Most first-year club sports teams often struggle to find an identity. But that hasn’t been the case for Club SPAWN, a local baseball team that is ranked nationally. In its inaugural season Club SPAWN’s record is 69-22. 

Jaycob Brugman hasn’t even played his first game with the Oakland A’s organization and he is already counting down the days until the season ends.

All though Ian Kennedy took a very dangerous route to get it accomplished, it was pretty cool seeing some of baseball tough guys square off on Tuesday night.

Forget the tie. Think bespoke booze for Father’s Day, specifically a beverage tailor-made to suit the hobbies father knows best.

Culminating the ongoing discussion between local youth sports organizations and the Kyrene School District over use of facilities rates, the district presented a lowered rate structure Monday that now heads to the governing board.

I have not voted in some time now, having figured out that it simply does no good. And yes, I sincerely believe the “system” itself is the problem.

The Ahwatukee Foothills PONY Baseball League won State Championships in both the Shetland Division (ages 4-6) and the Pinto Kid Pitch Division (ages 7-8) this past weekend at the Kyrene Akimel A-al Middle School baseball fields.

Thunder Mountain Sports, 1334 E. Chandler Blvd., will have sand volleyball all summer through July 26.
The divisions are 12U girls, 14U girls, and Open (18U), with Friday being the day of competition most weeks.
The price is $55 per player on a doubles team and the price for a four-person team will be $110 for the season. Non-USAV members might have to pay an additional fee.
For more information, contact Tristan Moreland at azcat@cox.net.


There are several sets of eyes on a baseball game and what they see can be just as varying as the batting stances in a nine-man lineup.


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.

Devon Kennard was in town over Mother’s Day weekend.


My son Brett, the comeback athlete

Recent Desert Vista graduate Cole Preston received his appointment to the US Naval Academy in April and decided to accept it instead of playing football at Colorado School of Mines.

Spring sprang, and now summer has set in.

Kyrene School District officials Monday said new, lower rates for use of facilities, namely for youth sports organizations will be presented in early next month.

Jeff Rutledge, a former player and coach in the NFL and NCAA Champion quarterback at the University of Alabama, has been hired as the head football coach at Valley Christian High School.

The Big South Conference announced the official nominees for the Conference’s Woman of the Year award for 2012-13, with 13 student-athletes including Ahwatukee resident and Seton Catholic graduate Molly Barlow from 10 member institutions comprising this year’s candidates.

Seeking to keep fields accessible and available to some 4,000 kids in and around Ahwatukee, various youth sports leagues met with the Kyrene School District on Monday after add-on costs to the Ahwatukee Foothills Pony Baseball Association caused heated community concern.

Last week, the Division I and II baseball state tournaments moved to spring training stadiums across the Valley.

Ahwatukee is a pretty tight community especially when sports involved.

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

Desert Vista graduate and Grand Canyon junior Ahmad Saleem recently helped fifth-seeded Lopes to a third-place finish in the Pacific West Conference championships in Hawaii.

The Lucha Libre USA Mexican Wrestling action is coming to Phoenix’s Grand Canyon University Arena on Sunday.