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06/14/11 CAC baseball Three more Central Arizona College players were selected on the final day of the major league draft Wednesday, bringing the number of Vaqueros picked to five.
06/07/11 Singers crooned, dogs danced, experts read lip prints and the wine flowed Saturday as the Humane Society of Central Arizona raised at least $135,000 to operate its Payson animal shelter.
06/06/11 Navarro takes the title home to Texas with a win over Central Arizona.
06/05/11 J.T. Files belted a walkoff two-run home run to right field in the bottom of the 10th and set off a celebration heard all the way back in Corsicana as the Bulldogs won their first junior college baseball national championship with a 6-4 victory over Central Arizona on Saturday night.
06/04/11 J.T. Files hit s two-run, walkoff home run as Navarro beat Central Arizona, 6-4, in the JUCO World Series national title game in Grand Junction, Colo. The two teams were tied 4-4 after regulation.
06/04/11 Central Arizona College entered the Alpine Bank Junior College World Series as the No. 1 team in the nation. The Vaqueros want to finish that way.
06/03/11 Willie Johnson hit a home run and drove in the final run to lift Central Arizona to a 16-6 victory over Potomac State (W.Va.) College in an Alpine Bank Junior College World Series elimination game.
06/03/11 Potomac State, which knocked off top-ranked Central Arizona on Thursday night, trailed the Vaqueros 8-6 after 3 1/2 innings in a Friday night rematch at the Junior College World Series.
05/28/11 Goodwill of Central Arizona will be holding a job fair on Wednesday at Surprise City Hall.
05/27/11 Expectations are always high for Central Arizona College, but this season might have been the highest yet. The top-ranked Vaqueros, who won the national title in 2002, have a large group of sophomores returning from a freshman season that ended in the Western District tournament. A dozen of those sophomores signed NCAA Division I scholarships.
05/25/11 Central Arizona is ranked number one heading into the first weekend of the Alpine Bank Junior College World Series.
05/24/11 The Rochester Honkers will have to start the 2011 Northwoods League summer college baseball season without their second-year head coach, Ryan Ruiz. Ruiz is an assistant coach at Central Arizona College, and his No. 1-ranked
05/21/11 Central Arizona defeated Salt Lake (Utah) Community College twice Saturday to win the Western District and qualify for the JUCO World Series. The No. 1 ranked Vaqueros (52-13) defeated No. 4 Salt Lake 8-6 and 12-9 in Coolidge, Ariz.
05/20/11 The Humane Society of Central Arizona hopes to raise money to save hundreds of dogs, cats and other pets with money donated for a unique fund-raiser.
05/19/11 Central Arizona College remains the top-ranked team in the National Junior College Athletic Association/Perfect Game USA Division I baseball poll, released Wednesday. The Vaqueros (48-12) won the Region 1 championship and host the Western District tournament beginning today for a berth in Alpine Bank Junior College World Series. They open the district tournament against No. 4 Salt Lake (Utah ...
05/14/11 The number of homeless people at Central Arizona Shelter Services shelters increased by about 10 percent in the past year. So when news headlines recently claimed homelessness in the Valley was rapidly declining, CASS Director Mark Holleran said he and his staff were ''exasperated.''
05/13/11 The Humane Society of Central Arizona hopes to raise money to save hundreds of dogs, cats and other pets with a unique fund-raiser.
05/12/11 The second-ranked Central Arizona College baseball team will play for its fifth straight Region 1 championship in a best-of-three series starting Thursday at home against Yavapai.
05/09/11 Learning is a lifelong vocation that Central Arizona College fosters through a variety of programs, including community and continuing education and the Central Arizona Lifelong Learners, or CALL, program.
04/27/11 University of South Carolina head women's basketball coach Dawn Staley announced that Central Arizona College guard Sancheon White has signed a National Letter of Intent to attend the University and play for the Gamecocks. She will have two years of eligibility beginning with the 2011-12 academic year.
04/18/11 Larry Dozier retired as deputy general manager of the Central Arizona Project earlier this month, but on a spring afternoon more than 25 years ago, he had to help persuade the governor of Arizona not to call out the National Guard. |