Ahwatukee Foothills News : Sports
- State Tournament : Desert Vista girls soccer defeats Hamilton, wins another playoff PK shootout
- Thunder to face Corona in state semis Thursday night
- By Larry Ward
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- She is one of the leading scorers on the Phoenix Desert Vista girls soccer team, but normally Samantha Rall would slip to the back of the line when it comes to overtime penalty kicks.
“I always freak out,” Rall said.
But she... Full story
- State Tournament : Hamilton blanks MP boys soccer for 3rd time this season
- Pride fall 4-0 to Huskies in 5A-I quarterfinals
- By Larry Ward
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- Chandler Hamilton has had Phoenix Mountain Pointe’s number in boys soccer this year, and that number is clearly a zero.
The Huskies shut out the Pride for the third time this year, this time 4-0, at home in the second round of the state Class... Full story
- State Tournament : Highland defeats MP girls soccer, 1-0, in state quarters
- Pride finish season 16-7 overall; Highland moves on to semis, will face No. 1 Xavier
- By Brett Fera
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- Call them The Fresh Connection.
In a game littered with opportunities for both teams, it was an early second-half goal in the 46th minute that proved to be the difference as fourth-seeded Gilbert Highland defeated No. 5 Phoenix Mountain Pointe,... Full story
- State Tournament: No. 5 Pride make quick work of Trevor Browne; quarters up next
- By Larry Ward
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- When the soccer season started, Mountain Pointe’s girls soccer team’s goal was to be what Pride coach Mark Wilson called "the queens of the conference,” referring to his team’s first-time entry in the newly-formed East Valley... Full story
- State Tournament: Desert Vista girls plod through, dispatch Desert Ridge to reach round 2
- By Brett Fera
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- Some teams don’t know how to play with a lead.
That isn’t a problem for the Desert Vista girls soccer team, at least not according to head coach Paul Manoogian. Rather, it’s getting to that point in the first place.
The... Full story
- Schramm follows brother as court leader
- By Brett Fera Ahwatukee Foothills News
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- Growing up, Duncan Schramm felt he was better at hitting a ball than shooting one.
But Schramm had a brother 18 months older and where big brothers go, little brothers usually tag along.
Schramm walked off the diamond and onto a basketball court.... Full story
- State Tournament: Mountain Pointe boys soccer knocks off Desert Vista in PKs in playoff opener
- Pride connect on all 5 overtime penalty kicks
- By Brett Fera
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- Somehow, some way, you just knew it was going to end like this.
The penalty kick was mighty kind to the seventh-seeded Mountain Pointe boys soccer team Tuesday night, as the host Pride scored on all five of its overtime PKs to knock of rival Desert... Full story
- Play of Desert Vista sophomore Westbrook reminiscent of older brother’s all-time season
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- In basketball terms, expectations are naturally high in the Westbrook family.
That’s understandable – at least after older brother Lawrence put up arguably the greatest single season in Arizona High School basketball history, averaging... Full story
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- State soccer playoffs kick off this week
The Class 5A-I state high school soccer championships get under way this week, with the boys and girls teams from both Mountain Pointe and Desert Vista earning spots in their respective 16-team tournaments.... Full story
- Henderson, Pride have instant chemistry
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- Getting acclimated to an Arizona summer was more of an adjustment for Shanice Henderson than being the new girl in town with the Mountain Pointe girls basketball team.
The Pride senior moved to Ahwatukee Foothills from Sioux City, S.D., in July,... Full story
