SPORTS NEWS
Boulder
Creek hosts fundraiser to kick-off seas
The Boulder Creek Football Foundation is hosting a community football
kick-off celebration for the North Phoenix area from 6 – 9 p.m. Aug.
14 at Pioneer Village Restaurant.
Weekly
baseball camps offered at Boulder Creek
Play Ball Academy Camps is offering six weeks of instruction for baseball
players ages 5 – 14 from 5 – 7 p.m. beginning tonight at Boulder Creek
High School.
The camps, which run on Wednesday, offer individual attention from
a professional coaching staff.
Boulder
Creek grad earns national honor
A senior season in which Bryce Eisenbart led his team to the 5A Div-II
state semifinals, during a 26-15 season, keeps getting better.
Teams
put in groundwork for 2010 season
There’s
no pass rush, tackling, helmets or shoulder pads and the 110 plus
degree temperatures don’t exactly scream football, but high school
teams around the state spend the month of June working out in preparation
for the 2010 season.
Falcons
grad leans college despite being tabbed by Rockies
Just like his father some 31 years ago Major League Baseball
has come calling for the skills possessed by 2010 Cactus Shadows graduate
Logan Davis.
Anthem
soccer clubs claim gold in tourney
Both the Girl’s U10 Lightning and U12 Jaguars went 4-0 May
1-2 in the Yavapai Cup Tournament to capture the gold medals in their
respective age groups.
Boulder
Creek’s run comes to abrupt end, Jags fall in semis
A program
best 26-15 season for the Boulder Creek Jaguars baseball team came
up one win short of a state championship game berth as the No. 7 seeded
Jaguars fell to No. 3 Desert Mountain (22-13) at Peoria Sports Complex
on Thursday.
Boulder
Creek graduates earn college scholarships
Three members from the Fall sports season at Boulder Creek High School
will continue their athletic careers on college scholarships.
Boulder
Creek trio to compete in All-Star baseball game
The Boulder Creek Jaguars baseball program will be well represented
at the Arizona Coaches Association All-Star game set for 8 p.m. June
4 at Surprise Stadium.
Boulder
Creek opens state with extra-inning thriller
The Boulder
Creek Jaguars used a masterful pitching performance, a clean game
defensively and finally a head-first dive to earn a 3-2 extra innings
win in Saturday’s opening round of the 5A Div-II state tournament.
Boulder
Creek baseball players sign college offer
The Northwestern Oklahoma State University baseball
team has signed Chris Russell, a 2008 Boulder Creek High School graduate,
for the 2010-2011 season
Boulder
Creek senior propels team to state semifinal
The Boulder Creek Jaguars will take the field at 4 p.m. Thursday at
Peoria Stadium with a chance to claim the program’s first trip to
the state title game.
Boulder
Creek offense revs up as state tourney nears
Boulder
Creek coach Joe McDonald doesn’t mince words when describing his team’s
offense.
Boulder
Creek baseball offense pounds way through region
The Boulder Creek Jaguars baseball team won its 20th game of the season
Friday with a 12-1 Northwest Region win at Valley Vista.
Boulder
Creek hosts benefit golf event
The Boulder Creek boys basketball program will be hosting the 3rd
annual Randy Walker Golf Tournament at 8:30 a.m. June 5 at the Anthem
Country Club.
Boulder
Creek star forward accepts college scholarship
Alex Dykhuizen will be heading to Silver City this Fall. With the
Boulder Creek High School senior’s track record the community may
want to reconsider renaming it Gold City.
Cactus
Shadows offense takes flight in region win
The Cactus Shadows offense came out swinging Thursday in the team’s
home contest against Desert Sky Region rival McClintock (2-15 overall,
0-3 region).
Anthem
youth soccer team takes 2nd in tourney
The Anthem Soccer Club Lightning Under 10 Girls finished 2-1-1 to
secure the silver medal in the Stars and Stripes Tournament which
concluded Sunday.
Boulder
Creek searches for winning formula
The record isn’t pretty, but Boulder Creek Evah Taylor said her real
team is only starting to pull itself together.
Gavilan
Peak basketball teams win state titles
Anthem’s Gavilan Peak Firebirds won both the girls and boys basketball
state championships earlier this month at Isaac Middle School in Phoenix,
site of the annual state middle school tournament.
