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Selma hands Immanuel first CSL loss
Statt Report
Immanuel High fell out of a tie at the top of the Central Sequoia League base- ball standings, but the Eagles remained on the heels of first place Selma High with a lopsided home victory last week.
The Eagles (12-3, 4-1) dropped a 5-2 decision at Selma on March 26, but moved within a half-game of the Bears (11-2, 4-0) by drubbing the Hanford West Huskies, 18-0, at IHS diamond on March 28. In that game, Roman Rosales and Ry- an Friesen pitched a combined no-hitter
while the IHS offense collected 15 hits including two triples and a double.
Immanuel took a break from league action on March 30, dropping a 4-2 home decision to Templeton in a makeup game that had been rained out earlier in the month.
The Eagles blew the game open early against Hanford West, extending a 1-0 lead with a six-run second inning. The hosts added three runs in the third and four runs in both the fourth and fifth in- nings. Senior Rosales (14 strikeouts, two walks in five innings) and Friesen (two
strikeouts and a walk in one inning) did the rest, holding the Huskies without a
hit.
Chris Gurrola (2-for-3, RBI) scored
four runs for Immanuel while Matt Ti- ger (2-for-4, two runs) knocked in three runs. Justin Paboojian also collected two hits for the Eagles.
In the loss to Selma, a four-run fourth by the hosts proved to be the difference. JT Friesen yielded five runs — just two of them earned — in four-plus innings.
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ReedleyHigh'sJacobLainesurgedtowardthewall onhiswaytowinningthevarsityboys50yardbutterflyswimduringaMarch28North Yosemite League dual meet against McLane. Laine won in a time of one minute, 4.65 seconds.
RHS bats hot in softball wins
Sophomore guard will play on travel team in Australia
Staff Report
Immanuel High's Landon Yamada will represent Cali- fornia on the Down Under Sports boys basketball team that will compete in Austra- lia during a 10-day summer trip in July.
The sophomore guard will depart for Queensland, Australia on Sunday, July 14, to compete for individual honors and a team champion- ship with the travel squad. In addition to basketball, the Down Under Sports program includes competition in foot- ball, cheer, cross country, golf, track and field, volley- ball and soccer.
"I am truly blessed to be able to represent my school Immanuel, our city Reedley, our state California and our country the USA this sum- mer in Brisbane, Australia.,"
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Immanuel High sophomore guard Landon Yamada, shown shoot- ing against Dinuba High in the Central Section Division 3 champi- onship game on Feb. 23, will represent California at the 2019 Boys Down Under Sports team that is traveling to Brisbane, Australia in July.
Eagles' Yamada
headed 'down
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Pirates off to 3-0 start in search of fourth straight NYL championship
Staff Report
The Reedley High Pirates' bats came to life just in time for the start of North Yosemite League softball play.
The Pirates (10-6, 3-0) rang up a pair of double digit victories — 11-1 over Fresno High on March 26 and 15-0 at Roosevelt on March 29 — before heavy rain and a thunderstorm hit the city on April 2 just before the start of play at RHS varsity field against McLane. After a weather delay, the Pirates exploded for 10 runs in the fourth inning to coast to a 16-1 rout of the Highlanders.
The offensive renaissance has Reed- ley rolling again as the team goes after a fourth consecutive league championship.
Reedley's offensive explosion against Fresno peaked in the third inning, when the team got consecutive home runs from Jocelyn Diaz and Aryanna Gon-
zalez. It was a two-run homer for Diaz, who went 3-for-4 and knocked in three runs. Gonzalez finished 4-for-4 and also drove in three.
Stephanie Castro worked the first four innings to pick up the pitching win, leaving with a 7-0 lead.
After scoring four runs in its final two at-bats against Fresno, Reedley blasted Roosevelt early with five runs in the first inning. They followed up with three in the second, five more in the third and two in the fourth in the game shortened to five innings by the mercy rule.
Emma Mulligan paced the 12-hit at- tack by going 4-for-4 with a double, while Alexa Valdez drove in three runs and Isabella Garcia hit a two-run inside-the- park homer. Alexa Gonzalez pitched a two-hitter with five strikeouts, and also went 2-for 4 at the plate.
Reedley hosts Sunnyside at 3:30 p.m. Friday, April 5, before traveling to Fres- no for its first big NYL test on Tuesday, April 9, against the Hoover Patriots. First pitch will be at 3:30 p.m.
