West Valley Girls football teams enter the first open division in Arizona – Newsbreak

Boys and girls football joined football and basketball for boys and girls with an open division for the 2024-25 season.

It’s similar to the basketball format. The top 32 teams from the 4A-6A conferences qualified for the first round. Then the last eight teams remain in the open division, while the remaining 24 return to their respective conferences.

Six teams from West Valley Preps play in the first round of The Open tonight at 6:00 pm – the games are:

No. 20 Scotsdale Desert Mountain (8-4) in No. 13 Mountain Ridge (9-2-1)
Where: 22800 N 67th Ave, Glendale.

The mountain lions took their lumps in the desert valley area, but so did any other team, except for the unbeaten champion in the region. Mountain Ridge lost to pioneers, upset Boulder Creek, was upset by freedom and tied O’Connor.

This is the best Mountain Ridge team for decades and its coaches and players are hungry for more than one playoff victory, whether it’s outdoors on a 6A bracket.

“We were quite confident to get into the season. We have some good new players. Although we lost some elderly people, I decided that our team was stronger. Our goal this season is to make the playoffs and hope to get to the championship, “said senior striker Alice Peregino.

No. 19 Vail Cienega (11-1) in No. 14 Liberty (8-3-1)
Where: 9621 W. Speckled Gecko Drive, Peoria

Liberty went through the same glove, especially after winning Mountain Ridge.

The opponent of 5A Sunrise Mountain handed the lions his first defeat two days later, after which Liberty defeated O’Connor and tied Shadow Ridge. But Boulder Creek broke up Liberty 8-0 and Pinnacle won 1-0 to complete the regular season.

“Well, when every team in our region is outdoors, it becomes clear how difficult it is. I really don’t think there are many teams that we will encounter that have had such a difficult schedule of the region,” Kyle Poler’s Freedom Coach said In an email. “So I feel good that we play some really difficult teams. I think there’s not too much else we haven’t seen anymore, so I think it helps a lot.”

Liberty played Cienega last year in a holiday tournament, and Pooler said Bobcats were well trained and very organized. He said they had two really good forwards that would be difficult to hold and two very solid central backs and a really good midfielder.

The coach is not excited that the lions defeated Del Crown Del Sol 6-1 on January 28, about a week, before Bobcats defeated the Aztecs by 2: 1.

“When you deal with 16, 17, 18 -year -old children, they are enough to look at the results and comparison, and I really try to divert them from this because you start getting smug thinking that the team doesn’t have to be so good, As we are because we beat the crown by 6-1, “Pooler said.” So I really don’t like it. ”

He said the elderly tattoo cunns, Malory Lad and Grace Hurley. They kept the team this year and many adolescents have increased in a great way and helped lead.

No. 18 Chandler Basha (7-5) in No. 15 Sunrise Mountain (9-2)
Where: 21200 N. 83rd Ave., Peoria

After two direct losses to start the regular season, for the units of the open divisions Arizona College Prepa and Chaparal, the Mustings did not break down again.

Sunrise Mountain played a smaller game, as Lightning canceled his game with a colleague at Team Open Division Desert Edge on January 27 -with Scorpions leading 1-0.

Sophomore Bella Akari leads Mustangs with 11 goals. After giving up nine goals in these two losses, Sunrise Mountain has admitted only eight for the rest of the season and enters a series of eight games tonight.

Basha is in a similar boat like Liberty and Mountain Ridge, stuck in a region with elite teams such as Queen Creek Casteel, Gilbert Perry and Chandler Hamilton.