Spring sprang, and now summer has set in.

With a deep inhale and wide smile, Jordan Beck let out the worst-kept secret in Arizona high school softball, and came as close as anyone wearing black and red to acknowledging the history that’s been made on the east end of Brown Road.

It took a black-and-blue kind of semifinal battle between Mountain View and Chaparral to set up an all-red-and-black championship game in the Division I girls softball state tournament.

For most hitters a mistake pitch is something up and over the plate.

This was two games of frustration busted out, in a big way.

Her team found ways to stay alive for at least a few more days in the Division I state tournament, but Lindsey Collins wasn't gushing.

Corona del Sol lost a baseball game on Thursday in a most peculiar way.

On Thursday, the Division I and II baseball state tournaments will move to Spring Training stadiums across the Valley.

What a difference a year makes.

Mesa’s Red Mountain High School finished fourth overall in its first U.S. Academic Decathlon last week.

Baseball will have a grind of a playoff schedule upcoming for those not among the top eight seeds, but softball — especially Division I — appears to be deeper than ever. Or, at least, deeper than the past five years.

Outlooks for the Divisions I and II softball state tournaments: