Canyon del Oro softball team a win away from ninth state title

Canyon del Oro High School will play for its ninth state softball championship Tuesday night at ASU’s Farrington Stadium. Coach Kelly Fowler’s Dorados (29-4) will engage an old familiar friend: Peoria Sunrise Mountain coach Jody Miller-Pruitt. She was Arizona’s catcher when Mike Candrea coached his 1991 and 1993 NCAA championship teams. Miller-Pruitt coached Sunrise Mountain in the 2012 state title game where she lost to CDO, then coached by Stephanie Nicholson. Fowler, who coached CDO to 2005 and 2011 state championships, had a busy weekend. She flew to Lincoln, Nebraska, to watch her daughter, Arizona’s 2011 Player of the Year, Mattie Fowler, receive her MBA degree at Nebraska. Mattie, whose 35-1 team of 2011 is possibly the best in state history, gets her-post college days started this week: She takes 20 Cornhuskers students to Nicaragua to help build three schools as part of a “Seeds of Learning” program. 

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