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WOW WHY are HS players acting like this is the college transfer portal and announcing they are leaving a program??? Just absolutely amazing to me-sorry-just transfer-as of today I will not report on a transfer when they announce it-.
Thank you to the coaches at cactus for giving me the opportunity since day 1. It is in me and my family’s best interest in transferring to a different school. #53 out @azc_obert @lmzworld_ @gridironarizona @AZHSFB @RsmithYWV
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so does everybody in state of AZ by default now required to be a fan of Purdy just because he graduated from HS in AZ?.
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from @520sportstalk Benson FB: Keep Trent Manzo in your thoughts and prayers-He sustained multiple fractures in his legs and was transported from the football field to the Hospital where he underwent emergency surgery-Trent will have a long rehabilitation
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Breaking News: I have confirmed that Pueblo HS has hired Alumnus.@CoachSlylewis1 Sly Lewis to be their next head football coach. HC Lewis has been the OC for Sabino HS where he helped lead his team to a state title this season defeating Paradise Honors.
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@On3sports @mzenitz this is a guy from a smaller school going to a power school and maybe just maybe he saw his talent wasnt up to par???.
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Check Out Round Valleys Football debuting the new varsity team locker rooms! Players very pumped! Pics from Facebook
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Breaking News: . AZSportsnetwork is PROUD to announce that we are now an official NCAA Approved Scouting Service in the Sports of Football-GBB/BBB in the State of AZ! More details will be forthcoming on how this helps your athletes in the state especially small schools!.
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2A Softball: River Valley Champs!. River valley wins state title 3-2 over benson and did it undefeated, never giving up more than 2 runs all season and ONLY going past 5 inning 2x in semis and title game.
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And now it begins!!!!! Have a safe and great 1st day of FB and seniors remember this is the 1st practice of the last year of your senior football!!!! make the best of it and cherish each and every practice.
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@BrianHowell33 I can honestly say we could foresee many OL heading to portal as they know they being replaced hahaha.
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AZSportsnetwork would like to congratulate the Hayden Lobos and HC Estrada and his staff and his team for winning the 2023 8-Man state championship over the Mogollon Mustangs! . This was their 1st title in 51 years going back to 1972! . Once again congrats!.
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BREAKING NEWS!!!! .Superior has named @eliolmos25 Elias Olmos as their new Head Football Coach! . AZSportsnetwork would like to congratulate HC Olmos for getting selected!!! Superior is in good hands!.
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GOOD LUCK! To all of the small schools starting practice in any sport today!!!!.
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As a homeless kid eating from trash cans being abused badly anytime I went home in 6th grade not really knowing who Jesus was I reached out-looked to stars about 2am prayed for Him to help n gave him my life! Now 58 have never looked back n Christ is as good as back then.
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BREAKING NEWS-With approval of AIA/Hayden HS we r proud to announce AZSportsnetworks own reporter @Davidna09436445 Dave Navarro will be honored at tonight 1A Playoff gave between Hayden/SanMan for all his hard work/dedication to small school sports by doing coin toss for the game.
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Breaking News: 3A Rankings Football 9-26-23.1 Mohave.2 Paradise Honors.3 VC.4 ALA-WEST.5 PRCA.6 Florence.7 Sabino.8 BR.9 River Valley.10 Morenci.11 GC.12 BF.13 Winslow.14 Thatcher.15 Payson.16 Safford.17 Tempe.18 Odyssey.19 Chinle.20 ALA-IR.21 Kingman.22 Dysart.23 RV.24 Coolidge.
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AZSportsnetwork would like to thank all of the coaches who gave their time for our 1-3A FB Media day! We started at 8am and ended at 4pm NON-STOP!!! small school FB where the coaches could brag about their programs! We appreciate all of the efforts and once again thanks!.
