Sports

SCORE, the San Tan Valley Chamber of Commerce, SanTanValley.com, and Congressman Paul Gosar are working together to help raise money and awareness for the small business community in and around the San Tan Valley Area. This upcoming event will provide SCORE with much needed funds to increase its ability to reach out to and assist the small business community and provide them with the training, insight and tools that will dramatically increase these companies chances of success.

Looking for a way to enjoy the weather and help your local school? Combs Middle School PTO is hosting their first golf tournament! Please consider playing or becoming a sponsor! Spring is the perfect time to get out and play a round of golf and the Combs Middle School is hoping for a great turnout for their first golf fundraiser. The tournament will be held at The Links Golf Club, located at 445 E. Ocotillo Road in San Tan Valley.

It’s our favorite time of year as March brings us great weather, spring training baseball and the most exciting tournament of all…March Madness! We all love filling out our brackets and picking the teams we know for sure are going all the way to the final four, unless your like me and pick the ones that end up losing in the first round. And we all know who ends up winning the bracket challenge, the person who knows nothing about college basketball! But we play anyway because of how much fun it is.

Walkers will go around the clock in the battle against cancer when the second American Cancer Society Relay For Life® of San Tan Valley gets underway with teams of residents gathering at Poston Butte High School on April 12th at 6pm. Relay For Life events are held overnight as individuals and teams camp out at an athletic track, park or other gathering area, with the goal of keeping at least one team member on the track or pathway at all times throughout the evening. Teams do most of their fundraising prior to the event, but some teams also hold creative fundraisers at their camp sites during Relay.

All 72 participants showed up and gave generously at the second annual Oasis “Rally for the Cure” golf tournament. The Rally raised more than $5000.00 on March 17th 2013. This year, some of the funds raised through participants and sponsors, paid for mammogram screenings through the Breast Assured Foundation and their on-site mammogram unit. Additional funds will be sent to the Susan G. Komen organization both nationally and locally in support of breast cancer research.

The Community Alliance Against Family Abuse (CAAFA), the non-profit domestic violence service provider serving Northern Pinal and far Eastern Maricopa Counties, will be holding their 5th Annual 5K Run/5th Annual CAAFA Run Walk for Safety, Sunday, March 10. The trail race will begin at Prospector Park, located at 3105 N. Idaho Road, in Apache Junction. 

Mighty Pals Sports is a community based recreational sports program that is designed to meet the needs of children and youth that have physical and/or intellectual disabilities. The program is geared towards player development rather than competition. The Mighty Pals Sports program provides children with special needs and unique abilities the opportunity to be introduced to a variety of sports and recreational activities in a safe and fun environment.

Last night our boys’ basketball team opened up state tournament play with a resounding victory over the visiting Prescott Badgers 80-53. With this win we now move on to round 2 of the tournament by traveling to Nogales tomorrow, Saturday February 16th. Tipoff is scheduled for 7:00 PM. The Poston Butte Athletic Department is sponsoring a Spirit Bus for students and their families to watch the game. The cost of the ride is $10.00 which does not include the entry fee and you must bring your school I.D.

Combs High School wrestling team competed this past weekend in the Division III State Championship in Prescott, Arizona. Sophomore, Ted Rico defeated his opponent 3 – 1 for the Division III title in his weight class, and brought home the first Arizona State Championship title to Combs High School.  He finished the year at 47 – 1. Also qualifying for the state tournament were Kelvin Taylor, Riley Bourgeous, Joey Salas and Nigel Gardner.

If you have not yet heard, the Poston Butte Boys Basketball team has earned a home seed in the first round of the Division II State Championship playoffs! They will take on PRESCOTT at 7pm this Thursday, Feb. 14th. Poston Butte Activity passes do not qualify at an official AIA event such as this game, and admission prices are slightly higher than our regular season prices.

Our kids shouldn't be the only ones having fun, right?!? Join us for men's flag football right here in the Queen Creek / San Tan Valley area. Paladin Sports Outreach will be running a men's 8-player flag football league this spring. We will begin with a recreational division (light-hearted competition) only and we anticipate adding a competitive division (geared toward the more advanced player) this Fall!

Poston Butte High School: Cheer and Pom went to State in Prescott. Pom took 6th place. Co-Ed cheer took 5th place and Partner cheer took 1st place (won state).

  The middle school PTO would like to invite you to participate in the First Annual Cougar Golf Tournament.  The tournament is scheduled to take place at The Links Golf Club at Queen Creek on April 6th. The event will be a four-person best-shot scramble format. The cost to participate is $50 per person which includes golf, a cart, and lunch.

Apache Junction and Combs played about as even a match as you could expect this past Tuesday at Davis Field, but in the end, it was the Coyotes who prevailed in overtime by a 3-2 score. The match was tied 2-2 at the end of the first half and neither team was able to score in the forty-minute second half nor the first ten minute overtime period. But in the second overtime period, Combs put the gamewinner in the net with just 4:16 remaining to pull out the “W.”

Paladin Sports Outreach is a 501(c)3, Arizona nonprofit corporation, established to bring sports and recreation services to under-served communities in the San Tan area and beyond. We believe that sports are an incredible vehicle for bringing communities together and for teaching children important life lessons on responsibility, teamwork, and fun! Registration is now open for our Winter Sports programming. Registration ends Friday, January 11.