Arcadia senior outfielder Brendan Satran is closing in on the 4A/Division II career stolen base record. The Titans’ leadoff hitter has 15 stolen bases this season in 22 games to lift his total to 70, which is closing in on the record of 74 bases Mike Nixon swiped when he starred at Sunnyslope.
Satran is batting .418 this season and has scored 28 runs for Arcadia, which is ranked fifth in the Tribune’s latest Division II rankings.
Arcadia has five regular season games left and then an undetermined amount of postseason contests. …

Our Sunday cover story was about Highland baseball player Jordan Pingree, who has returned to the diamond after missing a year and a half with brain trauma from concussions.
The introduction to the story focuses on a line drive that nailed teammate Garrett Repp in the Highland dugout earlier this season. If the ball hit Pingree, it could have cost him his life. Repp emailed us about how he felt immediately after the incident happened. Here are his words:
In regards to Kyle Odegard’s article: “Coming Out of the Fog.” This is …

Now that we’ve entered the glorious crossroads between winter and hellacious heat, there’s no shortage of outdoor activities this (or any) weekend.
It’ll be hard to peel away from the March Madness going on at US Airways Center for the regional semifinals as NCAA brackets continue to get busted, or spring training games. But if you want to catch some pretty talented high school athletes from across the East Valley, Arizona, the southwest and even nationally (and catch a tan for those capable of doing so), this is a weekend to …

Due to weather and fields, the Big League Dugout baseball tournament games on Monday are postponed, so the schedule has been slightly altered.
Monday’s games will now be played on Thursday. Tuesday’s and Wednesday’s regularly-scheduled games remain the same, and Friday will be the championship games.
Tuesday
12:30 p.m.:  Pleasant Valley vs. IMG Academy (at Horizon H.S.)
3:45 p.m.:  Brophy at Hamilton (at Hamilton H.S.)
4 p.m.:  Rocky Mountain vs. Mountain Pointe (at Horizon H.S.)
7:30 p.m.:  Corona del Sol at Horizon (at Horizon H.S.)
Wednesday
12:30 p.m.:  Mountain Pointe at Hamilton (at Horizon H.S.)
3:45 p.m.:  IMG Academy …

Among the many spring break tournaments, the Mesquite-Gilbert Baseball Invitational begins this weekend and runs through Thursday, March 15 at Mesquite and Gilbert high schools.
Basha, Desert Vista, Gilbert, Glendale Independence, McClintock, Mesquite, Mountain View, Red Mountain, Skyline and Avondale Westview are all participating.
Here’s the schedule:
SATURDAY MARCH 10
At Gilbert HS: 11 a.m.: Desert Vista vs. McClintock; 2 p.m.: Gilbert vs. Independence.
At Mesquite HS: 11 a.m .:  Red Mountain vs. Westview; 2 p.m.:  Skyline vs. Basha; 5 p.m.:  Mesquite vs. Mountain View.
MONDAY MARCH 12
At Gilbert HS: 2 p.m.:  McClintock vs. Gilbert; 5 …

Here is the schedule for the seventh annual Highland Triple Play Classic baseball tournament, which runs from March 12-15:
Monday, March 12:
Dobson at Perry, 9 a.m
Highland at Mesa, 9 a.m.
Williams Field at Dobson, 12 p.m.
Cesar Chavez at Mesa, 12 p.m.
Apache Junction at Cesar Chavez, 3 p.m.
Williams Field at Perry, 3 p.m.
Highland at Apache Junction, 6 p.m.
Tuesday, March 13:
John Paul II at Dobson, 9 a.m.
Mesa at Apache Junction, 9 a.m.
John Paul II at Williams Field, 12 p.m.
Cesar Chavez at Highland, 6 p.m.
Wednesday, March 14:
Four pool play games at higher seed depending on …

The Dylan Cozens circus involving Chaparral and Desert Mountain supposedly ended earlier this week when the Arizona Interscholastic Association ruled the baseball player was eligible at Chaparral after being removed from Desert Mountain’s team last April.
After hearing about the move from outsiders — not Chaparral — a year ago, the AIA shut him down for the 2011 season on the basis that he was removed from Desert Mountain’s baseball team for disciplinary reasons.
Under AIA bylaws, a student isn’t allowed to switch schools and immediately be eligible to play when disciplinary …

The Highland baseball team won all five of its games in the Panther Classic last week in Tucson, defeating Canyon del Oro, 9-5, for the tournament title.
The Hawks only won 13 games last season, and are nearly halfway to that win total already this year. Pitcher/first baseman Cody Moffet is the team’s star and he had a three-run double to kickstart the win over the Dorados. Moffet is committed to Arizona.
Here is a game recap of the win over Canyon del Oro from the Tucson Citizen.

Saturday’s Scottsdale Invitational baseball tournament games have been moved from Arizona State’s Packard Stadium back to the local high schools.
Desert Mountain will host Desert Ridge in the championship game at 10 a.m.
Gilbert will play at Saguaro at 11 a.m. in the third place game.
Chaparral will host Notre Dame at noon in the fifth place game.
All times and locations are according to the team websites. The games are not going to be played at ASU because there will be parking lot renovations going on at that time outside the stadium, Desert …

While we continue to hammer away at spring sports previews and All-Tribune for the winter sports — I promise we’ll (eventually) get them all done — the spring sports season might offer the most interesting nuggets in terms of the realignments and re-configurations that were approved last year.
As more individualized sports, track and field and tennis already went through transformations last spring, with the number of divisions reduced and varying track qualifying standards from the past. Another tweak or two was made this year to the state championship meets. Notably, …