Tyler Viza’s inclusion at No. 427 in Baseball America’s top 500 draft prospects shouldn’t be a surprise to anyone who saw Desert Vista’s comeback against Brophy in the first round of the Division I state baseball tournament.

Tommy Martinez stands all of 5-foot-6, maybe 5-6 ½ in his cleats, hits ninth in the Mountain Pointe lineup and is just a sophomore.

As if the first-round heart-pounding win wasn’t enough, the Desert Vista baseball team had to go to extra-innings again to keep its season alive.

At the time it was hard to imagine anyone at Opus Field on Saturday being more stunned then Austin “Crash” Hicks.

Brantley Bell has been around a couple of championship celebrations, but he wants one more in a Mountain Pointe uniform before heading to the next stage of his career.

The accolades from a state championship berth are starting to roll in for Mountain Pointe.

All but one set of lights at Hamilton’s stadium was turned off Friday night, but the players and coaches in the Desert Vista team huddle were not taking the hint.

The MRI on Zack Tamburo’s bum leg returned over the weekend and the injury is back to the original diagnosis.

Desert Vista coach Dan Hinds wouldn’t change a thing other than maybe being a little healthier.

If Desert Vista’s traditional Senior Walk on Friday would have replicated the Thunder’s first-round win over Basha it would have been a little herky jerky instead of the methodical take-it-all-in process it is meant to be.

Desert Vista coach Dan Hinds liked what he saw and not just because his Thunder thoroughly dominated Chandler in the season finale at Austin Field.

Desert Vista built a 31-0 halftime cushion and then emptied its bench in the second half in a 54-17 victory over Mesquite on Friday night.