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Thursday, December 31, 2020
Highlights from an abbreviated 2020
Sanger High boys soccer's NorCal title tops regional accomplishments
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The Orosi High School girls soccer team celebrated winning the Central Section Division IV championship over East Bakersfield High on Feb. 21 at George Millhorn Stadium. The Cardinals completed a 22-1-6 season with the 2-1 overtime victory.
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Twoboysset singlegamestandardsfortheirrespectiveschoolsthispastseason.Sanger High junior Luke Dillon (left) scored a school-record 53 points in a win at Madera South on Jan. 17. Reedley High senior Augie Villarreal (right) scored 48 points in a Feb. 6 win over Fresno High. Both players also reached the 1,000 career points during the season.
Allen sets 2 team records as Bills trounce Patriots
Fresno Pacific
basketball, soccer
teams release
revised schedules
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Former Reedley College quar- terback Josh Allen continues to make his strong statement at consideration for Most Valuable Player in the National Football League this season.
Allen passed for four touch-
downs, completing 27 of 36 for 320 yards, as the AFC East Cham- pion Buffalo Bills rolled to a 38-9 victory over the once-dominant but now mediocre New England Patriots on Dec. 28. The rout im- proved the Bills' record to 12-3, as they try to nail down the No. 2 seed in the AFC behind the de-
fending Super Bowl champion Kansas City Chiefs.
Allen's big night game him 34 TD passes on the season, sur- passing Hall of Famer Jim Kelly for the franchise's single season record. He also set another sin- gle season team record with an eighth 300-yard game.
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Fresno Pacific's bas- ketball and soccer teams learned their season schedules for early 2021 when the PacWest Confer- ence announced on Dec. 23 that it had approved PWC schedules and re- gional affiliations for the two sports, with athletics resuming in January.
The Sunbirds will compete as part of the conference's Northern California pod along with Holy Names, Acad- emy of Art, and Domini- can. Basketball season for men and women tips off with games in late January, while the soc- cer season has season- opening matches sched- uled for early February.
“We are excited to see this season finally be able to get off the ground with a conference schedule. So many people have worked tirelessly and diligently
for months to create this opportunity for our stu- dents,” FPU's Director of Athletics Aaron Hender- son said. “Our staff and student-athletes have been patient and contin- ued to work hard to meet and exceed expectations when it was not easy to do that, and we are really looking forward to seeing our athletes competing in a safe environment once again.”
The Sunbird basket- ball programs have been in action for the entire month of December (in- cluding a men's team ex- hibition against Fresno State earlier this month) and are meeting all CO- VID safety requirements and protocols set forth by the NCAA, the state of California and the Fres- no County Public Health Department. The univer- sity's safety and testing
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Two area wrestlers earned sixth place state finishes in March. Orange Cove's Clarissa Alvarez (above) medaled at 160 pounds for the girls while Dinuba's Noah Cortez (left in the Di- nuba Invitational) earned his medal at 152 pounds.
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Sanger High's boys soccer team lifted head coach Alex Gutierrez onto their shoulders at Tom Flores Stadium. after capturing the CIF Northern California regional Division II championship on March 7 with a 4-0 shutout of Redwood High from Larkspur. The victory capped a 24-3-5 season for the Apaches, who won the section title on Feb. 21.
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