Girls Basketball
Three girls events, two for boys on tap.
Team was without its leading player for third straight game at Lady Jags Invitational in Anthem.
Five events on tap for Phoenix/northwest/southwest Valley.
Includes mandatory testing for all athletes in all sports.
Players compete with an intensity similar to that of state tournament.
Josiah McDaniel takes over as girls coach at Boulder Creek after departing Horizon.
Basketball, wrestling and soccer will return next school year with new sectional formats.
Chandler High played the game it wanted against St. Mary\'s for the first 15 minutes of the 5A-I girls basketball championship game on Friday. It was that last minute of the half that was ugly and esentially ended the Wolves hope of claiming the title
St.. Mary\'s used an 9-0 run to end the first half and that opened the gates to a 73-60 win over Chandler at Jobing.com Arena.
Pinnacle was determined to put the clamps on Tolleson guard Syerra Davis on Friday in the 5A-II girls basketball championship game. The Pioneers hounded Davis one-on-one and did a fine job on the Wolverines leading scorer, who had scored 49 points in two previous meetings this season.
The solution was for other Tolleson players to step up. That they did.
Pinnacle girls basketball is resilient. The Pioneers want that moniker to read champions.
Sophomore guard Sydney Wiese played like a champion with an amazing 35-point effort Wednesday night helping No. 2 seed Pinnacle edge 10th-seed Horizon, 65-61, in a 5A-II girls basketball semifinal at Jobing.com Arena.
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