{"id":9280,"date":"2019-05-08T21:37:59","date_gmt":"2019-05-08T21:37:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maderatribustg.wpenginepowered.com\/?p=9280"},"modified":"2026-05-13T18:29:23","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T18:29:23","slug":"stallions-head-to-valley-championship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/stallions-head-to-valley-championship\/","title":{"rendered":"Stallions head to Valley Championship"},"content":{"rendered":"
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With a resounding three-set sweep over the Edison-Fresno Tigers, the Madera South Stallions took one more step to claiming the program\u2019s first Valley Championship.<\/p>

The top-seeded Stallions easily dispatched the ninth-seeded Tigers by a combined 75-44 in the Div. II Valley semifinals and hosted No. 2 seed Sunnyside-Fresno on Tuesday for the Div. II title.<\/p>

\u201cIt\u2019s exciting, but at the same time, nerve racking,\u201d senior Adrian Alvarez said. \u201cIt\u2019s the first time we\u2019ve had the Valley Championship on this campus. I\u2019m excited for this.\u201d<\/p>

\u201cCoach (Nate) Perez and the rest of the coaching staff came up with a plan,\u201d head coach Steve Guglielmana said. \u201cThey work really hard putting this together. It\u2019s been a good run. Things are falling into place. We have one more game before we can look beyond that.\u201d<\/p>

The Stallion boys team matches what the girls\u2019 team did in November to become the only school with a team in the Central Section boys and girls volleyball championship match. However, the boys hope to come away with the title that eluded the girls.<\/p>

\u201cThat doesn\u2019t happen very often in any sport. It\u2019s something special,\u201d Guglielmana said. \u201c<\/p>

Alvarez helped the Stallions\u2019 offense that combined for 37 kills, including a game-high 13 from Jared Guglielmana. Christian Sylvia had nine kills with four blocks. Ruben Jaimez and Javier Maciel each had five kills.<\/p>

\u201cFor us, it\u2019s the world,\u201d Alvarez said. \u201cWe\u2019ve grinded for this since we were freshmen. We were hoping for this and I\u2019m glad it\u2019s going to happen.\u201d<\/p>

The Stallions got the ball rolling in the right direction with a dominating first set victory.<\/p>

Solo blocks from Sylvia and Guglielmana helped the Stallions to a 4-0 lead. Sylvia and Guglielmana put down kills to jump out to a 6-1 lead.<\/p>

Alvarez served up a point. Jaimez put down back-to-back kills to open the lead to seven.<\/p>

Sylvia put down a side out kill and a solo block while Guglielmana added another kill for a 16-6 lead. A Guglielmana side out kill led to a Sylvia ace to open the lead to 11.<\/p>

A Jaimez kill kept the lead at 11 and a Maciel side out kill with a kill from Sebastian Moreno gave the Stallions a 12-10 lead.<\/p>

A pair of Edison service errors gave the Stallions the 25-13 first set victory.<\/p>

Kills from Sylvia and Guglielmana gave the Stallions the early second set lead. An Alvarez dump kill followed by an Alvarez ace and a Guglielmana kill gave the Stallions a 7-3 lead.<\/p>

The two teams exchanged eight straight side outs. Edison missed three straight serves in the run and missed 10 in the match.<\/p>

A dual block from Sylvia and Alvarez gave the Stallions a 12-7 lead. After an Edison missed serve, Alvarez served up three points helped by a Jaimez kill to open the lead to nine.<\/p>

Edison battled back to cut the lead to four despite side out tip kills from Jaimez and Sylvia.<\/p>

The Tigers cut the lead down to four before a Sylvia tip kill. After an Edison side out, Maciel put down a kill for set point. Alvarez sent a serve that wasn\u2019t returned for a 25-19 Madera South victory.<\/p>

The Stallions took control early in the third set with Moreno serving up 10 straight points. In the run, Guglielmana had four kills while Sylvia had a solo block and Alvarez put down a kill.<\/p>

Side out kills from Sylvia and Gugliema and an ace from Alvarez opened the lead to 15-3.<\/p>

Edison kept chipping away and cut the lead down to eight. Maciel put down a side out kill and Moreno stuffed an Edison dump attempt for a 19-7 lead.<\/p>

The Tigers cut the lead down to nine, but that was as close as Madera South would let them.<\/p>

Gugliemana put down a side out kill for a 22-12 lead. Alvarez recorded a solo block, Syliva served up an ace for match point and Ismael Ambriz put down the match\u2019s final point on his only kill of the match for a 25-12 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":"

With a resounding three-set sweep over the Edison-Fresno Tigers, the Madera South Stallions took one more step to claiming the program\u2019s first Valley Championship. The top-seeded Stallions easily dispatched the ninth-seeded Tigers by a combined 75-44 in the Div. II Valley semifinals and hosted No. 2 seed Sunnyside-Fresno on Tuesday for the Div. II title. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":28315,"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-9280","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\/9280","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=9280"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9280\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}