Mountain Pointe High School (11-8) has been up and down all season long, but is headed in the right direction at the right time of the season. After receiving some serious help recently from the addition of several football prospects to this year’s group of talented players, the Pride has won their last four games of the season and with their biggest win of the season coming Tuesday evening in a big 49-47 win over visiting Mesa High School (18-4). Behind the strong play of 6-foot-6, 195-pound junior transfer forward Chris Davis, the Pride now have a loaded athletic group of…
Author: Anthony Ray
The match-up between St. Mary’s High School and Pinnacle HS was the most anticipated girl’s match-up of the high school basketball season. Especially since the last time these two teams met during the 2010-2011 season, Pinnacle upset St. Mary’s in what was the last time that the Knights would lose a game to an Arizona team. Heading into Monday night’s contest in this year’s MLK Basketball Classic at Wells Fargo Arena, the headline game of the day’s five different match-ups, St. Mary’s had won an amazing 48-straight games against Arizona high school teams. Are you kidding me? Talk about getting it done.…
Pinnacle High School (15-6) and Desert Mountain (17-3) met on Monday evening for the first time this season in an absolute war between two of the state’s top basketball programs in the Division-I Class. Not only was this match-up an exciting affair, loaded with talented prospects, but the stage was set in this year’s MLK Basketball Classic at Wells Fargo Arena on the campus of Arizona State University. Desert Mountain (DM) came into the game playing their best basketball of the season – winners of their last 12 games in a row. Led by the play of superb 5-foot-11 junior point…
Highland High School (21-2) has been terrific this high school season and looks to be headed for a strong post-season performance. This year’s Highland Hawks are big in size and loaded with talent – winners of their last 6 games in a row on the season, and also winners of 16 of their last 17 games. The Hawk’s only two losses on the season came at the hands of a loaded Mountain Pointe HS team, and also Reno HS in this year’s Las Vegas Holiday Classic over the winter break. Highland has been led this season by the play of the talented…
Highland High School’s girl’s basketball program is one of the winningest programs in the state of Arizona, and much of that has to do with the amazing legacy of long-time veteran head coach Miner Webster. Webster earned his 700th win of his historic 25-year basketball career this week, after a big 44-21 blowout home victory over visiting Mesquite HS (12-10). This season is Webster’s 25th career of coaching and he has compiled an impressive overall record of 701 wins and 106 losses in his career. Webster’s 701st win of his career came Friday evening in another huge blowout of Skyline High School…
On Tuesday evening, Millennium High School (15-3) and Westview HS (14-6) faced off in what was thought to be a big match-up of two of the state’s elite 2014 prospects – Westview’s talented 6-foot-8 junior post Andre Adams and Millennium’s skilled 6-foot-9 junior low-post prospect Elston Jones. Instead, the game would look much differently, as Jones would sit out the game with a knee injury – suffered in a previous game. While Jones would look to return to action in the near future, the match-up with Adams would have to wait for another contest. On this evening, basketball fans would instead see…
The college basketball career for Central High School 2011 graduate, 6-foot-4, 205-pound wing Robert Selmon has been on hold for two seasons now. Still looking to make his college basketball debut, Selmon remains inactive on any college basketball roster. Selmon qualified academically late from Central HS – during the summer of 2011 and after the completion of his senior season. As a result, Selmon elected to attend local juco power Arizona Western Junior College, but decided to leave the basketball program before the start to the season. This season, after electing not to play his freshman season at Arizona Western JC,…
Arizona’s 2014 class of prospects is a solid class of players for college programs to take a strong look at. One of the top prospects in the class is Desert Vista High School’s talented 5-foot-7 junior point guard Emily Wolph. After a strong sophomore season and a strong spring and summer on the club circuit, Wolph has emerged as one of the top overall prospects in the class. This season, Wolph has helped lead her Desert Vista HS team to a 12-7 overall record thus far this season, while averaging 13.7 points, 2.6 assists and 3 steals per/contest. Wolph had a high scoring…
Mountain Pointe and Desert Vista High School has been close rivals since both schools were developed – with both schools being located in close proximity to one another in the Ahwatukee area of Phoenix, AZ. This season is no different as both teams are absolutely loaded with talented college prospects for the future. While the Lady Pride at Mountain Pointe (17-3) have been a major bright spot among top teams in the state this season, the girls at Desert Vista (12-7) are still looking to put it all together. Desert Vista would travel to Mountain Pointe on Friday evening for what would become one…
Arizona Western Junior College (13-4) came into Wednesday evening’s match-up with host Phoenix College (11-6), looking to continue to make a run at the first place position among the standings in the conference (ACCAC). To get themselves the tough road victory, they would need to slow down a surging Phoenix College team – winners of their last 7 games on the season. Arizona Western (AWC) would get out to a fast start in the game – taking a 13-8 lead 6 minutes into the game after consecutive three-pointers from talented sophomore guards Marvin Whitt and Aaseem Dixon. Another driving layup from Whitt would give Arizona Western…