Fourth-seeded Green Valley and No. 3 Faith Lutheran pulled off a pair of road upsets Friday night to advance to the Class 5A Division II Southern League final.
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Sophomore Caden Kirby hit a three-run home run to help Green Valley, No. 2 in the Review-Journal’s Class 5A rankings, cruise past No. 5 Centennial on Thursday.
Green Valley, No. 1 in the Review-Journal’s softball rankings, held off No. 2 Faith Lutheran on Tuesday in the team’s first meeting since last year’s postseason.
It was only two years ago that Centennial played for a state championship. The rebuilding Bulldogs picked up their first win, 9-8 over Legacy on Friday.
The top-seeded Crusaders put in three goals in the first four minutes of their Moutain Region quarterfinal. Coronado, the No. 1 seed in the Desert Region, also moved on.
Riley Schwartz threw for 111 yards and two touchdowns, and Marcos Canales had 123 yards on 16 carries for the Crusaders in a 35-0 Northwest League win.
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Josiah Cromwick’s two-run single in the fifth inning Thursday broke a scoreless tie and lifted Palo Verde’s baseball team to a 3-1 win over Northwest Christian (Arizona) in the Wolves Classic in Goodyear, Arizona.
Adlai Rodriguez had 24 kills and 13 digs to help Rancho’s boys volleyball team to a 25-21, 17-25, 25-17, 27-25 road win over Cheyenne on Thursday.
Teegan Teal’s two-run single in the top of the seventh inning lifted Spring Valley’s softball team to a 10-8 win at Tech on Thursday.