAA drops the hammer on ASU baseball program
The sword that’s been hanging over Coach Tim Esmay’s head has finally dropped. It has cut 44 wins and a Pac-10 championship from Arizona State’s 2007 baseball season. It was the NCAA doing the cutting, a result of its investigation into the school’s baseball program under Esmay’s predecessor, Pat Murphy. The penalties were imposed yesterday [...] -
Jerry Dawson’s gonna take a swing at the college game
Jerry Dawson, the hall of fame coach who started the baseball program at Chaparral High School in 1974, has found a new team that can use his help. Dawson, who just retired after 37 years at the perennial baseball power in Scottsdale, has joined the baseball coaching staff at Yavapai College in Prescott, where he [...] -
UA baseball players use Cape Cod League to prep for 2011
Boston is considerably more than a pop fly away from the University of Arizona campus at Tucson. But it’s where a couple of the key elements to next year’s Wildcat baseball team are honing their skills over the summer. Kyle Simon, a right-handed pitcher who won eight games last season for the Cats (most on [...] -
Arizona JUCOs loading up on top out-of-state talent
Junior colleges serve as an important step for many athletes on their way to play at a four-year college. The players all have their own story about why they picked the JUCO route. Central Arizona College in Coolidge and Arizona Western College in Yuma each picked up a player that could provide an immediate impact [...] -
ASU’s express to Omaha gets another Player of the Year
The rich keep getting richer. Nowhere is that truer than in sports. Those teams that are rich in talent win games. Winning attracts others who want to be a part of the celebration. Which perpetuates the winning. In college sports, that’s the crux of the recruiting process. In college baseball, few teams do it better [...] -
Pima CC enters 2010-11 with major coaching changes
Pima Community College is undergoing a couple of major changes in their athletic program. New head coaches have been added to both the men’s basketball and baseball programs. But they’re keeping things in the family, as both coaches have logged years as assistants on the coaching staffs. And both are local products. Roderick Gary, who [...] -
State’s top JUCO baseball players at Honkbal Tournament
You don’t have to play for a D-I college to get a chance to travel the world. Right now, a team of junior college baseball players is hitting the practice field in Haarlem, Netherlands. And that squad includes a handful of Arizona boys. The players make up the NJCAA All-Stars, a 24-member team representing the [...]