After a home game against Roosevelt
Preps
on Friday, April 12, the Pirates will par- ticipate in the Tulare Varsity Tournament on Saturday and Monday, April 13 and 15. TRACK AND FIELD
Hall leads IHS girls to third place in Exeter
Reedley High junior Trinity Toews ran a personal best of 13.25 seconds to finish second to Edison High's Brooklyn Lee in the varsity girls 100 race during the Mike Young Invitational at Bob Math- ias Stadium in Tulare on March 29.
Junior Jasmine Garcia placed fifth in the 3,200 meters (13:28.09) and eighth in the 1600 (personal season best 6:04.73).
In varsity boys competition the RHS quartet of Jacob Friesen, Randy Sanchez, James Villasenor and Jorge Meza clocked a wind-aided 46.47 seconds to place sec- ond to Nipomo in the 4x100 meter relay. The same four place sixth in the 4x200 relay in 1:40.24.
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Yamada said. "I thank God and all of my coaches for this opportunity of a lifetime.”
Yamada started as a sophomore for an Eagles squad that won the Northern California Division 4 region- al championship and played for the state title last month in Sacramento. He averaged 7.5 points per game – high- lighted by a 21-point out- ing against Kingsburg — as Immanuel (26-9) rolled to a sixth straight Central Sec- tion title.
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Landon Yamada is raising funds to help sponsor his trip to Australia with Down Under Sports. Anyone interested in helping to sponsor his trip can donate online to: DownUnderSports. com/MCQ-DTC, or call Down Under Sports at (435) 753-4732.
First place battle opens busy week for Tigers softball
Danny Jimenez / Photo Contributed
Reedley College's Amanda Beltran took a cut at a pitch during a doubleheader sweep against Fresno City College on March 26. The Tigers (24-5) will play five games this week.
Another tourney win for state's top-ranked Reedley College men's golf team
Contributed, Staff Report
The Reedley College softball Tigers took a two-game losing streak and a season record of 24-5 into a key Central Valley Conference doubleheader with co-leader College of the Sequoias on April 2.
Both the Tigers and the Giants took conference records of 11-1 into the scheduled twinbill. After meeting COS, Reedley has five more games scheduled in the upcoming week. Head Coach Kathy Kuball’s squad hosts Taft on Thursday, April 4, at 1 p.m. before a Friday, April 5, doubleheader in Aptos against Cabrillo College.
Reedley’s final regular season home games are set for Tuesday, April 9; a 1 p.m. doubleheader with Porterville Col- lege.
The Tigers did win three conference
Colleges
games last week, sweeping Fresno City College at home on March 26 by scores of 5-4 and 4-2 before a 13-1 road win at West Hills Coalinga on March 28.
In the opener with Fresno, Sam Liza- ola tripled to score Karlie Fien with the tying run in the bottom of the sixth in- ning before scoring on a sacrifice fly by Aunika Castellanos.
Reedley jumped out to a 3-0 lead in the second game before holding off a Ram rally. Fien had two hits and scored three runs.
Emily Grimbleby went the distance on the mound in both wins.
All but one Tiger had a base hit in the Thursday win over West Hills. Cas- tellanos led the way by driving in four runs with a home run and two singles. Grimbleby pitched four shutout innings before Amanda Beltran allowed a run in the fifth.
Reedley’s 13-game home winning streak ended March 30 with a 2-1 loss to Bakersfield. In the second game, San Joaquin Delta, ranked fourth in the
state and second in Northern California, edged Reedley 2-0 as Delaney Pamplin held the Tigers to just one hit, a leadoff single in the second inning off the bat of Sandra Vallejo.
BASEBALL
RC takes 2 of 3 from Merced
Thanks to timely hitting and im- proved pitching, the Reedley College Ti- ger baseball team won the last two games of a three-game series with Merced Col- lege last week.
The Tigers took a Central Valley Conference record of 5-7 and an over- all mark of 8-19 into the first game of a three-game series with Cerro Coso Col- lege in Ridgecrest on April 2. Results were unavailable at press time. The Ti- gers are scheduled to host the Coyotes at 6 p.m. Friday, April 5, before a 1 p.m. matchup in Reedley on Saturday, April 6.
Reedley opens a three-game series at conference co-leader College of the Se- quoias on Tuesday, April 9.
Reedley was held to four hits in a 4-2 loss to Merced in the series opener
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