The Arizona Baseball Coaches Association has released its All-State teams for each of the four divisions.Three area players were honored.

Ninety feet is the perfect distance between bases, but on Thursday afternoon it must have felt more like 90 miles for Mountain Pointe.

It’s a pretty good sign when the bottom of the batting order is creating havoc and driving in big runs.

The Chaparral baseball team isn’t quite ready to give up on its dream of a third consecutive state title.

TEMPE - It’s a baseball storyline that has played out hundreds of times over, one Mountain Pointe came to regret.

The Thunder had one last rally in a standard-setting season, but it wasn’t enough.

Being from Cleveland, the smile of Chief Wahoo always catches me eye.

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.

There are times in sports when it is just not going to happen.

Danielle Block has a hard time balancing the rigors of pitching and hitting.

The Mountain Pointe baseball team began the postseason with the big-picture ideal that it would take 105 more outs to win a state title.

Izzy Marshall’s football career at Arizona State is over before it ever really got started.

Ready for Round 2?

The progression of the Desert Vista softball program took another big step.

At one point it looked like Mountain Pointe’s boys baseball team might win its Division I first-round playoff game in a blowout.

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.

"42” is far from the first movie to explore racial tensions in sports. We’ve seen this subject depicted in other good films like “Remember the Titans” and “Glory Road.” There are plenty of recognizable figures on display here, such as the underdog nobody believed in, the one man willing to take a chance on that underdog, and the ignorant antagonists that wish to see that underdog fail. Familiarity aside, though, “42” executes just about everything wonderfully. This is a good-hearted picture, carried by sincere performances and passionate direction. Not only is it an inspiring story about overcoming prejudice, but an all around rousing baseball movie too.

Their masks may conceal their eyes but it does not impair their vision.