Austin Schnabel had his pitches working but needed a little luck to give Notre Dame its first baseball state title.

David Greer paced around his classrooms at Desert Mountain on Tuesday, anxiously awaiting the start of the Division I baseball state championship game.

With a deep inhale and wide smile, Jordan Beck let out the worst-kept secret in Arizona high school softball, and came as close as anyone wearing black and red to acknowledging the history that’s been made on the east end of Brown Road.

Now that the final championships have been crowned and before everyone scampers away from schools and scalding heat for the summer, a few programming notes:

Four local players have been pegged as top-100 prospects by Baseball America for this June’s Major League Baseball draft.

Division II baseball state championship game

Division I baseball state championship game

The presence of a cheering Gorilla at Mesa’s Westwood High School could mean one thing: Something big was about to happen.

Never a doubt.

It took awhile, but Valley Christian has hired Jeff Rutledge as its new football coach on Monday.