Friday evening gave me a good opportunity to visit my alma mater and catch an old rivalry match-up between host Moon Valley High School and visiting Greenway (2-4). After a very competitive first half, Moon Valley (4-2) would use a big second half to blow the game wide open – leading to a nice 56-34 home victory for the Rockets. Both teams would compete hard in the game’s first half, in a very low scoring affair. Greenway would walk into the locker rooms with a 21-20 lead. The third period would tell the story though, as an athletic Moon Valley…
Author: Anthony Ray
In their first home game of the ACCAC junior college season, Mesa Junior College (6-0, 2-0) would face a confident Glendale Community College (5-4, 1-1) team, that came into Wednesday evening’s match-up looking for the upset victory. But Mesa JC would prove to be stronger – winning their first ACCAC home game of the season with a 85-70 win. While the game would be slow to get going, the two teams would heat up late in the first half to create some fireworks. With Mesa beginning to pull away from Glendale late in the first half, Glendale would ignite and…
Chaparral High School’s gifted guard prospect, 6-foot-2 senior point guard Colton Kresl is among the most talented performers in the state – regardless of class, and is now one of the top unsigned prospects in the 2017 class. Kresl has been off to a terrific start to the high school basketball season – turning in career performances to start the high school basketball season. On Tuesday evening, Kresl poured in his best performance of his young career in a nice win over Centennial High School. In the win, Kresl exploded for 33 points and 5 assists – missing only (3)…
Chaparral High School (4-0) won this year’s Paradise Valley Invitational Saturday evening with a big 81-64 championship victory over an athletic Cesar Chavez High School team that got down fast and early, and never recovered. Behind the strong play of unsigned 6-foot-2 senior point guard Colten Kresl, Chaparral led the entire way in this one and never looked back. Chaparral would come out firing in this one in the first period, as Colten Kresl would turn in a superb first quarter for his team – either scoring or assisting on almost every basket in the first quarter. Kresl would knock…
Agua Fria High School (3-0) advanced to the championship game Friday evening with a nice 65-52 victory over visiting Cathedral Prep HS (TX), behind a terrific performance from 6-foot-6 senior wing Bryce Fowler (Sacramento State signee). Fowler came up big for his team on the evening. Agua Fria would come out fast in this one behind a nice effort from 6-foot-1 junior guard Daniel Foster. Bryce Fowler would then get it going after a nice transition layup where he would switch hands in mid-air – giving Agua Fria a 15-12 lead in the first period with 1:54 left to. After…
Sunnyslope High School (2-0) improved to 2-0 on the high school on Tuesday evening with a 52-37 win over a surging but young Rancho Solano High School (1-1) team in this year’s Hoopsgiving Basketball Tournament. I was on hand on the evening to watch a Sunnyslope team that competed for a state title last season, and will have the same opportunity again this year, as they return a loaded lineup. Led by the play of 6-foot-3 junior wing Kyle Fischer, this year’s team will have another opportunity to win it all, once again. The team returns a load of talent…
The 2016-2017 junior college basketball season in the Arizona Community College Athletic Conference (ACCAC) is now underway, and in full swing. Here are this week’s Players of the Week in men’s basketball in the conference . . . ACCAC D-I Player of the Week: Brandon McGhee, Arizona Western Brandon McGhee led Arizona Western to a split against two tough preseason tests – New Mexico Military and College of Southern Idaho. McGhee averaged 22.5 points, 6.5 assists and 1.5 steals, including a 28-point, 13-assist effort in a losing effort to CSI. For the week he shot 69% from the field to lead the…
After receiving a big offer from a program in the SEC Conference last week, this week Salpointe Catholic High School’s 6-foot-5 superb sophomore wing prospect Majok Deng received another offer for himself – this time from a school in the PAC-12 Conference. This latest offer came while Deng was on a scheduled unofficial recruiting visit to the University of Utah. While on campus, the Utah men’s basketball staff decided to extend the offer to Deng, who is currently among the hottest 2019 prospects in the West. Deng recently received an offer from Vanderbilt University, and also has offers on the…
After a recent Tournament Most Valuable Player performance at this year’s Arizona Preps Fall Showcase, Camelback High School’s 6-foot senior guard Elijah Mead has made his college decision. This week, with many college programs still looking to get involved in his college recruitment, Mead found the right fit for himself and decided to pull the trigger on his college recruitment – electing to choose Hawaii-Pacific University for his college home. While Mead was on the verge of blowing up this spring after several recent strong performances for himself, he chose to end his college recruitment during the early signing period.…
In very surprising fashion today, Jay Green, a 6-foot-5 prep guard/forward for Hillcrest Prep Academy’s post-graduate team, signed a national letter of intent with UNLV. UNLV assistant coach Andre LeFleur was instrumental in signing Green. Green chose UNLV over offers from IPFW, UT-Martin and Prairie View A&M. LeFleur has recently moved to the West Coast after coaching at UCONN for many years and also recently Providence. LeFleur has made a living off recruiting big-time sleeper prospects. His prospects also pan out. Two of LeFleur’s former unheralded prospects that he signed from the state of Arizona were Gavin Edwards (UCONN) and…