Katie Holverson and Kelsey Starr come home for the weekend. That and more for Friday, brought to you by the Arcadia Tavern.

1. Two from the Pack back: Former Cactus and Arizona SunCats pitcher Katie Holverson came back to the Valley and the went 1-1 for Nevada last weekend in the Kajikawa Classic softball tournament in Tempe. Her Wolfpack teammate, former Corona del Sol and Arizona Hotshots player Kelsey Starr, hit two doubles and drove in two runs as Nevada went 2-3 for the weekend.

2. Winners on Valentine’s Day: J.C. Harvison and Emery Harvison of Mesa teamed up Sunday to win the LPGA-USGA Sweetheart Tournament at Sun City Country Club, shooting an 82.

3. Patience and persistence: I won’t pretend I knew Bill Kajikawa well. Well, enough to strike up a conversation with him whenever I saw him. Then again he was a pretty approachable guy.

My most vivid memory of him occurred in the mid-1970s. Kajikawa, who died this week at 97, coached freshman football at Arizona State for decades. In the early 1970s, the NCAA voted to make freshmen eligible for football and basketball. Major schools didn’t drop freshman football right away. Instead they shifted to a junior varsity team that would include freshman but also older players who weren’t getting a lot of playing time with the main squad. The new system was sometimes a little . . . disorganized.

I remember being at Sun Devil Stadium one day as Kajikawa tried to round up enough guys to take his JV and play a road game against one of the local community colleges. And he kept trying to buttonhole players, and guys kept begging off, making up phony injuries and other reasons why they couldn’t suit up. Kajikawa altered between a look of annoyance and amusement (especially when the players weren’t looking). He never got flustered. He just cooly persisted getting commitments until he had enough players.

I think that’s why he able to last through nine head football coaches. He did his job, he did it well and he did it cheerfully — and anyone would have wanted Kaji on their staff.

The List for Thursday:

1. Pure hitter: Former Killer Bee, Arizona Hotshots and Sunrise Mountain star Brigette Del Ponte went 4-for-8 with a double and four runs batted in for the Arizona Wildcats in the Kajikawa Classic in Tempe in her first weekend of college softball. She’s hit at every other level. We doubt she’ll go .500 for the season, but we expect big things from her.

2. Another debut: Former Horizon star Becca Tikey made her college debut, playing three games for the Wildcats. She went 1-for-3 and drove in two runs.

3. Lot of Arizonans: UA has nine players from Arizona on its softball roster.

4. The other Wildcats: Three UK layers from came home last weekend.

Molly Johnson, from Sabino, hit two homers for the Kentucky Wildcats, who went 3-2 in the Kajikawa Classic. Natalie Smith, former star with Greenway High School and the Arizona SunCats, had a single in Kentucky’s opening victory against ASU. Amber Matousek from Mountain Ridge had a 1.74 ERA in eight innings pitched.

The List for Wednesday:

Kajikawa began his coaching career at Arizona State in 1937 and retired from ASU in 1978. He started coaching the Arizona State Teacher’s College freshman football team in 1937, when the team was known as the Bulldogs. The Bulldogs become the Sun Devils in 1946. The college became a university after voters approved the change in 1958.

Before retiring in 1978, Kajikawa had worked as the freshman and junior varsity football coach under nine ASU head football coaches. In addition, he served as head basketball coach and head baseball coach.

One of his daughters, Christine K. Wilkinson, served as the interim director of athletics at ASU in 1995-96 and again in 2000

The Kajikawa Classic softball tournament is named for him.

2. Services: Visitation for Kajikawa is 5-7 p.m. today at Carr Tenney Mortuary, 2621 S. Rural Road, Tempe. The memorial Mass ­is 11 a.m Saturday at Our Lady of Mount Carmel, 2121 S. Rural Road, Tempe.

3. Kenzie report: Former CDO and Desert Thunder star Kenzie Fowler went 4-0 with a 1.25 ERA in 22 1/3 innings for the University of Arizona at the Kajikawa Classic. Arizona went 6-0 in the tournament.

4. No. 2: The 6-0 start placed Arizona No. 2 in the USA Today/NFCA and ESPN.com/USA Softball opening-week polls.

Three stars of the weekend, brought to you by the Arcadia Tavern.

1. Jake Emanuel hit an RBI single to help the Superstition Tigers to the 14u AAA title in USSSA 14u AAA Presidents Day baseball tournament.

2. Lynsey Duncan pitched a complete game for the AZ Wildfire in the TCS Lead Off Championship softball tournament 12uB  title game.

3. Former Basha star Sam Parlich threw a two-hitter for ASU in its final game of the Kajikawa Classic softball tournament.

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