Quick Hitters
San Pasqual at Bagdad, 5:30 p.m. Cibola at Pinnacle, 6 p.m. Kofa at Dobson, 6 p.m. Buckeye at Yuma High, 6 p.m. Odyssey Institute at YC, 6 p.m. Antelope at Chandler Prep, 6 p.m.
Two Arizona Western athletes received weekly conference honors Monday.
Sophomore outside hitter Yenny Montoya Murillo was named the Arizona Community College Athletic Conference Division I Player of the Week for volleyball after totaling 23 kills in a pair of road wins last week, and freshman forward Yerry Mendez was named ACCAC Player of the Week for men’s soccer after totaling four goals and one assist in three games last week.
Roethlisberger shines, Steelers hold off Bucs
TAMPA, Fla. — Ben Roethlisberger threw for 353 yards and three touchdowns to lead the Pittsburgh Steelers to a 30-27 victory over the Tampa Bay Buccaneers on Monday night.
Capping a tumultuous week in which star receiver Antonio Brown made headlines by shouting at an assistant coach on the sidelines and getting into a spat on social media, the Steelers (1-1-1) built a 20-point lead before holding on for their first win.
Vance McDonald scored on a 75-yard pass play and finished with four catches for 112 yards. Brown and Ryan Switzer also had first-half TD receptions for Pittsburgh, which led 30-10 at halftime.
The Steelers’ defense forced four turnovers, including three first-half interceptions of Ryan Fitzpatrick, the 35-year-old journeyman who threw for 819 yards and eight touchdowns in two victories to begin Tampa Bay’s season.
Fitzpatrick led a long field goal drive in the third quarter, and then tossed fourth-quarter TD passes of 4 yards to Chris Godwin and 24 yards to Mike Evans to rally the Bucs (2-1) within 30-27 with 5:43 remaining.
The Bucs got the ball back with just over three minutes left; however, the Steelers forced a punt.
Without its leader, the Kofa volleyball team endured what coach Makyla Orman deemed a “hurtful learning experience.”
The Kings, missing senior right side hitter Keiley Sharp, suffered their first defeat of the regular season Monday night at Ernest F. Rillos Gym, falling in four sets to Southwest (Calif.).
“It was a learning experience, a hurtful learning experience, but it’s 100 percent on me,” Orman said. “I didn’t prepare enough for this. We’re missing our main hitter, Keiley, which really put a dent on our perkiness and our positivity and just kind of the whole team chemistry.”
Sharp, a three-sport star for the Kings, was in Corvallis, Ore., visiting Oregon State University on a recruiting trip for track and field.
“I had to pull girls from JV who don’t practice for this, who don’t usually play with us, so it was just kind of a very off game for us,” Orman said. “But it’ll get better.”
Sharp is expected to be back in time for today’s match against Dobson in Mesa.
Senior outside hitter Pam Aguilar (14 kills) and senior middle blocker Jocelyn Weber (11 kills, 5 blocks) led Kofa in the 1825, 18-25, 25-17, 18-25 loss to the Eagles (14-8 overall). Senior setter Isabel Ponce had 28 assists and three aces.
Just like in their match last Thursday against