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Thursday, March 11, 2021
Prep football games scheduled for March 19
Sanger, Reedley plan to play
abbreviated 6-game schedules,
Dinuba has 4 games on tap
By Jon Earnest
Mid Valley Times
There will be a brief prep football season for the Sanger, Dinuba and Reedley high schools beginning next week.
The Apaches, Emperors and Pirates all will be kicking off shortened six-game seasons on Friday, March 19. There actu- ally will be action this Friday, March 12, when Sanger will host Clovis High in a 6 p.m. scrimmage at Tom Flores Sta- dium.
Official games are sched- uled to begin the following Friday, with the Apaches host- ing the Lemoore High Tigers and Reedley High home to the Corcoran High Panthers in 7
p.m. kickoffs. Dinuba High, meanwhile, will have its Green/ White scrimmage game at 7 p.m., then host Tulare Western in its season opener on Friday, March 26.
Only varsity games are scheduled the opening week, as neither Lemoore or Corco- ran have junior varsity teams for the shortened season.
Four of Sanger's six games will be home contests at Tom Flores Stadium. In addition to Lemoore, the Apaches will host Country Metro Athletic As- sociation games against Bull- ard (April 2), Madera (April 16) and San Joaquin Memorial (April 23). Another game may
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File Photo / Mid Valley Times
Sanger High and current Fresno State player Kofi Agina (6) battled DInuba High in a Central Section Division II playoff on Nov. 8, 2019. That was the last time the Apaches played a game in Tom Flores Stadium. That drought will end with a scrimmage against Clovis High at 6 p.m. Friday, March 12.
Running at Ridge Creek
Dinuba High hosted its lone home cross county meet of the season on March 4, enter- taining 14 other schools in the Ridge Creek Classic at Ridge Creek golf course. Since COVID-19 restrictions prevented single boys and girls races for the varsity, the meet was divided into seven separate dual race events on a 2-mile layout east and north of the golf course. The Emperors competed against Washington Union in an early-afternoon dual. Other schools participating were Reed- ley, Immanuel, Selma, Monache, Strathmore, Avenal, Garces, Kingsburg, Exeter, Coalinga, Hanford West and Tulare Union.
Photos by Jon Earnest /Mid Valley Times
Sanger's Hernandez collects 12 RBI as Bulldogs softball 3-0 at tourney
RC women's golf now 7-0 on season
By Will Goldbeck
Contributed
The Reedley College Lady Tigers improved to 7-0 on the golf course on March 8 with a 369-425 victory over the Taft College Cougars at the North
Kern Golf Club in Bakersfield. McKenzie Quinn and Mya Chou both shot rounds of 86 to lead Reed- ley. Kayla Hernandez followed with a round of 97 while Cynthia Reyes shot
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Staff, Contributed Reports
The Fresno State softball team, led by a weekend hitting binge from Sanger High product Vanessa Hernandez, post- ed a 3-0 record at the Judi Garman Clas- sic in Fullerton March 4-6.
Hernandez, a junior infielder who was the County Metro Athletic Confer- ence Offensive Player of the Year for Sanger in 2018, went 5-for-8 with three home runs and 12 runs batted in. She capped off the three games with a 2-for- 2 performance with two homers and five RBI in a 10-2 rout of Loyola Marymount on March 6.
Hernandez blasted a grand slam home run and triple while driving in seven runs in a 9-1 rout of Cal State Ful- lerton on March 5.
Fresno State (9-5) hosts the Fresno State Classic on Saturday and Sunday, March 6-7.
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Vanessa Hernandez celebrated one of her home runs in a 10-2 victory over Loyola Marymount on March 6 in Fullerton.
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