If a couple days and four summer games are a decent sample, good things are certainly ahead come fall and winter for Pinnacle and Amphi boys basketball teams.

Amphi journeyed up the hill Friday for some tough competition and held its own and thensome iFriday n reaching the final opposite Pinnacle in the inaugural Mesa Summer Primetime boys hoops tournament.

Boys basketball is the game. Quality teams and talent the aim of inaugural prep summer hoops tournament at Red Mountain HS.

Players compete with an intensity similar to that of state tournament.

Former head coach at North Canyon recently has been assistant at Boulder Creek.

Josiah McDaniel takes over as girls coach at Boulder Creek after departing Horizon.

Brendan Pineda also starred in basketball and football for the Wolverines.

He led the Huskies to state tournament in all four years of his time at northeast Valley school.

Boys team won school\'s first crown with 65-60 victory in double overtime over Chaparral.

Basketball, wrestling and soccer will return next school year with new sectional formats.

Talk about a battle for your first boys basketball title in school history. Chaparral and Betty H. Fairfax was just that Friday afternoon as Chaparral nearly four decades old and Fairfax four-years-old duked it out at Jobing.com Arena. Pierre Newton made free throws and reserve Jovan Wright several clutch 3s in regularion and overtimes as Betty Fairfax dealt Chaparral a second straight gut-wrenching 5A-II state title defeat, 65-60, in double overtime.

Mountain View remembered how it played in the first half against Buena in December when it bolted to a 19-point advantage at intermission. Buena was hoping the Toros did not. Fourth-seed Mountain View used an 18-2 edge in the opening period Thursday night to put the top-seed Colts on their heels and went on to post a 67-39 victory in the 5A-I boys basketball semifinals at Jobing.com Arena.