Archives: November, 2009
Friday night football: Round 1 playoffs
It’s time for Central Section postseason football. Check fresnobee.com tonight for scores and details from the first round of playoff games. Here are the Week 11 scores & stats. Games in the spotlight this week include Clovis East @ Centennial, Roosevelt @ Kerman and Sunnyside @ Edison. The Fresno Bee
Pairings set for volleyball regionals
The Clovis West High girls volleyball team is back in the Southern California regional playoffs with a chance to build on what they learned last season. Clovis West (31-10), which won the Central Section championship with an upset over Buchanan, was awarded the No. 4 seed in Division I and will host No. 5 Torrey [...]
Quick blitz Week 11
No Chow? Wow: Conspicuously absent from the Central Section football playoffs is Chowchilla, the defending Division IV champion and a program that had gone 52-19, with two section titles, in the past five seasons before this one. Section playoff policy allows all schools to play, regardless of record. But Redskins coach John Henson says his [...]
First-round playoff roundup
DIVISION I Centennial 16, Clovis East 14 The No. 9 Timberwolves (4-7) were stopped on downs near midfield in the final minute as the No. 8 Golden Hawks (7-4) held on to win in Bakersfield. Sean Johnson-Bey rushed 41 times for 247 yards and two touchdowns for Clovis East, but the Timberwolves hurt themselves three [...]
Valley fans line up for first ‘New Moon’ screenings
With nearly every ticket for the 25 scheduled Thursday midnight showings of “The Twilight Saga: New Moon” in Fresno and Clovis selling out long before the doors opened, local theater managers scrambled to add last-minute screenings to meet the demand. It wasn’t enough to have a ticket for the latest chapter in the love story [...]
Clovis police shoot 2 suspects after car chase
Two men shot by Clovis police officers after a car chase Thursday morning were arrested on charges including suspicion of assault with a deadly weapon on a peace officer. The men, identified as Martin Espinoza, 18, and Lupe Nieto, 32, both of Fresno, will survive their injuries, officials said. The officers weren’t hurt, Clovis Police [...]


