Corona del Sol girls soccer coach Matt Smith had a pretty fair summation of the Aztecs Central Region matchup with Mesquite.
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Simone Westbrook, the leading scorer the past two seasons for the Desert Vista girls basketball team, has transferred to Chandler High and will begin playing with the Wolves at mid-month.
The household names for the Corona del Sol boys basketball team are not Rashidi Kabamba, Braden Tennyson and Nick Siefker.
Those names, however, were music to the ears of Aztecs coach Sam Duane Jr. on Thursday night.
Strikers Lopez, Quintana spark Cardinals to their 11th win in 15 matches.
A year after winning the 5A-I girls basketball title, Dobson coach Tyler Dumas has nearly gone back to square one. He has ventured to the chalkboad and erased the 2010 lesson. Chiseled out the path for 2011 and perhaps beyond.
The transformation from state champ to building back to that level is gradual. Tha is why Dumas likes the challenge of coaching.
Dirk Walker\'s team develops up-tempo style as it faces Randy Walker and defending Class 5A-II champion Boulder Creek.
About three dozen athletes, coaches to be honored in ceremony on Saturday, Jan. 8.
Five boys basketball games set for Saturday, Jan. 8 at home of Suns.
St. Marys girls basketball boosted by Dosty, Neals.
Team was atop power-points list in Class 4A Division II entering the first week of 2011.
After winning tourney in Oregon, team got four days off and it showed early. It still had four in double figures.
The first basketball experience Kyle Bingham encountered at Mesa Mountain View -- getting cut from the freshman summer team. Bingham had not shown up religiously at open gyms after playing with Poston Junior High as a freshman. That did not bode well for his chances of making the Toros junior varsity once his sophomore year began in the fall of 2008.
Bingham, however, was not overly concerned. As he puts it, \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\"I have always felt I was meant to play basketball.\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\"
Pinnacle brought its young, energetic boys basketball team to Mesa High Tuesday and did not look the part of young very much.
The Pioneers, leading most of the game except for brief moments in the second period and at halftime, outplayed the host Jackrabbits and posted a 67-57 win in a 5A non-region game.
The Hamilton girls soccer team ended the 2010 portion of the 2010-2011 season with two invitational titles. Hamilton won the Diablo Classic three weeks ago. And the latest was acquired Friday morning with the Huskies 3-0 victory over Flagstaff to win the Dobson Mustang Soccer Classic at Dobson High.
Rich Brumbaugh leads boys basketball team at Tolleson High.
Oozing with tradition, Archbishop Moeller, Ohio and Mesa Mountain View,were the final matchup of the 2010 VisitMesa.com Basketball Challenge. The teams did not disappoint.
Sporting unbeaten records in the tournament and for the season, the teams gave fans a fitting marquee matchup as Moeller trimmed Mountain View, 36-35, in a classic defensive battle at Toro Gym.
Weston Newell scores 28 points to lead the Jaguars.
Defense is one of the main ingredients for Wolverines. Junior forward Stacy Davis scores 23 to lead the way.
Rick McConnell will likely never pass his father in coaching victories, but together nearly 1,300 wins is mighty impressive.
It was an uphill battle all the way for Corona del Sol on Wednesday night in its bid to reach the finals of the McClintock Holiday Shootout. And it took help from more players than usual to make up what once was a 14-point deficit in the second period.
The Aztecs finally took the lead with a little more than four minutes left and hung on to edge Brophy, 53-47, at McClintock High School.
Trevor Browne girls play basketball with a winning attitude.