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| Yavapai College Volleyball: Roughriders sweep Scottsdale CC |
PRESCOTT - The Yavapai College volleyball team overpowered No. 4 Scottsdale Community College 26-24, 27-25, 25-22 on Wednesday, earning its first victory against a Top-5 opponent this season.
Thursday, September 09, 2010
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| Yavapai College Soccer: 'Riders edge Bears, snap losing skid |
The Yavapai Colege soccer team ended a short losing skid and extended two long winning streaks with Wednesday's 1-0 win over visiting Phoenix College in Prescott Valley.
Thursday, September 09, 2010
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| Prep Roundup: Prescott High's Palmer wins another cross country meet |
Prescott High's Hayden Palmer won his second cross country meet in seven days in a three-team event hosted by Bradshaw Mountain on Wednesday.
Wednesday, September 08, 2010
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| Prep Roundup: Prescott High swim team sweeps Phoenix Washington |
The Prescott High swim team won every event on the boys and girls sides en route to a home pool sweep of Phoenix Washington at the Prescott YMCA on Tuesday.
Tuesday, September 07, 2010
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| Sundogs: Arizona adds young forwards to 2010-11 mix |
Arizona Sundogs coach and general manager Marco Pietroniro announced Tuesday the team added forwards Jason Williams and J.C. Robitaille to the roster.
Tuesday, September 07, 2010
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| Column: Dealing with today's tennis power game |
Groundstrokes that are pounded flatly or with wicked topspin, serves snapped to the point of three digits, and returns that are short-hopped somewhere between crisp and hard, are fair descriptions of what professional tennis players do for the majority of the shots hit in today's game.
Tuesday, September 07, 2010
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| College Soccer: Yavapai loses second straight |
All streaks eventually come to an end.
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Monday, September 06, 2010
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| Prep Previews: Chino Valley soccer ready for 2010 season |
The Chino Valley High School boy's soccer team is coming off its worst season in school history, but that doesn't mean it doesn't have high expectations and lofty goals for 2010.
Monday, September 06, 2010
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| College Soccer: Two quick goals down Yavapai |
The Yavapai College men's soccer team dropped a 2-1 decision to
Arizona Western Saturday.
Saturday, September 04, 2010
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| Local Roundup: BMHS fares well in Peaks Invitational |
The Bradshaw Mountain boys and girls cross country teams placed 13th and seventh respectively at the Peaks Invitational at Buffalo Park in Flagstaff, Arizona, on Friday.
Saturday, September 04, 2010
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| Prep Football: Mingus spoils Prescott High's home, season opener |
PRESCOTT - Cottonwood Mingus scored five touchdowns in the second half of Friday night's game en route to a 40-6 road victory against Prescott High.
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Saturday, September 04, 2010
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| Prep Football Roundup: Atkerson rushes for 5 TDs in Mayer rout |
David Atkerson rushed for 274 yards on 11 carries with five touchdowns in Mayer's 72-26 rout of host Rock Point on Friday.
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Saturday, September 04, 2010
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| Local Roundup: National championship softball tourney comes to town
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The City of Prescott and the Arizona ASA will host the two-day 2010 Men's Class C Slow-Pitch Western Nationals at Pioneer Park starting today at 8 a.m.
The tourney, which is making its first trip to Prescott, has 22 teams from Arizona, Hawaii, California, Oregon, Idaho and Nevada.
Saturday, September 04, 2010
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| Prep Volleyball: Badgers top Bears in home opener |
The Prescott High School volleyball team won its first home game of the
season, defeating Bradshaw Mountain in straight sets on Wednesday.
The Badgers tallied scores of 25-14, 25-8, 25-12 to improve to 2-0.
Friday, September 03, 2010
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| Prep Football Previews: Prescott High ready for No. 2 Mingus |
PRESCOTT - The Prescott High football team will kick off its 100th season today with what will most likely be its toughest test of the year.
The Badgers host Cottonwood Mingus, the No. 2-ranked team in Class 4A, Division II and the eighth-ranked team in the state, according to Maxpreps.com.
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Friday, September 03, 2010
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| Prep Roundup: BMHS pulls off cross country sweep |
The Bradshaw Mountain boys and girls cross country teams swept visiting Avondale Agua Fria at Yavapai Downs on Wednesday.
Friday, September 03, 2010
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| Yavapai College Soccer: Efiom sparkles in 'Riders OT victory |
Gregory Efiom's first goal at Ken Lindley Field on Wednesday tied the score with visiting Scottsdale Community College.
