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Emperors shut
out Miners, 38-0
Dick Sheppard / Mid Valley TImes
MVT Staff Report
The Dinuba Emper- ors football team may be 2-2 on the season, but their only two losses came against 3-0 Red- wood and 2-1 Porterville. The only loss for Porter- ville this season was to undefeated Hanford, at 4-0.
The Emperors have also put up 146 points over their first four games, the most in the Central Sequoia League to date. And they put up 38 of those points in a
non-conference match- up against El Diamante on Friday night, scoring in every quarter while simultaneously keeping the Miners out of the end zone the entire game.
To do so, Dinuba used all its weapons, including the arm of senior quar- terback Josh Magaña, who threw for 240 yards and three touchdowns in the Emperor’s Sept. 13 victory.
Magaña first put his
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Sanger High's Morgan Privett ran for 157 yards and two touchdowns against the Tigers.
Thursday, September 19, 2019
Another road win for Apaches
Sanger goes into bye week 3-1 on the season
Jorge Lozoya / Photo contributed
Dinuba High senior quarterback Josh Magaña threw three touch- downs in the Emperor's game againt El Diamante on Sept. 13.
By Dick Sheppard
Mid Valley Times
It wasn’t pretty.
But it was a win and the Apaches were happy to get out of Lemoore on Friday the 13th with a hard fought, very physi- cal 41-22 victory over the Tigers.
The Apaches were probably even more hap- py to have a bye this week and an opportunity to he- al some wounds before a home game against Paso Robles on Sept. 27.
It was a particularly tough Friday the 13th for junior linebackers Guill- ermo Cervantes and Ad- am Zazueta. Cervantes is out for the season with a broken leg and Zazueta’s concussion is still being evaluated.
The Apaches’ speed- ster Kosi Agina didn’t see action against the Tigers after an ankle injury in the Clovis East game.
With Agina on the sidelines Morgan Privett and Noel Collazo carried the ball for a combined total of 257 yards against the Tigers. Privett had 157 yards and two touch- downs and Collazo ran for 100 yards and two TDs. Dolce Calandra put on a pass catching clinic with
7 catches for 122 yards and a touchdown.
The Apaches made it look easy on both sides of the line against Lemoore in the first quarter, forc- ing the Tigers to go three and out on each of their possessions and scoring twice on Collazo runs.
The Apaches scored first in the second quar- ter on a run by Pierce Jones to make it 19-0 be- fore Lemoore was finally able to mount a sustained drive, capped by a short run by quarterback Justin Holaday.
The Apaches took to the air for their final TD of the half, a 28-yard pass from Collazo to Calandra with a two point con- version run by Morgan Privett to make up for a couple of missed PATs in the first quarter and it was 27-7 at halftime.
The third quarter was a defensive, mistake prone quarter for both teams and ended with neither team scoring, but with the Apaches in pos- session of the ball on the Tigers’ 2 yard line.
Privett ran it in for an Apaches TD on the first play of the 4th quarter to put the Apaches up 34- 7 after a PAT by Isaiah Romero.
Privett would score one more time on a spec- tacular 66-yard run.
The Tigers tacked on a couple more TDs, the last on a “Hail Mary” 21-yard pass from Holaday to Will Schalde.
The final score of 41- 22 doesn’t reflect what a tough, physical battle it was in the second half.
The Apache defense
was led by John Pena with five solo tackles. Ga- briel Olmos recovered a fumble and Auggie Mal- donado intercepted a Ti- ger pass.
The Apaches have played the Tigers 14 years inarowandatotalof66 games since 1924. The Apaches lead the long se- ries 33-30-3, according to
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Reedley College
Under the Harvest Moon on Friday, Sept. 13, Orosi High junior tailback Dominic Martinez stretches for the endzone but comes up short as the Cardinals dropped their third straight game to Strathmore.
Once again, Orosi comes up short of
upsetting powerhouse Strathmore
Cardinal's 21-14 defeat marks third consecutive one-score loss to Spartans
By Rick Curiel
Mid Valley Times
The Strathmore Spartans are considered one of the best small- school football teams in the state. Since 2016, the Spartans are a stag- gering 46-3. They’ve played in the past three California Interscholas- tic Federation Division 6A State Fi- nals, winning the state title in 2017.
That year, they went 16-0 and
didn’t really get challenged until late in the season. Before entering the state playoffs, only one team came close to upsetting the Spar- tan juggernauts – the Orosi Cardi- nals.
In November of 2017, the Cardi- nals football team, under the direc- tion of new head coach Ben White, found themselves in their first playoffs in 13 years. A first round win set up a semifinals matchup
between Orosi and Strathmore – a game in which the Spartans es- caped with a 28-20 win, late in the game.
Last year, the Cardinals almost upset the Spartans again, this time coming within five points but los- ing 27-22.
Going into Friday night’s game, with both teams entering 2-0, many expected a barn burner. And Orosi
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By Will Goldbeck
Special to the Times
Going into Saturday afternoon’s non-confer- ence football game in Marysville against Yuba College, the Reedley College Tigers were the unanimous choice as the number one American Division team in Northern California.
In Marysville, the Ti- gers played like it. Reed- ley recorded its 12th vic- tory in the last 13 games with a 38-8 victory over the Yuba College 49ers in Marysville on Saturday.
Next up for Reedley will be a 1 p.m. matchup at Reedley High School’s Sal Gonzalez Field against the 0-2 Contra Costa Col- lege Comets. Contra Costa dropped a 48-10 decision on Saturday to Monterey Peninsula, ranked second in the American Division behind the Tigers.
The Tigers were tied
for 17th in the state in last week’s Junior College Athletic Bureau rankings and 20th in the state, ac- cording to the Califor- nia Community College Sports Information Direc- tors Association poll.
“It was a great road win,” said head coach Eric Marty. “Our guys handled it with a lot of maturity and poise. It was great to see our defense build on their dominant week one performance and to see our offense converting on third downs.”
Against DeAnza, the Tigers were only 1-of-10 on third down. In the win over Yuba, Reedley was a lot better.
The Tigers scored on their first two posses- sions to build an early 17- 0 lead. They increased the lead to 31-0 in the second half after a short touch- down run by quarterback
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Tigers win,
continue to
climb polls