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Thursday, June 10, 2021
Hartenfels new Reedley College head football coach
From Reedley College
A brand-new era of Tiger football is set to begin this summer with the hiring of Rob Hartenfels as Reedley College's new head coach.
This is a return to campus for Hartenfels, who was the Ti- gers' associate head coach and running backs/tight ends coach in 2018 under previous head coach Eric Marty, who left to become the new offensive co- ordinator/quarterbacks coach at Grambling State University. Marty spent five years at RC (2016-2021), posting a 27-17 re-
cord in four seasons.
“I’m extremely excited,
humbled and blessed for the opportunity to come back to Reedley to a great community college, a great town that sup- ports football and has the men- tality of a blue-collar worker,” said Hartenfels. “There’s no other better opportunity than being at Reedley. I’m excited to get going.”
Hartenfels returns to Reedley from San Diego Mesa College, where he was the defensive coordinator and associate head coach from 2019–2021 In 2019, the
Olympians posted a 7-3 record and were awarded abidtoa bowl game in the Southern Section.
In his first stint at Reedley College, Hartenfels helped guide the Tigers to a 10-1 re- cord, American Golden Coast Conference Division Cham- pionship and a berth in the
American Division Champion- ship Bowl Game.
Hartenfels also has coach- ing experience at Division II Quincy University (special teams coordinator/defensive backs coach), East Los Ange- les College (defensive coordi- nator/DB coach), Occidental College (DB Coach/recruit- ing coordinator/special teams coordinator) and Oaks Chris- tian High School (cornerbacks Coach/special teams Coordi- nator), where he won a CIF Southern Section title in 2010. Hartenfels has also been an assistant coach and operations
staff member for the Army All-American Game for the past 10 years.
A Northeastern Pennsyl- vania native, Hartenfels was a defensive back at Division II East Stroudsburg Univer- sity, serving as a team cap- tain before leaving early to pursue his coaching career in Southern California. He later graduated from Ash- ford University with a Bach- elor of Arts degree in Sports Management and also owns a Masters Degree in Exercise Science from Concordia Uni- versity of Chicago.
Rob Hartenfels
Dinuba softball top-seeded in DII
Gary Gustin / Photo Contributed
Sanger High's boys basketball team honored its players at a team awards night on May 28. From left are senior Luke Dillon (Most Valuable Player, team captain, first team all-County Metro Athletic Conference), junior Jon Dillon (Offensive Player of Year, first team all-CMAC), sophomore Kaleb Cole (Defensive Player of Year, 2nd team all-CMAC) and Luke Karle (Coaches Award, second team all-CMAC). Jaydis Beltran (not pictured) was named Most Inspirational and honorable mention all-CMAC.
Sanger boys hoop
advances in playoffs,
soccer season ends
Reedley baseball seeded third in Division III, Pirate girls track rolls to NYL title
MVT Staff Report
The Dinuba High Em- perors were awarded the top seed in the Cen- tral Section Division II softball playoffs over the weekend, drawing a first round bye.
The Emperors (14- 6, 8-2 Central Sequoia League) will host the winner of a June 8 game (results were unavail- able at press time) be- tween No. 8 seed Han- ford and No. 9 Sanger High (11-7, 7-3 County Metro Athletic Confer- ence). That quarterfinal game would be at 4:30 p.m. Thursday, June 10.
Dinuba would host all games through the sec- tion playoffs if it keeps winning including semi- final rounds on Tuesday, June 15 and the finals on Thursday, June 17.
In Division III, Reed- ley High (11-6, 8-2) fin- ished with a North Yo- semite League co-cham- pionship after defeat- ing Sunnyside High 7-1 on June 3. The Pirates scored five runs in the third inning to cement the victory.
Danny Jimenez / Photo Contributed
Reedley High's girls track and field team in coaches celebrated with a team shot after capturing the North Yosemite League championship on June 4 at RHS stadium.
MVT Staff Report
The Sanger High boys basketball team advanced to the Cen- tral Section Division III semifinal round with a convincing 88-62 dis- mantling of the West High Vikings from Ba- kersfield.
The fourth-seeded Apaches (10-8 over- all), who finished third in the Country Metro Athletic Conference during an abbreviated
season, made the most of their first round bye to dismantle the visitors from Bakersfield. That earned Sanger a semi- final matchup June 9 against top-seeded Ba- kersfield Christian. The section finals are sched- uled for Friday, June 11.
