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Central Section winter sports playoff seedings
Immanuel boys basketball seeded 2nd in Div. 3
Reedley High boys, girls draw double digit seeds
Staff Report
The Immanuel High Eagles — in quest of a sixth consecutive Central Section boys basketball championship — drew the number two seed in this year's Division 3 play- off bracket released on Feb. 8.
Reedley High's basket- ball teams, meanwhile, drew double-digit seeds in the Divi- sion 4 playoff brackets. The Pirate boys (9-16 overall) were
seeded 15th, which gave them a first round matchup on Feb. 13 at No. 2 seed Central Val- ley Christian of Visalia. The RHS girls (14-14) received the No. 14 seed, which meant
a first-round matchup Feb. 12 in Hanford against No. 3 Si- erra Pacific High. Results of the game were unavailable at press time.
Immanuel (18-8) captured
yet another Central Sequoia League championship, but af- ter clinching the title it closed the regular season with road losses against Hanford West and CV Christian. That may
have been a factor in the Ea- gles losing the number one seed to Mt. Whitney (23-5), which had lost to Immanuel, 69-63, in the finals of the Im- manuel Tournament of Cham-
pions on Dec. 1.
Still, the Eagles are in
good shape with the possibil- ity of two home games, start- ing with a Feb. 13 opening round matchup against West Bakersfield. An expected win there would advance IHS to the quarterfinals at 7 p.m. Fri- day, Feb. 15 against the win- ner of No. 7 Tulare Western and No. 10 Mission Oak. The semifinals would be at home on Wednesday, Feb. 20 – the No. 3 seed in the bracket is Sanger High, which beat IHS, 66-59, on Jan. 6. The section fi- nals will be Saturday, Feb. 23,
at Fresno's Selland Arena.
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RHS soccer teams seeded 2nd and 5th, respectively
Staff Report
Reedley High School's North Yosem- ite League champion boys and girls soc- cer teams have drawn the number two and five seeds in their respective Cen- tral Section playoff brackets.
The Pirate boys (18-7-2, 9-1 NYL), the reigning Division 2 champions,
will begin defense of their title on Fri- day, Feb. 15, at Sal Gonzalez Field in a 6 p.m. quarterfinal against the winner of the first round matchup between No. 7 Selma and No. 10 Edison. Reedley is on the same side of the bracket as No. 3 seed Sanger, which lost 1-0 to the Pirates in a non-league match on Dec. 6. Tulare Western is the top seed in the bracket.
Reedley's girls (15-7-4, 9-1), who shared the league crown with Hoover, hosted No. 12 Yosemite on Feb. 13 (re- sults were unavailable at press time). The Pirates blanked the Badgers (10-5- 3) by a 3-0 score at the Peggy Renberg
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RHS baseball wins opener
Basketball drops regular season finales
Staff Report
A two-run rally in the bot- tom of the fifth inning made the difference for the Reedley High Pirates in their base- ball season opener on Feb. 8 against area rival Dinuba High.
The rally, which included an RBI from Tristin Garza, wiped out a 1-0 deficit and re- sulted in a 2-1 victory at RHS varsity diamond. Reedley pitcher Oscar Lemus made the lead stand up, throwing a complete game five-hitter while striking out five.
Isaiah Ochoa was the hard-luck loser for the Emper- ors, scattering just four hits.
Dinuba was done in de- fensively by four errors, and scored its lone run in the third inning when Ethan Tobias scored from third base on a sacrifice fly.
Will Gagnon had a double while Jacob Gagnon tripled for Reedley, which is sched- uled to host Kingsburg at 3:30 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 14. The game may not be played as scheduled because of pre- dicted rain in the area into the weekend.
The Pirates also are scheduled to play a Central Valley Diamond Classic game at Sanger High at 3:30 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 20.
Immanuel Tournament scheduled to open Friday
Weather permitting, the Immanuel Baseball Tourna- ment is scheduled to begin with two games on Friday, Feb. 15. Exeter and Kerman play at 5 p.m. at Immanuel Sports Complex followed by the Eagles against Hoover of Fresno at 7:30.
Eight games are sched- uled at Immanuel High's two diamonds on Saturday, Feb. 16, starting with two games at 9 a.m. In the event of rain that is in the forecast, the games will be rescheduled.
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Reedley High's Jacob Gagnon (9) reacted after hitting a triple in the third inning of the PIrates' 2-1 season opening win over Dinuba High on Feb. 8 as Emperors third baseman Josh Meave fielded the late throw .
Staff Report
Five members of the Reedley High School wres- tling program will be com- peting in Central Section Masters meet this week as they attempt to qualify for the CIF State Meet later this month.
One boy — fresh- man Phillip Arroyo at 120 pounds – and four girls with the Pirates' North Yosem- ite League championship squad will compete Friday and Saturday, Feb. 15-16, at Lemoore High School. All qualified during last week's
Division 4 section meets in Kings County.
Arroyo, competing for the Pirates at the boys divi- sional at Sierra Pacific High in Hanford on Feb. 8, made the podium and the Masters field with a third place. He was one of four placewin- ners when RHS finished fifth in the NYL meet on Feb. 1 in Fresno.
