Funeral arrangements have been set for Notre Dame football and girls soccer coach Scot Bemis, who died of lung cancer on Sunday.
Here are the details, courtesy of Team Bemis:
Please join the Bemis Family & Team Bemis community as we depart with our beloved coach, teacher, family member, mentor, role model and friend, Scot Andre Bemis.
Friday, January 27th, 5:00-8:00 PM
Visitation & Rosary
Saturday, January 28th, 10:00 AM
Funeral
The Location of Both Events Will Be:
St. Anne Catholic Church
440 E. Elliot Road
Gilbert, AZ 85234
Public Evening Event to Follow Funeral:
Saturday, January 28th, 6:00-9:00 PM
Wine4Wellness Event
”A Commemoration …

Two of the East Valley’s top football recruits will make their college choices public in the next week.
Saguaro running back D.J. Foster will choose among Arizona State, Southern California and Cal on Friday at 11:45 a.m. in a press conference at the school.
Foster was the Tribune’s Player of the Year and is rated a four-star recruit by websites Rivals.com and Scout.com.
Corona del Sol offensive lineman Andrus Peat will announce his decision on Feb. 1 at 11:35 a.m. on ESPNU’s National Signing Day Show.
“When I was at the Under …

The Perry boys basketball team has won 13 of its last 15 games and recently made its initial foray into the Tribune’s top-10 rankings for Division I.
The Pumas have defeated Hamilton, Paradise Valley, Desert Ridge and Highland, among others, in this stretch, but no one seems to be talking about them. Perry is 17-5 overall and is 10-3 in power point games, which has it 13th in the latest Division I standings.
“We’re a team that’s really flown under the radar, and that’s fine with us,” Perry coach Mark Nold said. …

It’s the final week of the regular season as all final matches take place Thursday night. With the new division/section alignment, 9 automatic qualifying spots for the state tournament (top 3 in each section based on power points) and seven other at-large bids based on PP, it’s going to be a wild finish with many schools playing 2-3 matches this week, and a lot of really good teams will be left out to dry.
(All records are power point matches only as of Monday afternoon):
Notre Dame at Cactus Shadows (Monday); vs. …

Dobson running back T.J. Thomas will visit Fresno State on Jan. 27, and he has been offered a scholarship by the school, former Mustangs coach Alex Jacobsen said.
It is the first offer for the All-Tribune first team selection, who carried the ball 213 times for 1,910 yards and 19 touchdowns last season.
Jacobsen said Thomas has qualified academically to attend Fresno State.
Thomas was one of the more productive players in the East Valley this season, but different factors have limited his exposure to colleges.
As for Jacobsen, he resigned as Dobson’s coach …

On August 26, less than an hour before arguably the roughest on-field start to a football season Notre Dame has endured in school history, Saints coach Scot Bemis paced the visitor sideline at Marcos de Niza while his team warmed up.
He was nervous about taking his school up two notches to Division II and nervous about Marcos’ athletes as he walked around with a stiff, Barry Bonds-esque elbow brace, a wipeout from when he tried boogey boarding during a family vacation in San Diego during the summer.
I tried to break …

Confirming several other reports, Saguaro star running back D.J. Foster will choose between Arizona State, Cal and USC on Jan. 27.
The date is significant to him because it would have been his sister Jennifer’s 22nd birthday. Jennifer Foster died of an accidental prescription drug overdose on August 20, 2009. Here is a story I wrote in late November chronicling the relationship between the siblings.
Foster’s parents, Ruth and Darryll, Sr., will meet with ASU on Saturday, former Saguaro coach John Sanders said, but D.J. is done talking to colleges.
He will take …

Don’t look now, but the calendar is creeping toward February, which means not only do basketball and soccer postseason tournaments get underway — and the way divisions and sections shake out, competitively both those sports’ postseasons figure to be something special — but football vacancies will be filled.
Chaparral fired the first shot in promoting longtime offensive coordinator Dave Huffine, which surprised no one given his accumen, former coach Charlie Ragle’s endorsement (which, like it or not, resonated) and Huffine’s understanding of the beast that Chaparral’s program has become.
Other dominoes will …