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The Gilbert district governing board Tuesday night officially approved a recommendation from Mesquite High to hire Matt Gracey as the Wildcats next football coach.
A 10-4 victory would usually result in the winning coach wearing a broad smile.
Mesa Mountain View baseball coach Mike Thiel did not have more than half a grin after his Toros topped visiting Mountain Ridge on Tuesday afternoon at Toro Field.
Coach helped build competitive football program at North Canyon.
It was not hard to get lost in the shuffle as a prep softball pitcher in the Valley the last few years. Gilbert hurler MIchelle Duncan can relate.
Gators defeat Sandra Day OConnor 7-0 for first win on artificial turf.
Basketball, wrestling and soccer will return next school year with new sectional formats.
Mesquite turned on the power game, took advantage of a couple Gilbert miscues and rode that combination to an 8-4 win over the host Tigers and the championship of the Scottsdale Quarterback Club Baseball Invitational.
Toros take 50-29 victory, win their seventh crown since 1995 under coach Gary Ernst.
Chandler High played the game it wanted against St. Mary\'s for the first 15 minutes of the 5A-I girls basketball championship game on Friday. It was that last minute of the half that was ugly and esentially ended the Wolves hope of claiming the title
St.. Mary\'s used an 9-0 run to end the first half and that opened the gates to a 73-60 win over Chandler at Jobing.com Arena.
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.
Pinnacle was determined to put the clamps on Tolleson guard Syerra Davis on Friday in the 5A-II girls basketball championship game. The Pioneers hounded Davis one-on-one and did a fine job on the Wolverines leading scorer, who had scored 49 points in two previous meetings this season.
The solution was for other Tolleson players to step up. That they did.
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.
Broncos defeat Mesa 96-82, will face Mountain View for championship on Friday night.
Games are supposed to get tougher as the state tournament progresses. That is not the case for top-seed St. Marys.
The Knights raced to a 24-9 lead in the first quarter Thursday and dominated in virtually every facet to defeat No. 5 Xavier, 71-42, in the 5A-I semifinals at Jobing.com Arena.
The game was eerily similar. But in the end not the same.
This time Chandler High started fast and maintained its lead the entire way, knocking off third-seed Mesa Mountain View, 58-54 on Thusday afternoon at Jobing.com Arena to advance to the 5A-I state championship game.
Stampede record 60-56 over Desert Mountain boys in 5A-II semifinal on Wednesday night.
Fourth-seeded Firebirds defeat top-seeded Pinnacle 61-58 in 5A-II semifinal.
Pinnacle girls basketball is resilient. The Pioneers want that moniker to read champions.
Sophomore guard Sydney Wiese played like a champion with an amazing 35-point effort Wednesday night helping No. 2 seed Pinnacle edge 10th-seed Horizon, 65-61, in a 5A-II girls basketball semifinal at Jobing.com Arena.
They were not close games the first two times the teams met. Nothing changed the third time.
Top-seed Tolleson jumped out to a 17-10 lead after the first period and methodically put away fifth-seeded Westview, 62-37, on Wednesday afternoon in a 5A-II girls basketball semifinal at Jobing.com Arena.
After more than three months without a football coach, Mesa Mtn. View finally has one.
The school announced Wednesday it has hired Cactus Shadows coach Chad DeGrenier as its next coach. DeGrenier will be the fourth coach in the 35-year history of the school.
Defense put Gilbert High in a hole Tuesday, but courageous base running and offense dug the Tigers out of that trench and on to an eighth consecutive victory.
Cassie Vela stole home on a delayed steal to plate the tie-breaking run and Elysia Mesa ripped a two-run double for insurance a bit later as Gilbert defeated Desert Ridge, 7-4, in a 5A-I non-region softball game at Gilbert. It was the first power-point game of the season for both schools.
Class 5A-II games feature three boys teams from Desert Valley Region and two girls teams.
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