Going into Saturday’s matchup with Brophy, the Hamilton Huskies had been one of Division I’s top offensive teams in the playoffs thus far having put up big numbers against Corona del Sol and top seed Pinnacle.
Brophy erupts offensively in route of Hamilton
The Mesquite Wildcats sure like to live on the edge. Earlier in the week the Wildcats escaped elimination by getting a walk-off win over the Red Mountain Mountain Lions.
Three of the four teams – River Valley, Blue Ridge and Estrella Foothills – were in the semifinals last year. Fountain Hills is the only one of the four who didn’t make it.
Mesquite baseball had a fantastic run this season. A senior led team that was resilient and competed toe to toe with the best team in Division I all season.
Around spring football thus far one of he things that has been very apparent has been the size and talent that the Hamilton Huskies have in the trenches.
I knew Spring Evaluation period could get hectic, but I didn’t imagine it would get this crazy. As to my count, 34 student-athletes from the 2013 class have been offered by Division I football programs and an amazing eight players from the 2014 class have already been verbally offered.
Corona del Sol, the 24th seed in the Division I tournament went down to Tucson over the weekend and upset the Tucson Badgers to advance past the first round of the state baseball playoffs.
Two teams gave it their all and would not give up Tuesday night as the 6th seeded Mesquite Wildcats and the 11th seeded Red Mountain Mountain Lions met in post-season play.
No team wants to have their season end the way the Liberty Lions season did in 2011, starting off 9-0, only to lose two of their last three games, including a 35-34 heartbreaker to Arcadia in the Division III quarterfinals last November.
For the first time in a long time the Hamilton Husky football team has started their spring practices coming off a loss to end their season.