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Week-long tourneys test AZ prep baseball, softball teams
Get as many hits as you want, but it eventually comes down to pitching – particularly in tournament play. And that’s how it played out in this week’s big high school baseball and softball tournaments that wrapped up over the weekend. But the Hamilton High baseball team and Mountain View High School softball team took [...] -
Who can keep St. Mary’s from girls’ hoops crown? No one
Aside from death and taxes, the only other thing we can count on is that St. Mary’s High School will win a state girls’ basketball championship this year. The Knights have been slowly validating their status as the best team in the state, and probably the country, by working their way through the Division I [...] -
St. Mary’s HS stakes a claim to No. 1 by winning Nike TOC
How does a girls’ high school basketball team earn the right to be considered the best in the nation? It involves a lot of factors, but one thing needs to be included in the qualifications. That team has to win the Joe Smith Division of the prestigious Nike Tournament of Champions that draws the nation’s [...] -
No. 1 ASU softball wins Pac-10 title for just second time
The No. 1-ranked Arizona State softball team took care of business this weekend, winning just its second Pac-10 championship in program history. The Devils clinched the title outright Thursday when they beat No. 11 Stanford in the opener to a three-game home series and boosted their conference mark to 16-3. They went on to take [...] -
Arizona loses Pac-10 tourney title on shot at the buzzer
When Kevin Parrom sunk that three-point shot to tie the game with 20 seconds left in overtime, it looked like the Wildcats were headed for a second overtime period. But 20 seconds is a long time in a college basketball game. It was plenty of time for Washington’s Isaiah Thomas to set up for the [...] -
GCU claims second-straight men’s soccer PacWest title
Last night’s men’s soccer victory over Chaminade University felt good. It was on Senior Night at Grand Canyon University and featured a dominant offensive effort by the Antelopes. But it was somewhat anti-climatic to the day before when the ‘Lopes clinched the Pacific West Conference championship for the second straight year, thanks to an upset [...] -
End of a 12-year golf reign: Hamilton HS beats Xavier Prep
Bill Clinton was just starting his second term as the 42nd President when the Xavier Prep golf team started its string of consecutive 5A-I girls’ state championships. That streak began in 1998, but the Gators also lay claim to 28 of the last 30 state team titles. Now we’re talking Jimmy Carter. It got to [...] -
Heartland Classic done, Nike Track Nationals run today
The summer months hardly qualify as “off-season” any more, as high school sports teams use the time to travel around the country, testing their mettle against teams from other states. Just last week, an Arizona team made up of baseball players from 18 different high schools throughout the state spent six days at the Heartland [...] -
Duke, Brophy have more in common than lacrosse titles
An old adage tells us that time heals all wounds. And in sports, winning can sometimes speed the healing process. No better example of that this year than in the sport of lacrosse, where local and national stories crossed paths. On the big stage, Duke’s lacrosse team won the NCAA championship this season – finally [...] -
Finally! ASU captures Pac-10 baseball title outright
Talk about drama! A season-ending series with Stanford and a conference baseball title were decided in today’s third and final game with the Cardinal. Not only did Arizona State wait until the very last game of the regular season to clinch the Pac-10 crown, but they played a see-saw game with Stanford as the lead [...]
