Clovis High junior Jake Gatewood was selected to the Under Armour All-America Baseball Game, which will feature 36 of the nation’s best underclassmen Aug. 24 at Wrigley Field. The 3:30 p.m. PDT game will be televised on the MLB Network. Players are selected by a committee from the Baseball Factory, which develops programs nationally to [...]

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 [...]

Jack Labosky defined it in the only three words that matter: “Championship Friday night.” That will be the stage at Clovis North High at 6:30 p.m., when the Central Section’s second-ranked Broncos oppose No. 1 Buchanan for not only the Tri-River Athletic Conference baseball title but surely the top seed in the Division I playoffs [...]

BASEBALL – McCarthy Tatum’s sacrifice fly broke a tie in the seventh and he pitched a three-hitter to outduel Jack Wheeless (10-1) as No. 3 Clovis won 4-3 at Buchanan — No. 1 in the section and No. 5 in the state. Clovis North, No. 2 in the section and 11 in the state, is [...]

There may not be another athlete like him in the Central Section, only it hasn’t been advertised because fate hasn’t allowed it. His name is Trenton Kemp. He is a 6-foot-2, 195-pound junior center fielder at Buchanan High who played no sports as a sophomore and then missed most of the football season last fall [...]

Imagine being the pitching coach of the pitcher producing results rivaling the best in Central Section history. OK, let’s be specific: Imagine being John Gross, the Buchanan High pitching coach for Jack Wheeless. Gross breaks it down to the simplest form after Wheeless improved to 9-0 and an 0.37 ERA with his second consecutive no-hitter [...]