4A BASEBALL: Nogales wins championship over Salpointe 13-4
D-III GOLF: Frankie Capan leads NW Christian to victory
4A BASEBALL: Nogales holds on for 5-3 win over CDO
4A Softball championship
3A Softball Championship
5A SOFTBALL ROUNDUP
3A SOFTBALL: Sabino scores 3 runs to beat Sahuarita in the 7th
4A SOFTBALL: CDO beat Salpointe 7-0 to advance to state championship game
TENNIS: Semifinal roundup for Southern Arizona
There were some close calls, there were some blowouts, there were teams eliminated, there were teams celebrated – where to begin?
Pueblo survived with a 6-3 win over Coconino at home.
Top 8 4A Softball Seeds
In softball action, No. 14 Rincon/University beat No. 19 Dobson 5-2 to advance to the 6A state tournament slated to start Saturday morning. It was the first time the Mustangs had made it to the postseason since 2011 and the first time, as far as anyone can tell, the Rangers had won a playoff game since their state championship year of 2002.
A full slate of softball and baseball play-in games are all set for Wednesday. Nine softball teams and eight baseball teams from Southern Arizona will take part with the winners advancing to the 6A, 5A or 3A state tournaments depending on classification.
The regular season is drawing to an end but there’s life on the horizon for teams hoping to play one more day and, if that day turns into a few more, then all the better. In the 3A conference, that new life comes in the form of the Play-In Tournament scheduled for Wednesday, Apr. 26.
It’s been three years since Sabino hosted a playoff game and the Sabercats will have to wait till next Tuesday to see if they will be hosting another. Ranked 14th, the Sabercats beat No. 12 Pusch Ridge 10-0 on Thursday night to clinch the 3A South Region but where the team lands in the Play-In Tournament is what matters most now.
No. 3 Salpointe beat No. 14 Boulder Creek 5-0 in the first round of the Division I Beach Volleyball playoffs on Wednesday. The Lancers will host No. 11 Mesquite in the quarterfinal round next Tuesday, Apr. 25 at 4:30 p.m.
April 26. That’s the official start of the baseball and softball playoffs but, for a few teams on the edge, the postseason started this week.
The final score might indicate football but that’s months away. No, we had a pair of top ten teams battling it out in 5A action Monday night with Ironwood Ridge coming back from a 7-1 deficit to defeat Mountain View Marana 14-8.
No. 3 Salpointe (10-1) and No. 6 Ironwood Ridge (10-2) are the Southern Arizona representatives to the Division I state tournament slated to begin on Wednesday, Apr. 19. Salpointe will host No. 14 Boulder Creek (6-5) at 4:30 p.m. and Ironwood Ridge will host No. 11 Mesquite (8-3) at 4 p.m.
SOFTBALL: Pusch Ridge beat Catalina, looking towards playoffs
Domination is winning a state championship 13 out of the last 17 years. Even better, the four “off” years for the girls of Catalina Foothills since 2000 included a third-place finish and three runner-up trophies. But, when you are used to being the last team standing, a runner-up finish is hard to accept.
Cienega went 5-0 to win the Salpointe Lancer Volleyball Invitational. The Bobcats dominated play, dropping only one set along the way, and that lone loss came in the championship match against Salpointe on Saturday afternoon.
Catalina Foothills scored three runs in the bottom of the seventh, and had the tying run at the plate, but Sahuaro held on to defeat the Falcons 7-5 Friday night, one day after the Cougars built up a 10-1 lead at Buena, only to lose the game 11-10.
No. 7 Cienega held off No. 26 Marana Mountain View 5-0 on Thursday to keep pace with No. 10 Sahuaro in the 5A Southern Region standings.
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