Who said reapeating as 5A Division I state champions was easy?
Well, I did. Here. The VX Video portion of our Website can, sadly for me, confirm this.
Actually, I said it would be done, I didn’t say it would be easy, and it won’t be.
It’s been a rough go lately for Phoenix Brophy, which is 2-2 entering Friday’s game against No. 2 Mesa Mountain View this week. A .500 record while navigating a boatload of new players on offense and a difficult schedule is nothing to sneeze at.
The grind will continue. The Broncos hurt themselves in losses to Chandler Hamilton and Tucson Salpointe (and count Broncos coach Scooter Molander among those who think Salpointe could run the table through the rest of the regular season).
There have been mistakes of youth, inexperience and pains.
Molander will never make excuses for himself or his team, which partly explains why he’s always mentioned among the best coaches in the state, but the Broncos have been hit pretty hard by injuries on both sides of the ball.
The most notable being senior linebacker Adam Holzmeister, who suffered a broken elbow in the season-opener against Las Vegas Bishop Gorman in the Barry Sollenberger Classic. They tried to let it heal inside a cast on its own the past three weeks, but it wasn’t working, so he recently underwent surgery. He’s out for the regular season, but the Broncos hope he can return in time for the playoffs.
He, along with about one-third of the team the Broncos were counting on in August.
