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2024 Southern Arizona high school football schedules: 5A Sonoran

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NOTE: With the AIA officially releasing the 2024 football schedules recently, AllSportsTucson.com will take a look at the schedules of each region 1A-6A in Southern Arizona in a series of posts. Click on the conference to access the stories in the series.
1A South
2A San Pedro
3A South
4A Gila
4A Kino
5A Sonoran (this post)
5A Southern (upcoming)
6A Central (upcoming)

Tucson High ended the 2023 season on a four-game winning streak under new coach Zachary Neveleff (Stephanie van Latum/Special to AllSportsTucson.com)

5A SONORAN SCHEDULING NOTES:

— Flowing Wells, under third-year coach Brian Hook, opens at home against Agua Fria and then plays three straight road games followed by three consecutive home games, including the first two region games against Ironwood Ridge and Mountain View. The annual Prince Road Rivalry game against Amphi is at Amphi this season on Sept. 13.

— Ironwood Ridge coach Dale Stott also embarks on his third season after leading the Nighthawks to the 5A state playoffs, going from a 1-9 record in his first season to 8-3 last season. Ironwood Ridge again plays Southern Arizona teams and Maricopa within its region except for a non-conference game at home against Seton Catholic, which went 2-8 last season. The Nighthawks have two long trips in the non-region schedule to Sierra Vista to face Buena and to Douglas. Three of their five region games are on the road.

— Matt Johnson, one of the legendary local coaches with a state championship, faces a schedule with six road games in his 21st season as a head coach. It is a flip from last year, when the Mountain Lions had six home games. Unique in both schedules — five straight games on the road this year after five consecutive at home last season. The Mountain Lions have a gap of home games from Sept. 13 all the way to Nov. 1. In between, they will play at rival Marana, Walden Grove, Flowing Wells, Nogales and Maricopa. Mountain View found it difficult to take advantage of five straight home games last season because of an abnormal amount of season-ending injuries, including to its first- and second-string quarterbacks.

— Nogales is now more familiar with Joshua Jett, who was hired relatively late last year as head coach from a high school in Texas, where he was an assistant coach. It will be tough to immediately get on a winning track this season with the opener at Pueblo, but the Apaches should gather some steam by the time they travel to I-19 rival Rio Rico on Sept. 13. Nogales has lost the last two meetings against Rio Rico after going unbeaten in the first 12 games between the schools.

— Tucson, under second-year coach Zachary Neveleff, who knows how to win coming from Salpointe’s program, won four consecutive games to conclude last season to finish 5-5. The Badgers are playing the same schedule, except for the sites being flipped other than Marana visiting Tucson again in Week 2. Last year’s game was originally scheduled to be played at Marana but switched to Tucson after a monsoon storm caused a significant delay in the Tigers’ new turf to be set. Tucson will make it a mission to turn around the results from a five-game losing streak it experienced last year after beating South Mountain at home to start the season.

— Maricopa is in the region that has mostly Southern Arizona schools despite it being closer to Phoenix to the northwest of Casa Grande. The Rams are coming off a 4-6 record with a huge upset of Ironwood Ridge at home in the second-to-last game of the season.

5A SONORAN

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2024 SOUTHERN ARIZONA COACHING CHANGES

SchoolClassFormer coachNew coach
Benson2ADustin CluffChris Rasmussen
Bisbee2AShawn HolleyCarlos Lopez
Canyon del Oro4ADustin PeaceScott McKee
Catalina 2AGreg McKinstry IIIAndy Fetsis
Catalina Foothills4ADaniel SainzGreg McKinstry III
Cholla4AVirgil HendersonPaul Tripp
Desert Christian1A(New program)Jason McKibben
Morenci3ARishard DavisFrankie Gonzalez
Pueblo4AJake AllenSly Lewis
Rincon/University4AKhyree CopelandJohnny Chan
Rio Rico4AJeff ScurranCarlos Duran
Sahuarita4AJake PriceJake Allen
Salpointe6AEric RogersPat Ryden
Willcox2AEric HjalmarsonJeston Lotts
Rasmussen, Lopez, Fetsis, Tripp, McKibben, Gonzalez, Lewis, Chan, Duran and Ryden are in their first stints as head coaches in football.

4K KINO

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4A GILA

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3A SOUTH

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2A SAN PEDRO

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1A CONFERENCE

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ALLSPORTSTUCSON.com publisher, writer and editor Javier Morales is a former Arizona Press Club award winner. He is a former Arizona Daily Star beat reporter for the Arizona basketball team, including when the Wildcats won the 1996-97 NCAA title. He has also written articles for CollegeAD.com, Bleacher Report, Lindy’s Sports, TucsonCitizen.com, The Arizona Republic, Sporting News and Baseball America, among many other publications. He has also authored the book “The Highest Form of Living”, which is available at Amazon. He became an educator in 2016 and is presently a special education teacher at Sunnyside High School in the Sunnyside Unified School District.

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