Page 9 - Mid Valley Times 3-24-22 E-Edition

Thursday, March 24, 2022
Baseball, softball teams swing into league play
Reedley's 4-game win streak ends in home loss at Fresno
By Jon Earnest
Mid Valley Times
Most of the Mid Val- ley Times region's base- ball teams began play in their respective leagues this week, along with the Dinuba High and Immanuel High softball teams.
The Reedley High baseball squad actually got a one-week head start, beginning its fi- nal season in the North Yosemite League back on March 15. But the Pi- rates (8-2) suffered their second home loss of the campaign, dropping a 9-1 decision to Fresno High to snap a four-game win streak.
Other leagues begin play on March 22; Di-
Jon Earnest / Mid Valley Times
Pitcher Briana Cortez and first baseman Hailee Zapien, pictured in action against Reed- ley High earlier this month, have helped defending Division II section champion Dinuba get off to a 7-4 start this season. The Lady Emps opened Central Sequoia League play on March 22 at Hanford West.
George Armenta / Photo Contributed
Sanger High softball players, celebrating a grand slam home run from Shelsie Castel during a 13-0 victory over Reedley High on March 8, won two games at the Central Invitational Tournament on March 19 and will open Coun- ty Metro Athletic Conference Play on Tuesday, March 29.
nuba (4-8) at home in a night game with Han- ford West, Immanuel (4- 6) with a night game at Kingsburg, and Sanger (5-4) with a home game against Madera South. Orange Cove, Orosi and
Parlier also began West Sequoia League play this week.
In softball, Dinuba (7-4) traveled to Han- ford to take on Hanford West while Immanuel (8-3) hosted Kingsburg.
Reedley (4-5-1) returns to non-league action Thursday, March 24, at Tulare Western and will open NYL play on Tuesday, April 5, against Fresno High.
Reedley's baseball
team managed just three hits off Fresno pitching, and the Warriors (8-1-1) touched up RHS starter Will Gagnon for seven earned runs on eight hits in three-and-a-third innings of work. Darren Ortiz, Ely Garcia and Ryan Warkentin had hits while Josiah Friedenerg drove in the lone RHS
run.
The Pirates contin-
ued NYL play on March 22 with a road game at Hoover. That's followed by a 6:30 p.m. home con- test Friday, March 25, against Roosevelt and a 3:30 p.m. league game at McLane on Tuesday,
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Tigers baseball drops 2 of 3 to COS, slips to fourth place
By Will Goldbeck
For The Times
After losing two out of three games to College of the Sequoias last week, the Reedley College Tiger base- ball team finds itself in fourth place in the Central Valley Conference.
The Tigers went into last week’s action ranked 13th in the state by the California Community College Sports Information Directors Asso- ciation and sixth in Northern California.
The two losses dropped Reedley to 6-5 in the CVC and
15-7 overall, going into a cru- cial three-game series with second place Merced College. The series began in Reedley on March 22 before heading to Merced on Thursday, March 24, and going back to Reedley on Saturday, March 26, for a 1 p.m. contest.
The series with COS began on March 15 in Visalia, as the Tigers recorded a dramatic 7-6 victory. Orin Hirschkorn’s two-run homer in the top of the ninth inning off J.T. Fries- en (Immanuel) put the Tigers ahead to stay. Elijah Acosta came in to record the save.
Hirschkorn recorded four
hits on the day while Koby Kropf finished with three.
But Friesen recovered, re- cording the win in the Giants’ 8-6 win in Reedley on March 17andasaveina5-3winon March 19.
Sequoias scored twice with two out in the ninth off Acosta on a two-run triple by Jackson Brooks to break a six-all tie on March 17.
Reedley came back from a 2-0 first inning deficit, tying the game on a two-run third inning homer by Kropf after
Nilen Peoples led off the bot- tom of the first inning with a solo blast. Later, Peoples scored the tying run in the bot- tom of the eighth inning on a passed ball.
In the March 19 game, Reedley came back from a 3-0 deficit to tie the game on Ra- mon Rosales run-scoring dou- ble before COS went ahead in the bottom of the inning on a bases loaded walk and a sac- rifice fly.
SOFTBALL Reedley moves into second place tie in CVC
After winning one out of four games last week, the
Reedley College Tiger softball team is tied for second place in the Central Valley Conference.
Reedley took a conference record of 2-2 and an overall record of 8-13 into a 5 p.m. Thursday, March 24, contest at Merced College. The Tigers travel to first place Fresno City (6-0) on Tuesday, March 29 for 1 p.m. doubleheader.
A scheduled Saturday, March 26, double header with Diablo Valley College has been canceled.
The Tigers split a double- header with Taft College on
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REEDLEY COLLEGE
THURSDAY, MARCH 24 BASEBALL
Sanger vs. San Joaquin Memorial, SJM HS
Complex The Yard, 4/7 p.m. (JV/V)
Orange Cove vs. Parlier, Parlier HS, 4 p.m. (JV/V)
Reedley vs. Roosevelt, Reedley HS diamonds, 3:30/6:30 p.m. (JV/V)
TRACK AND FIELD
Sanger at Azusa Meet of Champions, site TBA, 6 p.m. (V)
MONDAY, MARCH 28 BADMINTON
Reedley vs. McLane (NYL #4), McLane HS
Fresno, 3 p.m. (JV/V)
Sanger vs. Edison, Nicholson Gym Sanger HS, 3 p.m. (JV/V)
Reedley vs. Fresno, Sherwood Golf Course, 2 p.m. (V)
TUESDAY, MARCH 29 BASEBALL
Dinuba vs. Immanuel, Washington Intermediate School diamond Dinuba, 4/7 p.m.
