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Aztecs Men’s Tennis Drops Close Match to Mesa CC to Open 2021 Season

12Mar

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Aztecs Men’s Tennis Drops Close Match to Mesa CC to Open 2021 Season

By Raymond Suarez The Pima Community College men's tennis team opened its 2021 season on Tuesday at the West Campus Aztec Tennis Courts part of the Chapman Auto Sports Complex. The Aztecs (0-1) dropped a close match to Mesa Community College (2-0) 5-4. Sophomore Landon Strickland earned victories in singles and doubles play. Strickland and No. 3 doubles partner Emanuel Robles-Serrano (Desert View HS) defeated Emilio Alvarado and Tate Porter 8-5. Strickland beat Max Beasley at No. 5 singles 6-1, 6-2. Robles-Serrano fell to Hung Pham 6-3, 7-5 in the No. 6 singles match. Freshman Mason Lee (Catalina Foothills HS) earned a victory at No. 3 singles as he beat Cameron Khan in three sets 7-6 (7-4), 1-6, 10-4. Fellow freshman Mitchell Wilkinson (Catalina Foothills HS) earned his singles win...

Pima Indoor Sports to Begin After Long COVID-19 Stoppage

11Mar

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Pima Indoor Sports to Begin After Long COVID-19 Stoppage

Originally posted to allsportstucson.com By Kevin Murphy Pima Community College announced Wednesday that indoor sports will begin their seasons starting Friday and Saturday of this week. This is extremely welcome news to the those teams who have to this point been unable to play any scheduled games due to COVID-19 safety protocols. The women’s volleyball team will play the first game of the season at Eastern Arizona College at 1:00 p.m. on Friday in Thatcher. The women’s basketball team begins its season hosting Arizona Western College at 2:00 p.m. on Saturday at the West Campus Gym. The men are scheduled to open at home against Central Arizona College next Saturday, March 20, at the West Campus Gym. According to the press release from Pima Community College’s Sports Information Direct...

11Mar

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Aztecs Baseball Sweeps Phoenix College

Photo by Stephanie Van Latum By Raymond Suarez The Pima Community College baseball team (10-4, 5-3 in ACCAC) picked up its first ACCAC conference sweep on Tuesday beating Phoenix College (4-7, 3-5) at the West Campus Aztec Baseball Field part of the Chapman Auto Sports Complex. Freshman Wilson Bannister threw a gem in the first game as the offense scored 20 runs on the day. Freshman Jose Enriquez finished the day 4 for 8 with five RBIs and three doubles while freshman Parker Schmidt went 3 for 5 with four RBIs, three runs scored and three walks. Freshman Alex Kelch (Tucson Magnet HS) was 5 for 7 with three RBIs and three runs scored. Game 1: Pima CC Aztecs 7, Phoenix College Bears 0 (7 innings): Bannister picked up the win (2-1) as he pitched a complete-game shutout giving up five hits ...

3Mar

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Pima Aztecs Sports Update

Photo by Raymond Suarez By Nate Martinez The men and women’s golf team kicked their season off with the Mesa Invitational Tournament on February 15-16. Overall, the men’s team failed to place. However, freshman Connor Wierman from Ironwood Ridge High School finished in 16th place individually. He posted a score of 76 on the first day and 73 the next. Andrew Rivas, the freshman from Canyon Del Oro High School, finished 24th overall, shooting an impressive par 72 on his first day. He struggled on the second day, shooting an 81 for an overall of 153. Sophomore Jackson Williams, also from Ironwood Ridge, put up a score of 193. The women’s team had a lackluster day as well. Despite the disappointing team outing, freshman Victoria Pena from Tucson High School managed to place 8th individual...

28Feb

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Trailblazer Fred Snowden

Photo by The Tucson Citizen By Troy Hutchison Before 1970, there were zero black head coaches in D1 college basketball, The first coach to break through was Illinois State's William J. Robinson. In 1972, a man named Fred Snowden took the head coaching job at the University of Arizona, becoming the school's first black coach and the first black coach at a major institution. Back in the 70's, Arizona wasn't a part of the Pac-12; in fact, the conference was known as the Pac-8, and the Wildcats were in a different conference called the Western Athletic Conference, also known as the WAC. Before Snowden's arrival to the desert, Arizona had been in a drought when it came to college basketball. The program had suffered three straight losing seasons and hadn't made the NCAA tournament since 1951....

