Sports Notebook

By Kody Acevedo It’s an exciting time to be a soccer fan in the Valley right about now. Phoenix Rising FC, the highest level professional...

It’s going to be hard to fill the basketball shoes and score the points typically made by Alex Barcello and Sabin Lee, Corona’s star players who both will be heading off to play Division I college basketball this fall: Barcello at the University of Arizona and Lee at Vanderbilt.

Most local areas high school football players and their coaches will be able to start organized practices for the 2017 fall football season on July 31.

With football a little over two months away, football fans at both Corona del Sol and Marcos de Niza are most like starting to think about high school football and how their teams will play this season since both teams will have new quarterbacks while the Aztecs have a new head coach.

The Tempe All-City Association awards banquet for spring sports honored a wide range of deserving athletes at the Double Tree by Hilton Hotel in Tempe, where all four local schools took home recognition for their excellence in baseball, softball, tennis, sand volleyball, boys volleyball and track.

Athletes from Tempe area high schools were honored at the annual Tempe All-City Winter Banquet, March 27, including student athletes from Tempe, McClintock, Marcos de Niza and Corona.

Tommy Lasorda never bled Angel red, but his influence flows deep in the veins of the Angels clubhouse.

Corona’s boys volleyball program has the chance for a winning season with nine returning players, many who played club volleyball in the off season, and several talented young new players who joined the team Geoffrey Horewitch’s second season as head coach.

The Padres competed against Combs in their first track meet of the 2017 season taking first place in several events at the Marcos de Niza track.

Oscar Ramirez Jr. still has the mentality of a high school quarterback.