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Baseball tourneys give high schools early-season test
High school baseball teams are working their way through some of the early-season tournaments, using them as barometers to test their readiness for the coming region competition. Some of the better squads in the Phoenix area used the Scottsdale Quarterback Club Invitational in Gilbert to get a read on their games. As expected, the 5A [...] -
AZ high schools tested at VisitMesa.com hoops tourney
The Westwind Prep basketball team was looking for a challenge and figured the VisitMesa.com Basketball Challenge was it. Hey, it was right there in the tournament’s name. Turned out, the high-scoring and previously undefeated Phoenix charter school was right. The term ‘undefeated’ no longer applies. The Warriors joined with some of the best high school [...] -
Tucson soccer teams win Brandon Bean pre-season event
The high school soccer teams in southern Arizona got together last week for the annual Brandon Bean Classic tournament to kick off the 2010 soccer season. This year’s field left out many of the best teams in the state, those that reside north of the Casa Grande city limits. But the 20 teams entered included [...] -
State’s top JUCO baseball players at Honkbal Tournament
You don’t have to play for a D-I college to get a chance to travel the world. Right now, a team of junior college baseball players is hitting the practice field in Haarlem, Netherlands. And that squad includes a handful of Arizona boys. The players make up the NJCAA All-Stars, a 24-member team representing the [...] -
Marcos de Niza, Central HS win 7-on-7 passing tourneys
On the edge of downtown Phoenix, Brophy Prep was hosting a high school 7-on-7 passing tournament last weekend, put together by the AIA in partnership with the folks at the Fiesta Bowl. It was the first of what is expected to be an annual event. A 45-minute drive to the west side of the Valley, [...] -
Three bogeys derail ASU golfer’s shot at national title
It was pretty heady stuff for a freshman in college as a gallery of onlookers followed Jennifer Johnson around the Country Club of Landfall course in North Carolina. They wanted to see if the young golfer could hold on for the last 18 of 72 holes to win the NCAA Div. I Women’s Golf Championship. [...] -
Yavapai College falls short of 2nd straight national title
Lightning did not strike twice for the Yavapai College softball team. Last year, they were able to beat Wallace State Community College to claim their first NJCAA national title. But this year they couldn’t get past the Alabama squad, losing 8-4 in today’s semi-final. Wallace State will play for the national title while Yavapai returns [...] -
Highland Park saga part of a bigger issue in HS sports
It seems you can’t turn around right now without running smack dab into the controversy over a Chicago-area high school girls basketball team that was forced to cancel a trip to Arizona for what appeared to be political reasons. It’s on TV, on the radio, in the newspapers, and all over the internet. The girls [...] -
ASU, UA get bounced from Pac-10 tourney. What now?
Well, it looks those who have been predicting just one Pac-10 representative will go to the Big Dance this year may be right, although hope isn’t dead yet for a second invite. Unfortunately, that team probably won’t be from Arizona. After ASU lost to UCLA, 70-61, and UofA was beat by Stanford, 75-69, in last [...]