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Superior High School Athletic Director Billy Duarte presents the @ AZSportsnetwork AZSportsnetwork 1A ALL State Player of the Year 2018 plaque to QB Steven Ybarra Superior HS
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AIA Girls Flag FB Updated Standings: 4-5-23. Eastmark 5-0 .Casteel 5-0 .Hamilton 5-0.Millenium 4-1.Canyon View 2-1 .Mt Pointe 5-2 .AZ College Prep 3-2.Queen Creek 2-3 .Perry 2-3 .Xavier Prep 2-4 .Aqua Fria 1-2 .Chandler 1-3 .Crismon 1-3 .Basha 1-4 .Verrado 1-3.Desert Vista 1-6.
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Attention: Coach Davis from Santa Cruz has decided to step down from his job and is leaving AZ. I for one want to say that we are losing not just a very good coach BUT we are losing a great role model for our players the community and the entire state! It has been an honor!!.
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AZSPORTSNETWORK’S 2024 GRIDIRON MAGAZINE: 1-3A 2024 FB PRE-SEASON “PLAYERS OF THE YEAR”. Here you go 1-3A Tackle Football fans! . If you are listed but you do not have anything on your profile name it is cuz we couldnt find info-send if u have anything.
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Breaking News: Rodger Schenks is the new Head football coach at Copper Canyon was just announced
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@BrianHowell33 @NicoleAuerbach IF any player had hurt feelings and it hurt your confidence then they do not belong at D1 cuz a D1 player should ooze confidence-.
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My little Bro passed away this week, Sudden heart Attack, so I have not been on a bit for coverage like we always do and will see how much I am on tonight but should be full throttle next week for sure-this is my chill time so it helps-thx for understanding.
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AZSportsnetwork 2021 FB 3A 1st Team All-State. WR.Mario Martinez-YC.Brandon Phelps-ALA-GN.Austyn Gerard-VC.Austin Rush-YC.Noah Baum-SF.Johnny Bellino-ALA-GN. Kicker.Johnny Delgado-River Valley. KR.Tommy Carberry-Florence. PR.Micah Johnson-Winslow. K/P Specialist.Dominic Zvada-VC.
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AZSportsnetwork AIA 2023 3A FB Pre-Season POY candidates to watch-Not in any order. Sabino-QB Cameron Hackworth/WR Shamar Berryhill.Paradise Honors-QB Gage Baker.Thatcher-ATH Brett Jones.ALA-West-RB-Marquez Smith.PRCA-QB Bubba Mustain.Mohave-LB Jonathon Williams.Morenci-RB Mike.
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I keep getting messages asking if we could please start covering the big school sports especially football and I keep telling people no. Our commitment has always been to small ball sports and will continue to be that way.
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BUILDING A DYNASTY: BLUE RIDGE Football: .Many can have difference of opinions on how to go about building a football dynasty BUT no matter how you get there this is what it looks like! Yes count them 13-
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Morenci HS Athletic Facilities: Morenci District has announced that their athletic field turf renovations are complete! . It is INCREDIBLE! . They stated "Come see live action on the baseball field at the 44th Lions Tourney, April 11 -13.". Photo Credit: Art Martinez
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BREAKING NEWS: AZSportsnetworks 3A Coach of the Year Bill Godsil from Coolidge HS has been offered and accepted the Head Football Position At 6A Dobson HS in the Phoenix area.
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BBB 3A Metro West Recognitions:. REGION COACH OF THE YEAR.Greg Haagsma.Valley Christian. REGION OFFENSIVE PLAYER OF THE YEAR.Randall Voutt.Yuma Catholic. REGION DEFENSIVE PLAYER OF THE YEAR.Jalen Scott.Paradise Honors. REGION PLAYER OF THE YEAR.Jalen Grijalva.Valley Christian.
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Attention: Starting today we will be announcing our Top QB/RB etc of 1A thru 3A and setting our rankings on our website. We will have them in twitter and then announce to our website.
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AZSportsnetwork wants to congratulate Coach Sean Freeman.@Coach_FreemanCC.for getting his 1st win at Tempe by defeating Palo Verde tonight 49-0! Once again coach congrats and one brick at a time!.
