Central San Joaquin Valley recreational opportunities and announcements. Submit items and search for events using planitfresno.com. BASEBALL Lessons: D-I college player available to give hitting or outfield lessons, $4/hour. 285-6364, Dmoultrie022@mail. fresnostate.edu. Offense and defense instruction: 430-9310. Local travel team seeking players: Ages 14-14. Also for out of town tournaments, 840-7634. Central Valley Athletics: 12-U [...]

VOLLEYBALL Kabrina Speakman contributed nine kills, five aces and 16 digs as Central Section No. 9-ranked Clovis East swept Sanger 25-17, 25-13, 25-17. Monica DeAlba had five kills and 34 assists and Kandasya Lediaev 12 kills as Central beat Edison 25-19, 25-20, 25-13. BOYS WATER POLO Richard Fisk lit up Bullard for six goals as [...]

BOYS WATER POLO Brent Teraoka scored five goals, Adam Palecek added three and Austin Fennasy snuffed 12 shots in the cage as Buchanan beat previously unbeaten Capistrano Valley 12-10. VOLLEYBALL Olivia Sorensen and Alexis March, benefiting from the setting of Janel Ensz (28 assists), split 26 kills as Immanuel swept Chowchilla 25-22, 25-23, 25-23 in [...]

Fresno Pacific’s debut in the PacWest Conference for men’s and women’s soccer today at Ramirez Field will come against the best — the defending National Christian College Athletic Association national champions from Cal Baptist. And the competition won’t ease Saturday when the Sunbirds continue PacWest play against visiting Grand Canyon teams expected to contend for [...]

VOLLEYBALL Buchanan, ranked third in the Central Section by The Bee, avenged a first-round playoff defeat last season, getting 13 kills and six digs from Emma Gasman and nine kills from Taylor Mounts in a 25-20, 25-13, 25-20 win over Bullard on Tuesday. Rachael Schaefer had 17 kills and Katelyn Anderson added 12 as El [...]

The Central Section Board of Managers will vote next month on a divisional realignment proposal for the next two-year cycle of winter sports playoffs, effective February. A two-week window for appeals will immediately follow the Oct. 24 vote. Proposed changes are based on a point system counting league and playoff results and playoff seeding in [...]