Sports

With just five weeks remaining, athletes from both Mingus Union and Camp Verde high schools have positioned themselves strongly for the Arizona State High School Track and Field championships.

After winning its first six games, the Camp Verde baseball team has lost four in a row. The team, made up mostly of underclassmen, isn’t getting the breaks these days.

Last week, Mingus Union’s boys tennis team had nearly all the mixed success a squad can have.

Mingus High School Chayce Doerksen and Taylor Brock were named to the 4A Grand Canyon all-region second team for girls’ basketball.

Mingus High School senior Zach Figy was named to the 4A Grand Canyon all-region second team for boys’ basketball.

With an eight-run third inning and a five-run fifth inning, Camp Verde beat Sedona-Red Rock on Monday, 16-1.

With Camp Verde's golf team, driving, chipping, putting and nutrition are the keys to success.

The Mingus Union softball team hasn’t simply been winning. They’d been trouncing their opponents.

The Mingus Union baseball team started out 3-3, but has fallen into a five-game midseason losing tailspin with eight games to go.

Camp Verde softball is now 2-5 on the season, but is ranked 18 of 36 teams in the 3A Conference.

Considering the COVID-19 pandemic shut down campuses and ball fields a year ago, the end result is not so much whether the student-athletes win or lose but that they get to play at all.

Coconino High School claimed top honors in both the boys’ and girls’ divisions of the Mingus Early Qualifier track and field meet April 1.

It would be fair to say that going into this season, or even the NCAA Women’s Basketball Tournament, not many people would have expected Arizona, a No. 3 seed, to have an opportunity to win a national title with one shot Sunday.

Camp Verde’s Chino Salas-Zorilla was named the 3A North Central region’s offensive player of the year for the 2020-2021 basketball season.

Mingus’ 6-3 home win over Flagstaff on April 1 made the Marauders 7-0 on the season.

Three of Mark Showers’ Lady Cowboys were recently named to the 3A North Central all-region basketball team.

Cottonwood Clippers will swim in 2021 after taking 2020 off because of COVID-19.

Versatility is good for Camp Verde High School's baseball team. And versatility is a byproduct of selfless ball playing.

Through its first six games of 2021, a big key to the Mingus Union softball team’s success has been not allowing opponents to get big hits.

Wednesday, the Mingus Union boys tennis team netted its first win of 2021.

The Mingus Union girls tennis team has met some formidable opponents early on.

Golf is about situational play and about golfers staying within themselves, according to Patrick Peatrowsky, Camp Verde’s golf coach.

Saturday, the Mingus Union softball team looked polished in their 10-0, mercy-rule win over visiting Williams.

The Mingus Union girls track team had solid across-the-board scoring to finish fourth among 12 teams in Saturday’s Shadow Ridge Invitational.

After getting rained out Tuesday, the Mingus Union softball team swept a doubleheader from Mohave on Thursday in Bullhead City.