Sixteen girls teams and 14 boys squads invade Mesa Monday through New Years Eve Day for the 2010 Dobson Mustang Soccer Classic at Red Mountain Park and Dobson High School.
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Annual meeting produces lists from each of the classifications -- 5A-I, 5A-II, 4A-I, 4A-II, 3A, 2A and 1A.
Players from all classifications are eligible for selection.
Arizona schools rallied some the final two days of the annual Nike Tournament of Champions I girls basketball showcase in Chandler and Tempe with St. Marys and Mesa Mountain View posting the best showings among the 18 local teams teams competing.
Winslow boys nearly make it a sweep of New Mexico teams before falling in overtime.
DaLan Stafford and Robert Selmon each score 26 as Bobcats stop Cesar Chavez 77-70 in Phoenix Union District event.
Play resembles the heyday of nearly 30 years ago.
Hard to lose when the other team does not score. The Central High boys soccer team came within two minuites of keeping the opposition scoreless in a pair of games Tuesday.
With plenty of offense to go with that defense, Central won the 12th annual Jackrabbit Invitational, downing host Mesa High, 3-1, in the title game at Jackrabbit Stadium.
Central and Cesar Chavez to meet for holiday tournament title on Tuesday night at North High.
Hamilton girls basketball coach Jeff Kain was not lulled to sleep when seeing his Monday, opponent -- Kennedale, Texas -- with just seven players in uniform.
Kain had watched them over the weekend and knew his unbeaten Huskies were in for a battle.
Kain was right as Kennedale use a late third-quarter surge to pave the way to a 62-48 win over the Huskies in the Nike Tournament of Champions at Chandler High.
The defense that normally drives Xavier was not fully in force until the third quarter Monday of the Gators quarterfinal winner\'s bracket game with Edison High (Huntington Beach, Calif) at the Nike Tournament of Champions I at Perry High School.
Add in the fact that Edison features Stanford-bound guard Bonnie Samuelson and a solid supporting cast offensively and the sum was a 60-42 win for the Chargers over the Gators in the John Anderson Division of the tournament.
Mesa Mountain View knew it had a size advantage as it warmed up to play Harvard Westlake (North Hollywood, Calif.) on Sautrday afternoon. The Toros took their time often enough to seize that edge and it proved decisive in a 45-31 victory over the visiting Wolverines in the first round of the Nike Tournament of Champions I girls basketball tournament at Court One in Tempe.
Regis Jesuit coach Carl Mattei was pleased as his team prevailed shorthanded.
Chandler coach Zon Thompson felt sort of the same as his Wolves never gave up.
But better shooting and perhaps a little more poiseSaturday afternoon was the difference as Regis Jesuit (Highlands Ranch, Colo.) handed Chandler its first loss of the season with a wire-to-wire 45-38 victory in the first round of the Nike Tournament of Champions , John Anderson Division at Willis Junior High.
He hits eight three-point shots, six in the third quarter, as Huskies defeat Boulder Creek 81-75 in tourney semi.
Mingus, St. Johns, Joseph City among the top teams.
Two-day event features high school and college teams from the western U.S.
What happens when two of the best teams in 4A-II get together in a pre-Christmas showdown?
For the first 26 minutes, a blowout. But Thursday night a 4A-II girls basketball game between Seton Catholic and Flagstaff still had another six minutes to play. And fortunately for Seton, the game didn\'t last another minute.
Defending 4A-II champ Seton saw a 20-point lead with 6:10 remaining get sliced to three in the final 50 seconds, but the host Sentinels managed to hang on for a 60-57 win over the Eagles.
Skyhawks earn spot in Horizon tournament semifinals with 58-57 win, ending Scottsdale\'s 32-game winning streak.
That was fast.
A month after being fired after nine seasons as football coach at Mesa Mountain View, Tom Joseph has another head coaching gig.
Senior Mark Bayer finished in third place at last year\'s state meet.
Boulder Creek, Winslow lead boys\' basketball teams at Chinle High. Window Rock, Monument Valley are girls\' teams.
Horizon and Phoenix Union District host boys basketball and Moon Valley stages annual wrestling event.
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