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Thursday, March 12, 2020
Reedley Rotary Track and Field to be held March 12
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MVT Staff Report
The 49th annual Reedley Rotary Track and Field meet will be held Thursday, March 12, at Reedley High Stadium. Both track and field events will begin at 5 p.m.
Elementary and middle school programs from Kings Canyon Uni- fied Schools will be competing in in- termediate, junior, midget and ban- tam divisions. Elementary schools en- tered are Alta, Conner (Orange Cove), Great Western, Immanuel, Jefferson, Lincoln, McCord (Orange Cove), Riv- erview, Sheridan (Orange Cove) and Washington. Middle Schools entered are Citrus (Orange Cove) and Grant while K-8 schools entered are Dunlap, Navelencia, T.L. Reed, Silas Bartsch and St. La Salle.
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Reedley High’s varsity boys and girls won five events each at the North Yosemite League Meet #1 on March 4 in Fresno. Senior Devin Decker was an individual double win- ner for the boys, capturing the 200 and 400 meter runs with personal re- cord times of 22.80 and 52.84 seconds, respectively. Decker also anchored the 4x100 relay win in 45.40 seconds.
Junior Aaron Todd won the high jump with a personal record of 5 feet, 8 inches, placed second in the 100
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scored Dustin Wang. DHS pitcher, Mi- chael Gomez, started an inning-ending double play to avoid further damage.
The Emperors moved ahead 4-3 in the bottom of the fifth on a wild pitch scoring Ortega, who hit a one out sin- gle to left field.
In a game against Kerman on March 4, Gomez delivered a one-out
withaPRof11.58andranalegon the winning relay. Senior Eric Agui- lar won the 3,200 in 11 minutes, 22.18 seconds as RHS swept the top eight spots.
For the girls, individual winners were freshman Jamie Pimentel (PR of 13.04 seconds in the 100), senior Isabella Elizondo (PR of 27.60 in the 200) and senior Viktoria Papp and sophomore Ryan Stark (tied for first in the high jump with PRs of 4 feet, 4 inches. Senior Trinity Toews an- chored wins in the girls 4x100 (53.30) and 4x400 (4:26.44) races, and also fin- ished second to Pimentel in the 100 with a time of 13.30.
Reedley also competed at the Sanger Spring Classic on March 7, getting sixth place finishes in both varsity boys relay events. For the girls, Trinity Toews finished eighth in the 200 (28.04 seconds) and third in the 400 (a season-best 1:02.89) while anchoring a seventh place fin- ish in the 4x100 relay (53.85) and fifth place showing in the 4x400 (4:25.28). Freshman Lindsay Lundsford placed 10th in the long jump (14-6) and triple jump (PR of 31-5.5).
This week, the Pirates took part in NYL Meet #2 at Reedley High, then travel to Visalia for the Central Valley Invitational on Saturday, March 14.
run scoring single in a four-run sixth inning as the Emperors wiped out a 4-1 deficit to stun the Lions, 5-4 in Di- nuba.
Pitcher Isaiah Ochoa recorded two consecutive strikeouts after allowing two singles in the seventh for the save.
Andrew Pompa had two hits and a pair of RBI’s for Dinuba.
Justin Gonzalez threw five innings allowing four hits with seven strike- outs before giving way to Josh Esc- obedo, who pitched an inning.
Rick Curiel / Mid Valley Times
Pirates capture first win over the Apaches in baseball in ten years
Reedlely High's Felipe Renallo slides back to base as Sanger first baseman Tiz Moreno receives the throw during the teams' March 4 matchup, a game the Pirates won 8-3 in extra innings.
Reedley, Sanger rivarly still alive on the diamond
By Rick Curiel
Mid Valley Times
They may not play each other in foot- ball anymore, but judging by the emo- tions from last week’s matchup between the Sanger and Reedley varsity baseball teams, the rivalry is far from over.
