Wendy Alexander/The Madera Tribune Matilda Torres’ Ariana Garcia connects for one of her four hits in Thursday’s loss to Los Banos. He had a triple, scored two runs and drove in three more. By the time the dust settled, the Matilda Torres Toros and the Los Banos Tigers softball teams combined for 18 runs, 29 hits and 17 errors in a non-league game at Torres. The Toros cut the Tigers’ lead to four in the fifth, but the Tigers scored four runs in the seventh to pull away for

For The Madera Tribune Madera’s Joseph Holiday, middle back, stands at victory lane with his crew and family after winning the season opener of the Pro Sportman division at the Madera Speedway on Saturday. 2025 Pro Sportsman champion Joseph Holiday of Madera prevailed in Saturday’s 40-lap season opener for the growing division at Madera Speedway. It was a part of a two-pronged night of feature racing which also saw Austin Carter win the season opener for the NCMA Sprint Cars

Wendy Alexander/The Madera Tribune A group of Madera South High School athletes show off the items they received during the Project Run Madera distribution. For the fourth year, Project Run Madera helped out all three middle school and high school track athletes with a bag of gear this week. PRM founder Alisha Brown hosted a giveaway day Tuesday at Madera South, and gave away approximately 400 bags of gear that included shoes, shirts and socks with sports bras to the girls.

For The Madera Tribune Asterisk Talley. LOS ANGELES — The top two-ranked players in the Rolex AJGA Girls Rankings — Aphrodite Deng (1) and Chowchilla’s Asterisk Talley (2) — have accepted sponsor invitations to tee it up against the world’s best professional golfers on the LPGA Tour at the JM Eagle LA Championship presented by Plastpro, April 13-19 at El Caballero Country Club in Los Angeles. Talley, 17, will make her second consecutive appearance at the JM Eagle LA Champions

Wendy Alexander/The Madera Tribune Madera’s Isabella Aguirre delivers a pitch during Wednesday’s home loss to Clovis East. Aguirre allowed three unearned runs on just two hits over the final five innings. She also delivered an RBI single in the 8-6 loss. The Madera Coyotes softball team won the West Valley Invitational after playing three games in the Arizona heat on Saturday, and then drove more than eight hours home on Sunday. Three days later, the Coyotes still looked ti

Wendy Alexander/The Madera Tribune Madera’s Sammy McDonald reaches up for a kill attempt in Tuesday’s four-set loss to Hoover. McDonald led the Coyotes with 16 kills. With the fans not blowing in Joe Flores Gym, players and fans had to tolerate the heat on the hottest day of the year in the Madera Coyotes boys volleyball match against Hoover. The Coyotes out hit the Patriots 48-36, but too many hitting errors hurt the Coyotes in a four-set loss in Tuesday’s loss. Sammy McDo

Wendy Alexander/The Madera Tribune Madera South lead-off batter Josiah Ortiz swings at a pitch in Tuesday’s loss to Roosevelt. The Stallions only had two hits in the 14-2 defeat at Eddie Chapa Field. The Madera South Stallions had trouble on the field, and it hurt in a 14-2 loss to the Roosevelt Rough Riders at Eddie Chapa Field. The Stallions committed as many errors as Roosevelt had hits (8) in Tuesday’s loss. To make matters worse, the Stallions only managed two hits, an

Tyler Takeda/The Madera Tribune The Madera Coyotes softball team celebrates with their medals and the West Valley Invitational championship trophy after defeating Tucson for the title Saturday at Verrado High School in Buckeye, Arizona. TOLLESON, ARIZONA — The Madera Coyotes softball team snapped its early two-game losing streak in style with six straight victories at the West Valley Invitational in Tolleson, Arizona, over the weekend. The Coyotes defeated Tuscon, 8-4, to ca