{"id":7799,"date":"2021-05-05T19:13:11","date_gmt":"2021-05-05T19:13:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maderatribustg.wpenginepowered.com\/?p=7799"},"modified":"2026-05-13T18:23:15","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T18:23:15","slug":"coyotes-ready-for-cmac-after-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/coyotes-ready-for-cmac-after-win\/","title":{"rendered":"Coyotes ready for CMAC after win"},"content":{"rendered":"
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After facing the gauntlet of Tri-River Athletic Conference teams, Madera Coyotes baseball coach Andy Underwood needed a little break.<\/p>

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While not taking the Liberty Hawks for granted, the Coyotes picked up a 6-1 victory in Mel Parker Field in preparation for the upcoming County\/Metro Athletic Conference schedule.<\/p>

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The Coyotes took Liberty a little too easy in their last meeting in 2019 where Liberty picked up a 4-0 victory.<\/p>

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Friday was a different story when the Coyotes scored a run in the first, two more in the third and added three more runs in the final three innings for the win.<\/p>

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Meanwhile, Liberty, who started North Sequoia League play a couple of weeks ago, closed out its non-conference schedule against the Coyotes. This year, the Hawks, a Div. IV team, has played Div. I Clovis, Div. I Clovis West, Div. II Fresno, Div. III Selma, Div. I Clovis East and now Div. II Madera.<\/p>

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The Hawks won just one of those games, but battled within a couple of runs against Clovis, Madera South and Clovis East.<\/p>

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Madera got on the scoreboard in the first inning. With one out, Evan Candelaria drew a four-pitch walk. Isaac Flores hit a drive to right-center for a double to drive in Candelaria.<\/p>

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Liberty starter Nathen Medina was having trouble finding the strike zone. In the first three innings, he walked two and hit a batter. He threw 63 pitches, but 28 were balls.<\/p>

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Madera added two more runs in the third. Nathan Palacioz led off with a double down the left field line. Isaiah Monge beat out a sacrifice bunt for a single.<\/p>

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Logan Wattenbarger hit a short chopper and Palacioz tried to score, but he was tagged out at the plate.<\/p>

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Adam Arias followed with a double to the left-centerfield gap to drive in Monge and Wattenbarger for a 3-0 lead.<\/p>

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Liberty broke the shutout bid in the fourth. Freshman McGuire Smith led off the rally with a single to left and advanced to second on an error.<\/p>

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After a popout, Medina singled up the middle to put runners at first and third.<\/p>

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Dylan Whitman, on a full count pitch, singled to right to drive in Smith and advanced Medina to third. The inning ended in a double play, but the Hawks got on the scoreboard.<\/p>

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Madera added three runs over the final three innings to close out non-conference play with a 6-1 victory.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

After facing the gauntlet of Tri-River Athletic Conference teams, Madera Coyotes baseball coach Andy Underwood needed a little break. While not taking the Liberty Hawks for granted, the Coyotes picked up a 6-1 victory in Mel Parker Field in preparation for the upcoming County\/Metro Athletic Conference schedule. The Coyotes took Liberty a little too easy […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":28270,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"elementor_theme","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_angie_page":false,"page_builder":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[50],"class_list":["post-7799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-schools"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7799","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7799"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7799\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}