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Sophomore Annalee Dearden takes a swing during the Sedona Red Rock High School softball team’s game against Northland Prep Academy on Thursday, March 25. Dearden is one of many underclassmen on a team that aside from seniors Lesly Suarez and Bella Horton is made up entirely of freshman and sophomore players. Photo by David Jolkovski/Larson Newspapers
While some of the girls teams at Sedona Red Rock High School like volleyball and basketball have experienced players up and down the roster, the softball team is a little different.
There are some experienced players, like seniors Bella Horton and Lesly Suarez as well as sophomores Annabelle Cook and Annalee Dearden. Other than that, there’s very little experience on the roster. But what the Scorpions lack in experience they possess in enthusiasm to learn the game and improve.
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Freshman Rachel Roderick, center, pulls down a rebound for Sedona Red Rock High School s girls basketball team against two Valley Lutheran players during the Scorpions win over the Flames on Tuesday, Feb. 23. Sedona also won the rematch the following day to clinch the 2A Central Region championship. Photo by David Jolkovski/Larson Newspapers
It was a situation that the players on Sedona Red Rock High School’s girls basketball were all too familiar with leading throughout the game against an undeniably quality opponent making a run in the fourth quarter. A season ago, it’s a game that the SRRHS team likely would have squandered. But against Valley Lutheran on Tuesday, Feb. 23, Sedona showed that while the names and faces are largely the same this year’s team is a lot different than last season’s.
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Scorpions junior Stephanie Medel (15) shoots the ball past Cowboys junior Daijah Thompson (13) during the girls basketball game between Sedona Red Rocks High School Scorpions and Camp Verde High School Cowboys at Sedona on Saturday, Feb. 20. Scorpions defeated Cowboys 55-38. [David Jolkovski / Larson Newspapers]
While the local rivalry remains intact between the girls basketball teams of Sedona Red Rock and Camp Verde High Schools, the two are no longer 2A Central Region rivals, with the Cowboys moving to the 3A conference. That meant that the game between the two teams on Saturday, Feb. 20, was the Scorpions’ lone chance this season to earn their first victory over Camp Verde in three years. They did not waste that opportunity, winning 55-38.