VISALIA — With the opportunity to do some major damage against a nationally ranked opponent featuring a NCAA Division I-bound pitcher, Paige Reichle delivered Clovis High’s biggest hit of the season. The left-handed hitting senior sliced a two-out, three-run double to the fence in left-center off Cal Poly recruit Sierra Hyland in the fourth inning [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

SOFTBALL: FRESNO STATE AT CAL STATE BAKERSFIELD Today: 3 p.m. doubleheader at Roadrunner Softball Complex Radio: KFPT (AM 790) Records: Bulldogs 22-17, Roadrunners 10-23 Skinny: Fresno State plays outside conference for final time until regular season-closing doubleheader at Long Beach State on May 11. Stesha Brazil leads Bulldogs with eight homers, 21 RBIs. Fresno State [...]

About the only thing that went wrong for the El Diamante High softball team during the three-day Clovis Easter Classic merely delayed the inevitable. And not even a base-running hiccup that reduced Stevi Johnson’s second-inning grand slam to a three-run shot in the official scorebook could slow the Miners’ march to the title of the [...]

One pitch cost Fresno State’s Jill Compton on Saturday night in a dandy duel with Jolene Henderson of sixth-ranked Cal at Bulldog Diamond. Henderson pitched a two-hitter and homered leading off the seventh for the Bears’ only hit off Compton in a 1-0 victory in the third day of the Fresno State Classic. Henderson (14-2), [...]