Ashley Hansen of Stanford named USA Softball Collegiate Player of the Year.
Class 4A and 5A games are on Wednesday at 5:30 and 8 p.m., respectively.
Softball
Catalina Foohills won eight state titles and was runner-up in three other championships this past year to pace schools in Southern Arizona and the East Valley in athletic accomplishments.
Take a look at team champs from 2010-11 school year in north Scottsdale, Phooenix, NW and SW Valley and N Arizona.
Warren Dennis is long-time public-address announcer for state tournaments, is an example of professionalism.
Track, softball and baseball yielded six trophies to Chandler schools on the final weekend of the 2010-2011 prep athletic season.
For Red Mountain to repeat as 5A-I softbal champs Friday, coach Rich Hamilton needed a strong performance from freshman pitcher Breanna Macha and better-than-normal defense.
He got both plus a big night from junior Siera Phillips with the bat.
It was the kind of ending every athlete dreams of, even the ones youi think are most capable of it.
And Lauren Haeger is capable.
It is known, perhaps trademarked now, as the Red Mountain Way.
In softball that means Red Mountain had to fight its way back through the 5A-I state tournament loser\\\'s bracket for the chance to play for the championship. For the fourth time in six years of the double-elimination format, Red Mountain won twice on semifinal Wednesday to advance to winner-take-all Friday.
Pitcher gives up two hits and strikes out 14 in 9-1 win over Pinnacle. Deer Valley meets Ironwood Ridge on Friday.
Red Mountain had no trouble disposing of Mountain Ridge, by scoring 10 runs in the first two innings of its 5A-I elimination game. Gilbert High used a sixth-inning, two-out double to edge Salpointe.
©2009-2025 Arizona Interscholastic Association, Inc. All Rights Reserved.