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AZSportsnetwork would like to congratulate the Basha Lady Bears who win the first ever Girls Team State Title in AIA History! @bashagridiron @BashaAthletics
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AIA Mask mandate for winter sports:.So are kids with asthma not gonna be able to play sports since wearing a mask causes airflow problems. Actually it is not good for a normal person either but wouldn't they be in particular danger?
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AZSportsnetwork 2021 FB 2A 1st Team All-State.QB.Zayden Neill-STC @NeillZayden.Matt Hershey-GC.RB.Michael Casillas-Morenci @mikeycasillas77 .Devin Bowling-Benson @DevinBowling6 .Christian Pando-Willcox @CrisPando11 .R Alaniz-SC @its_smoothricoo.Anthony Taylor-Parker @anthonyta24.
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2019 AZSportsnetwork AIA 3A Football All-State Awards:. 2019 Coach of the Year:.Myron Blueford: Arizona College Prep: . 2018 Record: 1-9, 0-4 Region Play, No Playoffs. 2019 Record: 8-3, 3-1 Region, 1st RD Playoffs.
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AZSportsnetwork 2021 FB 2A 1st Team All-State.Defense. LB:.Chase Rojas-St. John Paul II.Collin Stanton-Parker.Brayden Scott-Tanque Verde.Brok Determan-Benson.Gideon Enter-ALA.Brendon Enriquez-Morenci.Lewis Tauscher-San Tan Charter.
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@CJSells21 @CoachKarl22 @DeionSanders cj here is what I find funny-even tho Oregon HC liked to say CU was nothing he sure did make sure he was ready for them and was jealous of their media attention-no way CU could beat them especially after 3 emotional weeks-Im hoping CU can stay closer with USC how ASU did but its.
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Attention 1-3A FB HC/STAFF/ADMIN: .SATURDAY August 6th-AZSportsnetwork MEDIA DAY:.We will be hosting our FB Media day from 7am into the evening-we will have more info later today. It will be 1A then 2A then 3A for EVERY TEAM ACROSS the STATE of AZ! I will set up times for teams.
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WHY isnt anybody talking about this:.6A Higley 2-8 moves to 5A 8-2 playing for title in 1 YR: .Ive been against teams moving down for this reason-I warned 1 day a team moving down is gonna win/play for title game asap like in CO-is this really what moving teams down is about?.
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AZSportsnetwork would like to congratulate @coachcarter9903 Carter Crosland who has accepted the Kearny Ray head football coaching position-Coach Carter coached last year at Wickenburg HS
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Snowflake New Field: Work on the field is scheduled to start the week after graduation and if everything goes according to plan it’ll be done by the end of July. Pic by booster club
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FB Coaching Update: Desert Sunrise has hired Steven Beard to be their next head football coach! .Congrats to HC Beard!
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Bijan Robinson ‘20 and his former Salpointe Coach Dennis Bene at the NFL Draft! pic from FB
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The AIA needs to solve this situation where you can cheat by playing ineligible players-get forfeits-and yet still make the playoffs or no consequences because the Maxpreps ranking system doesnt know how to count a forfeit as a loss! This is ridiculous-who is in charge here-.
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@mar5hallhoops reading all of these comments shows why certain states say hands-off for holidays then all teams are in same boat because it seems many coaches do not get it. Some states have even had to go to Sundays are hands-off because coaches do not have the common sense to stay away from.
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AZSportsnetwork AIA 3A All-State POY Awards.Continued. Co-RB of Year.Vance Cooper-Paradise Honors.Elias Johnson-Tempe. DB of Year.Bryce Jewell-PRCA. Co-LB of Year.Jack Butler-PRCA.Ayden Bingham-Thatcher. more to come.
