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Immanuel girls volleyball swept in Southern regional opener
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Immanuel's strong postseason run came to an end in the opening round of the Division 4 CIF State Southern Regional playoffs on Nov. 6 with a three-set loss to Nordhoff of Ojai.
The Eagles – who qualified for state playoffs with a second place finish to Chowchilla High — fell by scores of 25-19, 25-22 and 25-18. The Rangers reached the Southern
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in the cage in certain spots. We had spots to do it, we just didn't do it."
Reedley's hopes for a road upset were predicated on controlling tempo and containing Edison's attack. The Ti- gers broke through after two minutes of play when senior Dimitri Kapetan fired a shot past Pirates junior goalie Hunter Shamp, who made a couple of point-blank saves in the contest. Mrkaich fed Mal- colm Wanless for a goal before Young converted on a powerful backhand shot to make it 3-0 with 3:20 left in the period.
The Pirates struggled offensively before getting untracked on Villareal's score about a minute into the second period. Senior Milton's score brought Reedley within a goal before Edison's regained command.
The Tigers — whose own dream of a section title was dashed on Nov. 10 when second-seeded Hanford High pulled off a 22-21 upset, then displayed its offensive prowess to start the second half. Three different players scored as the hosts built a 10-5 lead, forcing Reedley to open up its offense. The Pirates were within four entering the fourth before Edison broke
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to give Reedley College a 90-87 vic- tory at Modesto Junior College on Nov. 6.
Sophomore Ruben Parks led the winners with 28 points. Carter just missed a triple double after record- ing 22 points, 11 steals and eight rebounds. Khalid Wilkins followed with 18 points, eight rebounds and seven assists.
The Tigers return to Northern
State semifinals before losing to top seed San Luis Obispo.
Senior Danielle Jefferies fin- ished with 12 kills, two blocks, two ace serves and 13 digs to lead Im- manuel. Junior MacKenzie Coats added nine kills, two aces and seven digs while junior Carissa Hall had seven kills, two digs and a block.
JUNIOR COLLEGE Men's basketball Freshman guard Uriah Carter
his a buzzer-beating 3-point basket
California for two games this week.
Women’s soccer
The Reedley College women’s soccer team finished the 2018 sea- son with a pair of 2-1 wins over West Hills-Lemoore and the College of the Sequoias.
Reedley finished 4-8 in Con- ference play after failing to win a match last year. This year’s Tigers were 5-11 overall.
In the win over the Golden Ea- gles, Reedley used goals by Kay-
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(10th, 18:05.8). The team's oth- er team scorers were senior Diego Duarte (11th, 18:06.2) and junior Alonso Lemus (19th, 18:39.5). Senior Estevan Diaz finished a non-team scor- ing 20th with a time of 18:53.7.
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Canyons and Riverside City as the only undefeated teams in the state this season. Reed- ley and Canyons met in the state championship game in 2002, won by the Tigers in their national championship 12-0 season.
But since Reedley is now an American Division team, it is no longer eligible for a state title.
Reedley and Hartnell
Roosevelt placed four of its runners in the top eight, led by junior Jose Henriquez with a fourth place finish in 17:16.8).
Reedley's JV girls swept the top five spots to win the team title, led by senior Sumiko Sunamoto with a time of 23:51.8. She was followed by four junior teammates — Rocio Andrade (24:07.2), Fati-
combined for 1,030 yards of total offense in the evening shootout. The Tigers had a balanced attack with 276 yards passing and 267 rush- ing for a total of 543. All but 37 of Hartnell’s 487 yards came in the air as quarter- back Isaiah Arielle-Randalle completed 35 of 55 for 450 yards and three touchdowns. Reedley’s Johnson had one of his poorer percentage games, completing 14 of 38 passes for 221 yards and three touchdowns. Okera Hutchinson had two of those
ma Andrade (24:13.3), Gabby Archuleta (24:27.2) and Leslie Gomez (24:54.5). The Pirates' Nicholas Rodriguez finished second in the JV boys race at 19:29.3 while junior Alexis Ma- tias placed seventh in 20:16.6.
Sophomore Isaac Carde- nas won the boys frosh-soph race with a time of 18:26.4, nearly 30 seconds ahead of
touchdown catches. One was a one-handed reception from 27 yards out. Daniel Baca had the other touchdown catch.
Johnson finished with 160 rushing yards in 25 attempts, which included touchdown runs of 1, 12 and 43 yards.
Reedley trailed 14-10 at halftime before taking the lead on a 16-yard scor- ing pass from Johnson to Hutchinson. Hartnell threat- ened to regain the lead be- fore James Day intercepted a pass in the end zone. The
Tigers increased the lead to 24-14 as Johnson con- nected with Hutchinson for a 27-yard score.
The two teams combined for 42 points in the fourth quarter alone. They traded touchdowns until just over two minutes left when Hart- nell cut the lead to 38-34.
But the Tiger special teams came through and blocked a Panther extra point try. Raul Montalvo picked up the loose ball and sped 95 yards for two points to increase the Reedley lead to 40-34.
The Tigers took and en- suing kickoff with Johnson scoring on a 43-yard run to close out the scoring with 49 seconds remaining.
