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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 [...] -
Prep track champions gathering at Chandler Rotary Invite
Nearly 3,000 high school track & field athletes showed up last year to compete in the Chandler Rotary Invitational. And this year an even bigger chunk of those will be from Arizona. The 72-year-old event, the second-oldest continuously-run invitational meet in Arizona, topped the century mark last year with 107 teams from five states and [...] -
Prep hoops…Division 1 title games go according to script
Woulda, Coulda, Shoulda. That could have been the theme for the day in the top two divisions of yesterday’s high school state basketball championships. In Division II… it was the Woulda, Coulda factor. A win by the Peoria High School girls would have given the school a sweep of the state titles because the Peoria [...] -
ASU, UA softball drop in rankings after Kajikawa Classic
The Kajikawa Classic softball tournament at Arizona State opens the season and is a good way to get an early preview of Arizona’s Pac-12 teams. It wasn’t ugly this year…but it couldn’t be called pretty, either. Last year, the University of Arizona was ranked No. 2 in the nation and ASU entered the season at [...] -
ASU, UA gymnastics teams split Territorial Cup series
There were a couple of noticeable differences between the two women’s gymnastics meets that made up the Territorial Cup competition between Arizona and Arizona State this season. First, only one team in the initial meeting at the end of January was nationally ranked. Arizona went into that match with a No. 15 ranking – and [...] -
Cienega HS brings ‘Cinderella’ story to football title games
There will be some great high school football on display this weekend, as teams in the various divisions vie for state championships. But one game offers the best chance for a compelling storyline. Cienega High School will represent southern Arizona in a Saturday evening Division II game at Sun Devil Stadium. The Bobcats, from tiny [...] -
Prep football rivalries in Week 8 fail to measure up
High school football rivalry games don’t always live up to the hype. Rivalries have their up years and their down years. Week 8 of the 2011 season had several rivalry games on the schedule, but only one lived up to its promise – and that one is just getting started. One of the oldest and [...] -
Prep football Week 4: rearranging top big-school rankings
We’ve only finished Week 4 of the high school football season, but there was no doubt that at least two of the top-ranked teams in the big-school divisions were about to fall. That’s because four of the top five teams in Division I were playing against each other. No. 3 Brophy Prep was the only [...] -
AZ team wilts in heat of high school football All-Star game
A high school football All-Star game in the middle of summer, in the Arizona desert? What were they thinking? It happened over the weekend, with teams assembled from Arizona and Southern California ‘all stars’ meeting at a spring training baseball facility in Surprise, the culmination of a couple of years of planning by the two [...] -
Jahii Carson v. Josiah Turner hoops match-up has to wait
Josiah Turner‘s last-minute decision to pull out of the USA Basketball U19 training camp is disappointing… and a little disconcerting. It’s disappointing because it would have offered a preview of sorts for next season, when the five-star recruit begins his college career with the University of Arizona. As one of just three high school players [...]
