Prep Sports

They’re not saying much at Mingus Union High School about the fate of second-year head football Coach Robert Ortiz. One thing is obvious: Ortiz will not be at the helm of the Mingus Union football team for the balance of the 2019 season.

Prescott volleyball was on the verge of claiming the fourth set during its home match against Coconino on Tuesday. With a 25-23 lead, all the Badgers had to do was to score one more point to force a fifth set and prevent them from falling into an even deeper hole in region play.

In a letter to the statewide media, AIA sports information coordinator Seth Polansky announced that the AIA’s Student Leadership Advisory Committee (SLAC) is launching a contest this year for Arizona high school students to show off their school spirit.

The Prescott Badgers of the mighty mites division (ages 5-8) defeated the Chino Valley Cougars 31-0 during a Northern Arizona Youth Football game on Saturday at Chino Valley High School.

Sometimes luck is on your side – and you’ve simply got to roll with it.

This was the second week in a row that the Cougars had to travel to Kingman for a region game. This was also the second week in a row they ended up falling short due to their inability of holding onto a lead.

Everybody seems to be having fun when the kids in a new public service announcement are just playing football, until one boy is thrown to the ground and the background music turns ominous.

The final stretch of the Prescott swim season is upon us and the Badgers made quick work of Wickenburg during their meet on Thursday at the Prescott YMCA.

Our Week 8 gameday glance for Friday night's Bradshaw Mountain-Prescott rivalry game at Bill Shepard Field in Prescott.

Full speed ahead! Bradshaw Mountain volleyball is showing no signs of slowing down as it swept aside a formidable Youngker team during a 3-0 win on Wednesday.

Prescott boys golf is having one of its better seasons in program history and is now on the fringes of qualifying for playoffs with their latest win over Bradshaw Mountain and Coconino on Tuesday at Prescott Golf Club.

The Prescott football team failed to hold a two-touchdown lead at halftime, surrendering 27 unanswered points in a 34-27 loss to No. 13-ranked Coconino on Friday night.

Seven years. Until Friday, Oct. 4, at Walkup Skydome, that’s how long it had been since Bradshaw Mountain’s football team was shut out.

Momentum is a funny thing – one minute it starts to move heavily in one direction and out of nowhere it makes a U-turn. The Chino Valley High School football team experienced that Friday night as it couldn’t finish off Kingman Academy in a 27-26 loss at Southside Park.

Prescott girls golf brushed off a tough loss to Norte Dame Prep and Boulder Creek on Wednesday and made quick work of Bradshaw Mountain and Lee Williams on Thursday at Prescott Country Club.

Our Week 7 gameday glance for Friday night's Prescott-Coconino game at Cromer Stadium in Flagstaff.

Our Week 7 gameday glance for Friday night's Bradshaw Mountain-Flagstaff game at the dome in Flagstaff.

Check out where our local football teams stand in AIA's first Power Points Ranking of the season

It definitely took longer than expected. But in the end, Bradshaw Mountain volleyball managed to get it done on Tuesday during a 3-1 victory over a Coconino team that wouldn’t go away.

In most cases, an 8-2 victory in soccer usually signals a dominant performance by the winning side. But in this case, Chino Valley’s 8-2 home win over Desert Christian on Saturday didn’t exactly sit right with head coach Todd Carey.

Tommy Dieu (00) of the Prescott Valley Hitmen majors team breaks through the team banner before their game against Bagdad on Saturday, Sept. 28, 2019, at Bradshaw Mountain Middle School in Prescott Valley.

Somewhere beyond the Pearly Gates on Friday, Sept. 27, Woody Hayes must’ve been giddy.

Coming up against yet another tall task for the second week in a row, the short-handed Chino Valley football team couldn’t get anything going in a 41-14 loss to Odyssey Institute (4-1) during their homecoming game on Friday.

Our Week 5 gameday glance for Friday night's Bradshaw Mountain-Coconino game at Bob Pavlich Field in Prescott Valley.

In a potential preview of the girls soccer state championship, fierce rivals Chino Valley and Northland Prep locked horns on Thursday. And in dramatic fashion, it was the Spartans who upended the Cougars 5-3 in overtime to remain as the only unbeaten team in 2A.