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AZSportsnetworks FINAL 2A FB Rankings: Final 20:.1 Benson.2 Parker.3 ALA.4 Morenci.5 GC.6 Sequoia Pathways.7 Tanque Verde.8 Pima.9 Santa Cruz.10 St Johns.11 Holbrook.12 SanTan Charter .13 SCA.14 Willcox.15 Miami .16 SPA.17 Alchesay.18 CV.18 Veritas.20 CPA.
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Girls Flag FB 5A Region Coaches Awards:. Region: San Tan. REGION COACH OF THE YEAR:.Nick Garces-Eastmark. OFFENSIVE PLAYER OF THE YEAR.Taylor Ehmke-Eastmark. DEFENSIVE PLAYER OF THE YEAR.Sammi Cocke-Campo Verde. PLAYER OF THE YEAR.Madison Coger-Campo Verde.
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Attention: Coaches/parents if leagues are forming please let us know as we will cover any and all winter sports that are formed including with our preview magazine so many of you submitted info to us. Please DM me as this all happens anywhere across the state!.
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@SkoBuffsGoBuffs I coached vs this coach in HS in FB and basketball and his character and work ethic were never doubted-glad CU landed him.
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AZSportsnetworks 2024 1-3A Tackle Football "Coaches of the Year" (articles to follow):. 1A: Kendrick Felix @coachkfelix.Desert Heights Preparatory Academy HS. 2A: Brett Davis @Davis44Shoot .Tonopah Valley HS. 3A: Kent Middleton .Pusch Ridge Christian Academy HS.@jdaz78.
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AZSportsnetwork 2021 3A All-State FB POY Awards.RB Player of the Year.@HammettZach Zach Hammett-RiverValley.Never has a player FORCED us to start a new category for him! He was our 2020 SPT POY and once again couldve been the same-or the OFF POY or POY thats the talent with ZACH.
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Breaking News: AZSportsnetwork told you about us becoming an NCAA Approved Scouting Service for FB-GBB-BBB well now we are also an official recruiting service for all sports and our recruiting service will help student athletes with their college search for ABSOLUTELY FREE!!!.
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Breaking News!! AZSportsnetwork is excited to announce that we have officially become the first affiliate of the NFHS in the State of Arizona. More details will be forthcoming and how this affiliation is great for smallball sports across the State of Arizona!.
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Love it: Media outlets in AZ mainly online focus on big school FB BUT now that small schools start 1st just like last yr u will c them talking small FB with little info BUT ASAP when big schools start THEY LEAVE to cover them! WHO IS ALWAYS HERE YEP U KNOW IT! AZSportsnetwork!!.
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Morenci Wildcat!! It is a GREAT time to be a Morenci Wildcat!. 1st their new turf fields and now this great looking bus!!. BIG RED, was designed by Jade Chavez, an MHS Alumnus - Class of 2014!
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2023 8-Man FB 1A State Playoffs: RD 2:.I do not care what level of games are going on with all the D1 athletes playing but 1A Playoffs this evening will feature some of the best athletes around as well as some of the TOP Coaching staffs in the state no matter the division!.
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AIA 3A Football Title Game: Final. Snowflake 10 Yuma Catholic 3 . The Lobos win back to back state titles and now will people understand what Cantrell is all about!! . Offense sells tickets and Defense wins championships!!!.
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AZSportsnetwork AIA 3A after WK 1 rankings .1 ALA-GN .2 YC .3 VC .4 Sabino .5 Snowflake .6 Thatcher.7 Safford.8 PRCA.9 RoundValley.10 AZCP .10 River Valley.12 SL.13 BR .14 Ft Hills .15 Coolidge .15 Mohave.16 Payson.17 Eastmark-like this team.18 Florence.19 Kingman.20 Wickenburg.
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AZSportsnetwork AIA 3A Football Pre-Season Rankings: .1. Eastmark.2. Valley Christian.3. Thatcher.4. Sabino.5. PRCA.6. Show Low: Darkhorse.Entire rankings here:
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Congrats to Pima and Eastmark for winning state titles and congrats to Morenci and Thatcher for runner-up all 4 had great seasons and all 4 just may be MOVINg ON UP as Jeffersons song likes to say. I am sure EM will petition up-.
