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Reedley High releases fall sports schedules
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The Reedley High Pirates water polo team will open the 2018 season on Thursday, Aug. 9, against Sierra Pacific High School in Reedley.
Staff Report
With the month of August quickly approaching, Reedley High School released their 2018 fall athletic schedules.
Here is a look at some key games in the schedules for both the Eagles and the Pirates.
Football
The Pirates football team will begin their season travel- ing to Sanger on Aug. 17 for a game against the Sanger High School Apaches.
Reedley High will play Sierra Pacific High School on Aug. 24 in their home opener at Sal Gonzalez Field.
The Pirates then host Di- nuba High School on Aug. 31. They then will travel for a game against Mendota High on Sept. 7.
After a bye week, the Pirates travel for a game
against Washington Union High School on Sept. 21, be- fore opening North Yosem- ite League play on Sept. 28, against Roosevelt High at Sal Gonzalez Field.
The Pirates will then cel- ebrate Homecoming on Oct. 5 against McLane High.
Reedley High will then have back-to-back road games against Fresno High on Oct. 11, and Hoover High on Oct. 18.
The Pirates end the regu- lar season on Oct. 26 against Sunnyside High at Sal Gonza- lez Field.
Volleyball
The Pirates girls vol- leyball team will open their season on Aug. 14 against Yo- semite High School at Reedley High.
They then travel to Visa-
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The Reedley High Pirates football team will open their 2018 season on Friday, Aug. 17, at Sanger High School.
Pirates football opens
season against Sanger
Softball All-Star Game
Guzman, Lizaola take field for RHS and IHS
City defeats County 8-7
By Chris Aguirre
Chris@midvalleypublishing.com
Jenna Guzman and Sa- mantha Lizaola stood on the field at Margie Wright Dia- mond at Fresno State on June 20, reminiscing about their times at Immanuel High and Reedley High Schools.
With the lights at the dia- mond beginning to shut off, Guzman and Lizaola real- ized their time as high school softball players had officially faded out.
Guzman represented the Pirates, while Lizaola repre- sented the Eagles one final time in the 37th Annual City/ County All-Star Game.
Both players played for the County team.
The annual City/County game brings together the best softball players from around the valley.
This year, the City team defeated the County squad 8-7.
Winning or losing wasn't important to Lizaola who was just happy to be chosen for the game.
“It was amazing,” Lizaola said. “It was a once in a life- time opportunity and getting to play with other players from around the Valley was good. I built new friendships
See SOFTBALL on page B4
Photo Contibuted / Jan Edmarc Balallo
The Reedley Babe Ruth 14-year-old All-Star team qualified for the Babe Ruth State tournament by finishing in second place in the District 3 tournament. The tournament was held June 22 to June 24 at Reedley High School.
Reedley Babe Ruth
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Samantha Lizaola, former Immanuel High standout (left), and Jenna Guzman, former Reedley High standout, participated in the City/County Softball All-Star Game on June 20 at Margie Wright Stadium at Fresno State. BELOW LEFT: Samantha Lizaola hits the ball during the All-Star Game. BELOW RIGHT: Jenna Guzman had one at-bat during the City/County All-Star Game.
Jan Edmarc Balallo
Contributed
The Reedley Babe Ruth 14-year-old All-Star team earned a spot in the Central California State tournament with a second place finish in the District 3 tournament.
The 14's lost to Ker West 4-3 in the championship game on June 24.
Reedley will open the tournament on Friday, July 6, against the second place team from District 6. The state tournament will be held Friday, July 6 to Tues- day, July 10, at Madera High School.
On June 22, Reedley 14's de- feated Selma 14-3 to open play in the District 3 tournament.
Reedley scored three runs in the bottom of the first inning to race out to a 3-0 lead.
Sammy Estala, Will Ga- gnon and Dustin Wang each scored in the inning.
The 14's added a run in the bottom of the second in- ning to take a 4-0 lead.
Jose Vargas scored the run in the inning.
Reedley added two more runs in the bottom of the fourth inning. Reedley led 9-4 entering the bottom of the sixth inning and scored four runs to take a 14-3 lead after six innings.
On June 23, the 14's lost to Ker West 4-3 to drop into the losers bracket.
After Ker West jumped out to a 3-0 lead, Reedley battled back to tie the game at 3-3, but a run by Ker West
in the bottom of the sixth sealed the game.
Reedley fell into an elim- ination game against Selma. The 14's rebounded from their loss to Ker West and eliminated Selma from the tournament with a 9-0 win.
Gagnon, Wang, Andrew Brown, Sergio Marquez, Dowdie Eastham, Vargas, Michael Rios and Estala each scored a run in the game.
Reedley advanced to the championship having to de- feated Ker West two times to win the District 3 title.
The 14's won the first game against Ker West 7-3 on June 24, to force a decid- ing second game. The 14's lost the second game 9-8.
Babe Ruth All-Stars
Reedley Babe Ruth recently named its 2018 13-year-old, 14-year-old and 15-year-old All-Star teams.
Here are the members of each team.
13's: Matthew Azua (White Sox), Troy Bamford (Giants), Alejandro Gonzalez (Dodgers), Marcus Gutier- rez (Pirates), Joseph Juarez (Braves), Landon Kehoe (Athletics), Angel Marin (Gi- nats), Justin Ochoa (Pirates), Samuel Rodriguez (Yan- kees), Jesus Rosas (White Sox), Kevin Scott (Braves), Isaiah Silva (White Sox), Ry- an Warkentin (Giants). Man- ager: Todd Lowery. Coaches: Isaac Almanzar, Jarod Chias-
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