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Long ball helps win state titles for softball, baseball teams
It was kind of ironic that Chaparral High School won the Division I state baseball championship last night with a home run. This was supposed to be the year of the small ball. Arizona’s high-school baseball teams were required to use bats this season that met a standard performance test to verify that the bat’s [...] -
Chandler HS sweeps D-I track titles; 7th straight for girls
Chandler High School won the boys’ Division I state team title over the weekend, but Trae Armstrong and Devon Allen held center stage for most of the day. And neither is a Chandler student. Armstrong, from Deer Valley High School in Glendale, swept the three sprint events, but on two of them, the only way [...] -
Brophy Prep will play Gilbert for boys’ volleyball state title
If there’s anything the boys’ volleyball state tournament has demonstrated, it has to be the parity of this year’s field. The highest seeds have been left by the side of the road, many matches throughout the tourney have gone to four and five games, and tomorrow’s championship game will feature the No. 5 and No. [...] -
Basha HS one game from softball title shot vs. Red Mtn.
The Basha High softball team is doing it the hard way, but the Bears are getting it done. They have just one more hurdle to get to the Division I state title game. After being upset in the second round of the state tournament by Mountain Ridge High School, the No. 1-seeded Basha has won [...] -
Brophy, Xavier revenge last year’s team tennis title losses
The high school team-tennis titles shifted back to the north end of the 101 freeway this year, as Phoenix’s Brophy Prep and Xavier Prep wrested the state boys and girls championships from Tucson’s Salpointe Catholic. Salpointe swept the titles last year, playing in the old 5A-I division, beating the Brophy boys’ squad and the Xavier [...] -
AIA caught up in Nevada fight over Sollenberger Classic
As if the Arizona Interscholastic Association doesn’t have enough on its plate here at home, now it apparently is getting pulled into a nasty controversy in Nevada. If this one blows up, the fallout will likely rain down on Arizona. The governing body for the state’s high school sports programs has been dealing with various [...] -
Great stories…each AZ prep tennis singles title had one
For some reason, there always seem to be interesting story lines that emerge in high school tennis, particularly in the state tournament. This year was loaded even more than usual. In Division I… Alex Lawson closed out a career that now includes four state championships. His three-set victory over Nolan Bauer from Chaparral High School [...] -
Playoffs begin: 14 high schools bid for dual diamond titles
An interesting sidebar to this year’s Division I baseball and softball state playoffs involves a surprisingly high number of high schools that have at least a chance to sweep both titles. Of the three major sports, the chances of having solid boys and girls programs can generally be found on the diamond. Football, of course, [...] -
Sports camps as recruiting tools for HS coaches? Hmm…
Where do we draw the line for coaches trying to build good high school sports programs, but also needing to avoid the appearance of recruiting? And on which side of that line do sports camps fall? This whole ongoing issue of trying to prevent high schools from recruiting grade-school kids into their sports programs is [...] -
Sollenberger Classic football game in controversy…again
The high school football season is four months away and already we’re dealing with controversy over its opening game. It feels like 2011 all over again. For the past four years, the annual Sollenberger Classic that kicks off the Arizona season, has featured a match-up between Arizona and Nevada big-school champions. Last year a second [...]
