Some outcomes that have happened before took place again in the 2012-2013 season. A few took place in different fashion. Some were inexplicable. Some were one-of-a-kind. Here are a half-dozen worthy of note from East Valley and southern Arizona schools and one of a general nature from the past athletic year.

The order is not important. Correction: Except No. 1. The stunner of the year.

1. The voting down of the transfer rule (25 or 50 miles not the issue). The entire state had been looking for a rule to slow down athletic-motivated transfers. On March 1 those folks and their representatives got their chance. A few (I don't know what to call them) blew it spouting stuff like it wasn't a problem in their area. The problem was widespread or there would never have been such a long and persistent outcry for change. Like the U.S. Congress, a few with blinders on/tunnel vision shunned the overwhelming sentiment  and chose the status quo. Easily the most embarrassing moment of 2012-2013. 

2. Hamilton wins the big-school state football championship. Not unique since Hamilton has won often the past decade, but the Huskies did so as the underdog this time.  After enduring the longest losing streak in school history (three straight losses), the Huskies battled back to win a football title for the seventh time in 10 years.

3. Corona del Sol repeating as big-school basketball champs. Talk about finding a different way to repeat. After dominating most of the competition at state in 2011-2012, the No.-seed Aztecs won four tight games to capture a second consecutive crown. By all rights they should have been eliminated in the round of 16 by Mountain Pointe, but survived on super-clutch threes by Casey Benson and Brian Siefker.Millennium,  Desert Mountain and Pinnacle all could have prevailed in the quarters, semis and final, but as coach Sammy Duane Jr. said many times during the season and postseason, "This team finds a way."

4. Queen Creek captures the Division II football title over Desert Edge - 9-7 -- by virtue of a safety in the finals seconds. Last-second touchdown, extra point, two-point conversion, field goal, blocked punt or kick. Seen those decide a game before, but not a safety. Heartbreaking way for Desert Edge to end up on the losing end of a great game. Never saw so many stunned faces -- on both teams -- in how this game at Sun Devil Stadium was decided.

5. Ironwood Ridge winning its first football championship. Lots of folks were touting fluke when the Nighthawks beat perennial D-II powers Marcos de Niza and Centennial in successive weeks in late September. Ironwood Ridge answered the challenge by meeting up with both foes again in postseason. They beat each team worse the second time-- Marcos in the semifinals and Centennial in the title game.

6. Corona del Sol's McKenna Isenberg's 12-inning, playoff pitching performance. As close to full health as she had been in three seasons, Isenberg unleashed a 24-strikeout performance in an 11-inning, first-round D-I softball playoff game against Perry. Isenberg was the losing pitcher in a 2-1 decision. She recorded strikeouts of the first 15 outs of the game and 17 of the first 18. The only non-strikeout out of the first 18 outs was a a sacrifice bunt.