2020 state volleyball finalists vied for House of Payne title
A couple of runner-up finishes at the state volleyball finals last season may be providing motivation for strong starts to the 2021 season for both Notre Dame Prep and Perry … Read More
Tag: Perry High School
Boys’ volleyball state tourney features 3 nationally-ranked teams
The odds are good that this year’s state championship game for boys’ volleyball will be played between nationally-ranked teams. Three of the top-15 high school teams in the nation rolled … Read More
Local prep commit for UA basketball towers over 2022 Class
Dylan Anderson is the kind of person who stands out in a crowd. At seven feet tall, he’s kind of hard to miss. The college recruiters in Tucson didn’t have … Read More
Basha HS off to bad start in defense of 6A volleyball title
The high school volleyball season is just getting underway, but if early results are any indication of what’s to come, Basha High School has a long, grinding road back to … Read More
Same old faces back again in 6A state volleyball tourney
State volleyball tournaments start today for Arizona high schools. But in 6A, the state’s top conference, it already looks like another re-run from years past. Xavier Prep is seeded … Read More
Perry football looking for first win against #1 Chandler HS
Two words might best sum up a good reason for optimism for the Perry High School football team as the Gilbert school prepares for tomorrow night’s 6A conference match-up … Read More
Ouch! AZ prep football opens by sorting out the rankings
It’s usually somewhere around the middle of the high school football season that the ‘pretenders’ begin to separate themselves from the ‘contenders.’ But this season the process might be … Read More
Once-dominant Hamilton football hard to recognize now
The sudden shock and disruption of a hazing scandal that rocked the tradition-rich Hamilton High School football program 19 months ago has passed. But the pain lingers, as the fall-out … Read More
Perry, Flagstaff HS claim final volleyball tourney titles
The final tournaments of the girls’ high school volleyball season played out over the weekend as teams from across the state got one last chance to tune up before … Read More
Perry HS ends Xavier’s 6-year reign in beach volleyball
Perry High School will have its toughest challenge so far in the beach volleyball state tournament tonight when it faces off against No. 1-seeded Sandra Day O’Connor High School … Read More
In 2017, Perry HS has options to get first-ever state title
Every sports team at Perry High School has the same motivator when a new season begins: be the first team in the history of the 10-year-old Gilbert school to … Read More
Perry volleyball wins House of Payne…good omen or jinx?
To quote Yogi Berra, it’s ‘deja vu all over again’ for the Perry High School girls’ volleyball team. The Pumas won this year’s House of Payne Volleyball Invite over … Read More
Basha HS regrouping after Perry ends 26-game win streak
Sam Duane, Jr., knows what it’s like to build a high school basketball dynasty and, in the process, put together a record-setting run of consecutive wins. In this case, 70 straight … Read More
Girls’ soccer semis: Xavier v. Perry rises from the chaos
You only have to look at the Final Four results for all four conferences in the girls’ state soccer tournament to understand what a cluster bomb has gone off … Read More
Boulder Creek HS rallies to win boys’ D-I volleyball title
Perry High School played the role of the final ‘Cinderella’ team of the 2015-16 school year as its boys’ volleyball team made it all the way to the big … Read More
Sam Duane, Jr. is back coaching…this time at Perry HS
Well, that didn’t last long… Perry High School just announced the hire of Sam Duane, Jr., a name well-known in basketball circles around Arizona. At Corona del Sol High … Read More
#1 Dobson HS girls headline MLK Classic hoops tourney
It’s time again for the MLK Basketball Classic. This will be the 12th year the annual basketball tournament will be held in the Valley, with the ‘showcase’ games taking … Read More
Prep baseball, softball tourneys sprouting like spring flowers
An abundance of tournament play last week gave high school baseball and softball teams around the Valley a chance to get in some extra work, and give the coaches an … Read More