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2024 Preps football preview: Centennial

8/11/2024
As strategies go for getting players minds off a title game loss to its rival — and the inevitable rematch — starting a season with games against Hamilton, Highland and Brophy appears …

The 2023 All West Valley Preps football team

1/8/2024
For the 14th straight year, West Valley Preps honors the best football players from schools in the Northwest Valley. Adding Canyon View and O’Connor brought our roster to 23 teams so now …

Liberty pulls away from Centennial to earn place as …

12/3/2023
TEMPE - The sea change in Arizona high school football is complete. And it was not easy for Liberty against Peoria rival Centennial Saturday night, until the Lions defense slammed the door in second half, winning the Open Division final 33-21.

Centennial football pulls away late in Peoria

11/20/2023
In the first round of the Open Division Playoffs, No. 3 Peoria Centennial took a 17-3 lead with less than a minute left in the third quarter on a 40-yard punt return touchdown and controlled the fourth quarter on route to a 24-3 victory.

2023 Preps football preview: Centennial

8/24/2023
While 2022 was very successful  bounce back season for Centennial football, the program's standards are such that 8-3 and a first round Open Division loss is not considered all the way back. …

Centennial's most trying season ends with playoff loss

11/21/2021
The first losing season of this century for the powehouse Centennial football program ended in a manner that seems foreign but has become all too familiar in 2021. In the Nov. 19 6A playoff game

Liberty clinches Open Division berth with 42-24 win …

11/13/2021
PEORIA — A month after their season was nearly derailed by a devastating defeat, the Liberty Lions are entering the Open Division postseason bracket playing their best football of 2021.

Centennial grounds, pounds, kicks to 46-20 win over …

10/2/2021
PEORIA — The Centennial Coyotes got back to basics by feasting on turnovers, rushing for five touchdowns and watching their kicker enjoy a “career night” in a punishing 46-20 homecoming victory over the Shadow Ridge Stallions on Friday night at Coyotes Field.

Retirement of Zach Hoffpauir's #31 honors his spark …

9/25/2021
On the Centennial football video board Sept. 24, Zach Hoffpauir was as vibrant as ever, cutting back across the field, smiling and dancing with friends. Nearly 100 family, friends and former teammates

A NIGHT TO HONOR HOFF

9/21/2021
Centennial football will retire the No. 31 of Zach Hoffpauir during a halftime ceremony in Friday night’s game against Hamilton. To ask anyone who has been in Coyote Country for a while, …

Centennial defense, special teams grind out 13-12 win …

9/11/2021
PEORIA — It was far from a work of art but the Centennial Coyotes’ special teams were just special enough to preserve a nailbiting 13-12 victory over the Millennium Tigers in a Freedom matchup on Friday night at Coyotes Field.

2021 Preps football preview: Centennial

8/23/2021
Head Coach Richard Taylor has literally seen it all at Centennial High School. As the only head football coach in school history, Taylor has seen his squads take home seven state titles while he …