Wendy Alexander/The Madera Tribune Madera freshman Janyah Spotwood drives to the hoop during Friday’s victory over Madera South. Spotwood led the Coyotes with 13 points and 12 rebounds. The Madera Coyotes girls basketball team took advantage of its dominance on the boards and its dominance in the second half for a 47-22 victory over the Madera South Stallions at Madera South. The Coyotes spoiled the Madera South Senior Night Friday with a 25-point victory that was also spar

Tyler Takeda/The Madera Tribune Madera South senior Emmanuel Pantoja tries to work Torres’ Kevin Franco into a pinning position. Pantoja recorded a pin over Franco to win the 132 pound match Wednesday on Senior Night. With the North Yosemite League crown at stake, the Madera South Stallions wrestling team picked up dual victory over the Matilda Torres Toros to take the lead in the standings. Both teams entered Wednesday’s dual with identical 2-0 league records. The Stallion

Wendy Alexander/the Madera Tribune Liberty’s Amani Rigmaiden goes up for two during Tuesday’s victory over the Tribe. The combination of Titus Johnson and Hurley Ogan helped the Liberty Hawks boys basketball team to a 51-42 Northwest Sequoia Conference victory over the Chowchilla Tribe. Johnson kept the Hawks in the lead for most of the game. He scored a game-high 15 points with a stat-filling line. He pulled down 13 rebounds, had four steals and blocked four shots. He also

Wendy Alexander/The Madera Tribune Matilda Torres’ Yamileth Hernandez (8) gets her head on the ball in the midfield during Wednesday’s battle with the Sanger Apaches. Despite dominating the first half, the Matilda Torres Toros had to wait until the second half to score in 2-0 victory over the Sanger Apaches. The Toros remained undefeated in the County/Metro Athletic Conference in Tuesday’s victory. Emma Velasquez and Elihanna Gallegos scored second half goals for the Toros.

Wendy Alexander/The Madera Tribune Torres’ Nate Gray rises up over Stallions Angel Paramo (0) and Alejandro Geronimo to score two of his game-high 14 points in Thursday’s victory over Madera South. The Matilda Torres Toros blitzed the Madera South Stallions’ boys basketball team early and held onto the lead the rest of the game for a 42-30 North Yosemite League victory. The Toros jumped out to a 17-4 first quarter lead. However, the rest of the way, the two teams were prett

Wendy Alexander/The Madera Tribune The Madera girls basketball team’s lone senior, Rylie Fernandez, is honored before Friday’s victory over McLane. Fernandez scored eight points in the 49-32 victory. The Madera Coyotes girls basketball team gave its lone senior a victory to celebrate Senior Night last week in Joe Flores Gym. Rylie Fernandez was honored before the game for Senior Night, otherwise known as Rylie Night. Fernandez helped her team with eight points and six steal

When Mark Beyer graduated from Madera High School in 2001, he was looking forward to a baseball career at Fresno State. Unfortunately, a freak injury ended his athletic career, but it hasn’t stopped him from moving on. He is currently a principal at Stone Creek Elementary School in the Golden Valley School District, and is in his 18th year in education. “25 years went by so fast,” he said.

For seven straight years, Alec Mehrten’s name was written in as the starting shortstop for his teams. He spent three years at Madera, hitting from the bottom of the line-up and working his way to the lead-off spot while playing shortstop every game. After his playing days were over at Madera in 2008, Mehrten signed with Fresno Pacific University. All Mehrten did at FPU was entrench himself as the starting shortstop from Day 1, and spent four years manning the No. 6 hole. He