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Thursday, April 23, 2020
Lady Tiger's Bevao moves on to Idaho State University
Teammate Alcocer will play at NAIA School
place status, Bevao has made the most of her of- feseason conditioning. She currently is residing in Lindsay with RC team- mate Verenice Alcocer, who will continue her own collegiate basketball ca- reer this fall at Missouri Valley College.
“I’m not able to shoot right now, which is an- noying, but I’m able to do a lot of running on the treadmill,” Bevao said. “I’m feeling really good right now, and doing what I can in order to stay in shape.”
Bevao is majoring in kinesiology with plans to go into physical therapy for athletes. She continues a heavy homework sched- ule online in completing her associate’s degree studies.
“I’ve made a lot of great friends from the team, coaches and people atthecollege.Wehave a good harmony,” Bevao said. “I really want to give a shout out to Coach Kilbert for all he’s done for me.”
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Sophomore forward Alcocer had modest sta- tistics in her two season with the Tigers, but still impressed coaches at Missouri Valley, an NAIA college in mid-state Mar- shall, Mo. She took a video
tour of the campus with coaches, and was given an opportunity to continue her collegiate career.
“I’m super excited, and thankful for Coach Kilbert’s work,” she said. “He was one of the first coaches to stay in con- tact.”
As a sophomore, Al- cocer averaged almost three
points
By Jon Earnest
Mid Valley Times
Aurelie Bevao over- came a major knee in- jury to lead the Reedley College women’s basket- ball team in scoring in 2019-2020. The success- ful comeback enabled the Tigers’ star guard to earn a scholarship to continue her collegiate career this fall at Idaho State Univer- sity.
Bevao, a 5-6 redshirt freshman, sat out early games as she completed rehabilitation of a torn an- terior cruciate ligament in her right knee she suf- fered before the start of the 2018-19 season. But she came on strong to average 15.6 points per game — 17.2 ppg in Cen- tral Valley Conference play including a career- high 39 points against College of the Sequoias — to catch the attention of ISU head coach Seton Sobolewski and associate head coach Ryan John- son.
“I think it’s the best choice for me to go to Idaho and become a Ben- gal,” said Bevao, who also drew interest from
Colorado State and Fresno State. “I talked to some of the girls, and it’s a great program. And I like the coaches.”
“What really attracted us to her was two-fold. Her athleticism, and she’s a really good shooter,” said Johnson, who was the main recruiter. “With our system, having somebody who’s a really good shoot- er is important and she fills that bill. She’s got an opportunity to play right away for us.”
Before tearing her ACL in a preseason prac- tice for RC in 2018, Bevao had been a standout point guard during her prep days at Lycée Ro- land Garros High School in Tampon, Reunion, a small island nation east of Madagascar in the In- dian Ocean region. After sitting out the 2018-19 season, she worked hard to strengthen her knee and saw spot action in two November games before returning to the lineup in mid-December.
Serving more as a shooting guard, Bevao scored 16 points in her first game back against Golden West College. She
Reedley College / Photo Contributed
Reedley College guard Aurelie Bevao drove to the basket against College of the Sequoias on her way to a 39-point outing in the Tigers’ 68-63 victory on Jan. 18. Bevao has signed a letter of intent to play for Idaho State University beginning this fall.
and four rebounds and played every game as the Tigers finished 12-16. She twice had sin- gle game highs of nine points.
Al- cocer, a Lind- say High graduate, is major- ing in
Aurelie Bevao
Verenice Alcocer
later scored 27 points against Shasta College and then turned up her scoring production in CVC play. In a four-game stretch, she averaged just over 25 points per game including 39 against COS (a 68-63 victory) and 29 against Fresno City Col- lege (a 79-68 win).
“She’s a great shooter,
and great competitor,” RC coach Dan Kilbert said. “She literally car- ried us in the COS game, and worked so hard to get healthy. She understands the game really well.”
While it’s been diffi- cult to get in any substan- tial basketball workouts because of the COVID-19 situation and shelter in
nursing and has a goal to become a registered nurse. She’s taking a full online course load as she finishes up at RC.
“I would love to work in level-one trauma or in emergency medicine,” Alcocer said.
Looking back
Reedley College
Hall of Fame
ceremony
cancelled due to
pandemic
Event was originally scheduled for Aug. 1
This year the Sanger Apaches and Dinuba Emperors met twice in the playoffs. Their first postseason matchup came in November dur- ing a first round contest of the Division II playoffs in football.
In that game, the No. 13 Emperors upset the No. 4 Apaches at Tom Flores Stadium, 28-14, on Nov. 8.
The two schools met again in the boys soc- cer Valley Champion- ship game in the same division on Feb. 21. The Apaches ended up win- ning that game, 4-1, enroute to a Northern California Regional Championship.
Photos by Rick Curiel / Mid Valley Times
By Jon Earnest
Mid Valley Times
There won’t be a 29th annual Reedley College Athletic Hall of Fame ceremony – at least not in 2020.
Because of the CO- VID-19 situation and the state’s shelter-in-place status, this year’s event scheduled for Saturday, Aug. 1, has been can- celed. The decision came by a unanimous vote of the Hall of Fame com- mittee earlier this month.
Ed Kezirian with the Hall of Fame committee said the panel usually votes to determine the newest class of induct- ees in early May, and be- cause of the uncertainty with COVID-19 the com- mittee thought it best to cancel this year’s event rather than postpone to a later date in 2020.
Kezirian said the com- mittee will carry over its work to 2021. He said the panel will consider
inducting a larger class in 2021, but won’t decide anything until meeting again in February 2021.
“There are a lot of lo- gistics that have to hap- pen prior to an event like this with people traveling and having to make plans in the last half of May and June,” Kezirian said. “There are also costs in- volved, and the commit- tee just felt that with the virus it was best to wait until 2021.”
The Reedley College Hall of Fame induction traditionally is held the first week in August in the college’s cafeteria. The Class of 2019 in- ductees were Nobi Kita- oka (longtime coaching fixture in volleyball), Anthony Montgomery (football, 2003-05), Curtis Pasma (baseball, 2003- 05, Jessica Baley-Quinn (volleyball, 1995-97), Ab- bi Millwee-Riddle (bas- ketball, 1998-2000) and Riley Young (football, 2001-03).