Immaculate Heart is having one of the best starts in school history and the Knights are doing it without much fanfare. It’s difficult for a “small school” with less than 100 enrolled to get much publicity as it is, but it’s hard to ignore a 12-4 record.
Semifinals
Tanque Verde 47, Immaculate Heart 13 (G)
Sahuarita 34, The Gregory School 33 (G)
The Gregory School 95, Antelope 74 (B)
St. Augustine 51, Tanque Verde 36 (B)
Girls Championship
Tanque Verde 53, Sahuarita 20
Boys Championship
The Gregory School 83, St. Augustine 66
We are about five weeks away from the Division III state golf championship to be played May 13-14 at the Antelope Hills Golf Course in Prescott. There are seven sections in D-III and each section winner will earn an automatic berth to the playoffs while eight more teams will earn an at-large berth based on their iWanamaker rankings.
Southern Arizona teams competed in five divisions this year. And, of those five, only teams from the "smaller" three divisions have made it or will be playing in a state championship game.
No. 2 Elfrida Valley Union made it to the D-VI championship where the Blue Devils lost to No. 1 Pima on November 14 and No.3 Pusch Ridge is in the D-IV final while No. 1 Benson is playing for the D-V championship.
The first official AIA/MaxPreps Rankings for girl's volleyball came out Tuesday morning with few if any surprises. Teams in each of the five divisions will be fighting for a playoff spot with the automatic bids handed out to each of the section champions.