Highlights and box scores from Central Section baseball and softball games as reported to The Fresno Bee: SOFTBALL Jordan Yates threw a perfect game and struck out 13 as Kerman downed Edison 2-0 in the Kerman Tournament. Hanford’s Sydney Raeber struck out 14 but still lost 1-0 to Memorial in the Clovis Easter Classic. Memorial’s [...]

James Bitter’s two-out, two-run double broke a 3-3 tie in the fourth, and Eric Karch made it stand up with a three-hitter as fourth-ranked Clovis West High defeated No. 1 Centennial 5-4 in the Fresno Easter Baseball Classic Tuesday night at Stan Bledsoe Field. The Golden Eagles, 14-2 overall and 3-0 in the tournament, positioned [...]

James Bitter’s two-out, two-run double broke a 3-3 tie in the fourth, and Eric Karch made it stand up with a three-hitter as fourth-ranked Clovis West High defeated No. 1 Centennial 5-4 in the Fresno Easter Baseball Classic Tuesday night at Stan Bledsoe Field. The Golden Eagles, 14-2 overall and 3-0 in the tournament, positioned [...]

Barstow Avenue between Willow and Chestnut avenues was closed Monday night after a vehicle crashed following a police chase, Clovis police said. Just before 6 p.m. police were notified of two men shoplifting at the Walmart in Clovis near Shaw and Villa avenues. As the two were leaving, an officer tried to pull over their [...]

Fresno County’s contingent of student scientists who will compete at the California State Science Fair in May will include some second-place winners in last week’s 57th annual Central California Regional Science, Mathematics and Engineering Fair. They will join students who placed first, who also are advancing to the state science fair, to be held May [...]

Their young history suggests strongly they will be major baseball players in the Sac-Joaquin and Central sections. But Monday night, it was all about the one with more experience and talent — Pleasant Grove High of Elk Grove, which handed the ball to Kyle Castro and received a pitching clinic while coasting past Clovis North [...]