HANFORD — The winning team, Hanford High — the longtime standard-bearer of Central Section girls basketball — received 39 points and 22 rebounds from Bayli McClard, 20 points from Brooke Johnson, a late steal in overtime from Madison Barnes and subsequent layup by Gabby Gomez. The losing team, Bullard — can this effort really be [...]

TULARE — History will record it as a 65-31 Mission Oak High rout of intracity rival Tulare on Wednesday night that clinched the outright East Yosemite League title for the host Hawks — their first in the program’s four-year history. That said, it was downright bizarre. First, fifth-ranked Mission Oak’s most valuable player — point [...]

BOYS SOCCER – Clovis West earned a quarterfinal date Friday with top-seeded Bakersfield as Nick Marrone scored twice in the eighth-seeded Golden Eagles’ 4-2 victory over No. 9 Tulare Western in the opening round of the Central Section Division I playoffs. Fifth-seeded Clovis North — after Gerrardo Castillo scored two goals in a 3-0 win [...]

Down by 17 and with an outright County/Metro Athletic Conference title about to be blown away Thursday at Bullard High, Edison’s Brittaney Allison came to a conclusion: “I’ve got to get my team together and get them to play harder,” the senior point guard said. The intensity began on both ends of the floor with [...]

The Bee’s weekly high school basketball rankings (Entering Tuesday’s games) BOYS TOP 10 1. Bullard, 22-2 2. Independence, 26-1 3. Central, 18-7 4. Edison, 26-4 5. Mission Oak, 22-3 6. Clovis West, 17-5 7. Tulare, 20-5 8. Clovis North, 15-9 9. Stockdale, 18-4 10. Liberty-Bakersfield, 15-9 BOYS DIVISIONAL D-I: 1, Bullard; 2, Central; 3, Edison [...]

BOYS BASKETBALL Keonta Vernon scored 17 points to become Tulare’s career scoring leader, and Oscar Reyes put in a career-high 25 as The Bee’s Central Section No. 7-ranked Tulare beat Delano 79-49 in the East Yosemite League. Vernon now has 1,806 points in four varsity seasons, surpassing the 1,793 that Myron Epps scored from 1996-98. [...]