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Eagles off to 2-0 Selma start
Late CW rally stuns Reedley to begin Easter Classic play Staff Report
The Immanuel High baseball team flexed its muscles during the opening day of the Selma Easter Classic tourna- ment on April 15, rolling to two decisive victories including a shutout of a Sierra Pacific team that entered the tourna- ment with just one loss on the season.
The Eagles — playing in the friendly confines of "The Yard" at the Immanu- el Sports Complex — blasted the 16-5 Wasco Tigers 14-1 in five innings, then rode the strength of senior JT Friesen's complete game pitching performance to blank the Golden Bears, 6-0. The wins improved Immanuel to 18-3 on the sea- son.
It also put the Eagles into position to play their way into the tournament finals, which were scheduled for 6 p.m. on April 17 at Selma High. Immanuel had a night game with San Leandro High on April 16 (results were unavailable at press time) and an afternoon contest with Chavez High from Delano on April 17. both at The Yard. Wins almost certainly would place the Eagles into the title game.
Friesen turned in a steady, but domi- nating, performance against Sierra Pa- cific from Hanford. The righthander al- lowed just two hits and struck out five while walking just one in an 80-pitch outing to improve to 8-1 on the season. He's struck out 59 and walked 16 in 61.1 innings of work.
It appeared to be a pitcher's battle early on, as senior pitcher Will Springer struck out five and allowed just one hit through three innings. But the Eagles' bats erupted in the fourth inning as they pushed across five runs off Springer, who still finished with nine strikeouts in four innings.
Roman Rosales delivered the big blow of the evening with an RBI triple — his third three-bagger of the day — while Trace Pires and Moses Gomez also drove in runs. Rosales also delivered a sacrifice fly while Derek Wood (two runs scored) and Gomez also collected two hits in the game. Immanuel finished with eight hits.
Against Wasco, the Eagles pounded
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Reedley High's Aryanna Gonzalez made a head-first dive back into first base ahead of the pickoff throw to Roosevelt's Desirae Coro- nado during the Pirates' 1-0 victory on April 12.
RHS softball 1-2 at Tulare tourney
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Immanuel High pitcher JT Friesen fired a pitch to home plate in the first inning of a Selma Easter Tournament game against Sierra Pacific High on April 15. The senior righthander scat- tered two hits, struck out five and walked just one in a 6-0 victory over the 16-2 Golden Bears. The Eagles (18-3) also trounced Wasco, 14-1, to start the tournament with a 2-0 record.
Pirates build NYL lead to 2 games heading into break
Staff Report
Days after building a cushion in the North Yosem- ite League softball league softball race, Reedley High dropped two of three games in spring vacation tourna- ment action.
The Pirates (14-8, 6-0 NYL) competed at the Tulare Classic Softball Tournament, playing twice on April 13. After erupting for four-run and six-run innings during an 11-0 blanking of Porter- ville High at Tulare Western High School, RHS traveled to Tulare Union High School and dropped a 6-2 decision to Lemoore High. The Tigers wiped out an early 1-0 deficit with two runs in the second and three in the third.
Reedley closed out the
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tournament on April 15 by losing 10-1 at Tulare West- ern. The Mustangs trailed 1-0 heading to the bottom of the fourth, but blew the game open with 10 runs in the inning. MacKenzie Agu- iar homered and drove in two runs while pitcher Sierra Cortez limited the PIrates to
just one run on three hits, Before the tournament break, Reedley increased its NYL lead to two games with a 4-2 road victory at Hoover. Alexa Gonzalez pitched a complete game allowing just one earned run while scatter- ing six hits and striking out six. Jacqueline Gutierrez paced the RHS hitting attack going 2-for-3 with a double
and triple.
Reedley then blanked
Roosevelt, 1-0, on April 12 as Stephanie Castro's pitch-
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out 17 hits and scored four runs in three different innings. Matt Tiger finished 4-for-4 with two runs batted in while Ro- sales tripled twice in a 3-for-3 effort with three runs scored and three RBI. Ryan Friesen and Justin Paboojian smacked doubles while each collecting two hits, and Chris Gurrola finished 2-for-4 with two runs scored and two RBI.
On the mound, Tiger worked four- plus innings allowing two hits and one earned run while striking out six.
Entering the spring break, Immanuel bounced back from a 5-2 loss at Selma on March 26 to regain a tie for first place
in the Central Sequoia League with the Bears. Wins last week over Exeter (2-0 on April 9) and at Dinuba (11-6 on April 11) improved the Eagles to 8-1.
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Reedley High dropped a heartbreak-
er in its opening game of the Fresno Eas- ter Classic on April 15 when the Clovis West Golden Eagles scored three runs in their final at-bat in the seventh in- ning to pull out a 9-8 victory at CWHS. The Pirates (12-6) had roared back from
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Reedley High's Ivy Duong, right, leads teammate Sumiko Sunamoto over the hurdles on her way to winning the 100 meter hurdles during a North Yosemite League mini-meet on April 10 at Reedley High stadium. Duong clocked 20.21 seconds while Sunamoto finished third in 20.43.