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Breaking news Azsportsnetwork 1a offensive player of the year QB Matt Cruz from superior HS has officially transferred to Miami HS a 2a school he was also a top baseball player in 1a.
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AZSportsnetwork would like to congratulate all of the AIA Football Champs in the State:. 1A: Mogollon Mustangs.2A: ALA Coyotes.3A: Snowflake Lobos (Repeat Champs).4A: Casa Grande Cougars.5A: Horizon Huskies.6A: Highland Hawks.Open: Saguaro Sabercats.
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Some small school kids from AZ making it big: .Lane Lunt.@thelanelunt .Cole Motes.@kingcole44
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AZSportsnetwork 2021 3A All-State FB POY Awards.COY.Bryan Begay-MV. POY.Caden Cantrell-SF. RB POY.ZHammett-RV. Off POY.ADamante-ALA-GN.RStallworth-YC. Def POY.JMarquez-YC.SNielson-ALA-GN.JRegehr-VC . LOY .Jacob Booth-VC. SPT POY .Sam Crockett-SF. Frosh POY .Ayden Williams-ALA-IR.
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AZSportsnetwork would like to congratulate Creon Fulgham a sophmore at Chandler Prep Academy who was selected to play in the Dream All American Bowl in Dallas, TX at Cowboy Stadium on January 17th 2022.
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I am really enjoying reading/watching posts from people who traditionally never followed small school FB teams but because the AIA had them play first people can now see what we have been saying since 2006 how great small school FB and all other small school sports are in AZ.
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BREAKING FREAKING NEWS!!!!! .My sources have told me that Football HC Determan is no longer HC at BENSON! From my sources he was forced out because the Admin wanted him to run a different offense! There will be more to this story asap-what has happened to HC is a travesty!!.
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Many may disagree BUT from 1-6A the Hayden victory over defending 2X state champion Mogollon is without a doubt the top story of the evening! All the other wins are great but the streak is now over for Mogollon 8man FB just got real interesting for the rest of the year.
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Breaking NEWS!!!! Amphi district has cleared their FB teams to play games!!!!.
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So What Really happened at End of Thatcher/Eastmark Game: . EM blocked kick but Thatcher recovered it which only made it 3rd down-EM ran down field throwing their helmets n got unsportsmanlike conduct penalty-penalty was marked off/Eagles got another chance-made FG won 31-30.
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AZSportsnetwork 2021 2A All-State POY Awards. COY.Chris Starkey–Holbrook. POY.Jacob Holguin–ALA. Def POY .Norien Banks-Sequoia PW. Off POY.Marcus Oberriter–Holbrook. Lineman of Year .Jose Soto–Antelope. Special Teams POY .Gabe Escobedo-Miami. Frosh POY .Kaleb Burras-Heritage Acad.
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AZSportsnetwork would like to congratulate Bagdads HC Mills and Hayden HC Estrada who both got their 100th victory tonight to advance to the 1A semi-finals! . Once again Congrats!!!.
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Morenci Schools has announced General Acrylics will begin to convert fb field from natural to synthetic turf. The MHS FB Field will feature AstroTurf’s premium heavy-face weight turf-state-of-the-art infill system with cooling technology n shock pad for added athlete safety
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AZSportsnetwork .2-4A SAZ CO-Offensive Player of the Year.AJ Skaggs, QB.Sabino HS. A shame we couldn't see him and his team in the 3A competition this season! They were a definite title contender. I cannot wait to see him at the next level.
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AZSportsnetwork AIA 3A after WK 4 rankings .I made adjustments . 1 ALA-GN .2 YC .3 VC .4 Thatcher.5 Snowflake .5 PRCA.7 Sabino.8 RiverValley.9 Show Low.10 RoundValley.11 Safford.11 Eastmark .13 Payson .14 Coolidge.15 AZCP.16 Mohave.17 Ft Hills.18 Winslow.19 BR.19 Wick.20 MV.
