Prep Sports

MacGraw VanWormer might be just a kid who’s not even old enough to watch a PG-13 movie by himself yet, but he’s a kid with tremendous talent and a shot to make a USA baseball development team.

Talk about a game-changer.

Midway between Phoenix and Tucson along Interstate 10 sits the small city of Eloy. It’s home to just under 16,000 residents and is mostly known for world-class skydiving and copious amounts of dust. But a rich history can be found deeper in the city off Exit 208.

A hole-in-one sank at the par-3 third hole on a heated desert golf course in April 1946.

Brina Lankford, a member for the Arizona Sand Snakes and a recent Bradshaw Mountain graduate who played catcher for the school softball team, recently signed her letter of intent continue playing at Howard College in Big Spring, Texas.

Hoops aficionados everywhere would agree that the University of Arizona Wildcats has the best basketball factory in the state of Arizona. The proof is in this year’s NBA draft.

After winning the District 10 Championship last week, the Prescott Little League Intermediate All Stars team made an impressive run in the state tournament in Nogales from Monday, July 12 to Friday, July 15, finishing as the runners-up.

Hamilton High School graduate Gavin Turley is among the talent at the 2022 Major League Baseball Draft Combine hoping to boost his stock in the draft.

In their first tournament of the new travel ball season, the Arizona Sand Snakes softball team finished as runners-up at the Remember and Honor Pre Memorial Day tournament last weekend.

Abigail Polacek, a senior basketball standout from Chino Valley High School, recently signed her letter of intent to play for Yavapai College’s new women’s basketball team next season.

Chino Valley High School held a signing day event inside the main gym on Thursday, May 4, 2022, in which seven senior athletes each signed their letters of intent to continue playing their sport at the next level in college.

The 2022 Grand Canyon Region champion Bradshaw Mountain baseball team will carry the eighth seed into the 4A state tournament’s first round, scheduled for 11 a.m. Saturday, April 30.

Coming off a big 18-6 region win over Mohave on Monday, pitcher RJ Parra’s 12-strikeout performance helped earn Prescott softball a hard-fought, 7-6 win over Deer Valley in a non-region bout on the road Wednesday, March 30.

Prescott baseball used a huge sixth inning to comeback to win against Mingus 10-9 on the road Tuesday, March 8.

A few Cougars from the Chino Valley track & field team made history this week as Andre Coomer broke the school’s 400m record while the team of Emily Rudnick, Natalie Banister, Olivia Colasuonno and Jaque Ocampo broke the record for the 4x100m relay.

In 2021, the Bradshaw Mountain softball team struggled due to inexperience, but its players remained committed through difficulties and showed a desire to continue improving.

When Brian Bundrick embarked on his seventh season as Bradshaw Mountain baseball coach in February, he felt confident about the program’s immediate future.

Prescott baseball couldn’t have had a much more difficult end to its 2021 season.

Under the tutelage of Matt Dunn, who’s a very heart-and-hustle head coach, Chino Valley softball has always been a team that you should never underestimate.

Prescott boys volleyball won its season opener against Bradshaw Mountain 3-0 on Tuesday, March, 1, in Prescott Valley.