Two years removed from a state championship, Mountain Ridge lacrosse is rebuilding after it missed the playoffs last year. Head coach Derek Bahler has his team focused on a return to winning.
Opening the new season at home and with high hopes for a turnaround season, the Mountain Ridge Mountain Lions’ offense struggled early in dropping their home opener 47-7 to Mesa Skyline Aug. 17 at Mountain Ridge High School.
After 43 professional fights, Arizona’s Ray Beltran achieved one of his dreams when he won the World Boxing Organization lightweight championship. Now at Gila River Arena Aug. 25 he will fight for his second dream, remaining in the United States.
Four years after winning the National Junior Community College Athletic Association Division II National title, Glendale Community College women’s volleyball head coach Lisa Stuck said her 2018 team is showing early signs similar to that national championship team.
As another football season gets underway, local teams are aimed at playoff berths and improved play as realignment makes for some intense competition between area teams.
As another football season gets underway, local teams are aimed at playoff berths and improved play as realignment makes for some intense competition between area teams.
After the end of the 2018 World Cup, Arizona soccer fans were treated to a friendly matchup between two of the top soccer teams in the world as Manchester United and Club America showcased the sport July 19 at University of Phoenix Stadium.
Glendale is about to get international as two of the top soccer programs in the world face off July 19 at University of Phoenix Stadium.
Kellis Unified Sports golf team members Sulivan Danielak-Kirberg and Patrick Fernandez represented the high school at the 2018 Special Olympics Austrian National Games and against some of the top competition in the world with great success.
The Arizona Interscholastic Association Executive Board voted May 24 in favor of adding girls wrestling as an emerging sport for the winter school year beginning with the 2018 season.
Several West Valley athletes have agreed to continue their college careers by agreeing to play at the next level.
Glendale resident Kevin Mearse, 13, may be one of the top soccer players in the state and he is not even ready for high school yet.
In a time when star athletes can be egotistical and arrogant, Mountain Ridge graduate Matthew Liberatore shows that young athletes can be the exact opposite on and off the field.
As Glendale awaits word on future sporting events to be held at University of Phoenix Stadium, the city was awarded two huge soccer events to be held over the next two years.
In the Cobras’ 2016 title game, a non home run call cost them, and this year, a safe call at first base led to two Tucson Salpointe Catholic runs that were the difference; Cactus (30-5) lost 2-0 in the 4A title game at Arizona State University Farrington Field May 15.
After a season that led the Mountain Ridge baseball team to its second state title game in the past three years, the Mountain Lions were in line to win the school’s first baseball title May 15 at Tempe Diablo Stadium.
“One more” has finally come to fruition for the Cactus Cobras.
After rolling through the first three rounds of the playoffs, Mountain Ridge entered the semifinals without a loss and looking at a second title game in the past three years facing the top team in 6A Mesa Mountain View May 11 at Tempe Diablo Stadium.
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