Don Ketchum
Former Staff Writer, AZPreps365.com

Spring sports events continue

March 24, 2013 by Don Ketchum, AZPreps365


Here are this week’s top spring sports tournaments in Scottsdale, Phoenix, the southwest, northwest and north Valley and northern Arizona . . .

Baseball

Coach Bob Invitational, (continuing) Monday (March 25) through Saturday (March 30) at Glendale Apollo, Anthem Boulder Creek, Laveen Cesar Chavez, Chandler, Glendale Deer Valley, Goodyear Desert Edge, Grand Canyon University (Phoenix), Gilbert Higley, Phoenix North Canyon, Phoenix Pinnacle, Phoenix Sandra Day O’Connor, Surprise Shadow Ridge, Tolleson, Surprise Valley Vista, Surprise Willow Canyon.

Teams: Ada (Okla.), Air Academy (Colo.), Alexander Dawson (Colo.), Americas (Texas), Glendale Apollo, Phoenix Barry Goldwater, Bartlesville (Okla.), Bend (Ore.), Bishop Gorman (Nev.), Bishop McGuinness (Okla.), Bixby (Okla.), Bonneville (Idaho), Anthem Boulder Creek, Broken Arrow (Okla.), Canby (Ore.), Central (Colo.), Laveen Cesar Chavez, Chandler, Chaparral (Colo.), Flagstaff Coconino, Columbine (Colo.), Crescent Valley (Ore.), D’Evelyn (Colo.), Dakota Ridge (Colo.), Deer Creek (Okla.) . . .

Others . . . Glendale Deer Valley, Denver Christian (Colo.), Goodyear Desert Edge, Edmond (Okla.), Elizabeth (Colo.), Escondido (Calif.), Fairview (Colo.), Farmington (N.M.), Florence (Colo.), Fossil Ridge (Colo.), Golden (Colo.), Grand Junction (Colo.), Grant (Ore.), Green Mountain (Colo.), Harrah (Okla.), Henley (Ore.), Highland (Calif.), Highlands Ranch (Colo.), Gilbert Higley, Hood River (Ore.), Inola (Okla.), Juneau Douglas (Alaska), Klamath Union (Ore.), Lake Oswego (Ore.), Lakeridge (Ore.), Lancaster (Calif.), Lewis-Palmer (Colo.), Liberty (Colo.), Lincoln (Ore.), Montgomery Bell (Tenn.), Moorpark (Calif.), Mullen (Colo.), Muskogee (Okla.), Niwot (Colo.), Phoenix North Canyon, North Medford (Ore.), Page, Palmer (Colo.) . . .

More . . . Palmer Ridge (Colo.), Piedra Vista (N.M.), Pine Creek (Colo.), Phoenix Pinnacle, Ponca City (Okla.), Ponderosa (Colo.), Prescott, Publo West (Colo.), Quartz Hill (Calif.), Silver Creek (Colo.), South Salem (Ore.), Southridge (Ore.), Thousand Oaks (Calif.), Thunder Mountain (Alaska), Thunder Ridge (Colo.), Thurston (Colo.), Tolleson, Tualatin (Ore.), Tulsa Memorial (Okla.), Surprise Valley Vista, Valor Christian (Colo.), Verdigris (Okla.), West Albany (Ore.), West Linn (Ore.), Westview (Ore.), Wheatridge (Colo.), Surprise Willow Canyon, Buckeye Youngker.

Greenway Festival, Monday through Friday (March 29) at Phoenix Greenway.

Softball

Sandra Day O’Connor-Deer Valley Festival, Thursday (March 28) through Saturday at Phoenix Sandra Day O’Connor and Glendale Deer Valley.

Teams: Glendale Cactus, Yuma Cibola, Glendale Deer Valley, Yuma Gila Ridge, Glendale Raymond S. Kellis, Phoenix Sandra Day O’Connor, Peoria Sunrise Mountain, Avondale Westview.

Track and field

2012 Sunset Meet (boys and girls), Wednesday (March 20) at Kayenta Monument Valley.

Teams: Ganado, Montezuma-Cortez (Colo.), San Juan (Utah), Shiprock (N.M.), Fort Defiance Window Rock.

Glendale Union High School District Relays (boys and girls), Thursday and Friday at Glendale Apollo.

Teams: Glendale Apollo, Phoenix Cortez, Glendale, Phoenix Greenway, Glendale Independence, Phoenix Moon Valley, Phoenix Sunnyslope, Phoenix Thunderbird, Phoenix Washington.

Peoria Invitational (boys and girls), Thursday and Friday at Peoria High.

Teams: Buckeye, Glendale Cactus, Peoria Centennial, Goodyear Desert Edge, El Mirage Dysart, Glendale Independence, Glendale Ironwood, Peoria Liberty, Phoenix North Pointe Prep, Phoenix Northwest Christian, Scottsdale Notre Dame Prep, Peoria, Glendale Raymond S. Kellis, Peoria Sunrise Mountain.

Scottsdale Distance Classic (boys and girls), Thursday at Scottsdale Saguaro.

Sedona Friendship Meet (girls), Saturday at Sedona Red Rock.