In a semifinals match of the Central Valley Diamond Classic on March 4, it was the Pirates who came away victo- rious after the Apaches rallied in the seventh inning to extend the game into extra innings, where Reedley ran away with it, socring five unanswered runs for the 8-3 victory.
Reedley High pitcher William Ga- gnon held the Apaches hitless until the third inning and shut them out until the fifth when Sanger’s Mason Lopez drove in a run to tie the game at one run apiece.
But the Pirates would respond in their ensuing at-bat, racking up five hits in the inning and scoring two runs. Reed- ley’s Jacob Franco collected an RBI in the inning on a shot to shallow left field and teammate Aaron Larm would reach home on an error at first base to give the Pirates a 3-1 lead.
The game got tense in the bottom of the sixth after Sanger’s first two batters reached base on consecutive walks. An error then scored Apaches’ Tiz Moreno to cut the Pirates lead to one.
Later in the inning, with bases loaded and two outs, Gagnon was able to get out of jam after going from an 0-2 count to a full count. After striking out Sanger’s Jesse Campos to end the inning, an ex- change of words followed between Ga-
gnon and the Apache’s dugout, forcing the umpire to warn both teams.
Sanger tied the game in the bottom of the seventh inning on a sacrifice bunt by Apaches’ Joey Rodriguez, scoring team- mate Nathan Padilla, who reached base on a line drive to left field.
The Pirates, however, blew it open in the top of the eighth inning, scoring five runs off Padilla, who had come in as the relief pitcher in the seventh inning. Reedley had 12 hits against the Apaches, compared to Sanger’s seven. Last week’s win also marked the first time Reedley beat Sanger in varsity baseball since April 7, 2010.
The victory gave Reedley a 7-1 over- all record and their sixth win in a row. It also set up a rematch with Dinuba High for the Central Valley Diamond Clas- sic Championship, in which the Pirates prevailed by a 5-4 score. (See story on front page of Sports for more details.) The two teams met in the first game of the season on Feb. 7, a game in which the Pirates won 10-0.
Reedley’s next game will be Thurs- day, March 13, when they host Orange Cove. Game time is scheduled for 6:30 p.m.
As for Sanger, the loss against Reed- ley was their third of the season and gave them a 4-3 record. They played Fowler on Saturday in the consolation round of the CVDC.
The Apaches will open CMAC play tomorrow night with a home game against Edison. First pitch is scheduled for 6:30 p.m.
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Immanuel basegall enters league after splitting tournament games
MVT Staff Report
The Immanuel High baseball team split its two games in the West Coast tournament last week, posting a 12-1 road rout of Liberty-Madera Ran- chos on March 3 before dropping an 8-3 home de- cision to Caruthers High on March 5.
The Eagles (4-3) opened the Central Se- quoia League season on March 10 under the lights at Kingsburg High. Results were un- available at press time. The team then travels to
Bakersfield for a Friday, March 13, non-league game at Garces High (6 p.m. start) before open- ing its home CSL sea- son on Tuesday, March 17, against Exeter in a 7 p.m. start at The Yard in the Immanuel Sports Complex.
Senior Ryan Friesen picked up the pitching win against Liberty, al- lowing just one run on three hits while striking out seven in five innings of work. At the plate, he went 2-for-4 with three runs scored and two runs
batted in. The Eagles took command of the game with a five-run second inning, building a 9-0 lead and cruising from there.
Junior Colton Vogt went 2-for-3 with a dou- ble and three RBI while freshman Josh Isaguirre was 2-for-2 with a double and two RBI. Friesen and junior Nevyn Santillan each collected two stolen bases.
Immanuel grabbed the early lead against Caruthers, but the visit- ing Blue Raiders took advantage of five Eagles errors to take the lead and pull away. Caruthers collected six hits total off pitchers Trace Pires and Matt Tiger.
Offensively, Imman- uel was held to four hits with Pires, Santillan and Michael Kawagoe scor- ing the team’s runs. Pires and Friesen each collect- ed doublesinthegame.
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