(JV/V)
Orange Cove vs. Caruthers, Caruthers HS diamonds, 4 p.m. (JV/V)
Orosi vs. Minarets, Minarets HS O'Neals, 4 p.m. (JV/V)
Parlier vs. Riverdale, Riverdale HS, 4 p.m. (JV/V)
Reedley vs. McLane, McLane HS Fresno, 3:30 p.m. (JV/V)
Sanger vs. Bullard, Sanger HS diamonds, times TBA (JV/V)
BOYS GOLF
Dinuba vs. Sunnyside, Ridge Creek Golf Course Dinuba, 2 p.m. (V)
Sanger vs. Bullard, Riverside Golf Course Fresno, 2 p.m. (V)
Dinuba vs. Selma, Selma HS, 4 p.m. (JV/V) Immanuel vs. Exeter, Immanuel Sports
Complex, 4 p.m. (JV/V)
Orange Cove vs. Riverdale, Orange Cove HS, 4 p.m.
Reedley vs. Roosevelt (NYL#6), Reedley HS courts, 3:30 p.m. (JV/V)
Sanger vs. Edison, Edison HS Fresno, 3 p.m. (JV/V)
Reedley vs. Fresno, Fresno HS, 3:30/4:30/5:30
p.m. (All)
Dinuba vs. Immanuel, Immanuel Sports Complex The Nest, 6 p.m. (V)
Orange Cove vs. Caruthers, Caruthers HS, 4 p.m. (JV/V)
Orosi vs. Minarets, Minarets HS O'Neals, 4 p.m. (JV/V)
Parlier vs. Riverdale, Riverdale HS, 4 p.m. (JV/V)
Reedley vs. Redwood, Redwood HS Visalia, 4:30/7 p.m. (JV/V)
Sanger vs. Porterville, Sanger HS, 3:30 p.m.
(JV/V) SWIM AND DIVE
Reedley vs. Central, Central HS pool Fresno, 3:30 p.m. (JV/V)
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 30 BADMINTON
Sanger vs. Sunnyside, Nicholson Gym Sanger
Fresno, 3:30 p.m. (JV/V)
BOYS GOLF
BOYS TENNIS
Dinuba hosts CSL #3 meet (9 holes), Kings River Country Club Kingsburg, 2 p.m. (V)
Dinuba vs. Hanford West, Dinuba HS, 4 p.m. (JV/V)
Immanuel vs. Kingsburg, Kingsburg HS, 4 p.m. (JV/V)
Orange Cove vs. Fowler, Orange Cove HS, 4 p.m. (JV/V)
Orosi vs. Fowler, Fowler HS, 4 p.m. (JV/V) Reedley vs. Hoover (NYL #5) Reedley HS courts, 3 p.m. (JV/V)
Sanger vs. Bullard, Bullard HS Fresno, 3 p.m.
(JV/V)
Reedley vs. McLane, McLane HS Fresno, 3:30/4:30/5:30 p.m. (All)
Sanger vs. Madera, Madera HS, 4/5/6 p.m.
(All) SOFTBALL
Sanger vs. Golden West, Sanger HS, 3:30 p.m. (JV/V)
Sanger vs. Madera South, Sanger High Aquatics Complex, 3:30 p.m. (JV/V)
Reedley vs. Hoover/McLane, Hoover HS Fresno, 3:30 p.m. (JV/V)
FRIDAY, MARCH 25 BASEBALL
Dinuba vs. Selma, Selma HS Diamonds, 4/7
p.m. (JV/V)
Immanuel vs. Exeter, Immanuel Sports
Reedley, Sanger at Visalia Tennis Tournament, Redwood HS Visalia, 10 a.m. (V)
BOYS TENNIS
BOYS VOLLEYBALL
BOYS VOLLEYBALL
BOYS VOLLEYBALL
Dinuba hosts Emperor Invitational, Dinuba HS 1 p.m. (All)
Sanger at Gateway to Track & Field meet, Buchanan HS Clovis, 1:30 p.m. (JV/V)
SATURDAY, MARCH 26 BASEBALL
Sanger vs. Madera South, Madera South HS,
SWIM AND DIVE
BOYS VOLLEYBALL
PREP SPORTS SCHEDULE FOR MARCH 24 TO MARCH 30
Sanger vs. Campolindo, Campolindo HS, 4/5/6
p.m. (All)
Dinuba vs. Selma, Dinuba HS, 4/6 p.m. (JV/V) Orange Cove vs. Parlier, Parlier HS, 4 p.m. (JV/V)
Reedley vs. Washington Union, Reedley HS diamonds, 3:30/5:30 p.m. (JV/V)
BOYS GOLF
SOFTBALL
SOFTBALL
Sanger vs. Clovis West, Sanger HS, 4 p.m. (V)
11 a.m. (JV/V)
TRACK AND FIELD
Reedley at Fresno Christian Tournament, FCHS Fresno, time TBA (V)
Reedley at Sunnyside frosh-soph tourney, Sunnyside HS Fresno, time TBA (F-S) Sanger vs TBA at Monta Vista Invitational, Monta Vista HS Cupertino, times TBA (V)
DInuba/Reedley/Sanger at Sunnyside Sprint Meet, Sunnyside HS Fresno, 9 a.m. (V)
HS, 3 p.m. (JV/V)
SWIM AND DIVE
TRACK AND FIELD
BOYS TENNIS
Dinuba vs. Coalinga, Coalinga HS, 4 p.m.
(JV/V)
Sanger vs. SJ Memorial/Madera, Madera South, Dodson Field Sanger, 3 p.m. (F-S/V)
SWIM AND DIVE