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23-05-2025
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High school softball: Freshman hitter clutch in D-I between Buchanan and Central
Buchanan High softball coach Dean Gregory paused and was trying to remember when his team played in the Central Section Division I championship. 'It's probably been 2017, I think,' Gregory said. Gregory was right about his assertion. Only this time, he hopes his Bears will come out on top. To get there, however, Buchanan had some work to do. Top-seeded Central had a 4-3 lead, but the fifth-seeded Bears rallied in the top of the seventh inning, scoring three runs with two outs, capped by freshman Addison Schafer's two-run single in a 6-4 victory in a semifinal game. 'This team never quits,' Gregory said. 'They are such a quality group of kids. They work hard and they have fun. They play the game the way it's supposed to be played and I'm really happy.' Buchanan will aim to win its first section title since 2016, facing No. 2 Clovis North, which won the title last season over Central. For now, Gregory will savior this win. Schafer, too. 'I had a lot of anxiety,' Schafer described, as she was batting. 'I try to just settle down, calm my nerves, take it one pitch at a time and just try to help my team as much as I could.' Clovis North, meanwhile, rallied with six runs in the sixth inning to pull away from Stockdale in a 10-3 victory. The Broncos took a 5-4 lead, scoring three runs in the bottom of the fifth inning. Sydney Kniss helped out when she had a two-run single in the sixth. Brynn Gentry and Riley Grealy each had two RBI apiece. Central Section semifinals Division I No. 5 Buchanan 6, No. 1 Central East 4 No. 2 Clovis North 10, No. 3 Stockdale 3 Division II No. 3 Monache 4, No. 2 Garces 3 Friday No. 9 Edison at No. 4 Bakersfield Christian Division III No. 7 Pioneer Valley 1, No. 3 Kerman 0 Friday No. 5 Liberty-Madera Ranchos at No. 1 Wasco Division IV No. 1 Woodlake 8, No. 5 Golden West 5 No. 3 Coalinga 5, No. 7 Sanger West 1 Division V No. 1 Orcutt Academy 1, No. 3 Hoover 0 No. 2 Dos Palos 5, No. 11 McLane 0 Division VI No. 5 Torres 11, No. 1 Kern Valley 1 No. 10 Roosevelt 8, No. 3 Strathmore 3 Championships At Margie Wright Diamond, Fresno State May 29 Division VI No. 5 Torres vs. No. 10 Roosevelt, 4:30 p.m. Division III No. 7 Pioneer Valley vs. No. 1 Wasco/No. 5 LIberty-Madera Ranchos winner, 7 p.m. May 30 Division V No. 1 Orcutt Academy vs. No. 2 Dos Palos, 4:30 p.m. Division II No. 3 Monache vs. No. 4 Bakersfield Christian/No 9 Edison winner, 7 p.m. May 31 Division IV No. 1 Woodlake vs. No. 3 Coalinga, 4:30 p.m. Division I No. 2 Clovis North vs. No. 5 Buchanan, 7 p.m.
07-05-2025
- Sport
14 sets of twins set to graduate from same high school
Fourteen sets of twins are preparing to celebrate a major milestone and graduate high school together. Of the more than 600 graduating seniors at Clovis North High School in Fresno, California, 28 of them happen to be a fraternal or identical twin, a coincidence Principal Joshua Shapiro, who has been Clovis North's principal for seven years, said he and his staff only recently realized. "We do a graduation grid every year. And when we were putting the grid together, we started realizing, 'Wait, there's more than just eight or nine … there's actually 14," Shapiro recalled to "Good Morning America.""That was really an eye-opening result when we saw those numbers, because we never thought we had 14 sets of twins on this campus, just from the senior class alone." High school is often a memorable experience for many students, and for some of the twins, attending Clovis North together has been just that and more. "Going to high school with a twin … I feel like it's better than just going by yourself," said Claire Scott, 18, who will graduate alongside her twin sister Chloe Scott. "I always had her, so that was really nice to always have someone there for me." "It's been fun," Colt Parks added of going to the same high school with his twin sister Emerson Parks. "Classes with her have been easy. I have her to help me with certain subjects, like math for the most part. Yeah, it's just been really helpful to have a twin with me all the way through the four years." Some of the twins are heading off to the same college together or attending schools in the same region, but the Parks siblings plan to attend different universities across state lines. Emerson Parks plans to attend Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah, where she will run track and field, while her twin brother will stay closer to home and play water polo for Fresno Pacific University. "It'll definitely be possibly a little bit challenging at first, just because we've never been so far apart for so long," Emerson Parks said. "But I think since we're both going for sports, we'll be able to share that experience with each other and be able to lean on each other during hard times." Clovis North's seniors are set to graduate June 4, and several of the twins, including Max and Charlie Toy, say they'll make sure to share one more big hurrah together. "We're doing a shared graduation party, and it'll be fun, because, you know, we've shared parties our whole lives together. And so, it's going to be one last big grad party that we're going to be able to share," Max Toy said. "It's like one last one where we're in the same spot."
