Call them tiebreakers, backbreakers or heartbreakers. In tennis, it’s a matter of which side of the net you land. Clovis West High, at home in Thursday’s Central Section Division I boys championship, did the backbreaking. Bullard, experiencing the opposite on a day it had to have the breaks to upset the top seed and four-year [...]

Two burgeoning golf stars from Clovis East High have made it through local qualifying for the U.S. Open. Derek Ernst — who a week ago earned his first PGA Tour victory at the Wells Fargo Championship — punched his ticket for sectional qualifying with a 70 at TPC Summerlin in Las Vegas on Monday. In [...]

Jenna Prandini, in the highlight of her young college career, won the 100-meter dash and scored in two other events while helping power Oregon to the Pac-12 women’s track and field championship over the weekend at USC’s Locker Stadium and Cromwell Field. And Alyssa Monteverde assisted as well. Prandini, a redshirt freshman from Clovis High [...]

Buchanan and El Diamante Highs, as expected Saturday, landed the top baseball and softball seeds for the Central Section Division I playoffs. While El Diamante (28-1-1) of the West Yosemite League had long been virtually assured the No. 1 billing in softball, Buchanan took the dramatic route. The Bears (25-5-1) not only defeated Clovis North [...]

Seedings held to form in the singles bracket of the North Area individual tennis championships Saturday, led by top-seeded Viran Batth of Bullard High. Batth — who a year ago as a freshman reached the Central Section quarterfinals as a No. 10 seed — won 6-0, 6-0 and 6-0, 6-3 in his two matches. The [...]

Normally, high school track and field qualifying meets are just that — relatively ordinary meets centered on merely qualifying for section finals. They usually are low on risk, high on concentration: don’t foul, don’t jump, don’t drop the baton, don’t pull a hamstring. But there was little normal about the Central Section North Area Meet [...]