The 3A Softball quarterfinal round.
Willow Canyon beat Cienega 11-10 Tuesday to advance to the second round of the 5A softball playoffs. The win was but one note in an opera that wouldn’t be decided till the final pitch.
Bagdad is 14-2 in power-ranking games this year and ranked No. 1 in the state heading into the state playoffs.
Catalina Foothills beat Agua Fria 5-0 Wednesday to advance to the Division II quarterfinal round.
Salpointe girls tennis beat Gila Ridge 5-0 on Tuesday at the Tucson Racquet Club to open up the spring playoff season and then followed that up with a 5-0 win over Chandler Prep in beach volleyball.
St. Augustine is hoping to host the first playoff game in program history. The Wolves were forced to play home games at various venues in the Tucson area in their first 14 years of existence until the school built a field on their campus last year.
Kristie Stevens coached Catalina Foothills to 14 team titles, 11 doubles championships and 10 singles championships. She will now be the AD at Ironwood Ridge.
Mountain View beat Empire 2-0 three weeks ago to open up region play and Empire beat Mountain View 1-0 Friday night to end region play.
Pueblo reached the quarterfinal round of the state playoffs in the spring of 2016. The Warriors are back in the playoffs again.
The beach volleyball regular season ends on Thursday and the first round of the state playoffs is slated to begin on Tuesday, April 23. There are ten automatic qualifiers between the two divisions and nine of those have been spoken for.
The state tournament for teams in all three divisions will start on Tuesday, April 23 for girls and Wednesday, April 24 for boys. Singles and doubles competition is scheduled to start on Friday, April 26 for both.
Former Desert Vista standout Kristine Anigwe was the ninth pick in the WBNA Draft held on April 10.
The Catalina Foothills boys have won 101 matches in a row, including five state championships.
The No. 3 ranking in the state that will carry the Nighthawks to the postseason and that ranking was solidified with a 14-4 win over No. 22 Williams Field (7-7, 2-5) Wednesday at home.
The Pusch Ridge girls beat Sahuarita 5-4 Tuesday to claim the Division III, Section II title.
Former Cholla standout Abran Carrasco (Pima CC) and former Coconino (Pima CC) standout Jacqulynn “JJ” Nakai were named First Team NJCAA All-Americans on Monday
Rincon/University and Salpointe Catholic went 3-0 in Pool Play at the Salpointe Boys Volleyball Invitational Friday to earn tops seeds in the Gold Bracket on Saturday morning.
Catalina Foothills will host Rincon/University on Thursday.
Mountain View beat Sahuaro 11-4 Monday to improve to 8-3 in power-ranking games.
San Marcos beat Tucson 7-6 Saturday morning to capture the championship of the Chris Moon Baseball Invitational.
Salpointe beat region rival Canyon del Oro 6-1 Friday to remain perfect in power-ranking games. Ranked No. 1 in the latest AIA/MaxPreps Rankings, the Lancers are now 9-0 overall.
Seven section winners, plus eight at-large teams, will make up the field for the 2019 Division III state tournament slated to start on May 7 at the Omni Tucson National.
Sabino improved to 9-1 overall thanks to a 7-2 win at Pusch Ridge Tuesday night. The win also gave the Sabercats the upper hand in the 3A South Region and a tighter grip on the early power-point rankings.
Chris Moon was an All-State pitcher from Tucson High who ignored the Atlanta Braves, stepped away from the University of Arizona as a freshman and then died in battle in 2010, serving our country as a sniper in Afghanistan.
Tristan Peterson was named WAC Hitter of the Week and National Player of the Week by the College Baseball Newspaper.
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