Big Park Community School will not only host the Verde Valley Conference tournament through the championship game Saturday, April 26, the 12-2 Coyotes may have the inside track to win it this spring after a late start and a new head coach.  

“I don’t care who we play or where we play with these girls.”

Across Sedona and the Verde Valley, coaches and players of K-8 girls know that when they hear those words, Kirk Westervelt is on their heels.

The two-time small school state runner-up girls basketball coach was asked at the last minute to handle Coyotes softball this spring and has made the most of it, winning at Cottonwood Middle School, 10-9, and even run-ruling perennial conference favorite Camp Verde Middle School on the Cowboys’ field, 17-5 in five innings.

“Camp Verde has dominated league softball for the last six years,” Westervelt said. “To dominate them on their field was almost surreal.”

For the full story, please see the Friday, April 25, issue of the Sedona Red Rock News.