Here are East Valley results from the Division I boys and girls cross country sectional races run on Friday. The top 50 percent of team finishers advance to the state championship meets Saturday morning/afternoon at Cave Creek Golf Course in Phoenix. The top 25 individuals also advance to the state meet.
Division I, Section I
Division I, Section II
Division I, Section III
Division II, Section II
Division II, Section III
Division III, Section II
Division III, Section III
Division IV, Section I
Division IV, Section II

McClintock’s Eduardo Roa and Desert Vista’s Brittany Tretbar were the individual winners on Wednesday at the annual Tempe city cross country meet at Kiwanis Park, where all the Tempe Union High School District schools compete.
Carter Macey (Desert Vista) was the runner-up, 10 seconds behind Roa, whose finished in 16 minutes, 8 seconds. Corona del Sol’s Jake Whitney took third, followed by teammate Nate Rodriguez. D.V.’s Ryan Dykstra was fifth as the Thunder won the boys team title.
Tretbar edged teammate Jenna Maack for the top spot in the girl’s varsity race …

Ten individuals and four Mesa schools’ championship teams will be inducted into the Mesa City Sports Hall of Fame next month.
The inductees:
Joel Anderson:  A state champion wrestler and TCA Games Gold Medalist (world’s Toughest Competitor Alive games for police/firefighters). He graduated from Mountain View  in 1995.
Jeremy Accardo:   An MLB Pitcher who graduated from Mesa in 1999, he pitched out of the bullpen in Baltimore in 2011
Sharise Blau Nunes:  A state champion swimmer who graduated from Red Mountain in 1999.
Brian Gray:  A state champion in the high jump who graduated …

The annual Tempe city cross country meet is Wednesday afternoon on the north end of Kiwanis Park off of Baseline Road.
Races for  freshman boys and girls, open races and varsity will start at 2:30 p.m. with an award ceremony at approximately 5 p.m.

Apparently summer isn’t over, because it’s 100 degrees again through the rest of the week.
Bad news for the two dozen combined boys/girls schools running in the Doug Conley Invitational on Saturday morning, though it could make for a fast trek through Rolling Hills Golf Course in Tempe on Saturday morning.
The Conley Invitational features six races (three for boys, three for girls) beginning at 7:15 a.m. with a boys and girls’ non-varsity race. Varsity races go at 8:10 a.m. (boys) and 8:30 a.m. (girls), and the big race is the Invitational …

Amidst a swell of top-notch football games in the Southeast Valley, the biggest regular season cross country invitational of the year will take place in-part under the stars.
The Desert Twilight Festival began five years ago at Queen Creek, and this year nearly 125 teams from Arizona and three other states (California, Nevada, New Mexico) will descend on Toka Sticks Golf Course in Mesa (just east of the intersection of Williams Field and Power Roads) for some night running.
Runners will wear glow sticks and glow-in-the-dark clothing on the partially-lit golf course.
The …

Chandler’s Tumbleweed Park was packed with runners and spectators on Saturday for the Chandler Invitational cross country meet.
Of the 37 teams competing, the Desert Vista girls and Highland boys emerged as winners in the unique meet that features races for each grade and gender.
Desert Vista had two runners win their respective class race, with Dani Jones running away with the freshman race, winning in 19 minutes, 44 seconds, and Brittany Tretbar winning the junior race in 19:47. Jones was 55 seconds ahead of the next finisher, while Tretbar was followed …

The annual Chandler Cross Country Invitational is Saturday morning at Tumbleweed Park (SW corner of Germann and McQueen in Chandler).
It’s a different format than most cross country meets, which are based on raw time. This meet is based on time within graduating  classes. That means all freshmen will run against one another (8:20 a.m.), followed by sophomores (8:55 a.m.), juniors (9:35 a.m.) and seniors (10:05 a.m.).
Nearly 40 schools will descend on the park, with about two-thirds from the East Valley: Basha, Campo Verde, Chandler, Chaparral, Corona del Sol, Desert Ridge, …

These holidays are a time of giving, sharing, receiving and awarding.
The latter begins now, as we’ve spent the past couple weeks buried in paperwork, soliciting opinions, crunching numbers into calculus formulas and possibly consulting Ouija Boards.
But you want the sausage, not the “How it’s Made” tour, so that’s what you’ll get on these pages beginning Wednesday.
The All-Tribune postseason packages trickle out in the next few editions:  Swimming, cross country, volleyball, and something commonly referred to as “football” on Dec. 26.
These are getting more and more difficult every year, not just …

Preliminary sectional placements for the next two school years have been approved by the Arizona Interscholastic Association’s executive board in a meeting on Monday.
The breakdown was created by a computer, following guidelines instituted by the AIA. Geography was the most important factor, followed by enrollment numbers at the schools.
In the Division I football breakdown, St. Mary’s is the only East Valley school in Section I. Section II East Valley teams are Basha, Chandler, Corona del Sol, Desert Ridge, Dobson, Gilbert, Hamilton, Highland, Mesquite and Skyline. Section III East Valley schools …