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Staff Report
Host Reedley High School took first place in 10 varsity events during a North Yosemite League mini-meet with Sunny- side, Roosevelt and McLane on April 10 at the RHS track.
The Pirates' girls picked up eight of the wins, led by double wins from seniors Mad- dy Gates and Ivy Duong along with a sweep by the team's relay teams. Gates set a per- sonal record of 32 feet, 4 1/2 inches to win the triple jump and also had a season best mark of 5-1 to win the high jump.
Duong, meanwhile, won the discus with a 77 foot throw and clocked 20.21 seconds in the 100 meter hurdles. In addition, she had a PR of 32-11 1/2 to finish second in the shot put.
The 4x100 relay team of Lauryn King, Trinity Toews, Emely Torres and Leslie Mendoza won in a time of 54.24 seconds. The 4x400 relay quartet of Kayden Crutch- field, Toews, Ali Roman and Ann Burton had a winning time of 4:41.95. Other RHS girls winners were Toews (1:00.3 in the 400) and
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freshman Crutchfield (PR of 28.66 in the 200).
For the boys, junior Audon Martinez won the discus with a PR of 112-5 and placed fourth in the shot put. Also, the Pirates' 4x100 relay team of Jacob Friesen, Randy Sanchez, James Villasenor and Jorge Meza won in a time of 46.03 seconds.
At the Sanger Metric Classic on April 12, Gates placed fifth in the girls high jump at 5-1 while Toews finished ninth in the 400 in 1:01.18. Matthew Jarrett had a season-best time of 10:22.52 to place 28th in the 3200 meters.
Immanuel High's girls turned in five first place marks at the Central Valley Christian Relays on April 10 in Visalia. The Eagles' sprint medley relay team of Paige Howard, Payton Breckenridge, Janelle Wood and Carissa Hall set school records in both the 1-1-2-4 (1:53.72) and 2-2-4-8 (4:32.54) dis-
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Tigers softball one back in CVC entering final week
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A 3-2 loss at home to Porterville College has dropped the Reedley College Lady Tiger softball team to second place in the Central Valley Conference.
Head Coach Kathy Kuball’s squad took a CVC record of 15-3 and an overall mark of 29-8 into an April 16 doubleheader at Merced College before closing out the regular season on Thursday, April 18, with a 1 p.m. single game at Fresno City College. College of the Sequoias leads the con- ference at 16-2 and 23-12.
Northern California Regional ac- tion begins on May 4.
Reedley used a four-run first in- ning rally and three more runs in the
second to down Porterville 7-4 in the first inning of the twinbill. Sandra Vallejo’s two-run single was the big blow in the first inning before Mari- ah Hernandez led off the second with a triple to the left center field gap. Hernandez later added a double and a single while Vallejo had two more singles to lead a 12-hit attack.
Emily Grimbeby went the dis- tance on the mound to record her 20th win of the season, scattering five hits and striking out 10.
But the strategy to walk the CVC’s leading home run hitter, Kiki Angliau, backfired in the second game as Annisa Gomez, hitting be- hind Angilau, drove in a first inning run with a double before erasing a 2-1 deficit with a two-run homer in
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the sixth. Gomez also hit a two-run shot in the first game.
Injuries to catcher Samantha Lizaola and center fielder Bobbie Falcon in the opener left the Tigers with only nine healthy players for the nightcap. After ripping PC start- ing pitcher Alexis Rodriguez for five runs in one-plus innings in the opener, Reedley managed only two singles off Rodriguez in four-and- two-thirds innings of relief.
Reedley bounced back on April 11 with a five-inning 11-2 win in Ridgecrest over Cerro Coso. The Ti- gers broke a 2-2 tie with three runs in the third before breaking it open with seven runs in the fifth.
Aunika Castellanos and Vallejo both drove in two runs for the win- ners while Mariah Hernandez, Patty Hernandez, Amanda Beltran and Castellanos (who scored three runs) all had two hits. Eight different Ti- gers drove in runs.
BASEBALL Tigers play spoiler by defeating COS
Even though they only won one game of the three-game series last week, the Reedley College Tiger baseball team was able to knock Col- lege of the Sequoias into a tie with Fresno City College for the lead in the Central Valley Conference.
A three-run rally in the bottom of the seventh inning broke a 3-3 tie as the Tigers went on to record a 6-3
victory in Reedley on April 11.
COS recorded wins in the two games played in Visalia. The Giants rolled to a 17-9 win on April 9 before taking advantage of four Tiger er-
rors on April 13 to win 8-6.
Josh Mares started the seventh
inning rally in Reedley for the Tigers with a double. Singles by Gabe Gri- jalva, Mitch Silva's and Nick Marti- nez were sandwiched around an in- tentional walk to Danny Gamez, who homered on April 9.
Blake Costa recorded the pitch- ing win but also suffered loss on April 13.
Only five more games remain on the 2019 schedule for the Tigers,
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Host Pirates collect 11 wins at NYL mini-meet