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If I have said it once I will say it again-some of the best coaches in the state come from the small ball schools not only in FB but many other sports as well.
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@CoachHettelPHHS @CoachSherm5 agree coach for some kids Prom is a higher priority-just think back to when you or I was young-that stuff means a lot and for a majority of players they are not going D1 or Pro so why lose out on things like the prom-.
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the gregory school for many years has not belonged in 1A-IMO no privates should be in any 1A division in any sports-just asaying.
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Bisbee football almost with near 70 players for 2021!!! Thats a great amount of players.
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Yesterday on the news over 500+ of the top Virus scientist/Dr in the world said the world needs to stop this shutdown non-sense put all funding into protecting the vulnerable and allow the young n healthy to do their thing, (herd philosophy) and within 3 months all will b good.
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Tackle FB 3A Region 2023 Coaches Awards:.Region: Metro West. REGION COACH OF THE YEAR:.Chad Mitton.ALA - West. OFFENSIVE PLAYER OF THE YEAR.Isaiah Thomas.Paradise Honors. DEFENSIVE PLAYER OF THE YEAR.Seth Goldberg.ALA - West. PLAYER OF THE YEAR.Gage Baker.Paradise Honors.
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AZSportsnetwork 2018 2A AIA FB All-State Teams :. Offensive Players of the Year.Thatcher: Entire OL.Since 2006 when we started our all-state teams this has only happened 1x. Defensive Players of the Year.Thatcher: Entire DL.First time this has ever happened. OL/DL Unnatural Force.
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AZSportsnetwork AIA 2023 1A FB Pre-Season .Top Returning QBs:. Kyson Owens Mogollon.Zedakye White El Capitan.Jibran Castillo Salome.Ezrah Aguilar Bagdad.Gerald Keltner MALC.Xavier Mease Babo.Rogelio Albieter Maryvale Prep.JoshPierce Lincoln Prep.Kohan Evans VU.Jason Day Ray.
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AZSportsnetwork AIA 2023 2A FB Pre-Season POY candidates to watch-Not in any order. Pima-LB Tuddy Smart.SCA-QB Jack Atkinson.ALA-RB Gideon Enter/Rylan Bass.Shadow Mt-RB Tavares Allen.San Tan Ch-QB Zayden Neil/WR Daniel Dippre.Camp Verde-QB Tyson Buckley/WR Christian Sanabria.
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Breaking News:.3A Tackle FB Updated Tuesday 2-24-2023 Rankings:. 1 Mohave.2 PH.3 VC.4 Thatcher.5 ALA West.6 BR.7 Sabino.8 BF.9 Morenci.10 florence.11 PRCA.12 River Valley.13 ALA-IR.14 Safford.15 GC.16 Round Valley.17 Odyssey.18 Winslow.19 Dysart.20 Payson.21 Coolidge.
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Final .Willcox 53 Benson 19.After 10 years of losing to benson team known for tuffness and a tough offensive running team they lose to Willcox who did the same thing that had been successful vs them in the past while Benson tried to pass the ball all over the place-what can I say.
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AZSportsnetwork is proud to announce our .17th Annual 2023 1-3A FB Pre-Season #1 Rankings: . 1A: Bagdad Sultans.2A: Pima Roughriders.3A: Sabino Sabercats. We will be releasing our top 20 in each division starting next week with our Rankings Podcast shows. More info to come!.
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AZSportsnetwork AIA 3A after WK 3 rankings .1 ALA-GN .2 YC .3 VC .4 Snowflake .5 Safford .6 Sabino .6 Thatcher.8 PRCA.9 RiverValley.10 Show Low.11 RoundValley.11 Eastmark .13 AZCP.14 Coolidge.15 Payson.16 Coolidge.17 BR.18 Mohave.19 Winslow.19 Bourgade.20 Wick.20 Kingman.20 MV.
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