Baseball tourney honors memory of late coach
March 13, 2011
by
Don Ketchum,
AZPreps365
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Baseball continues to heat up this week with two Valley tournaments.
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Biggest is the 58-team Coach Bob Invitational at several sites in the northwest Valley. It begins Monday and is spread out over the course of a few weeks, to March 25. "="">
The tournament, hosted by Anthem Boulder Creek, is named in honor of longtime Valley baseball coach Bob Weinheimer, who passed away on March 4 at the age of 90. Weinheimer, a former assistant at Chandler High and Boulder Creek, was inducted into the Arizona High School Baseball Hall of Fame in 2006.
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Boulder Creek is one of the host sites. Others are Chandler, Phoenix Barry Goldwater, Phoenix Sandra Day O’Connor, Glendale Apollo, Goodyear Desert Edge, Chandler, Tolleson and Surprise Willow Canyon.
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There are three divisions – National, American and Open. Chandler won the National Division last year and Goldwater the American.
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Participating teams from Arizona are Boulder Creek, Apollo, Chandler, Flagstaff Coconino, Desert Edge, Goldwater, Sandra Day O’Connor, Page, Prescott, Tolleson and Willow Canyon.
