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Wildcats snag national swim titles, Devil divers finish strong
They say there’s strength in numbers. The adage seems to have worked for University of Arizona swimmers. The Wildcats, who qualified the maximum number of swimmers (18) for the NCAA Swimming & Diving Championships just concluded, pulled off a third-place finish this year, scoring 387 points, and brought back a couple of individual titles as [...] -
ASU will send five to the NCAA Wrestling Championships
The good news for ASU wrestling is they will be able to send five of this year’s squad to compete at the NCAA Championships this weekend, more than double last year’s number. The better news is that the Devils will lose only one of those to graduation. Erik Nye, wrestling in the heavyweight division, is [...] -
NCAA invites 11 Sun Devils to Indoor T&F Championships
A pair of true freshmen will make the trip to the University of Arkansas this weekend to represent Arizona State in the long jump at the NCAA Indoor Track & Field Championships. They will be the only women in the group of 11 ASU participants who earned entry to the national meet, and the only [...] -
Tennis is just the latest sport to fall under the Aztec spell
The gods must be smiling on the Aztecs. The Corona del Sol HS Aztecs won the Kiwanis tennis tournament over the weekend, repeating as champions. Brophy Prep was the boys’ champion, not a surprise since Brophy enters this season as the defending high school 5A-I state champions. Corona’s girls finished in a three-way tie for [...] -
Two high-profile careers end with 3A basketball finals
A couple of prominent names in high school basketball closed out careers this weekend. One left the court to move on to bigger challenges, the other wrapped up 41 years on the bench. The 3A state championships set the stage for the last game of Corey Hawkins’ prolific high school career. The senior, who set [...] -
ASU divers deliver at Pac-10 Championships
ASU’s diving team got off to an impressive start at the Pac-10 Championships in Washington. The men’s 3-meter diving crown seems to have found a semi-permanent home at Arizona State University. For the eighth consecutive year, a Sun Devil has won the 3-meter conference championship. And it was a sophomore who won the title at [...] -
Something for everyone at 4A hoops championships
Revenge. Frustration. Prolific scoring. And one Cinderella. That’s the mix of great story lines we get with this year’s 4A state championship high school basketball games on tap for tomorrow. The REVENGE comes on the boys’ side, where second-ranked Sunnyslope HS in 4A-I gets a chance to even the score with No. 1 McClintock HS, [...] -
4A-I gets a new wrestling champion, but little else changes
Big-school wrestling competition is getting pretty predictable. There was a changing of the guard this year in 4A high school wrestling. But it was more of the same in 5A as Sunnyside HS won its 12 straight title in 5A-II and Corona del Sol HS repeated as state champions in 5A-I. Sunnyside rode its group [...] -
Sunnyside gets a surprise at 5A state wrestling championships
A couple of points was all it took to let Ironwood Ridge HS slip into the No. 1 seed for Saturday’s 5A-II high school State Wrestling Team Tournament. Sunnyside HS has won 262 consecutive dual meets, although not including tournaments in that record run. The Tucson school has earned the title, “wrestling powerhouse,” that is [...]