Thursday, September 02, 2010
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| Sundogs: Arizona re-signs veteran trio |
Arizona Sundogs coach and general manager Marco Pietroniro announced Wednesday the team has re-signed Jason Visser, Rob Lehtinen and Mike Nesdill for the upcoming 2010-11 Central Hockey League season.
Thursday, September 02, 2010
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| Prep Badminton: Prescott High opens with win |
The Prescott High badminton team swept the singles matches from Nos 1 to 4 en route to its 7-2 win over visiting Gilbert Campo Verde in the season opener for both teams on Tuesday.
Tuesday, August 31, 2010
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| Fall Season Prep Previews: BMHS swim team boasts big numbers |
The Bradshaw Mountain swim team enters the season with a big jump in numbers.
Tuesday, August 31, 2010
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| Obituary: Local softball maven to be missed |
PRESCOTT - A.C. Williams, Prescott's amateur softball pioneer who died Tuesday, had such a love for the game that he spent decades of his life promoting it - and doing it extremely well.
Tuesday, August 31, 2010
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| Local Golf: Rain storm forces Prescott Lakes golf course to close temporarily |
Mother Nature tore up the Prescott Lakes golf course late this past week.
Staff members continue to clean up from a roughly 40-minute deluge that struck the course Friday afternoon.
Monday, August 30, 2010
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| Sports Desk: Photo of the Week |
California Gold 55's Sandra Haine, left, attempts a kill while Hafta-Play's Marilyn Kalusner defends during the Prescott Senior Olympics' women's volleyball event at Yavapai College on Saturday.
Sunday, August 29, 2010
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| Prep Football: Team of the century |
PRESCOTT - No matter the decade in which they competed, it didn't take long for many former Prescott High School varsity football players to become acutely aware of the Badgers program's passionate traditions and its entrenched roots in this community.
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Saturday, August 28, 2010
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| Yavapai College Soccer: Riders start season on right foot |
PRESCOTT VALLEY - Bad vibes from last year? Gone in 90 seconds.
The Yavapai College men's soccer team sent the program's "worst" season in years permanently into its rearview mirror with a 3-1 win over Paradise Valley to open the 2010 season Friday night at the Mountain Valley Park Amphitheater in Prescott Valley.
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Saturday, August 28, 2010
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| Yavapai College Soccer: Pantalione climbs the ranks |
Don't look now, but Yavapai College coach Mike Pantalione has another milestone in his crosshairs.
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Saturday, August 28, 2010
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| Local Roundup: Bradshaw Mountain holds on to win season opener |
The Bradshaw Mountain football team opened the season with a thrilling 14-13 win over visiting Apache Junction in Prescott Valley on Friday.
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Saturday, August 28, 2010
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| Prep Football: Mayer tops rival Warriors |
MAYER - One year after losing a one-point heartbreaker to its cross-area rival, the Mayer High School football team was out for revenge - big-time.
Despite surrendering 30 points in a wild fourth quarter Friday night at Mathern Field, the Wildcats outlasted the Orme School in a marathon 66-54 victory behind bruising junior running back David Atkerson.
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Saturday, August 28, 2010
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| 2010 Pigskin Previews: Prescott High |
PRESCOTT - As the Prescott High School football program prepares to celebrate its 100th year on the gridiron this fall, the 2010 Badgers team will undoubtedly receive an up-close-and-personal history lesson about the importance of fostering tradition.
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Thursday, August 26, 2010
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| Column: It's U.S. Open time |
The U.S. Open begins Monday.
The two-week, fun filled, Grand Slam event held at the USTA Billie Jean King Tennis Center in Flushing, N.Y., is the highest attended annual sporting event in the world. Last year more than 720,000 fans walked through the gates.
Thursday, August 26, 2010
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| Local Roundup: Yavapai College releases men's hoops schedule |
The Yavapai College men's basketball team tips off its season on Nov. 5 at the two-day Norbest Tipoff Classic in Ephraim, Utah.
Thursday, August 26, 2010
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| 2010 Pigskin Previews: Bradshaw Mountain |
PRESCOTT VALLEY - After a short stint at the Class 4A, Division II level, the Bradshaw Mountain High School football team made a strong statement in its first season with the big boys of 4A-I this past fall, advancing to the quarterfinals of the state playoffs.
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Wednesday, August 25, 2010
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| Fall Season Prep Season Previews - Volleyball |
PRESCOTT - With three starters, including seven total returners, coming back from a 2009 club that advanced to the Class 4A-I state semifinals, the Prescott High School volleyball team just might have enough firepower to make another trip deep into the postseason this fall.