“This is an unbelievable accomplishment by a lot of people that have poured their heart and soul into this thing,” said a happy head coach Eric Marty after the win. “It is exhilirating. It is a relief. We finished our ultimate goal and ultimate mission of winning the con- ference championship and winning it outright.”
his nearest competitor. Fresh- men Jordan Barajas (sixth in 19:29.9) and Sergio Fregoso (seventh in 19:43.5) along with sophomore Alejandro Cisner- os (10th in 20:25.8) all finished in the top 10.
Five other JV girls and four other frosh-soph boys competed for Reedley at the league meet.
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Reedley High School coach Darrin Hammond talks to his players during a timeout in the Pirates' 17-12 Division 3 section semifinal loss at Edison High on Nov. 7.
lie Sunamoto and Diana Elizalde (Reedley). Goalie Sarah Cabrera was credited with seven saves.
Elizalde scored twice in the win over Sequoias, giving her 12 of Reedley’s 21 goals this season.
Women’s volleyball
The Reedley College women’s volleyball team finished 2018 with a Central Valley Conference record of 4-14 and an overall record of 4-19 after 3-0 losses to Columbia and second place Merced last week.
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Orange Cove High running back Andrew Leon takes a handoff fromquarterbackZack RamirezduringtheTitans'25-20Division 6 section semifinal loss to Sierra Pacific on Nov. 9.
it wide open with three straight goals. Milton finished with three goals to support Villareal while Laine and fresh-
man Austin Jones each had a goal.
"It would have been nice to pull this
one off," Hammond said. "If we could keep it within single digits we have a chance. We're not what you call a super offensive team. We're good, but we're more of a defensive team."
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"It was close [until] the end, a play or two here or there and it would have went our way," said OC coach Tony Gates. "I'm ex- tremely proud of this group of young men."
The Titans were with- out Mario Ramirez, their top running back, but se- nior Andrew Leon stepped up with 124 yards while senior Freddy Medina add- ed 47 yards and a pair of touchdowns. Leon and quar- terback Zach Ramirez also hooked up on a touchdown reception.
Sierra Pacific was able to rally for the win despair losing starting quarterback Gavin Gamble to injury. Gamble and sophomore Chad Leslie each threw for a touchdown while Gamble rushed for two other scores. Ramirez completed 10 of 18 passes for 100 yards for Or- ange Cove, which added 177 yards on the ground.
"The building blocks of success have been laid, and it's going to be exciting to see our future," Gates said of his Titans squad. "We only lose three offensive starters. I'll give them the holidays off and then start all over in the weightroom in mid January."
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Danielle Je eries - Immanuel High volleyball
Danielle Je eries, Immanuel High School senior volleyball player, collected 24 kills and 13 digs in a semi nal upset
of Mira Monte followed by21killsand10digsina ve-set loss to Chowchilla in the Central Section Division 4 nals. The Eagles reached the opening round of the CIF Southern Regional playo s.
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Reedley College quarterback Randall Johnson (11), shown in action against San Jose City College on Oct. 20, has been named the Golden Coast Conference Offensive Player of the Year.
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gave up 450 yards in the air during the Tigers' 46-34 win that wrapped up an unbeaten regu- lar season.
After finishing second in the state (66 schools) in rushing touchdowns, sixth in pass- ing touchdowns and ninth in passing yards, Reedley's Randall Johnson was named the Golden Coast Conference Offensive Player of the year and all-GCC quarterback.
Joining Los Angeles native Johnson on the all-conference team were running back Jamon
Chambers (Tacoma, Wash.) tight end Daniel Baca (Monache, Porterville) and linemen Zack Kadri (Lynnwood, Wash.) and Joshua Reba (Edison, Fresno). Chambers and Baca are freshmen and the rest are sophomores.
Five of the all-conference selections came from the Tiger defense. That list in- cludes linemen freshman Emylle Jones (Houston, TX) and sophomore James Ca- radine (East Chicago. IN), sophomore line- backer Jaylin Talbot (Louisville, KY) and defensive backs freshman James Day (Los Angeles) and sophomore Raul Montalvo (Kerman).
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RC women's golf takes 5th in state
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The Reedley College women’s golf team came home from Morro Bay on Nov. 12 with a fifth place fin- ish in the California Community Col- lege Athletic Association women’s golf championships.
Reedley finished with a team score of 664, six strokes ahead of sixth place Saddleback and nine strokes behind fourth place Santa Barbara City College. College of the Canyons won the team title with a team score of 615. Reedley had the second best team score out of North-
ern California schools, trailing only Sierra College’s third place score of 654. Fresno City College finished eighth with a 709.
Leading the way for the Lady Ti- gers was freshman Serena DiMauro (Central, Fresno) who tied for eighth overall with a 81-74, total of 155. Next was freshman Maddie Caesar (Lind- say) at 82-79, total of 161, followed by sophomore Carley Lindhaur (Sanger) at 81-92, total 173; freshman Eliza Hernandez (Sanger) with a 96-86, 182; freshman Lauren Costa (Reedley) with a 89-93,182;and freshman Ser- ena Garcia (Dinuba) with a 96-92,188.
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