The extraordinary season of Buchanan High’s Jack Wheeless reached historic proportions Tuesday night when the junior left-hander pitched his second consecutive no-hitter in a 6-0 Tri-River Athletic Conference win at Clovis East. “I feel good, I feel great,” he said. “It’s awesome.” Wheeless (9-0, 0.37 ERA), who also no-hit Central last week Tuesday in a [...]

The Tri-River Athletic Conference baseball game Wednesday night that matched the Central Section’s top-ranked teams required but a good nap to complete — 1 hour and 29 minutes, to be exact. The starting pitchers, who arrived unbeaten, each threw four-hitters, and the offensive AND defensive hero was a backup first baseman with seven at-bats after [...]

BASEBALL 1. Buchanan 16-1-1 2. Clovis 15-3 3. Clovis North 15-3 4. Bakersfield 8-3 5. Frontier 13-3-1 6. Central 12-5 7. Clovis West 12-6 8. Madera 13-3 9. Memorial 13-5 10. Kerman 13-3 SOFTBALL 1. El Diamante 17-1-1 2. Clovis West 11-6-1 3. Bullard 12-7 4. Central 9-6 5. Golden West 14-2 6. Buchanan 12-4-1 [...]

It took a no-hitter to beat Carlos Salazar. Now what is it going to take for Clovis High to beat Jack Wheeless? Cougars coach James Patrick isn’t sure entering tonight’s showdown of Tri-River Athletic Conference leaders at Buchanan, but he knows this of the Bears’ junior left-hander: “Nobody’s hit him — I mean, nobody.” Patrick [...]

For all the storylines — and there are many — entering today’s conclusion of the American Ambulance Fresno Easter Baseball Classic, they can’t steal from the headliner. It’s Kerman High’s Carlos Salazar against state-ranked Clovis and Jacob Gatewood at 10 a.m. at Lloyd Merriman Field in a game that’s been swelling in interest for a [...]

It was 9:45 a.m. Wednesday — not a time normally conducive for large crowds at high school baseball games — and fans were lined 150 feet deep outside the ticket booth at Clovis’ Merriman Field. They came to see top professional pitching prospect Carlos Salazar of the little guy, Kerman, oppose USC commit Jake Gatewood [...]