Palo Verde hosted Coronado in a Class 5A Desert League baseball game Thursday afternoon. Palo Verde won 13-3.
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Tyler Whitaker was 3-for-4 with a home run, three RBIs and three runs scored as Bishop Gorman pounded 18 hits and defeated Coronado in five innings Wednesday.
Brant Hunt’s single to left field with no outs in the bottom of the eighth inning Thursday plated Chris Cortez with the winning run as Silverado edged visiting Sierra Vista, 5-4.
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Michael Shy threw a three-hitter with eight strikeouts, and Rancho’s baseball team managed two runs off little offense to walk away with a 2-0 road win over Coronado in a battle of top Class 4A Sunrise League teams.
Chayse Baker led off the bottom of the seventh inning with a triple and scored the winning run one out later on a single by Anthony Guzman as the Rancho baseball team outlasted visiting Liberty 13-12 on Thursday.
DeSoto pitched out of bases-loaded jams in each of the first four innings to help Bonanza to an 11-1, six-inning win Jay over host Spring Valley in the Grizzly Invitational.
Micquel Robinson’s two-run single with two outs in the top of the seventh inning Monday lifted Cimarron-Memorial’s baseball team to a 4-2 win at Bonanza.