Thursday night’s Pueblo Flagstaff game for the 4A State Championship at 6 p.m. at the Veterans Memorial Coliseum in Phoenix will be Live streaming on NFHS networksALSO AT ALLSPORTSTUCSON.COM Andy Morales and Brittany Bowyer Tweet live updates.
Pueblo and Flagstaff will meet for the third time in the state playoffs in the last seven years.
Flagstaff ended Pueblo’s 26-2 season in 2016-17 with an 84-65 win in the quarterfinals at Flagstaff.
The Warriors improved to a 30-2 record, beating Flagstaff 52-32 to qualify for the 2017-18 Championship at Grand Canyon University in Phoenix. Pueblo lost to Seton Catholic in his game for the title.
No. 4 seed Pueblo (23-7) will face No. 2 seed Flagstaff (25-6) at 6 p.m. in the 4A State Championship at the Veterans Memorial Coliseum.
just visited meow meow training. At least 110 of his students were said to be taken by bus to Phoenix tomorrow for his 4A state championship game against Flagstaff at 6 p.m. at the Veterans Memorial Coliseum. A warrior who wants loud support. I know Southern AZ is behind them.
— Javier Morales (@JavierJMorales) March 1, 2023
The Warriors will seek the first women’s basketball state championship in school history.
Flagstaff, who lost last year’s championship to Salpointe Catholic, have not won a title since the Eagles won the 4A winter title in 1992 (women’s basketball at the time was played in winter and spring). divided into schools).
“They play as well as we do. Like, run-and-gun and like to shoot threes,” said the 11-year Pueblo coach. Izzy Galindohe is also aiming for his 200th career win as a head coach.
Jizzy Galindo record in Pueblo
| Year | win | loss |
| 2022-23 | twenty three | 7 |
| 2021-22 | 15 | 12 |
| 2020-21 | 9 | 6 |
| 2019-20 | Ten | 14 |
| 2018-19 | twenty five | Five |
| 2017-18 | 30 | 3 |
| 2016-17 | 26 | 2 |
| 2015-16 | twenty five | Five |
| 2014-15 | twenty two | 9 |
| 2013-14 | Ten | 13 |
| 2012-13 | Four | 18 |
| total | 199 | 94 |
Both schools have freshman security guards who are among the leading scorers — America, Casares Pueblo and Vera Barker at Flagstaff.
America Cazares is averaging 17.6 points and his older sister Victoria is averaging 18.6 points per game. America is also his second-best rebounder for Pueblo, averaging 5.2 per game.
“I’m more of a team leader, just trying to work with America because she’s my sister,” says Victoria, who has 1,812 points in her career. Told. “I always try to calm her down because I never saw her under pressure until yesterday (Tuesday, in her 52-48 semi-final against No. 1 Mesquite, she after missing a few shots).
“I know she can score. ”
The USA has 11 points and 14 rebounds.
Victoria and America take Pueblo’s transition game out of steel. Victoria leads the Warriors with 3.6 and USA is next with 3.2.
Flagstaff is also capable of twin sister duo Jazmine and Jaideen Dugiboth juniors.
Jazmine Dugi scored a game-high 18 points and Jaydene scored 10 in Flagstaff’s 68-49 semi-final win at the Glendale Deer Valley on Tuesday. sage begay Adding 15, Burcar scored 14. The Eagles made 12 shots from 3-point range.
‘We’re back (in the championship game) and have a real chance of winning,’ says Eagles coach Tyrone Johnson told the Arizona Daily Sun.
Guard Bigey is the only senior among Flagstaff’s top six scorers. She averages 11.4 points, 4.2 rebounds and 2.6 steals per game.
pueblo senior Myra Truitguard, and Sandra Perezthe forward is a key contributor to Galindo’s top rotation.
Truitt is averaging 7.3 points and 2.1 steals per game and has the ability to hit a clutch 3-pointer.Perez and sophomore forward Nevea Sandoval Get 7 rebounds on the combine.
sophomore guard Sarah GalindoGalindo’s daughter-in-law is the third-leading scorer on the team with 8.7 points per game.
Many of the Pueblo players have been together since middle school.
“They know how to play together. They’ve been playing together for a while,” said Jizzy Galindo. “Sarah, America, (Senior) Mia (Rodriguez)Sandra and Victoria were playing together at the Hollinger just up the street.
“And Myra, Victoria, and Sandra have been playing together for my club team since sixth grade. So they have the chemistry. It’s fun.”
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Javier Morales, publisher, writer and editor of ALLSPORTSTUCSON.com, is a former Arizona Press Club winner. He is a former Arizona Daily Star beats his reporter for the Arizona basketball team, including when the Wildcats won his 1996–97 NCAA title. He has also written articles for many publications including CollegeAD.com, Bleacher Report, Lindy’s Sports, TucsonCitizen.com, The Arizona Republic, Sporting News and Baseball America.he is also writing a book “Best way to live”, available on Amazon. He became an educator five years before he was born and is currently a special education teacher at the Gallego Fine Arts Intermediate in the Sunnyside Unified School District.