Boulder
Creek basketball program honors senior
Amid the celebration of the basketball program’s first
state championship the Boulder Creek boys basketball team honored
senior Benji Rutan at Thursday’s season-ending banquet.
Boulder
Creek enters state as top seed
A year
after a making the program’s state tournament debut the Boulder Creek
Jaguars enter the 2009-2010 postseason with a different look.
Cactus
Shadows seeks offensive consistency
The bar
is set pretty high when you score 20 runs in the opening game of the
season.
Boulder
Creek basketball program honors senior
Amid the celebration of the basketball program’s first
state championship the Boulder Creek boys basketball team honored
senior Benji Rutan at Thursday’s season-ending banquet.
Athletic
Apollo team sends Cactus Shadows to 5th straight semifinal loss
The game plan going into Thursday’s 4A Div-I state semifinals was
sound for the No. 3 seed Cactus Shadows Falcons (22-7). The idea was
to pack the middle defensively and dare the No. 2 seeded Apollo Hawks
(23-4) to beat them from the outside.
Boulder
Creek overcomes slow starts, rally to reach Final 4
Prior to the start of the 5A Div-II state tournament Boulder Creek
Jaguars coach Randy Walker predicted that it would be his team’s defense
that would determine whether his his squad would be able to hoist
a state championship trophy at the end of the week-long event.
Falcons earn
5th straight final four trip
A year
after a making the program’s state tournament debut the Boulder Creek
Jaguars enter the 2009-2010 postseason with a different look.
Falcons
football coach heads to Colorado
Cactus Shadows football coach Chad DeGrenier, who led the Falcons
to a state championship in 2006, is leaving the Cave Creek school
to take over at Fort Collins Fossil Ridge High School in Colorado
next season.
Boulder
Creek enters state as top seed
A year
after a making the program’s state tournament debut the Boulder Creek
Jaguars enter the 2009-2010 postseason with a different look.
Anthem
resident earns honor
Northern
Arizona freshman Malia Wahinepio earned her first-career Big Sky Women’s
Tennis Player of the Week awa
Waste
Management Phoenix Open tees it up
Despite
changing sponsors to the Waste Management Phoenix Open, “The Greatest
Show on Grass” celebrates its 75th anniversary when it tees off Thursday
with first round action getting under way at 7 a.m.
Cactus
Shadows open state playoffs
The Cactus
Shadows girls basketball team will attempt to keep its run of four
consecutive state semifinal appearances alive at 7 p.m. Friday
Boulder
Creek puts stranglehold on Northwest Region
In all but locking up their second straight Northwest Region title
the team from Anthem overcame a physical and desperate Mountain Ridge
team to improve to 21-2 on the season and remain perfect in region
play, now sporting an 11-0 mark.
Boulder
Creek finds offensive flow in region win
Boulder Creek girls basketball coach Theresa Beall has ridden a roller
coaster this season, otherwise known as her team’s offense this season.
Cave
Creek teen wins national competition
While soccer is her favorite sport, one which has her playing on a
travelling Olympic Development Program team, the 14-year-old Cactus
Shadows freshman has already shown her talents on the basketball court,
helping Desert Arroyo Middle School to a state championship last year
as an eight grader.
Boulder
Creek shreds O’Connor
The Boulder Creek Jaguars made the game of basketball look startlingly
easy Friday night at Sandra Day O’Connor High School.
Cactus
Shadows hunts down Bears
The Cactus Shadows girls basketball program has racked up an 83-24
record in the state of Arizona dating back to the 2006-2007 season.
Having won 73 percent of their games during that stretch, losses of
any kind have been uncommon, with the Falcons being on the short end
of blowouts occurring even less frequently.
Boulder
Creek sends 2009 out with a bang
New Year’s Eve is known for its extensive fireworks displays, but
it’s hard to believe that there was a show anywhere Thursday night
that could match the one delivered inside at Cactus Shadows High School
on Dec. 30.
Boulder
Creek finishes 2nd in Horizon tourney
The frustration was evident after coming up just short in a hard-fought
Horizon Invitational Tournament championship game Saturday night.
Motorcross
track drops flag for 1st race
North Valley off-roading enthusiasts have to watch their speed heading
west on Carefree Highway. But once they arrive at the Valley’s newest
motocross track, Canyon Motocross, at 9777 West Carefree Highway,
all bets are off.
