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Reedley girls' championship water polo send four to all-league rst team
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been full strength, we could have won.”
Fowler High senior captain Breana Ruiz scored a pair of goals while Joeline Nuno and Gabriela Garcia added scores against the Pirates. Senior White aggravated a recurring knee injury on the Redcats’ go-ahead goal, and was replaced by sophomore Areal Galvan.
“The worst score in soccer is a 2-0 lead at halftime,” Pizano said. “We told them at half- time [Fowler was] not go-
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win over Mission Oak on Dec. 23. Josh Magaña poured in a game-high 31 points and Elias Flores added 19.
On Dec. 17, in a non- league game at home against Liberty-Madera Ranchos, Dinuba out- scored the Hawks 52-27 in the second and third quarters for a 84-51 win.
Four players scored
ing to give it up. Fowler is a good team. Above all, injuries have decimated us.”
Gordillo and Lopez both were injured in the season’s second match, a 2-1 loss to Dinuba on Nov. 21. Pizano hopes to get Lopez – suffering from a high ankle sprain – back for NYL play be- ginning Wednesday, Jan. 8, at home against Fresno High.
“We just need to refo- cus,” he said. “It looks like it will have to be where we win league to make the playoffs. There’s 22 teams in Divison 3 and it’s really loaded.”
double figures for the Emps led by Magaña who drained eight 3’s on his way to a game-high 28 points. E. Flores fin- ished with 16, while Isaak Flores had 10 and sopho- more Jesus Lara added
10. Dinuba (14-2) will re- sume Central Sequoia League with two key games on the road begin- ning with Immanuel to- morrow night and against Kingsburg on Tuesday.
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Reedley High’s North Yosemite League championship girls water polo team placed four members on the all-league first squad, led by sophomore Morgan Gates (above) who finished the season with 118 goals.
Also earning first team honors were Abby Delport, Alina Hodges and Sadie Decker. Hodges and Delport joined Gates as scoring leaders for the team.
Freshman Ella Bettencourt joined Diana Hoffman on the second team, while freshman Sydney Lopez earned hon- orable mention.
The Pirates (21-7) posted a perfect 10-0 NYL record before dropping a double-overtime decision at Exeter in the Central Section Division 2 playoffs.
Sanger High boys'
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EJ Diaz celebrated his 18th birthday by signing with Fresno Pacific University. With him are his parents, Crystal and Esteban Diaz. The DHS senior received an athletic and academic scholarship.
DHS thrower signs with FPU
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The Sanger Apaches varsity boys’ soccer team suffered their first loss of the season on Fri- day, giving up two goals in the second period as the team fell to Central High, 4-2.
Sanger High junior Michael Esparza scored both of the Apaches’ goals in the first pe- riod, as the Apaches were able to match the Grizzlies goal-for-goal to take a 2-2 tie into the break.
But Central (8-2-2) scored two unanswered goals in the second peri- od to walk away with the win and hand the Apach- es their only defeat, thus far, of the season.
Senior Luis Villegas and sophomore Julio Hernandez each had an
assist in the Apaches loss.
With the loss, the Apaches overall record went to 13-1-2.
Up until last week, maxpreps.com had the Apaches ranked as the No. 1 team in both the Division 2 and the Cen- tral Section, just ahead of rival Reedley High. This week, those rank- ings have swapped as the prep school sports website now ranks Reedley (9-0-5) as the No. 1 team in both rankings, with Sanger ranked No. 2.
Dinuba (10-3-2) is ranked as No. 3 in Divi- sion 2 on maxpreps.com.
The Apaches will travel to Fresno on Tues- day to take on Bullard in a conference matchup. The game is set to kick off at 5 p.m.
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According to EJ Diaz’ father Esteban Diaz, all it took for his son to decide on where he was going to com- pete and receive his college education was a visit to the campus of Fresno Pacific University.
“We pretty much knew once we walked the cam- pus,” said Diaz. “It just felt like home.”
EJ Diaz climbed up the
Central Sequoia League rankings in recent years in both shot put and discus. He finished second in league in both events last year. The se- nior will compete this spring in both events with the bene- fit of having throwing coach Callan Duffy of the Fresno Flyers Track Club.
Diaz will be looking to improve on his personal bests of 48’ 10 1⁄2 inches in shot put and 139’ 10” in dis- cus.
Dinuba High’s Yasmine Villareal-Harris scored 11 points in a win over Cesar Chavez in Arvin.
Lady Emps struggle in Arvin Holiday Showcase
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Winston Williams - ImmanuelHighSchool basketball
The junior forward scored 93 points in four games at the Mark Gallo Invitational in Modesto on Dec. 11-14, then poured in a game- high 26 points in the Eagles’ win over Morro Bay on Dec. 16. Williams,
a returning starter from last year’s state Division 4 runners-up team, leads Immanuel in scoring and rebounding this season.
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The Emperors Soccer Team
DINUBA HIGH SCHOOL SOCCER
The Dinuba High boys soccer team is named Athlete of the Week after wrapping up the year with victories over Sunnyside and Selma High. The Emperors, who placed fourth at the prestigious Powerade Cougar Classic Showcase on Dec. 14 in Clovis, are 10-3-2 overall and 3-0 in Central Sequoia League play.
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The Dinuba High girls basketball team finished the Arvin Holiday Show- case with a 1-3 record after defeating Cesar Chavez, 39-32, on Satur- day. Yasmine Villareal- Harris had 11 points and guard Kailey Lopez added
9.
The Lady Emperors dropped a tough 33-31 opener to Taft on Dec. 26. Dinuba then fell to Santa Ynez, 35-30, and Morro Bay, 38-26. The Lady Em- perors (6-7) will be at Im- manuel on Friday before hosting Kingsburg on Tuesday.
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