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The NCAA tournament looms ahead for Oregon guard Casey Benson, and his road to the Final Four could lead him right back home.
A near-perfect performance from Logan Cromeens led Corona del Sol boys tennis to a 7-2 victory over Mountain View on Thursday afternoon in Mesa.
Corona del Sol spoiled Red Mountain’s baseball home opener Wednesday night by defeating the Mountain Lions 7-2 on the way to its third straight victory, improving them to 3-2 on the season.
Just four years ago, Basha was six games under .500 and Mike Grothaus was a first-year coach.
With seconds rapidly disappearing from the clock, Basha boys basketball led Corona del Sol 73-65 as Corona guard Alex Barcello frantically dribbled up the court at GCU Arena. The window of opportunity for the Aztecs was about to close.
Corona del Sol is back in a familiar position.
In a back-and-forth battle, top-seeded Corona del Sol defeated No. 8 Westview 74-59 Saturday at home in the quarterfinals of the 6A Conference boys basketball state tournament.
PRESCOTT VALLEY – Cameron Upshur stepped on the airplane heading back from The Clash in Minnesota believing he was done with wrestling.
PRESCOTT VALLEY – Chad Porter looked at the scoreboard, and it didn’t exactly compute.
Mountain View wrestling practices have evolved in Corey Anderson’s first year running the program.
The typical successful wrestler has been on the mat for years, has wrestled a ton of matches outside of the regular season and has a refined set of skills honed over countless hours of drilling.
The expectations were set high for this quarterfinals matchup as a team who had won 18 straight, traveled to take on one of the highest ranked teams in the state.
The day has come for a few that many dream of happening.
It was shaping up as one of those playoff soccer matches that make it one of the best and unpredictable postseasons in high school sports.
The play-in matches are over and the soccer postseason brackets are filled out.
When it became known that a good many of the Seton Catholic students leaving the wrestling program were going to land at Corona del Sol, there were many who wondered how it was going to work.
The talent and experience of Saben Lee and Alex Barcello is going to be tough overcome on most nights.
Top-ranked Corona del Sol used an explosive third quarter Friday to pull away from feisty Desert Ridge 61-56 in a Central Region clash.
The Reach 11 Sports Complex has hosted elite level soccer tournaments ever since the North Phoenix facility was built in the early 2000s.
All-Tribune Football first team
The last time Brooke Nuneviller was seen on a high school volleyball court she was still in disbelief moments after helping Corona del Sol to its first girls state title since 1991.
All-Tribune Girls Volleyball Team
PHOENIX - The highly-anticipated matchup between the Corona del Sol and Hamilton boys soccer programs in the finals of the Arizona Showcase tournament lived up to the billing.