Salpointe Catholic's sports Hall of Fame class a big-time golf lineup | Greg Hansen's Notebook

And Sara Brown Radley became a regular on the LPGA Tour in 2016, just the second woman from Tucson (with Sahuaro High’s Cindy Rarick) to earn LPGA Tour playing privileges. Radley, who is married to Oregon Ducks head women’s golf coach Derek Radley, was also a co-host on the Golf Channel’s “School of Golf’’ for three years. Salpointe’s Class of 2024 will be inducted Oct. 18 at 4 p.m. on campus.

Also inducted will be Jason Dickens, Class of ’99, easily one of the 10 best boys basketball players in Salpointe history. Dickens played college basketball at Davidson and LMU. ...

• Arizona’s three All-Pac-12 baseball players of 2023 — first baseman Kiko Romero of Canyon del Oro High School, outfielder Chase Davis and shortstop Nik McClaughry — struggled somewhat in their first full year of minor-league baseball. Romero, a seventh-round draft pick of the Yankees, hit a combined .207 in 75 games in Single-A and Double-A. A year earlier, he broke Arizona’s single-season RBI record, with 89. Davis, a first-round pick of St. Louis, hit a combined .253 in Single-A and Double-A, with 12 homers and 113 strikeouts. A year earlier he hit .362 with 21 homers at Arizona. McClaughry, a 10th-round draft pick of San Diego, hit just .149 in Single-A; he hit .325 for Arizona in 2023. ...

• Arizona State became the co-most penalized school in NCAA history when the NCAA last week announced ex-Sun Devils coach (and former Arizona linebacker) Antonio Pierce was slapped with an eight-year show-cause order because of violations that occurred when he was an assistant coach at Arizona State. The NCAA said Pierce facilitated impermissible recruiting contact with 35 prospects.’ SMU and ASU have both been penalized 11 times. Oklahoma and SMU are next at 10. Arizona has been penalized six times for NCAA infractions. ...

• Wait a second: The Arizona Diamondbacks fired pitching coach Brent Strom last week, blaming the D’backs' late-season meltdown on the 75-year-old coach who has lived in Tucson since the mid-1970s. It was only a year ago that Strom was hailed as the genius behind the D'backs' run to the World Series. Said Strom, one of the best in the business: “Our pitching is what held us back and heavy is the head that wears the crown and it’s me. I did everything I could and it just didn’t work out.” ...

• It has been 32 years since Jim Furyk helped lead Arizona to the NCAA men’s golf championship. Since then, he has won the 2003 U.S. Open and the 2010 FedEx Cup championship. He has been a member of nine USA Ryder Cup teams, and in 2018 was the USA Ryder Cup captain. Last week, Furyk, captain of the USA’s Presidents Cup team, won another championship. What’s more, he has won 17 PGA Tour Events and earned $71.5 million on tour, No. 6 in golf history. His résumé strongly suggests he should be the next golfer inducted into the World Golf Hall of Fame. An announcement for the Class of 2025 is expected next month.