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Preps — Holiday baseball tournaments
LEFT: Immanuel High players stood together after receiving the second place trophy in the 63rd an- nual Selma Kiwanis Classic after dropping a 16-6 decision to the host Bears on April 17.
ABOVE: Senior Derek Wood fired a pitch to the plate in a relief appearance on April 17.
Photos by Jon Earnest / The Exponent
Eagles take second at Selma Kiwanis
Reedley
Invite
track on
April 26
Staff Report
Twelve schools will be participating at the 76th annual Reedley Invitation- al Track and Field meet on Friday, April 26 at Reedley High School. Field events will begin at 2:30 p.m., fol- lowed by track events at 3:30.
The Pirates are joined in the field by local school Orange Cove along with Avenal, Caruthers, Fresno Christian, Hoover, Madera, McLane, Monache, Roos- evelt, Stockdale and Sun- nyside. It's Reedley's final competition before the upcoming North Yosemite League Championships on Thursday, May 2.
At 76 years, the Reed- ley Invitational is the sec- ond oldest regular season track and field meet in the Central Section, behind only the Kern Relays in Bakersfield.
The Pirates participat- ed in the annual Sanger Easter Classic on April 16 at Dodson Field on the Washington Academic Middle School campus in Sanger. Athletes competed in seven varsity events; six involving the varsity girls.
Senior Maddy Gates had two top 10 finishes; fifth in the high jump at 4 feet, 9 inches and seventh in the triple jump at 32-2 1/2. The RHS 4x100 relay team of Lauryn King, Trin- ity Toews, Emely Torres and Leslie Mendoza fin- ished sixth in 54.85 seconds while the 4x200 relay team of Toews, Griselda Meza, Ann Burton and Sumiko Sunamoto clocked 1:55.85 for a sixth place finish. In the 3200 meters, Pirates sophomore Paola Rangel finished 20th in a personal best of 13 minutes, 6.83 seconds while junior Jas- mine Garcia placed 21st in
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Reedley finishes 1-3 at Fresno Easter Classic
By Jon Earnest
jon@midvalleypublishing.com
The Selma Bears picked up their second victory in as many baseball meetings this sea- son with Central Sequoia League rival Imman- uel High last week. But it's the rubber game of three meetings that ultimately will determine the league championship,
The Bears (19-3) roughed up a taxed Eagles pitching staff for 16 runs on 13 hits — fueled by four-run outbursts in the first two innings and eight runs in the fifth — to post a 16-6 victory in the championship game of the 63rd annual Kiwanis Classic at SHS diamond the evening of April 17. Selma earlier posted a 5-2 CSL win at Selma on March 26.
But the Eagles (20-4) will have the home field edge Friday, April 26, in a 7 p.m. showdown against the Bears at "The Yard" at Immanuel Sports Complex. Both teams were4 8-1 in league entering Selma's April 24 game at home against Exeter.
If Immanuel wins, it would hold a one-game lead in the loss column going into its final CSL games at Hanford West (Tuesday, April 30) and at home against Central Valley Christian (Thurs- day, May 2).
Immanuel's offense in the tourney final was limited to one big inning — a six-run second
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Jon Earnest / The Exponent
Reedley High's Will Gagnon slid safely into third base as the ball bounced free from Hanford High third baseman Flavio Perez (9) in the first inning of Fresno Easter Classic tournament tournament game Hoover High School on April 17. The Pirates dropped a 3-2 decision to the Bullpups despite rallying to tie the game late.
Danny Jimenez / File photo Contributed
Aunika Castellanos and Reedley College softball finished regular sea- son play with a 31-9 record, 17-4 in Central Valley Conference play good for second place behind champion College of the Sequoias.
Contributed
After settling for a second place finish in the Central Valley Conference behind the College of the Sequoias, the 2019 Reedley College softball Tigers will have to wait and see who and where they will open the Northern California Regionals on May 4.
Reedley finished the regular season on April 18 in Fresno with an 8-6 loss to the Fresno City College Rams. That gave Reedley a conference record of 17- 4 (two games behind COS) and an overall record of 31-9.
Reedley opened the week by split- ting a doubleheader with Porterville College in Reedley on "Sophomore Day" on April 16. The Lady Tigers honored sophomores Aunika Castellanos, Em- ily Grimbeby, Mariah Hernandez and
Sandra Vallejo along with team support staff before the twinbill.
In the first game, all seven Reedley runs came across the plate in the first two innings. Both Mariah Hernandez and Vallejo had three hits each to lead
Colleges
a 12-hit attack while Castellanos ripped a pair of doubles. Vallejo finished with three RBI.
But the Tigers lost both Sam Liza- ola and Bobbie Falcon to injuries in the opener forcing Reedley to play the night- cap with just nine healthy players.
Reedley had a 2-1 lead before An- nisa Lopez’s two-run homer (after the seventh intentional walk of the day to conference home run leader Kiki Angilau gave Porterville the lead for good.
Vallejo had three hits and drove in three runs in the loss to Fresno City. The Rams erased a 2-0 Reedley lead with four-run outbursts in the third and fourth innings.
BASEBALL
Tigers close out home season with West Hills
After a pair of losses to Western State-South Conference leader Bakers- field College, Reedley College goes into its final week of the 2019 baseball
season with a Central Valley Confer- ence record of 9-9 and an overall mark of 12-23.
The fifth place Tigers will face sev- enth place West Hills Coalinga on Thurs- day, April 25, at 2 p.m. in Reedley’s final home game of the season. Reedley trav- eled to Coalinga to face the Falcons (3- 15, 4-33) on April 23 and again on Friday, April 26.
Last week’s action began with an 8-2 home loss to the Renegades on April 16. Reedley took a 1-0 lead on a first inning leadoff home run by Deagan Risnes, who also drove in JT Aranda with the Tigers’ only other run in the ninth.
On the mound, Tanner Lee was charged with the loss in relief of start- er Harrison Moy, who allowed one run and three hits over the first four in- nings.
On April 17 in Bakersfield, the Tigers committed five errors in a 4-0 loss to the Renegades. Reedley loaded the bases in the first inning with nobody out be-
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Reedley High School will play host the the North Yosemite League team and individual tournaments this week at Sherwood Forest Golf Club north of Sanger.
The NYL team and individual championships take place beginning
at 1 p.m. Thursday, April 25, and then at 1 p.m. Monday, April 29, at the club, located at 79 N. Frankwood Ave. north of Highway 180. Nine holes will be played each day.
The Pirates posted a perfect 5-0 record in league matches, and would need a tournament victory to secu- rie the outright NYL title.
Preps
SWIMMING
RHS in NYL meet this week
Reedley High will participate in the North Yosemite League swim- ming meet this Thursday, April 25, and Saturday, April 27, in Fresno.
The trials will take place Thurs-
day, April 25 at Sunnyside High School pool. First heat race will go off at 2:30 p.m. Saturday, April 27, the finals will begin at 1 p.m. at Fres- no High pool. Diving competition will be at 3 p.m. Friday, April 26 at FHS.
BOYS TENNIS
RHS, IHS open playoff action Reedley and Immanuel opened
play in the Central Section Division 3 and Division 2 playoffs, respectively, on April 24. The Pirates were seeded ninth and visited No. 8 Selma while the No. 8 Eagles hosted No. 9 Frontier.
Wins would advance the Pirates and Eagles to road quarterfinal matches against top seeds on Tues- day, April 30.
Tigers softball finishes second in CVC, awaits playoff matchup
Pirates boys golf hosts North Yosemite League tourneys