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Conditioning continues
Danny Jimenez / Photo Contributed
Reedley High School’s Ryan Warkentin stretched to catch a pass during football conditioning drills at Sal Gonzalez Field on Sept. 29. The Pirates have conducted light conditioning and pass- ing workouts during the “summer” session before the upcoming 2020-21 football sea- son, with the first of- ficial day of preseason practice set for Wednes- day, Dec. 9. The Pirates will open the season Friday, Jan. 8, at Han- ford West High School.
Sanger girls volleyball gets glimpse at schedule
hursday, October 8, 2020
DHS students create shing club, the perfect pandemic sport
MVT Staff Report
The Lady Apaches volleyball team may be the first athletic team at Sanger High to see interscholastic play this year, but just barely.
A tentative schedule for this year’s girls volley ‘fall schedule’ has the Lady Apaches traveling to Clovis on Dec. 30 for a non-conference matchup. The matchup against the Clovis comes just over a week before the Apaches foot- ball team also takes on the Cougars in their first game of the season.
To date, the Lady Apaches have an abbreviated schedule of just nine games – all of which, so far, are non- conference games. Sanger is scheduled
to begin the New Year with a home game against Kingsburg on Jan. 5. The game is scheduled to begin at 6 p.m.
The team will then host Clovis East on Jan. 7 in a matchup slated to begin at 5 p.m.
Sanger will then participate in the Clovis Challenge Tournament on Jan. 8 and Jan. 9 before returning home to host Mt. Whitney of Visalia on Jan. 12.
They will then return to the road on Jan. 14 when they take on Tulare Union in a 6:30 p.m. matchup. The team will then play in their second tournament of the month on Jan. 15 and Jan. 16 when they travel to Visalia for the Redwood Invitational.
By George M. Villagrana
Mid Valley Times
Dinuba High seniors Zechariah Nelson and Da- vid Hinojosa found a way to stay competitive in the midst of a pandemic.
The brain trust behind the high school’s Bass Club, Nelson and Hino- josa have traveled up and down the Central San Joa- quin Valley participating in Bass Fishing tourna- ments. Nelson and Hino- josa are members of the Fresno Bass Club, prac- tice every Wednesday at Lake Kaweah and for the most part enjoy fishing as much as they could.
“We wanted to fish together and fish tour- naments,” Nelson said. “Once we got our drivers license, we said let’s do this.”
Nelson said the two be- came good friends while playing youth football. In- juries played a role in re- launching a fishing club at the high school.
“We played football and we both got hurt and couldn’t get cleared to go back,” Nelson said. “Fish- ing is not a physical sport, so we made our club. It was divine intervention.”
Nelson said there was a fishing club at the high school, but they did not fish bass or compete. The club dissolved and it was Nelson’s and Hinojosa’s mission to start a new fishing club when they
Photo Contributed
David Hinojosa is pictured with a 6-pound mouth bass that was caught at the Delta in August. Hinojosa is also a member of the Fresno Bass Club. He and classmate Zecha- riah Nelson have formed the Dinuba High Bass Club.
arrived on campus. With the help of DHS advisor, Susan Abair, the club be- came a reality last year. Through word of mouth, a few students joined and this year there was more interest before the pan- demic.
“We don’t have to wor- ry about social distancing because you are out in a
lake,” Nelson said. Nelson and Hinojosa
said the pandemic has prevented the club from fundraising as the two have to pay for their own licenses and gas to com- pete.
“We both have part time jobs and anything we purchase comes out of our own pocket,” Hino- josa said.
Nelson and Hinojosa also do not own a boat and that comes in to play during the tournaments. Participants fish as an in- dividual but are assigned a partner, according to Hinojosa.
“You have a non-boat- ers and boaters. You have to be 18 to be a boater,” Hinojosa said.
Nelson said in one tournament he placed higher than his partner, who happened to be the boater.
“That upset him,” Nel- son said. “I brought in more fish than he did.”
Nelson said at the tour- naments you take the best five fishes you can weigh inandithastobeover13 inches.
Nelson said there is a tournament each month and they have only missed two. Nelson has had quite a run this year placing high in sev- eral tournaments and is aiming for Rookie of the Year. Hinojosa noted that at one tournament he was looking at placing in the top-10 before weather conditions cancelled the second day of competi- tion.
Nelson and Hinojosa would like to continue to fish competitively and hope to land a college scholarship.
“When we graduate high school we’re hoping the club stays,” Nelson said. “It’s something we’re super passionate about.”
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