The Hamilton game plan was simple: smash-mouth football.

Mountain Pointe has had some pretty stout defenses under Norris Vaughan, but there just might be something different about this group.

No. 1 Mountain Pointe vs. No. 3 Hamilton

Took my first tour of spring football this week and I wasn’t the only one there by any means.

Took my first tour of spring football this week and I wasn’t the only one there by any means.

In some families, the cousins are so close they might as well be siblings.

The accolades from a state championship berth are starting to roll in for Mountain Pointe.

Two quarters of bad football, the equivalent of 24 minutes of game time out of a total of about 580, marred an otherwise perfect season.

Izzy Marshall has one of those smiles that can make an undertaker crack one of his own.

Izzy Marshall has one of those smiles that can make an undertaker crack one of his own.

The Mountain Pointe spring football session came to an end with coach Norris Vaughan and his staff talking to each player about what role they were expected to have in the fall and what needed to be done between now and then.

The Mountain Pointe spring football session came to an end with coach Norris Vaughan and his staff talking to each player about what role they were expected to have in the fall and what needed to be done between now and then.

Area football players were snubbed on the All-Arizona team voted on by the football coaches association.

Norris Vaughan has some bluster about him.

The state’s high school football schedules were released Friday, so it’s time to take a look at some of the most intriguing matchups of the fall.

In some families, the cousins are so close they might as well be siblings.

A Division I football coach who saw Mountain Pointe and Hamilton both in person and on film breaks down Saturday afternoon's state championship game at University of Phoenix Stadium: