It took just four minutes for Pinnacle to set the tone in its first-round boys soccer state tournament match against Hamilton. The aggressive Pioneers parlayed a loose ball into an amazing bicycle kick goal by Mason Robertson to take an early lead.

For the third straight year Hamilton and Brophy were on a collision course for the Division I Boys soccer championship.

Daniel Arrubla missed No. 4-seeded Hamilton's first-round state playoff match earlier in the week due to an illness. The senior scorer made sure Saturday's home quarterfinal pairing with No. 12 seed Carl Hayden was not the last of his high school action.

Girls soccer

Jordan Fletcher spoke softly but carried a clutch foot.

No. 1 Chaparral beat Goodyear Millennium, 3-2, in the first round of the Division I boys soccer state tournament.

Tate Schmitt might have put the ball in the right spot for the assist and Josh Greene got credit for the first-half goal, but the Desert Vista tandem were hardly the lone reason the Thunder were victorious Friday night.

Tate Schmitt might have put the ball in the right spot for the assist and Josh Greene got credit for the first-half goal, but the Desert Vista tandem were hardly the lone reason the Thunder were victorious Friday night.

Sterling Dahlen has a whopper of a story to tell his classmates when he goes back to school.

NEW ORLEANS - Hurricane Rita's pounding waves and a hotter-than-usual Gulf of Mexico took a toll on the Gulf of Mexico's only government-protected coral reefs about 100 miles off the Louisiana and Texas coasts.

At times, Hamilton senior Daniel Arrubla seems disinterested in chasing down the ball when it looks like he could run it down if he wanted to.

While Tyler Loynd’s fifth-grade classmates at Copper Ridge Elementary were poring over a standardized test Thursday, he was on a plane flying far,

While Tyler Loynd’s fifth-grade classmates at Copper Ridge Elementary were poring over a standardized test Thursday, he was on a plane flying far,

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