Relive all the action from week 12 of high school football in the East Valley:

Thunderbird at Higley (17 photos)
Amphitheather at Williams Field (13 photos)
Gilbert at Desert Ridge 11/19/2010 (20 photos)
Marcos de Niza at Centennial 11/19/2010 (18 photos)

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All those people drooling over a prospective Hamilton-Centennial state football title game could get their wish if the AIA’s new conference alignment proposal goes through.
On Monday, a plan was drawn out where state tournaments would be reduced in every sport in 2011.
In football, the seven current conferences would be downsized to five.
While it’s impossible to know what every school’s enrollment figure will look like in a year, let’s use the current numbers as a baseline.
If the change had been implemented this past season, 49 schools would have been in the …

Never a numbers guy to begin with, Brophy baseball coach Tom Succow is staring a big one in the face this week.
If the Broncos can pull off  a win this week – easier said than done with Hamilton twice and Red Mountain sandwiched in between – it will be the 600th victory of his illustrious high school baseball coaching career.
Succow started at Brophy in 1977 and has sent (conservatively) 100 kids to college baseball in his career, including two dozen in the past five years.
The Broncos won the 5A Division …

Joe Mather was one of the better power hitters in the East Valley earlier this decade at Mountain Pointe.  He was an All-State outfielder/infielder who set school records in hits, home runs and RBI (his career RBI and hits records  and single-season home run marks still stands but Kevin Cron broke the career home run record last week).
By the time he reached Class AA in the minor leagues, he was known as “Joey Bombs.”
Mather kept hitting his way through the St. Louis Cardinals organization and reached the major leagues in …