Sahuaro, Catalina Foothills and Palo Verde will host two double-header first-round matches on the girl’s side on Tuesday night and Salpointe will do the same on Wednesday night for the boys.

Despite winning six of its last seven games, the Buena girls fell out of the top 16 and did not make the D-I playoffs. It was probably their tie with Salpointe on January 15 that cost them a spot.

The Mountain View girls made it but fell out of the top four and will have to travel across town to play Chandler in a D-I match.

It appears Sahuaro’s late-season win over Catalina Foothills kept them at the top of the D-II ranks and they will host their first match. All of the top four seeds in all divisions will play at 7 pm unfortunately.

Catalina Foothills will still host and Ironwood Ridge will be playing in that playoff pod at Foothills in the first game.

Sahuarita stayed in the top 8 so they get to play close to home at Palo Verde. Marana and Sabino must travel to the Phoenix area for their games.

Sabino suffered another setback to their already depleted roster. Senior Willow Cozzens suffered a torn ACL late in their close match against Catalina Foothills on Thursday night. This will be the second torn ACL for Cozzens who was only able to come back to the sport after five months of intense physical therapy.

The Sabercats lost senior standout Shannon Shields earlier in the year to a fractured lower back.

The Palo Verde girls are back with a two seed and will host but Catalina, Safford and Push Ridge must travel in D-III action.

The Rincon boys held on and Tucson squeaked in the D-I playoffs as the last seed. In fact, Desert View took the 15 seed so all three Tucson teams took the last three playoff spots.

The Salpointe boys will host the late D-II match. Nogales tumbled out of contention after they lost to Desert View which turned out to be good news for the Catalina Foothills boys who got in as the last seed over CDO by .2225 points.

Douglas will host Amphi in D-III action while Palo Verde will plat Salpointe in the first match of that double header. Thatcher plays the top seeded Coronado team.

GIRLS DIVISION I

Tuesday, January 29
5 Mountain View vs. 12 Chandler at Sahuaro, 5 pm

GIRLS DIVISION II

Tuesday, January 29
1 Sahuaro vs. 16 Liberty at Sahuaro, 7 pm
3 Catalina Foothills vs. 14 Queen Creek at Catalina Foothills, 7 pm
6 Ironwood Ridge vs. 11 Kellis at Catalina Foothills, 5 pm
8 Sahuarita vs. 9 Agua Fria at Palo Verde, 5 pm
12 Marana vs. 5 Arcadia at Xavier, 5 pm
13 Sabino vs. 4 Apollo at Apollo, 7 pm

GIRLS DIVISION III

Tuesday, January 29
2 Palo Verde vs. 15 Higley at Palo Verde, 7 pm
11 Catalina vs. 6 Seton at Desert Vista, 5 pm
14 Safford vs. 3 Mingus at Mingus, 7 pm
16 Pusch Ridge vs. 1 Verrado at Verrado, 7 pm

BOYS DIVISION I

Wednesday, January 30
14 Rincon vs. 3 Desert Vista at Desert Vista, 7 pm
15 Desert View vs. 2 Corona del Sol at Corona del Sol, 7 pm
16 Tucson vs. 1 Brophy at Brophy, 7 pm

BOYS DIVISION II

Wednesday, January 30
4 Salpointe vs. 13 Mohave at Salpointe, 7 pm
16 Catalina Foothills vs. 1 South Mountain at South Mountain, 7 pm

BOYS DIVISION III

Wednesday, January 30
2 Douglas vs. 15 Amphitheater at Douglas, 7 pm
7 Palo Verde vs. 10 Phoenix Christian at Salpointe, 5 pm
16 Thatcher vs. 1 Coronado at Coronado, 7 pm

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