Clovis High, its pursuit of a third straight state team title under way, repeated as the champion of the Zinkin Classic wrestling tournament — a 77-team event that wrapped up Saturday at Buchanan. Individual champions included Tristan Gilliland (106 pounds), Jonas Gaytan (126) and Nick Nevills (285), while Adrian Salas (182) and Hexton Coronado [...]

Eagles’ Knoblauch wins Clovis West Shootout title Clovis West’s Michael Knoblauch, ranked 18th in the nation, upset Clovis’ No. 4-ranked Jonas Gaytan 6-4 in the 126-pound final in one of the marquee individual matchups of the Clovis West Shootout wrestling tournament. Knoblauch’s victory was one of two individual titles for Clovis West on Saturday and [...]

California’s top-ranked high school wrestling team, as well as the No. 1 squads from Oregon and Georgia, are entered in this weekend’s 26th annual Clovis West Shootout, as two-time defending CIF State champ Clovis headlines a 16-team field that includes Hensley, Ore., and Collins Hill, Ga. Wrestling begins at 10 a.m. Friday with the duals [...]

Fresno Pacific, after a grueling exhibition a night earlier, found the going easier when play resumed for real. The Sunbirds swept visiting Chaminade in a PacWest Conference volleyball match Wednesday night, winning 25-13, 25-23, 25-20 for their 11th straight victory. Lyndsie Petersen had nine kills as the NCAA Division II No. 25-ranked Sunbirds rested star [...]

A second straight one-goal loss has the Fresno Fuego below .500 in the Premier Development League for the first time since 2009. This time it was the Southern California Seahorses that did the trick, beating the visiting Fuego 3-2 in a PDL match Saturday night at Biola University in La Mirada. Fresno’s Alex Caceres scored [...]

I recently returned from attending the NCAA Wrestling Championship in St. Louis, where I watched two local wrestlers — former state high school champions Ryan Flores (Buchanan/American University) and Scott Sakaguchi (Clovis/Oregon State) — compete against the nation’s best wrestlers and win All-American honors. Two weeks earlier, in Bakersfield, at the CIF State Wrestling Championships, [...]