Outlook: Gilbert’s opener was the kind coach Jesse Parker craves.

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Address: 1001 E. Knox Road, Tempe; Records: Basha 6-2, 1-1 Central Region; Corona del Sol 3-5, 0-2; Gametime: 7:00 p.m.

Corona del Sol fired the first shot in this offseason’s football coaching carousel when the school hired former Mountain View coach Tom Joseph on Thursday.

Zane Zamenski will not return as Corona del Sol football coach next season, ending a turbulent one-year stint at the school.

Basha opened the season Friday with a 52-7 dismantling of visiting Corona, which was playing its first game under new coach Tom Joseph.

Outlook: Coach Tony Tabor is off to a good start in trying to resurrect a downtrodden program at Desert Mountain.

Corona del Sol Aztecs

Shorter was sweeter for the Phoenix Xavier Gators. The Gators won the first two games Tuesday night, then dropped one, before finishing off host Tempe Corona del Sol in a 5A nonregion girls volleyball match.

Outlook: The Thunder try to rebound from being shut out by Basha last week, which gave the Bears the Central Region title.

Outlook: A 2-0 region mark would look good for Mountain Pointe coach Phil Abbadessa’s team.

Outlook: Thunder coach Dan Hinds’ team finally made the plays he’s been looking for last week against Marcos de Niza.

Address: 1001 E. Knox Road, Tempe; Records: Desert Vista 3-3, 1-0 Central; Corona del Sol 3-3, 0-0; Gametime: 7:00 p.m.

Address: 4201 E. Knox Road, Phoenix

For more than three quarters Friday night, it looked like more of the same for Corona del Sol.

In a game full of offense and errors, it was a defensive gem that helped Gilbert stay in the winner’s bracket of the 5A Division I state baseball tournament.

A pair of Gilbert schools tried to concoct a formula Saturday afternoon to knock Tempe Corona del Sol from the ranks of the baseball unbeatens. But as eight other schools found out, there's just no beating the Aztecs at present.