The Apaches placed
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Reedley drew the No. 7 playoff seed and hosted No. 10 Lemoore on June 8 (results were unavailable at press time); if the Pirates won they would play at No. 2 Templeton on Thursday, June 10.
BASEBALL RHS, Dinuba have first round matchup
Reedley High hosted Dinuba High in a sec- tion Division III first round baseball matchup on June 9 at Immanuel Sports Complex's The Yard. The Pirates (20-6- 1, 13-2 NYL) drew the No. 3 seed while the Emperors (4-20, 3-9 CSL)
If Reedley wins as expected, it will host the Independence-St. Joseph winner on Friday, June 11, at 4:30 p.m. at ISC. In Division II, Sanger (12-16, 3-12 CMAC) was seeded ninth and played at Highland in Bakersfield on June 9. If the Apaches won, they would advance to play at top-seeded Ar- royo Grande on Friday, June 11.
TRACK AND FIELD Sanger sweeps CMAC crowns, Reedley girls take NYL
Sanger High School swept the boys and girls varsity team titles – and boys JV crown – at the County Metro Athletic
ships on June 3 at Dod- son Field in Sanger.
The Apache boys post- ed nine first-place fin- ishes including multiple winners Emanuel Salas (800 meters, 1600 me- ters) and Han Yotoun (110 hurdles, 300 hurdles). Ju- nior Salas also anchored the winning 4x400 relay with Alan Pelayo, Edward Castillo and Jonathan Marcial. Other SHS boys winners were Jose Por- ras (100), David DeLoera (3200) Tommy Zumkeller (high jump) and Luis Lo- pez (triple jump).
For the girls, McK- aley Yost (100 hurdles, high jump, long jump)
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PREPS ROUNDUP
were seeded 14th. Conference champion-
PLAYOFFS ROUNDUP
PREP SPORTS SCHEDULE FOR JUNE 10-JUNE 16
THURSDAY, JUNE 10 SOFTBALL Section Div. II quarterfinal, Dinuba vs. Hanford-Sanger winner, Tickey Field Dinuba
HS, 4:30 p.m.
Section Div. III quarterfinal, Reedley vs. Templeton, Templeton HS, 4:30 p.m. Section Div. V quarterfinal, Orange Cove or Immanuel vs. TBD, site TBD, 4:30 p.m. Section Div.VI quarterfinal, Parlier vs. Mission Prep, San Luis Obispo, 4:30 p.m.
FRIDAY, JUNE 11 BASEBALL Section Div. II quarterfinal, Sanger (if wins June 9) vs. Arroyo Grande, Arroyo
Grande HS, 4:30 p.m. Section Div. III quarterfinal, Immanuel (if wins June 9) vs. Templeton, Templeton HS, 4:30 p.m.
Section Div. III quarterfinal, Reedley-Dinuba winner vs. Independence-St. Joseph winner, site and time TBD Section Div. VI quarterfinal,
Orange Cove vs. Parlier- Strtathmore winner, Orange Cove HS, 4:30 p.m.
Section boys Div. III championship, Sanger (if wins June 9) at Nipomo or Hoover, 6 p.m.
TUESDAY, JUNE 15 BASKETBALL Northern/Southern Regional boys and girls playoffs, quarterfinals, matchups/sites
TBD, 6 p.m.
BASKETBALL
GOLF
CIF Boys and Girls State Championships, Brookside Golf Course, Pasadena, 9 a.m.
Central Section Division II semifinal, Dinuba vs. TBD, Tickey Field Dinuba HS, 4:30 p.m.
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 16 BASEBALL Central Section semifinals, matchups, times and sites
TBD
SOFTBALL
of the Week
Shawn Rodgers Immanuel High basketball
In his only basketball game during a COVID-shortened season, Immanuel High’s Shawn Rodgers scored 14 points in a 65-51 loss to Roosevelt High
in the Division IV basketball quarterfinal matchup on June 2. The guard-wing standout was a first team all-Central Sequoia League selection in 2019-2020, and was key contributor for the Eagles’ 2018 and 2019 section champion squads. Immanuel finished second in the state in Division IV in 2019.
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Faith Hernandez
Dinuba High
softball
The senior infielder collected
six hits in three games last week including a home run. She leads the Emperors with a 27 hits and a .466 batting average and a team- high five home runs. Dinuba High has drawn the top seed in the Division II playoffs beginning this week.
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