For The Madera Tribune Kelsee Montagna. Kelsee Montagna has been a champion every step she takes.  She led the Madera Coyotes to their most recent girls volleyball Central Section championship.  Then, she led Cabrillo College to two state champions. After, Cabrillo she was an All-Conference player, and captain, and the University of Great Falls.

The Reedley Pirates held the Madera South Stallions over the final 2:24 of the game without a score to record a comeback 32-29 victory at the Madera South Shootout Showdown.  In a game eerily similar to their rivals, Madera, who played in the game before, the Stallions also had their problems finding the bottom of the basket in Saturday’s loss. They shot just 11 percent (3-of-28) in the first half, and were just a little better (22 percent) in the second half.  Overall, Mader

For The Madera Tribune Former Madera Coyote baseball standout Alec Gamboa is all fired up coming off the mound this past season for the Busan Lotte Giants of the Korea Baseball Organization. For the first time in his professional baseball career, former Madera and Fresno City College standout Alec Gamboa isn’t sure what’s next.  After spending the last five months of the baseball season in Korea with the Busan Lotte Giants of the Korea Baseball Organization. Gamboa is current

Tyler Takeda/The Madera Tribune The Liberty Hawk football players and cheerleaders sing the school’s Alma Mater for the last time this season after Friday’s semifinal playoff loss to Bishop Union.  When you get this far in the playoffs, playing a clean game is a necessity in moving forward.  Unfortunately, for the top-seeded Hawks, they made plenty of mistakes and were upset, 26-22, last Friday by the fourth-seeded Bishop Union Broncos in the Div. V Central Section semifinals

Wendy Alexander/The Madera Tribune The Matilda Torres Toros boys cross country team celebrates with the plaque and sign after a fourth straight Central Section championship, this year in Div. II, Thursday at Woodward Park. FRESNO — Three Madera-area schools will be sending teams to this week’s CIF State Cross Country Championships at Woodward Park.  The Matilda Torres boys team easily won the Div. II Central Section title for its fourth straight championship at Thursday’s Cen

For The Madera Tribune Kaelei Kajitani. After playing baseball at Madera South, and winning a Central Section Championship, female baseball pioneer Kaelei Kajitani continued her baseball playing career by getting drafted in the fifth round by San Francisco of the new Women’s Professional Baseball League.  Kajitani was drafted No. 1 in the fifth round and was the 21st pick of San Francisco.  From the WPBL draft: “Kajitani grew up in a baseball family so seeped in the game that

Wendy Alexander/The Madera Tribune Matilda Torres’ Nate Gray puts back an offensive rebound during Thursday’s victory over Livingston. Gray finished with a double-double in his first game of the season (14 points, 13 rebounds). The Matilda Torres Toros closed out the game by outscoring the Livingston Wolves 26-19 in the fourth quarter for a 68-65 victory in the season opener Thursday.  Champ Pichardo put back a miss with 1:12 to go to tie the game at 65. Then, David Casas mad

Wendy Alexander/The Madera Tribune Madera’s Ryan Atherton rises up for a rebound during Wednesday’s loss to the Roosevelt Rough Riders. Atherton scored 11 points with three 3-pointers. The Madera Coyotes suffered though two 0-for-10 shooting droughts in the second half of Tuesday’s battle with the Roosevelt Rough Riders, and it hurt them in a 70-58 loss in Joe Flores Gym.  In the second half, the Coyotes shot just 19 percent (6-of-30) from the field and made just 3-of-19 (16