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It's 'Play Ball' at Camacho Park
Kirk Kawagoe / Photo Contributed
Majors and Minors teams lined the basepaths during opening ceremonies for Reedley Little League on March 16 at Camacho Park. Regular season games in the league are scheduled for Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays through Saturday, May 18.
Rotary Track and Field
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Reedley High's Stephanie Castro (4) stretched to catch a pop fly against Chowchilla in a March 18 non-league game. The Pirates lost, 9-2, to fall to 7-6 on the season. Reedley opens North Yosemite League play at 3:30 p.m. Tuesday, March 26 at home against Fresno.
Pirates baseball routs 'Blazers
Staff Report
Reedley High is heading into North Yosemite League baseball play next week on a roll, posting another lop- sided non-league victory to run their win streak to four games.
The Pirates (7-2) erupted for 11 runs in the course of two innings while drubbing Golden West High of Visalia by a 12-1 score at RHS var- sity diamond on March 15. Results from a March 19 non- league contest at Firebaugh were unavailable at press time.
Reedley has just one more non-league tuneup — a Friday, March 22 game in Bakersfield against Highland High – before opening the NYL season with a 3:30 p.m. home game Tuesday, March
26, against Fresno High. The Pirates and Warriors then turn back around and play on Friday, March 29, at 3:30 p.m. in Fresno.
In the rout of Golden West, Jacob Gagnon went 3-for-5 while driving in two runs while Felipe Ranallo was 2-for-3 with three RBI. Trevor Bostwick and Roger Ortiz added two hits apiece while Justin Rackley knocked in two runs and stole a base.
Pitcher Will Gagnon held the Trailblazers to just two hits and recorded eight strikeouts.
The Pirates will play six league games — three at home and three away — be- fore participating in the Fres- no High Easter Classic during
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Young track and field competitors from schools in the Kings Canyon Unified School District and Immanuel Schools participated at the 48th annual Rotary/KCUSD track and field meet at Reedley High School on March 14. Competition was held for boys and girls in three age divisions: Bantam, Midget and Junior. Results of each event are on Page B4.
ABOVE: Aaron Cedillo, left, of Silas Bartsch K-8 School reacted after win- ning the 100 final for Junior Boys. Also pictured are second place Julian Ramirez, center, of Riverview School and Jacob Rocha, right, of T.L. Reed. Ceillo posted a winning time of 12.40 seconds.
LEFT: Sarah Langer, right, of Immanuel Junior High held the lead against Lindsay Lunsford of Dunlap School in the Junior Girls 800 run. Langer won in a time of 2 minutes, 37 seconds while Lunsford finished second with a time of 2:48.
Photos by Jon Earnest / The Exponent
RC softball sweep keeps them a half-game out of 1st
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Despite three road wins last week, the Reedley College Tiger women’s softball team remained in second place in the Central Valley Conference, one-half game behind first place College of the Sequoias Giants.
Reedley improved to 5-1 in the CVC (18-3 overall) on March 14 with a come-from-behind 5-4 eight-inning win at Porterville College, two days after sweeping a doubleheader in Taft by scores of 9-3 and 8-4.
The Lady Tigers needed to score three runs in the top of the seventh inning at Porterville to stay alive be- fore the Pirates scored a run in the bottom of the inning to tie it. Aunika Castellanos started the eighth inning with a single and eventually scored on a hit by Bobbie Falcon.
Samantha Lizaola had a two-run double in the seventh inning rally while pinch hitter Shelby Ford added an RBI single. Karlie Fien and Fal- con both had two hits in the win.
Emily Grimbeby was the win- ning pitcher in all three wins, im- proving to 12-3 on the season. The sophomore pitched a three-hitter with 11 strikeouts in seven innings in the first game at Taft.
Reedley jumped out to a 9-0 lead in the opener with Taft before Allie Dobbs hit her state leading ninth home run of the season in the bottom of the sixth. Lizaola joined Amanda Beltran with four hits to lead a 17- hit attack. Castellanos drove in three runs for the winners before record- ing three hits in the second game.
The next five scheduled confer- ence games are at home for the Ti- gers. It started with a March 19 dou-
Colleges
bleheader against last place Cerro Coso before a 2 p.m. matchup with Merced on Thursday, March 21.
Fresno City College comes to Reedley for a 1 p.m. doubleheader on Tuesday, March 26.
BASEBALL
Rams drop RC into fourth place
Three losses to Central Val- ley Conference baseball co-leader Fresno City College has dropped the Reedley College Tigers into a tie for fourth place in the conference.
Reedley took a conference re- cord of 3-3 and an overall mark of 6-15 into a March 19 contest at Taft College (4-2, 11-10). The series continues in Reedley on Thursday, March 21, with a 2 p.m. home game before a 1 p.m. matchup in Taft on
Saturday, March 23.
Reedley begins a three-game se-
ries with Merced at home on Tues- day, March 26, in a 6 p.m. start at RC diamond.
The Tigers started the series against Fresno City on March 12 with an 11-5 loss in Fresno to the Rams. Three FCC pitchers held the Tigers to four hits. The biggest blow was a two-run triple in the ninth inning off the bat of Josh Mares.
A potential game tying home run by Jake Renteria came about six feet short in a 7-5 loss in Reed- ley last Thursday. Mitchell Crawford had three singles for the Tigers while Henry Degnan scored three runs af- ter recording two singles.
After Reedley opened the scor- ing with a run in the top of the first, Fresno answered with eight unan- swered runs last Saturday in Fresno.
Degnan drove in two Reedley runs and joined Tony Riley and Nick Mar- tinez with two hits in the loss.
MEN'S GOLF Tigers clinch another conference title
It took only four tournaments for the Reedley College men’s golf team to clinch at least a tie for the Big 8 South Conference Championship.
The Tigers clinched the tie on March 11 on their home course, the Kings River Golf and Country Club in Kingsburg. Reedley posted a team score of 378, 23 strokes ahead of sec- ond place Monterey Peninsula. The round was 18 over par for the five counting scores and it tied for the fifth best team score at Kings River GCC.
This is the eighth championship
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