Go with what works, as pitching has for Val Kaff since age 6.

All-Tribune Boys First Team

All-Tribune Girls Track First Team

The first day of Ryan Morrison’s volleyball career was also nearly his last.

Even Madison Clarke’s mother is in admiration.

In April, Hudson Blake became the first Brophy tennis player to win the singles state championship in 16 years.

D.J. Peterson will be home from college soon, and little brother Dustin will be there waiting with a smile on his face and a paddle in his hand.

All-Tribune First Team

Raise your caps and don your gowns: It's graduation month!

There have been highs and lows from the 2012-2013 athletic year.

Spring sprang, and now summer has set in.

Ky Westbrook’s standards are so high, it was hard for her to hide the disappointment of running an average race despite easily winning the 100-meter dash on Saturday.

The 2013 Arizona track and field championships started to resemble 2012 a little too closely for Devon Allen’s liking.

How many times can a team keep doing this?

2013 Track and Field state Championships

For most hitters a mistake pitch is something up and over the plate.

After getting past No. 18 Ironwood Ridge in three games earlier in the day (25-17, 25-16, 25-19), No. 15 Hamilton ran into No. 2 Highland, who knocked the Huskies out of the second round of the boys state volleyball tournament, 25-17, 25-13, 25-18.

Her team found ways to stay alive for at least a few more days in the Division I state tournament, but Lindsey Collins wasn't gushing.

Here are the first two rounds of the boys volleyball state tournament, which begins Saturday and continues May 7 (quarterfinals), May 9 (semifinals) and May 11 (championship):