Corona Del Sol High School - Sunset Yearbook (Tempe, AZ)

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Coaches look forward to AAA competitio Coaches are looking forward to entering the AAA league where they will be facing tougher competition during vir- tually every game dur- ing their respective seasons. After five years of AA competition, enrollment increases are pushing school teams into the AAA league, central division. The football team will be playing former state champions Mountain View and McClintock while the cagers will play powerhouses like Mesa and Chandler. The baseball team will face teams like Moun- tain View. Of all the Varsity teams, the two time AA state championship basketball team will have the easiest transi- tion of the three major sports, according to the coaches. l'd say close to one third of our schedule have been AAA teams and we have done that in the past, Sam Duane, Varsity basket- ball coach said. According to Duane, the cagers played in the Fourth Annual Tri-Cities Classic defeating three AAA teams to take the championship. The team also played three other AAA teams during the course of the season. Night in and night out, I think the toughest thing is that we are go- ing to be playing good teams every night, Duane said. 88 FEATURE Larry Hughes, Varsity football coach, agrees with him. ln AAA basically week in and week out, you're going to be faced with physical football teams, whereas in AA you have probably four physical teams, Hughes said. Hughes felt that in order to be successfull in the AAA football league you have to keep your skilled peo- ple healthy. According to Ron Davini, Varsity baseball coach, the central divi- sion is the finest division in AAA. They play very ag- gressive and consistent baseball, Davini said. All through the season it will be a much tougher schedule. Davini said he sees the AAA league benefiting the Corona sports program. The better competi- tion you play, the better y o u r p r o g r a m becomes, he said. Another benefit of entering AAA level is the less amount of travel needed to play non- division games, accor- ding to all three coaches. I think the biggest plus we are going to have is the travel. This year we have gone to Nogales, Mingus, Globe and places like that, Duane said. ln AAA, we won't be going as far and it will be easier for us, he added. Another plus, accor- ding to Hughes, is that a AAA non-league game iii '1 'V ..Y-W-W iii-I U ...ll f Ef3ifsf:i?gtf,., we . S ,K , I V , -Q-r'jjlS fff:,,'-...V st s? 3 V .,.- ,JA .pw it it SQ, --is -. -A f we s -- -f f- f.. . ' is 1, X ..,,,k..R J. 4 - - .. 4 X, -. 'Ak . ' S-..h...-L.sS?fu- sss..'3'.hnS'Siv.,..l.:vfm'i ,g,. -Q.. w- .5 V- .a .vfwsv - can still fill Henshaw stadium. lf we turn around and play Nogales as a non-league game, it is just so far that they are not going to bring any people up here, Hughes said. One of the main con- cerns of the coaches is depth. According to Davini, in AA he could get away with one pitcher. ln AAA he has to have at last two pitchers. ' The Varsity football team, which Davini says will be entering black and bl league, will need n depth Hughes said. The bad thing is, will be faced with n injuries, and you're ing to need m depth, he added. All three coac agree that the first 1 ple seasons will rough, but with comes success. Once we make adjustment into Al Davini said, I think will be the cream of crop in AAA. by Larry Mcl

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V., freshman teams make improvement LL... S ' ,. '5-'5 .W A swu ,P si , -6 . i A V I .J,a.4!I1, . L Basketball, BOTTOM ROW, FROM LEFT: Scott McCarty, Chris Flores, Ronnie Cross, Scooter John Combs, Carl Minitti, John Lower, Moe Jones. SECOND ROW: Dave Brekke, coach, Dale Chris Butters, Todd Stewart, Nacho Martinez, Kent Stapley, Tom Slade, Brian Ross, Kent The J.V. basketball team had a fine season, :according to Larry Campbell, coach. The team made great improvement and played well. The games that they lost were very close, Campbell added. Team standouts were center Jim Fredlake, forwards Andy Higgins, Torn Ross and Brian Parker, guards Chuck Lee and Chris Espindola. The freshman basketball team gained much experience this year, according to Dave Brekke, coach. Brekke had a starting team of ten people. Team standouts were Todd Stewart who led the team in re- bounding ancl Nacho Martinez as leading scorer. Stewart also led the team in steals and assists. During a game against Bourgade, John Coombs takes a jump shot. g Freshman Basketball s CDS OPP Kino, .... ,. ..... 74 36 Cactus ..... ..... 4 8 55 Peoria ......... .... 4 3 39 Vlndependencze . . . . . . 57 27 A Powell .,....... .... 5 2 56 .rrempe..,..... .....48 51 Bourgade .... .... 7 3 33 Globe ,....46 44 C Gerard ..... ....... 5 7 62 .Gilbert ..... .... . ..... 56 51 'Mingus .... 5 .... .5-7 .... 50 52 5 Bourgade ....... .63 48 Mingus . . ...... .76 51 Globe ........ ..... 7 6 51 Gerard ..... t. .,..... 58 44 A 5 57 Gilbert ................. sa Lasts gWon11g D BOY'S FRESHMAN BASKETBALL 87

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