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A championship journey
Thursday, June 16, 2022
New Tri-County
Conference will
include Reedley
and Immanuel
Here are some additional photos of Orange Cove's postsea- sonruntothe SouthernCaliforniaRegionDivisionIVsoftball championship. The team held its postseason awards banquet on June 10 at the OCHS cafeteria, honoring the team on its 29-6 title run which included the West Sequoia League and Central Section Division IV crowns.
ABOVE: Players mob one another following the final out of the 8-6 regional final victory over Monache High on June 4.
Jon Earnest / Mid Valley Times
LEFT: Shortstop Alexia Lozano lunged to backhand a ground ball during a regional semifinal win on June 2.
Danny Jimenez /Photo Contributed
LOWER LEFT: Emotional pitcher Mia Castillo hugged teammate Anahi Castillo after the May 28 section title triumph.
Jorge Lozano / Photo Contributed
BOTTOM: Orange Cove players and coaches posed for a team photo after winning the Central Section Division IV title on May 28 at Fresno State's Margie Wright Diamond.
Jon Earnest / Mid Valley Times
By Will Goldbeck
For The Times
Beginning this fall, a new league will be- gin play athletics in the Central Section.
The Tri-County Con- ference is made up of the following 10 schools from Tulare County, Kings County and Fres- no County.
Those 10 schools in alphabetical order are Central Valley Chris- tian, Exeter, Hanford West, Immanuel, Kings- burg, Kerman, Reedley, Selma, Sierra Pacific, and Washington Union.
Here’s where things get interesting. For bracketed team sports, the conference will be broken up into two leagues, depending upon how teams fin- ish the prior year. Max Preps will be used for the rankings.
As a result, leagues will be changed each
year, with the exception of football which has a two-year cycle.
The top five teams in the conference will be in the Kings Can- yon league. The bottom change in a conference will be in the Sequoia league. Each league will have their own champion, as well as all as all-league players. To avoid having bye weeks during league, some- times, teams will play within the conference
SeeLEAGUEonpage A10
TRI-COUNTY CONFERENCE
CV Christian Exeter Hanford West Immanuel Kingsburg Kerman Reedley Selma Sierra Pacific Washington Union
City-County All-Star
football game June 17
at McLane Stadium
MVT Staff Report
The 68th annual City County All-Star football game — fea- turing eight players from Mid Valley Times region schools on the County squad — will take place Friday, June 17, at McLane Stadium (northwest corner of Cedar and Clinton av- enues) in Fresno.
Kickoff is scheduled for 8 p.m.
Graduated high school senior players from 40 high schools
throughout the region in Fresno County will participate, and all pro- ceeds from the game go to benefit the Boys and Girls Clubs of Central California.
The County team features three players from Reedley (Oscar Herrera. Gabriel Gurt- ierrez and Daniel Na- va), two from Sanger (Ashton Rodriguez, Christian Torres) and one each from Orange Cove (D'Allessandro
See FOOTBALL on page A10
PREP BASEBALL, SOFTBALL
Final Standings — 2022 Season Concluded
BASEBALL Central Sequoia
SOFTBALL Central Sequoia
League Season
League Season
Kingsburg 10-2 24-6-1 CV Christian 7-5 15-15 Immanuel 6-6 16-16
10-0 15-8-1
Exeter
Hanford West
Dinuba
Selma
• Includes double forfeit
County Metro Athletic
County Metro Athletic League Season
5-7 18-11 5-7* 15-13 5-7* 10-19 3-9 8-19
League Season
Madera 10-0 20-11
Bullard
SJ Memorial Sanger Edison Madera South Madera
Reedley
Fresno
McLane
Hoover 7-8 8-17 Sunnyside 4-11 3-26 Roosevelt 0-15 2-18
Minarets 12-0 20-11 Fowler 10-2 20-11 Orange Cove 7-5 13-14 Caruthers 6-6 10-19 Orosi 4-8 6-18 Riverdale 3-9 10-12 Parlier 0-12 1-21
13-2 23-6 12-3 22-7 7-8 13-16
Bullard Sanger Edison
SJ Memorial Madera South
Reedley 10-0 21-7-1 Sunnyside 7-3 10-15 McLane 6-4 15-13 Fresno 5-5 7-12 Hoover 2-8 3-15-1 Roosevelt 0-10 1-21
Orange Cove 11-0 29-6 Fowler 9-2 23-6 Caruthers 8-4 23-11 Riverdale 6-6 13-12 Parlier 4-8 11-12 Minarets 0-8 2-13-1 Orosi 0-10 4-17
5-10 12-18 4-11 15-17-1 4-11 10-18
8-2 24-10 6-4 16-13 4-6 11-16 1-9 12-17-1
North Yosemite League Season
North Yosemite League Season
14-1 23-6 13-2 23-5-1 7-8 18-12-1
West Sequoia League Season
West Sequoia League Season
Selma
Kingsburg 8-2 17-13 Dinuba 6-4 17-11 Hanford West 4-6 7-13 Immanuel 2-8 13-13 Exeter 0-10 1-19 CV Christian* 0-0 6-13 • CVC played as an independent
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Davila, Ramirez are Immanuel's Male and Female Athlete of Year
Immanuel High School / Photo Contributed
From left, Immanuel High football coach Josh Henderson, MaleAthleteoftheYearHectorDavila,FemaleAthleteof the Year Madeline Ramirez and girls soccer coach Steve Ramirez.
MVT Staff Report
Immanuel High hon- ored its Male and Female Athletes of the Year — football player Hector Davila and soccer player Maddie Ramirez – along with its "Blue & White Excellence" recipients at the school's year-end athletics awards pro- gram on May 23.
Davila was a three- year varsity starter at quarterback for the Ea- gles, leading the team to a 7-4 record in 2021 and 9-3 mark (including a playoff victory over ReedleyHigh)in2019. The Eagles were 1-1 in a COVID-shortened 2020
season that was played in spring of 2021.
Ramirez, meanwhile, scored five goals and had a team-high five as- sists for the IHS girls soccer team which went 12-16-1 on the season. She also was a member of the Eagles' varsity volleyball team in 2021, and finished second on the team in digs and third in services re- ceived.
Davila and Ramirez also were two of the five Blue & White Excellence honorees for the Class of 2022 as presented by the school.Theotherrecipi- ents for this year were
See IMMANUEL on page A10