The Pirate girls, mean- while, had Masters qualifiers in third-place finishers Oda- lis Banda (152 pounds) and
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From left, Kamari Perez (third place at 162 pounds), Jamilynne Gon- zalez (fourth at 118), Odalis Banda (third at 152) and Esther villa (5th at 172) were Reedley High's four quali- fier for this week's Masters girls meet.
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Reedley High senior forward Yami Ledesma, middle, controlled the dribble while being challenged by Sunnyside's Natalie Martinez, left, during the Pirates' 4-0 victory on Feb. 6.
Preps
Junior Jennifer Gordillo had the lone goal for Reedley (15-7-4 overall). In a 4-0 shut- out of Sunnyside on Feb. 6, senior Emma Mulligan scored twice while seniors Yami Ledesma and Kaitlyn Peters also added goals.
Immanuel 2, Hanford West 1
The Eagles (8-13-4, 1-11) avoided a winless Central Se- quoia League campaign with goals in each half to pull off a road win over the Huskies on Feb. 6. The match was a make- up from an earlier rainout.
BOYS BASKETBALL Sunnyside 67, Reedley 60
Senior C.J. Ayers scored 18 points to lead the Wildcats past the Pirates in both team's regular season finales on Feb. 6. The win wrapped up sole possession of second place in the North Yosemite League
for Sunnyside.
Junior Augie Villarreal
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GIRLS SOCCER Pirates co-champs after loss to Hoover
Reedley High had to settled for a North Yosemite League
co-championship after drop- ping a 2-1 decision at Hoover High on Feb. 7 in a makeup con- test. Both teams finished with a 9-1 league record.
Tigers men's rally falls short in basketball loss to Cerro Coso
Contributed
A second half comeback fell short Feb. 8 as the Reedley College men’s basketball Tigers lost to the Cerro Coso Community College Coyotes 71-66 in Reedley.
The loss dropped Coach T.J. Jen- nings’ squad to 2-10 in the Central Valley Conference and 8-16 overall.
The Tigers started to battle back after Cerro Coso’s top scorer, Jordan Pumphrey, fouled out of the contest with 9:28 remaining after scoring 16 points. But Colyn Waldron took con- trol, scoring seven of his 12 points in the final eight minutes.
Sophomore Tyre Hicks (Bea- verton, Oregon) sank three 3-point- ers in the final nine minutes to get
Reedley back in the contest but it wasn’t enough. Uriah Carter (Cen- tral, Fresno) led all scorers with 17 points before fouling out with 9.6 seconds remaining. Ruben Parks (Edison, Fresno) made only one of his first nine shots and finished with 16 points while Hicks netted 13.
Reedley faced winless West Hills Lemoore in Lemoore on Feb. 13 before playing its final home con- test at 6 p.m. on Saturday, Feb. 16, against the second place Columbia College Claim Jumpers (10-2, 19-5).
WOMEN'S BASKETBALL Reedley College drubs Taft Reedley College maintained its
hold on third place in the Central Valley Conference women’s basket- ball race with a 74-51 win over Taft
Colleges
College on Feb. 6 in Reedley. I’man Conley scored 11 of Reed- ley’s 13 third quarter points as the Lady Tigers improved to 5-3 in the CVC and 13-10 overall. Conley fin- ished with a double double, netting
28 points and 12 rebounds. Stephanie Cervantes had nine of
her 14 points in the first half for Reed- ley while Zavia Barlow netted nine of her 13 points in the opening quarter.
Reedley returned to action Feb. 13 in Visalia against the College of the Sequoias Giants.
BASEBALL
Tigers men continue road trip A five-game road trip was
scheduled to continue on Feb. 12
for the 2019 Reedley College base- ball Tigers.
The opponent, weather permit- ting, was the 6-2 Sacramento City College Panthers.
Reedley saw its season record fall to 1-6 with a 16-3 loss in Fre- mont to Ohlone College on Feb. 7. Ohlone (5-2) opened the scoring with four runs in the bottom of the first off starter Alex Escobar (0-2).
The Tigers cut the deficit to 4-3 in the top of the fourth before the Renegades exploded for 12 runs off the Tiger bullpen in the next three innings. Reedley used seven differ- ent pitchers in the loss.
Leadoff hitter Deagan Risnes led the RC attack with a triple, a single, a run scores and a run driv-
en in. Nick Martinez added a double and a single as RC finished with 10 hits but left 10 runners on base.
Five of the eight Central Valley Conference baseball teams entered this week's action with two wins or less.
Reedley had a Feb. 5 contest at DeAnza College in Cupertino post- poned due to rain. Weather permit- ting, the Tigers have a 1 p.m. con- test at Gavilan College in Gilroy scheduled for Saturday, Feb. 16.
Aleman shines in FPU win
Reedley native Adam Aleman went 1 for 3 and drove in three runs as Fresno Pacific defeated Sonoma State, 12-6, in Santa Rosa on Feb. 11.
Playing left field, the senior
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Reedley High freshman Phillip Arroyo held Strathmore's Matthew Espinosa in an armlock during second period action of his 10-0 major decision victory at the Central Section Division 4 tourna- ment at Sierra Pacific High School in Hanford on Feb. 8. Arroyo finished third at 120 pounds to qualify for the Masters meet.
Five RHS wrestlers qualify for Masters