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Tigers' baseball maintains hold of second place in CVC
By Will Goldbeck
Mid Valley Times
Reedley College baseball goes into this week’s three- game series with the College of the Sequoias in second place in the Central Valley Conference after one win last week over Porterville College.
Reedley took a conference record of 5-3 and an overall record of 14-5 into a March 15 contest in Visalia with the COS Giants. The series con- tinued on Thursday, March 17, in Reedley at 2 p.m. before concluding at 1 p.m. Saturday, March 19, in Visalia.
The Tigers fell two games behind the 5-1 Fresno City Col- lege Rams in the loss column after a 5-3 loss to a 3-18 Por- terville College Pirate squad in Reedley on March 12.
victory over the Pirates on March 8, Reedley came from behind to take a 17-12 lead over Porterville on March 10 before the game was suspend- ed due to darkness in the top of the ninth inning. The con- test will be completed when Reedley returns to Porterville on April 21.
In the win over Porterville, Ryan Garza and three reliev- ers combined to hold the Pi- rates to two hits and one run. Garza struck out eight and six innings.
At the plate, Kobe Kropf led a 10-hit attack with three singles and a double while Justin Tiger had two doubles, a single and drove in three runs.
In the suspended game, Roman Rosales homered and drove in three runs for Reed- ley while Orin Hirschkorn
had two doubles, a single and drove in two runs. Nilen Peo- ple’s and Jordan Smith each contributed two hits.
Kropf and Smith each had two hits in the March 12 loss.
Softball wins lone CVC matchup
The Reedley College soft- ball Tigers won their Central Valley Conference contest last week, but had their problems in a non-conference double- header on March 12.
Coach Amy Bailey’s Lady Tigers took a 1-1 CVC record and an overall record of 7-9 into a scheduled doubleheader with Taft College on March 15. On Sunday, March 20, Reedley travels to San Joaquin Delta in Stockton for a non-conference noon doubleheader with the Mustangs.
Reedley defeated College of the Sequoias 5-2 on March 10 before suffering non-con- ference losses to 14th-ranked Bakersfield 9-0 and to Mon- terey Peninsula 10-1 on March 12 in Reedley. Both games were called after five innings.
The Lady Tigers jumped out to a 3-0 lead in the first inning against Sequoias and never looked back. Ellie Mon- talvo walked on five pitches before winning pitcher An- nabelle Buchanan singled. Both runners moved up on a groundout by Seanna Esquivel before scoring on a single by Jordynn Acevedo. After Ace- vedo stole second, she scored as Ava Trevino reached sec- ond on a strikeout and a wild pitch.
Reedley’s final two runs scored on a sacrifice fly by Trevino, which scored Esquiv-
el (who led off the fifth with a double) and a run scoring single by Makaylah Johnson.
On the mound, Buchanan scattered six hits and struck out two.
But Saturday was a differ- ent story. Bakersfield’s Rylee Price hit Buchanan’s seventh pitch of the game over the left field fence for a two-run hom- er. The Renegades scored six runs in the fifth, all after two were out.
Reedley’s only run of the day came in the bottom of the first after Monterey Peninsula had scored three times in the top of the inning. Singles by Montalvo and Buchanan (who had three of Reedley’s five hits in the game) combined with an error to score the Ti- gers’ lone run.
MPC finished with 11 hits off Buchanan and Johnson.
10-run fourth inning to cruise past Reedley High by a 13-0 score on March 9.
Senior Shelsie Castel delivered the big blow of the Lady Apaches' eight-hit attack with a grand slam home run in the fourth. Sophomore Jayden Herrera finished 2-for-3 with three runs scored and two runs knocked in.
Junior Layla Torres bottled up the Pirates with a three-hit five- inning complete game, striking out seven.
Sanger has games this week against Mis- sion Prep (Friday, March 18), Templeton and Merced (Saturday, March 19) in the two- day Central High Invi- tational in Fresno.
After recording an
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School diamond at 7 p.m. Tuesday, March 22.
Immanuel (4-4) splits its two games last week, dropping a 7-1 decision at Madera South on March 9 and then blank- ing Fowler 8-0 on March 12. Elijah Gray had two hits including a double while Sam Swearengin drove in two runs. The Eagles scored three times in the fourth and sixth innings.
The Eagles have road games this week against Minarets (March 15) and Edison (Friday, March 18) before start- ing CSL play on Tues- day, March 22 in a 7 p.m. road contest at Kings- burg. Immanuel's home CSL opener will be at 7
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first team selection in junior Sadie Carpenter.
In addition, fellow league coaches voted Dinuba's Mark Bray as Coach of the Year. Bray guided the Lady Emps to a 19-9 campaign and berth in the section semifinals for Division III.
Seniors Lopez (team- high 13.8 points per game) and Hernandez (8.7 ppt) were anchors for a Dinuba team which split its league games with Hanford West to share the title. Junior guard Carpenter was a defensive stalwart for Immanuel High, which got hot down the stretch and reached the Divi- sion V section finals and earned an at-large Nor- Cal regional berth.
Named to the all- league second team was Immanuel junior Al- lison Friesen, who was the Eagles' top scorer and offensive force in a first-round playoff upset of Reedley High.
Other top league honors went to Hanford West's Amyia Inman, Most Valuable Player; Central Valley Chris- tian's Kara Verhoeven, Defensive Player of the Year; and Selma's Chan- tel Rodriguez, Under- class Player of the Year.
Rounding out the first team were Selma's Julie Cuevas, Kings- burg's Jacky Ruiz and Hanford West's Teresa Sandoval.
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p.m. Friday, March 25, against Exeter.
SOFTBALL Reedley 3-1 at Swing Into Spring
Reedley High School played its first games in its newly remodeled fields during the two- day Javer Bejar Memo- rial Swing Into Spring Tournament on March 11-12. The Pirates (3-4- 1) posted a 3-1 record in the two-day tourney, beating Lemoore 7-3 and losing to Coalinga on Fri- day before posting wins over Golden West and Sierra Pacific.
In the latter two vic- tories, Reedley downed the Trailblazers 5-2 and Golden Bears 6-5 in Sil- ver Bracket Play. Taft High from Kern County won the event with a perfect 4-0 record, de-
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Reedley High's Trinity Sanchez fired a pitch to a Lemoore High batter during the Pirates' 7-3 victory over the Tigers on March 11 at the Javier Bejar Memorial Swing Into Spring Tournament at the newly-remodeled RHS softball fields. Reedley finished 3-1.
feating San Joaquin Me- morial by a 6-4 score in the title game.
Reedley played host to Dos Palos in a non- league game March 15 (results were unavail- able at press time) and then traveled to Tulare
Union in another non- league tilt on March 16. Another non-league trip to Tulare, against Tulare Western, is set for Tues- day, March 22. North Yo- semite League play be- gins on Tuesday, April 5.
Apaches roll in home opener
After dropping three of its first four games on the road to open the season, the Sanger High Apaches rode the strength of a
Darren Ortiz
Reedley High Baseball
Reedley High’s Darren Ortiz went 2-for-3 and knocked in a pair of runs as the Pirates defeated Sanger 6-2 on March 12 to place third in the Central Valley Diamond Classic. The sophomore infielder is batting .391 on the season as RHS has started the season with a 7-1 record.
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Kailey Lopez
Dinuba High
Girls Basketball
Dinuba High's Kailey Lopez recently was voted Central
Sequoia League Offensive Player of the Year by
league coaches. The senior guard-forward averaged 13.8 points
while helping lead the Lady Emps to a 19-9 season and share of the CSL
championship with Hanford West.
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