Girls’ golf finishes second
DANIEL BROOKS

The girls’ golf team finished second in all of the tournaments this season.
Matches were held at King River Country Club, Sierra Meadows Golf Course, Selma Golf Course, Brighton Crest Country Club and Air Way Golf Course.

Rusty Oetinger said the top players on the team were Lauren Wagner and Ricsie Hernandez.

Girls’ soccer begins season

The girls’ soccer team will meet Roosevelt on the YHS field Tuesday, December 16, with games at 4 and 5:30 p.m.

Earlier this month they kicked off the season with two home games, against Madera December 4 and Kerman December 9. They played in the Lemoore varsity tourney December 5-6.

The Roosevelt game will be the last until winter break is over. The Badgers will meet Central at YHS January 7.

Sonja Mazaira is head varsity coach and Shannon Ryan is head junior varsity coach.

Girls' basketball season gets underway at YHS
Emily McGaugh

The first home basketball game for the Yosemite High girls will be Monday, December 15 when the Badgers meet Bullard. Games will be at 4:30 p.m., 6 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. for the freshmen, junior varsity and varsity.

The freshmen girls have been playing since November 29 when they met Fresno for a scrimmage and won all four games.

All of the other play so far has been in out-of-town tournaments.

They have played in the Clovis Frosh Tourney and the Fullerton Varsity Tourney.

December 11-13 the JV team is in the Madera tourney and the freshmen are at Buchanan.

The teams will start the new year with three home games: January 7 against Kerman, January 9 against Madera and January 13 against Chowchilla.

Gary Blate is the head varisty coach; Sarah Williams, head JV coach and Reg Turner, head frosh coach.

Cross country girls take fourth place in Valley

CSL Champion Eddie Carr of YHS cross country team.
CASSIE HULTMAN

Yosemite High School cross country team finished the season taking fourth place for the girls in valley and the guys taking eighth place on Thursday, November 13. “No matter how they did, I am so proud of them,.” says Coach Ellen Peterson.

Yosemite cross-country team also completed in the Central Sequoia League finals, finishing with league championships in the varsity girls. Boys champion Aaron Salisbury took first place in the freshmen/sophomore race. The varsity boys, and the freshmen/sophomore girls took second place in the whole race.

The top six varsity girls in the CSL were Amanda Hinkle, Janelle Moylan, Cory Dooman, Claire Criswell, Heather Norman and Caitlyn Blum.

The top six varsity guys were Eddie Carr, Colt Hardcastle, Miles Church, Spencer Frasher, Derek Wilkins, David Hernandez and Adam Dunn.

The varsity girls ran 2.2 miles and the guys ran 3.1 miles. The shortest time in the girls’ race was Amanda Hinkle with 21 minutes and 27 seconds. The top time for the guys was Eddie Carr with 18 minutes and 15 seconds.

“I was so excited when the girls were racing, because you would just see like one red runner then you would see a blue then another and a ton of blue came in!” says Coach Peterson.

Soccer season underway
MISSY VANDERBERG

Varsity boy’s soccer coach Ron Cox says that he thinks the school has a good team this year. The season started December 2 against Clovis West. This weekend, December 12 and 13, the team will be playing in the Lemoore Classic Varsity Tourney.

Some top players are Eddie Carr, Michael Vaughn, Joaquin Morales (goal tender) and Pat Wilder (defense). Cox says that these four soccer players have been together for a while and work well together.

Last year Carr made leading scores and Cox hopes to see them again.
The junior varsity team will be in the Tulare Union JV tournament December 20. There will not be any games over winter break. Varsity and JV will play Orosi in an away game January 8 and then the varsity will meet McLane at YHS January 9 at 3:30 p.m. The JV team will play in the Tulare Western JV Tourney January 9 and 10 in Tulare.

YHS soccer has been in the playoffs for about seven years, winning their first in 1992. The team has also been in the Division 3 Championship games for some years.

Success on many levels for tennis
MALISSA TRENHOLM

The 2003 fall season for the Yosemite High School girls’ tennis team “was a success on many different levels,” says coach Stan Lawrence. “The team was very coachable and seemed to enjoy being with each other.” Lawrence smiled while saying he enjoyed coaching a group who got along well.

The team had an outstanding individual effort from junior Kaitlyn LeRoy who took first place at the league tournament and won one game in the valley tournament.

Although this year’s league record was 2-6, Lawrence feels the expectations will be higher next year for there will be eight incoming seniors who are very talented in many ways. He says he expects their commitment level to be high in order to be successful. He also hopes the team will at least finish first or second in league next year because the seniors will have the potential to do so.

Number one on the varsity team, Kaitlyn LeRoy, “esteems herself by winning,” states Lawrence. “It was nice to have senior Kim Montag, number two on varsity back after being injured for a year. Her athleticism took her far.”

Lawrence also recognizes the number three player, junior Shannon Bartoo, for her improvement, relaxation and the confidence she possesses on the court, and number four, junior Jessica Little, for “bringing a lot of enthusiasm and energy to the team.”

A quiet and committed player, number five, sophomore Jennifer Scott, “could really make a leap next year.” Lawrence applauds number six, junior Malissa Trenholm’s “desire to improve and win more matches.”

Lawrence congratulates number seven, junior Veronica Stewart, for being a “consistent, steady and enthusiastic player,” and number eight, sophomore Jennifer Norman, as well for having a committed and consistent attitude.

Lawrence also stated he appreciates the junior varsity team for being a “fun loving” group of girls who have the potential to take over the team in the years to come.

The banquet will be held on November 19 at Hondo’s restaurant at 7 p.m., to have “a last chance reflection on the season,” says Lawrence, and to hand out individual awards and team and individual photographs.

Lawrence also hopes to take the team to a Fresno State tennis match in order to expose them to higher level players later this year, as well as building an “awesome float” for homecoming next year.

Co-championship for volleyball team

The Badger varsity volleyball team earned a co-championship this year with Sierra and San Joaquin Memorial.

The YHS team beat Sierra three games out of five to be part of the three-way honor.

The team moved to the semi-finals where the Badgers lost a heartbreaker to Porterville High School in the fifth game in mid-November.

Boys’ basketball begins

The varsity and junior varsity boys’ basketball teams will meet Liberty High at home December 19 with games at 5:30 and 7:30. The freshmen will plan Madera High the same day at 4 p.m. in the Harry Baker Gym at YHS.

So far this season the teams have been playing in tournaments and a scrimmage against Fresno.

The next home games will be a frosh tourney January 10 and varsity and JV games against Tranquility January 14.

The first league game will be January 16 at home against San Joaquin Memorial with all three teams playing.