Aztecs Start Season Hot, Take Three of Four From Ranked Opponent

19Feb

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Aztecs Start Season Hot, Take Three of Four From Ranked Opponent

Photos by Raymond Suarez By Nate Martinez After a series of postponed games, Pima Community College baseball was finally able to kick off the delayed 2021 season. They took on the number 20 ranked College of Southern Nevada Coyotes in back-to-back doubleheaders last Friday and Saturday. February 12 (Game 1): Aztecs 8, Coyotes 9 In a very rocky start for the Aztecs, Pima found themselves in the hole 9-2 going into the bottom of the fifth inning in game one of their first double header. Freshman pitcher Wilson Bannister gave up four runs in the first inning of his first start of the season. He was taken out in the top of the 5th after allowing a home run and nine runs in 4.1 innings.. Freshman pitcher Darius Garcia finished the game, striking out three and giving up no runs on one hit. ...

Pima student athletes given new life after lost season

17Dec

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Pima student athletes given new life after lost season

By Nate Martinez By now, one would have to be living under a rock to not know that COVID-19 really hindered college athletics. Many student athletes in the United States had their seasons cut drastically short thanks to the virus. For some, this is heartbreaking, but they can look forward to another chance to play next season. For others, this may have been the last year of eligibility to make one more run at a potential championship. Things seemed to have hit an all time low for student athletes across the United States until a recent decision by the NJCAA (National Junior College Athletic Association). On October 22, the NJCAA decided that the 2020-2021 year of eligibility would not count towards student athlete eligibility. This basically means that athletes who were to compete, or h...

8Dec

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The NBA tests positive

Photo by Keith Allison By Kyler Van Vliet Last week, the NBA stated that 48 players have tested positive for COVID-19. With the season coming to a start later in December, the NBA tested 546 of its players between Nov. 24 and 30 after players returned to their respective team markets. 9% of the players tested positive. However, in the league’s preseason guidance to teams sent late last week, they made it clear that some positive test results were to be expected. Any player with a confirmed positive test is isolated until cleared by rules established by the league and National Basketball Players Association, in accordance with CDC guidance. The league's health and safety protocols for this season say that anyone with a positive test in this ‘pre-camp phase’, “must receive medical clear...

24Nov

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Making sense of the Suns draft

Photo by Alexander Jonesi By Kyler Van Vliet The 2020 NBA draft has come and gone. Besides the league consensus top three picks in Anthony Edwards, James Wiseman and LaMelo Ball, there were no other standout draftees, thus leaving teams uneasy in who to draft. Many drafted simply based off of player interviews, such as the Chicago Bulls picking college benchman Patrick Williams at pick 4. The Phoenix Suns were one of many teams that left fans confused based off their first round draft pick, drafting big man Jalen Smith from Maryland. Smith, 20, played two seasons for the Terrapins, averaging 15.5 points, 10.5 rebounds and 2.4 blocks per game. I too was confused by the pick as I was certain they would draft a guard like Kira Lewis who would have been a great scorer off the bench and cou...

Before the sun sets on his career, Chris Paul will try to elevate Phoenix

21Nov

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Before the sun sets on his career, Chris Paul will try to elevate Phoenix

Photo by Tim Shelby By: Kyler Van Vliet With the NBA off-season shortened up to fit the altered 2021 season timeline, the trade moratorium was lifted this Monday on November 16. Many teams were quick to jump all in and start flipping assets in order to elevate their teams, and the Phoenix Suns were not late to the ball. The Suns traded for the Hall of Fame point guard Chris Paul. The trade consisted of the Suns sending Ricky Rubio, Kelly Oubre Jr., two other young players and a future first-round pick to the rebuilding Oklahoma City Thunder. After reestablishing himself as one of the best point guards in the league this past season it was no surprise that his former team, the Thunder, were going to capitalize on other team’s desire to acquire Paul via trade. Before the moratorium wa...