November 27, 2004

Updated baseball rankings, as of March 25:

Time: 5 p.m. (Saturday)

The Arizona Interscholastic Association announced playoff pairings Saturday for the first round of the Class 3A and 2A state playoffs.

Tribune 4A-I Top 5:

The Ahwatukee Bowl is weathered after just 15 years.

Updated baseball rankings, as of April 1:

Friday's games

5A-I

Marketside grocery stores open for business Oct. 4, making them the most recent player in the Valley — one of the nation’s most crowded markets in the grocery industry.

TUCSON - Once known as "Hollywood in the Desert," Tucson has been relegated to more of a low-budget, direct-to-video status in the hierarchy of show business.

Heidi Purtzer tossed a fourhit shutout and had three RBIs to lead Scottsdale Christian over San Manuel 8-0 Friday in the second round of the 2A state softball tournament at Rose Mofford Complex.

The Ahwatukee Bowl is weathered after just 15 years.

Avondale Westview 51, Valley Vista 0

Agua Fria 35, Goodyear Estrella Foothills 7

Division I

Avondale Westview 62, Phoenix Hayden 13

5A-I Top 5

The Chandler Valley Christian track team felt both sides of the emotional spectrum Saturday as the girls’ squad won its 13th straight state title and the boys fell one point shy due to another school’s disqualification in the final event of the night.

Cars in east Mesa have been driving in circles. A pair of modern roundabouts opened June 8 on Brown Road immediately east and west of the future Red Mountain Freeway stretch of Loop 202, and neighbors are still forming their opinions.

Put those flowers aside and stop eating those chocolates for just a minute. Long before the greeting-card, floral and confectionery industries successfully marketed an obscure saint’s feast day into our modern romantic buying bonanza, today was statehood day in Arizona.

Phelps Dodge Corp., the largest copper producer in Arizona and the second largest in the world, is showing plenty of luster these days.