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Former DHS standout
Late goal lifts Orosi over Dinuba
state championship run
By George M. Villagrana
Mid Valley Times
A late miscue by Di- nuba paved the way for a goal by Orosi’s senior midfielder Emily Gonza- lez in a 1-0 win Thursday evening in Dinuba.
“Those are the games we live for,” said OHS coach Jesse Camarena. “We’re going to compete until the end, but in soc- cer you got to be lucky sometimes and we got lucky there.”
Gonzalez was at the right place at the right time when Dinuba failed to clear the ball after a shot attempt with under 10 minutes remaining in the match. The victory was the third in the last four matches for the Car- dinals who are 8-1-6 while Dinuba dropped to 4-5-2 overall.
“All we had to do was have one or the other [player] clear the ball and they didn’t,” said DHS coach Claudia Diaz. “That’s all it took.”
The Lady Emperors entered the match on the heels of a 3-2 win over Selma that ended a three game losing streak. All three of those losses have been by a goal that included a 1-0 setback to
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Former Dinuba High standout and current Fresno City College wrestler, Daniel Long, ended his freshman cam- paign as a member of the Rams State Champion- ship team.
Fresno City wrapped up a fourth straight Cali- fornia Community Col- lege Athletic Association state title last weekend in Fresno.
Long wrestled at 184 dropped both his matches but FCC went on to have an impressive weekend accumulating 186 points.
On Dec. 7 at San Joa- quin Delta, FCC won the Nor Cal Team title with 137 points as Long placed third overall at 184.
Daniel Long
That performance was on the heels of FCC capturing a 3rd straight CCCAA Team Dual State crown on Nov. 24 in Nor- walk. The Rams, ranked #1 in the state, beat No. 2 ranked Cerritos, 30-8.
Long picked up a 16- 1 technical fall win over Angel Verduzco.
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Reedley College
Struggles continue for Reedley College Womens' Basketball
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Orosi High's Emily Gonzalez and Dinuba’s Crystal Lucatero close in on a ball during a match held Thursday night in Dinuba. Gonzalez scored the only goal of the match in a 1-0 win over the Lady Emperors.
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Three losses last week in the College of San Ma- teo Tournament have dropped Reedley College’s women’s basketball team to 5-10 on the season.
The closest Coach Dan Kilbert’s squad came to a victory was on Saturday when the Lady Tigers fell to Shasta 81-79. Reed- ley trailed by as many as many as 10 points in the fourth quarter before ral- lying to tie the game at 79-all on two free throws by Aurelie Bravo with 17 seconds left. But Shasta’s Gabby Rosales scored on an offensive rebound and basket with 10 seconds left for the margin of victory. Bravo missed a jumper with four seconds left.
Bravo finished with a game and season high of 27 points, making six 3-point attempts. Annie Lopez followed with 24 while Sam Ramirez fol- lowed with 16.
The game was tied at 19-all after one quarter be-
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player Yasmine Soto’s game-high 27.
Roosevelt defeated Clovis East, 47-41, in the fifth place game and Kerman rallied to beat Mendota, 46-34, in the consolation game.
Also named to the all-tournament team
fore Shasta outscored the Tigers 26-14 in the second quarter.
On Friday, Reedley dropped a 61-48 decision to host College of San Mateo. Bravo had five 3-pointers and finished with 16 to lead the Tiger attack. Lopez finished with 11.
Reedley opened the tournament Thursday with a 99-46 loss to Butte. Bravo led the Tigers with 11 points while Amanpre- et Kaur added 10 in just 16 minutes of action.
The Tigers have a con- ference game on Wednes- day, Jan. 8. It will be the team’s home opener as they open Central Valley Conference play against West Hills Lemoore at 5 pm. It will be the first game of a doubleheader with the Tiger men play- ingat7pm.
Before the conference game, the Lady Tigers travel to Bakersfield on Saturday, Jan. 4 for a non- conference game with the Renegades in the Gil Bishop Sports Center.
were Miah Paz, Reed- ley; Jayden Berry, Clo- vis East; Bre Hurt, Ker- man; Briann Hougton, Madera; Madison John- son, Porterville; Qierra Murray, Roosevelt and Cierra Dean, Washing- ton Union.
Amaya Sanchez of Lemoore was the recipi- ent of the Mari Gonza- lez Most Inspirational award.
Exeter and a 3-2 over- time loss to Hanford West.
“We’ve been playing pretty good, but it’s those little mistakes,” Diaz said.
On the flipside, Orosi wrapped up the year on a high as the Lady Cardi- nals moved to 8-1-6 and 2-0-1 in the West Sequoia League.
“We’re playing good soccer but we can im- prove,” Camarena said. “But that’s the best way to close the holidays with a good win.”
Roth leads Sanger to two consecutive close victories
By Rick Curiel
Mid Valley Times
The Sanger High varsity girls’ basketball team im- proved to 11-3 on the season and picked up their 700th win in program history af- ter winning their final two games of the year last week.
The victories didn’t come easy for the Lady Apaches, as they used a third quarter rally to beat host Roosevelt High on Dec. 17, after fall- ing behind 22-20 at halftime.
Led by the scoring of Sanger High junior Tay- lor Roth, who finished the game with 26 points, the Lady Apaches outscored the Rough Riders 16 to 8 in the third quarter to take the lead and subsequent 48-43 win.
Also scoring in double digits for Sanger was soph- omore Mallory Scott, who chipped in with 10 points. Freshman Aleena Hardin pulled down 10 rebounds in Sanger’s victory over Roos- evelt, while sophomore Elise LeBeau dished out five as- sists.
The following day, Sanger hosted Div. 2 Red- wood in a highly contested match that also featured a third-quarter rally by the Lady Apaches.
Down 35-29 at the break,
Sanger mounted a come- back in the third quarter by outscoring the Rangers 15- 10 in the third quarter and then 15-14 in the fourth. A late bucket by Redwood’s Janessa Haro tied the game with just 12 seconds remain- ing, forcing overtime.
In overtime, Roth scored a two-pointer with just over a minute left to put Sanger up by one point. A couple of made free throws by Hardin gave the Lady Apaches a 69- 66 lead with just 36 seconds remaining, eventually seal- ing the victory for Sanger.
Roth was able to match her performance from the previous day with 26 points, shooting 50 percent from the field and 56 percent (5 of 9) from three-point range.
Sanger High junior Mia Castro pitched in with 14 points and was 10 of 12 from the free throw line and also hauled in eight rebounds.
At 11-3, the Lady Apach- es’ record is currently the best in the CMAC and third best in Division 3 of the Cen- tral Section.
Sanger returns to the court on Jan. 2 when they are scheduled to play Garc- es Memorial in Clovis at Buchanan’s New Year Clas- sic. The tournament will last until Jan. 4.
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Sanger High's Taylor Roth recently scored 26 points in consecutive games to lead the Lady Apaches to victories over Roosevelt and Redwood.
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