GIRLS BASKETBALL – Junior guard Samantha Earl, in the biggest game of her three-year career, scored eight of her 33 points in OT while powering No. 6 Clovis to a 70-64 win at No. 1 Stockdale in a nonleague game that figures to have a major impact on Division I seeding in five weeks. The [...]

The introductions were separated by 6 years and 9 months, the 7 miles between a college and high school, and gender. “Our new women’s basketball coach: Adrian Wiggins,” Fresno State Athletic Director Thomas Boeh said April 7, 2006. “Our new boys basketball coach: Adrian Wiggins,” Clovis East Principal Darin Tockey said Tuesday. It all went [...]

It’s official: Adrian Wiggins will be the next Clovis East High boys basketball coach. The former Fresno State women’s basketball coach will begin teaching at Clovis Online School immediately and on July 1 will take over the Timberwolves basketball program, Clovis Unified School District announced Monday. Wiggins, 39, left Fresno State in March to become [...]

Approach the Selma High gymnasium and there’s no mistaking your location. “Welcome to BEAR Country!” screams the east wall, and in orange no less. Inside, there is something else to notice now. Selma girls basketball has become relevant, not just in south Fresno County, not just in the Central Sequoia League, but the Central Section [...]

Boys top 10 1. Bullard 12-1 2. Central 11-3 3. Clovis West 10-3 4. Edison 15-3 5. Independence 14-1 6. Mission Oak 11-3 7. Bakersfield 12-4 8. Stockdale 11-1 9. Tulare 12-3 10. Garces 9-3 Boys divisional Division I: 1, Bullard; 2, Central; 3, Clovis West Division II: 1, Garces; 2, Sunnyside (9-6); 3, Hanford [...]

In basketball parlance, they call it “finishing” — the ability not only to drive to the basket, but complete the play with a score once you get there. No one in the Central Section has mastered the art like Central High’s Murshid Randle. And, Thursday night, it was the Grizzlies’ 6-foot-2 junior who keyed the [...]