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Ensley Gammel started celebrating Centennial's Division I Central Section softball championship before her final pitch even reached the plate.
It was a strikeout, resulting in the Golden Hawks' 2-1 victory at Madera on Friday in front of an overflow crowd that mostly consisted of blue-clad...
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Good thing you weren't like the guy sitting next to me at the Stockdale-Clovis section championship baseball game Thursday evening. He got up and headed out with two outs and nobody on base in the seventh inning, with Stockdale down 6-3 and about to become bridesmaids again.
Well, this stinks...
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Can two rivals root for each other? If Bakersfield wants to sweep the Division I baseball and softball Central Section championships, folks at Stockdale and Centennial will have to. A day after the Mustangs baseball team held off Clovis West 5-3 in a D-I Valley semifinal, Centennial stymied...
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Forgive me for returning to a subject I've harped on before (and this probably won't be the last time, so ignore me if you like), but let's talk about the California Interscholastic Federation.
Why, oh why, do we have random sports with state championships and others with none? As great as local...
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It's been an eternity since my last post here — if you hadn't noticed, we had a pretty big throwing story we ran this week, and we wrapped up section track finals. Anyway, my apologies. I promise to make up for it with a nice, long, involved playoff glance here.
Let's start in baseball....
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This afternoon/evening sees the CIF track and field championships at Liberty.
Our prep writer, Zach Ewing, wrote a marvelous preview of the event in today's paper focusing on two local throwers who heavy favorites in today's meet. Read his preview here.
Zach's quick-hit preview can be found...
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UPDATE — Checking back in with Division III and IV news.
Kern County is well represented in D-III, but I don't know how far any of the teams will go. South, which reached the championship game last year before falling to Dinuba, is the highest-seeded K.C. team at No. 5. The Rebels host...
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A big, big weekend in Kern County sports coming up. The last of the league titles will be decided tomorrow when SWYL play in baseball and softball finishes up. (Actually, 11-0 Centennial has already wrapped up that league title, regardless of what happens Friday).
Here's the spring league champs...
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Here's a quick update on the home run race I blogged about on Friday, which at first glance might appear to be over. Jarret Martin blasted three home runs, including a dramatic go-ahead shot with two outs in the seventh inning, giving him the Central Section record for home runs with 17....
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While the wrestling gets to set to rage at Rabobank, March also is almost here, and that means it's time for basketball too. Six local teams are headed up to Fresno this weekend for Central Section championship games after girls teams from Stockdale, Centennial and Garces all won semifinal games...
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I guess I'm carrying some kind of jinx (or is it a blessing?) with me to the pitch this week. Last week, I saw East extend itself before beating Hanford minutes shy of double overtime in the Division II boys soccer playoffs.
Then, Tuesday night, West scored in the final minute of...
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Yeah, it's Saturday night (actually early Sunday morning). And yeah, I'm sitting at home. Actually, don't really feel like doing much else, considering the week it's been and the week we have in prep sports ahead. Time for a little r & r, methinks.
Here's the big news of the night: (drumroll...
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Don't look now, but here come the Stockdale boys. A school long known for its girls basketball success now has two teams to hang its hat on after the boys team took the SWYL lead with a 67-66 victory at home against Centennial on Thursday night.
Taylor Kelly hit a loooong 3-pointer for CHS in...
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