Wednesday, August 25, 2010
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| Sundogs: Arizona to face CHL champs in preseason |
The Arizona Sundogs will play a pair of preseason contests against the defending CHL champion Rapid City Rush in Rapid City, S.D., on Oct. 9 and Oct 10.
Wednesday, August 25, 2010
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| 2010 Pigskin Previews: Chino Valley |
CHINO VALLEY - In high school football there is so little margin for error that the first four or five games of any season can either propel a squad to soaring heights or leave it scrambling to catch its collective breath.
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Tuesday, August 24, 2010
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| Fall Season College Season Previews - Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University |
Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University's men's and women's soccer teams open their seasons today, while its volleyball team hits the court for the first time in 2010 on Friday.
Tuesday, August 24, 2010
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| 2010 Pigskin Previews: Mayer, Bagdad and The Orme School |
All three of the area's eight-man prep football teams had their shots at the state's Class 1A title last season.
Mayer came five points away from a state tourney quarterfinal berth, while Bagdad and The Orme School each made it to the Final Four before seeing their title hopes end.
Monday, August 23, 2010
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| Sports Desk: Senior Olympics |
Matt Hinshaw/The Daily Courier
Tom Missey competes in the Prescott Senior Olympics' horseshoes event at Watson Lake in Prescott on Friday.
Sunday, August 22, 2010
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| Fall Season College Previews - Yavapai College Soccer |
PRESCOTT - In the off-season, Yavapai College soccer coach Mike Pantalione lightheartedly referred to the Roughriders' 2009 campaign as his "mulligan."
Entering his 22nd year as the stalwart program's lone mentor, only someone as hardworking, driven and successful as Pantalione could make such a statement.
Saturday, August 21, 2010
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| Fall Season College Previews - Yavapai College Volleyball |
PRESCOTT - All signs are pointing in a positive, upward direction for the Yavapai College volleyball program, which claimed a runner-up finish at the National Junior College Athletic Association's Region I, Division I tournament last fall.
Saturday, August 21, 2010
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| Yavapai College Baseball: 'Riders add to staff |
Yavapai College announced Friday long-time Scottsdale Chaparral coach Jerry Dawson will join the staff as an assistant this season.
Saturday, August 21, 2010
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| Column: Prescott-area tennis activities abound |
Tennis is on the move in the Prescott area and this column is meant to give general information on who's doing what and where.
Thursday, August 19, 2010
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| Sundogs: Bartolone moves on |
PRESCOTT VALLEY - Chris Bartolone took a deep breath, then a sip of water in an effort to gather his emotions in the moments before his big announcement Wednesday.
Wednesday, August 18, 2010
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| Local Sports Snapshot: Senior Olympics |
Competitors in the Prescott Senior Olympics' precision pistol event at the Prescott Sportsman's Club prepare to fire on Tuesday.
Wednesday, August 18, 2010
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| Local Roundup: Area triathletes shine in San Diego |
Prescott High's Lukas Bellman led the way for the five-person local contingent at a junior national triathlon championship in San Diego over the weekend.
Wednesday, August 18, 2010
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| Sundogs: Arizona signs veteran forward |
Arizona Sundogs coach and general manager Marco Pietroniro announced Monday the team has signed forward Steve Kaye.
Tuesday, August 17, 2010
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| Sports Desk Photo of the Week |
The Yavapai College soccer team hosted a free clinic at Prescott Valley's Mountain Valley Park on Saturday in which more than 100 area kids participated. The team will host its final clinic of the summer at Prescott's Ken Lindley Field on Saturday from 9:30-11 a.m. See page 2B for a roundup of the area's youth/community sports scene.
Sunday, August 15, 2010
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| Local Softball: Area to host big-time tournaments |
The Arizona ASA in Prescott will host three national championship tournaments in the next five weeks.
Sunday, August 15, 2010
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| Local Sports Snapshot: Youth Soccer |
Four-year-old Kylie Morris, third from right, gets instruction from Yavapai College soccer player Jacob Nevarez during a free clinic at Prescott Valley's Mountain Valley Park on Saturday. The team will host another free clinic on Aug. 21 at Ken Lindley Field in Prescott from 9:30-11 a.m.
Saturday, August 14, 2010
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| Column: McEnroe, Kournikova, Chang to headline Valley tournament |
Last year Andre Agassi and John McEnroe were the headliners at the Cancer Treatment Centers of America Tennis Championships at Surprise in the Valley.
Saturday, August 14, 2010
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