If a couple days and four summer games are a decent sample, good things are certainly ahead come fall and winter for Pinnacle and Amphi boys basketball teams.
Amphi journeyed up the hill Friday for some tough competition and held its own and thensome iFriday n reaching the final opposite Pinnacle in the inaugural Mesa Summer Primetime boys hoops tournament.
Talk about a battle for your first boys basketball title in school history. Chaparral and Betty H. Fairfax was just that Friday afternoon as Chaparral nearly four decades old and Fairfax four-years-old duked it out at Jobing.com Arena.
Pierre Newton made free throws and reserve Jovan Wright several clutch 3s in regularion and overtimes as Betty Fairfax dealt Chaparral a second straight gut-wrenching 5A-II state title defeat, 65-60, in double overtime.