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Dinamite Juniors girls volleyball development program for girls born between September 2007 and August 2009 will start Aug. 22 through Oct. 10 every Thursday from 6 p.m. – 8 p.m. The program will be held at the Dinuba Sportsplex, located at 201 North Uruapan Way in Di- nuba.
Cost is $150 per ath- lete.
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years ago.
“We’re coming back
strong,” Agina said, add- ing that the team has a crew of starters from of- fense and defense return- ing. “We should make a run in the DII playoffs and hopefully get a ring this season.”
Agina, Calandra and Collazo have taken up leadership roles on the team. “We’re setting the pace for everyone,” Agina said.
Agina had received 10 recruitment offers from colleges as of that moment, including Fres- no State, which already has signed Sanger High alumni Arron Mosby and Jalen Cropper, and Princ- eton, Air Force Academy, UNLV, Northern Arizona, Azusa Pacific, Wyoming, Yale, Dartmouth and Cal Poly, the most recent.
Calandra also comes with high expectations. “He had a phenomenal
offseason,” coach Jorge Pena said.
Calandra said he will try to live up to expecta- tions. “I’m my own big- gest critic,” he said. And his main goal, he said is “really just to bring this team together. There are a lot of young guys. We’re trying to build our Sanger defense back, bring that Sanger defense back.
“We’re shooting for no less than a Valley champi- onship.”
Thursday, August 8, 2019
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Mid Valley TiMes
APACHES
Continued from B1
2016.
The season begins in
Reedley against the Pi- rates on Aug. 23.
Sanger finished last season 7-4 after a 59-10 loss in the opening round of the California Inter- scholastic Federation Cen- tral Section playoffs to Ar- royo Grande. The Apaches got bumped down to Divi- sion II.
And the mood among the players, especially those on the team last year, leaned toward recover- ing some of the chutzpah the Apaches generated in their 2016 season, going 13-0 by beating Ridgeview of Bakersfield 20-10 for the CIF Central Section championship. “Surreal,” said running back Chris- tian Graney, who scored one of the Apaches’ three touchdowns, after that game. “We wanted this our whole lives, and finally af- ter all these years we got it.”
Dolce Calandra, Kosi Agina and Noel Collazo, seniors and key to the of- fense this year, want to restore the luster of three
Dinamite volleyball training program starts this
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Dolce Calandra, center, is expected to be one of his team’s leaders this sea- son. The senior plays wide receiver and running back. John Pena, left, plays backup quarterback and defensive back.
Another senior, line- backer and sometime fullback Pierce Jones, said one thing he likes about this season is the preponderance of healthy players. “We had a lot of people hurt last year,” he said. “We’re trying to find our identity right now.”
Jones said he’s looking forward to a good season. “Everyone’s coming in ev- ery day, working hard,” he said. “I like the mindset right now.”
Jones had experience with stepping up when in- juries depleted the team. At the Arroyo Grande game, he stepped in at fullback, something he hadn’t done all year, and ground out yard after yard in one of the few bursts of Apache offense. After that game he said, “I’m going to bring it and keep that tradition going,” referring to this season. He also had 18 tackles in the Arroyo game. John Pena, a junior this year, had 17.
One of the injuries last year came at the be- ginning of the season for Carl Hawkins. Hawkins, a senior this year, injured his anterior cruciate liga- ment, or ACL, and had to sit out the entire season.
COPS & JOCKS
Continued from B1
approached by strangers. The camp was sched- uled to conclude Aug. 7 with soccer outside in the morning, basketball after lunch in the Community Center and a pickup game between police and young- sters. Garza said McGruff the Crime Dog also was scheduled to appear, and all campers were given t-
shirts.
The Reedley Rotary
Club donated money to help pay for food and some extra activities with the camp.
Garza said the depart-
Then in spring, he tore his meniscus.
But he was at practice, in his gear. His right knee sported a brace and was wrapped with an elastic bandage. “Yessir, yep,” he said. “I’m ready for this season. Got to be ready. For 3,000.”
Hawkins referred to rushing yards. Agina had more than 1,000 last year for the Apaches. And Hawkins set his goal high, partly kidding of course.
But he meant business. And coach Pena said he’s got the chops. “It’s going to be a loud one,” Hawkins said of his prediction for the season. “Senior year. Give everyone a run for their money.”
And junior Ricco Bruce suffered a broken collarbone in June, but he offered a positive as- sessment of his recovery. Bruce is the son of Danny Bruce, a former Apache of some repute. Sanger mas- ter statistician Ron Black- wood said he remembers hearing of the elder Bruce as a “very good lineman.” Another Apache to watch.
The reporter can be contact- ed by email at nemethfeatures@ gmail.com or at (559) 875-2511.
ment has a goal of mak- ing the camp an annual summer event. It would be scheduled to fall in be- tween the end of summer recreation activities and the start of the school year.
“So far, it’s been really fun,” Garza said. “The kids have been really engaged with our officers. They’ve been having a good time.”
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