Arizona Magic Announces 2012 Teams PRESS RELEASE: March 26, 2012 The Arizona Magic has been the top high school basketball club program in Arizona producing over (250) college scholarships for their players since 1999. The Arizona Magic has completed their 2012 tryouts and announced their talented teams today. “This year the Magic program welcomes back coaches Kenny Mullins, Gino Crump, Charles White, Chris Hurst and newcomers Hosea Graham, Anthony Smith, Erick Rivera, Gabe Stevens and Paul Hardiman. Every Magic team has been hand-picked by their specific coaching staffs, and I couldn’t be more pleased with the outcome,” said Magic’s Director of Basketball…
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Division 1 Women’s #1 Central Arizona defeats #2 Arizona Western at home 68-59 CAC is District A champion and advances to National tournament in Salina, KS on March 20th-24th. Division 2 Women’s #1 Mesa defeats #2 Pima at home – 65-61 Mesa is District A champion and advances to National tournament at Illinois Central College in East Peoria, IL on March 20th-24th. Join the Forum discussion on this post
Two of the state’s best girls teams in the Division-II Class, two-time state champion and #3 seed Seton Catholic (29-3) and #1 seed Peoria HS (31-5), would match up in the state finals on Saturday – Championship Saturday at Jobing.com Arena. With the Peoria boys team also in the finals later on Saturday, the Peoria girls would look to get it done first. After a very competitive first half, Seton Catholic would take a 22-18 lead in the game’s third period, before Peoria would get hot behind back-to-back field goals from 5-foot-4 senior guard Felicia Foster and an inside basket…
In his last playoff game, Arcadia HS 6-foot-2 senior guard Larry Lewis poured in an impressive 38 points. He would not slow down Wednesday evening in a 80-67 Division-II quarterfinal playoff win over Tucson’s Salpointe HS, as the star guard would rain another monster scoring performance – but this time it would be against a much stronger opponent. A very talented Salpointe HS (24-7) team held tough early in the game against #1 seed Arcadia HS (24-6), actually taking a 14-13 lead after the first period. Larry Lewis would get hot in the second period, knocking down shot after shot…
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Horizon High School’s 6-foot-2 junior guard Kye De Laveaga has developed as a player at his own pace – something we have talked about over the past several years of high school. Many talk about the fact that Kye has developed as a player much differently than his younger brother, Horizon HS 6-foot-2 sophomore guard Tate De Laveaga. Both sons of a former sharp-shooting professional player, Jeff De Laveaga – Tate developed early as a competitor, while Kye has taken more time to develop physically. While Kye has had tremendous success under the coaching of his father on the club…