Tyler Takeda/The Madera Tribune Torres’ Jordyn Anaya throws a pitch during Saturday’s tie game with San Luis Obispo at the Washington Union Easter Classic. She hit three doubles, drove in the game-winning run and got the win in a 13-12 walk-off win over Roosevelt in the earlier game. EASTON — The Matilda Toros softball team had big leads in both of its games on the first day of the Washington Union Easter Classic, but gave both of them up. In the first game against Roosevel

Courtesy of Madera Unified School District Andrea Rivera, a senior at Furman Independent Study, delivers her Graduate Profile presentation on Monday, describing the experience as a meaningful step toward graduation. Madera Unified School District continues to strengthen its commitment to preparing students for life beyond high school through its Graduate Profile initiative, now in its second year as a graduation requirement for all seniors. This meaningful capstone experience

Wendy Alexander/The Madera Tribune Madera’s Jason Valladares (9) and Gabriel Carrera rise up to block a Sanger West attack in Tuesday’s three-set victory. This time, it was the opponents making the mistakes for the Madera Coyotes boys volleyball team. Last week, in a four-set loss to Hoover, the Coyotes had 30 hitting errors. However, in Tuesday’s three-set sweep over Sanger West, the Hornets had 16 hits out of bounds and only 17 kills.

Wendy Alexander/The Madera Tribune Torres Austin Meza (11) and Trey Garcia congratulate each other after scoring on Caden Warden’s two-run triple in Wednesday’s victory over Central. The Matilda Torres Toros baseball team fell into a 2-0 hole two batters into the game, but scored the next eight runs and 11 of the final 13 for a victory over Central at Torres. The Toros tied the score in the bottom of the first, scored six in the third and came back with three runs after Cen

Wendy Alexander/The Madera Tribune Matilda Torres’ Jose Velasquez throws one of his 94 pitches over six innings in Friday’s 4-3 victory over Roosevelt. Velasquez only allowed four hits and struck out six. The Matilda Torres Toros baseball team pulled out a scrappy and resilient 4-3 victory over the Roosevelt Rough Riders at Matilda Torres. The Toros played Friday’s game without three starters who were ill. Roosevelt just came out of a game Tuesday where they defeated Madera

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

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.

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