Team effort carries top seed over Warriors
The Madera South Stallions boys soccer team showed its rightful place at the top of Div. III with a come-from-behind victory over the ninth-seeded Fresno Warriors in the quarterfinals of the Central Section playoffs in Memorial Stadium. “It was not a pretty win, but it was a team win,” Madera South head coach Enrique Garcia […]
Hawks advance past Madera into semis
Behind the left foot of Brooke Wristen, the third-seeded Liberty Hawks girls soccer team advanced to the semifinals of the Div. II Central Section championships with a 1-0 victory over the sixth-seeded Madera Coyotes in Memorial Stadium. Wristen scored eight minutes into the second half and the third-seeded Hawks held off the attacks of Madera’s […]
Coyotes find break to beat Wildcats
After watching rain clouds dampen Madera the previous day, Madera Coyotes baseball coach Andy Underwood wasn’t too sure he would get his game in against the Sunnyside-Fresno Wildcats. However, the rain didn’t come Thursday afternoon and the Coyotes found enough time to defeat the Wildcats 12-0 in the Coca-Cola Classic at Mel Parker Field. “We […]
Madera High School has come a long way
The crowd gathered at the Athletic Hall on Yosemite Avenue for Madera High School’s commencement exercise in June 1903. Folks had to climb the stairs to the second floor that night, as they had for the past six years, but this would be the last time. Madera was going to have a new high school, […]
Coffee isn’t always in mugs
There was a time when I used to get my morning caffeine fix in the form of a glass of Diet Coke (or regular) over ice. My co-workers would take one look at my fizzing cold beverage as they prepared their cups of hot coffee and cringe, or make comments of disapproval. This was before […]