It was a relatively rough day at the Central Section championships for the Clovis West High girls golf team, which encountered much faster greens than the last time it played at Tulare Golf Course in August and much high scores than the last time it played competitively a week ago during the North Area championships at Madera Municipal Golf Course.

Yet the Golden Eagles still rolled to a fourth straight title, with their 404 strokes still 15 better than second-place Frontier.

This team is that good. Clovis West dominates even when shooting 26 more strokes collectively than a week earlier.

Powered by four four-year starters, Clovis West High shoots for its fourth consecutive Central Section girls team golf championship today at Tulare Golf Course.

Golden Eagles senior standout Asia Adell will be among the first threesome -- along with Redwood's Christina Trujillo and Stockdale's Abby Marina -- set to tee off at 10 a.m. The final grouping -- Yosemite's Mariana Moberly, Mission Oak's Breanna Haney and Frontier's Lexi Keeter -- tees off at 12:16 p.m.

Top-seeded Buchanan hosts defending Division I champion Stockdale as the team girls tennis playoffs resume today.

The Bears reached the semifinals with a 9-0 win over No. 9 Clovis. Fourth-seeded Stockdale advanced with an 8-1 win over No. 5 Liberty.

No. 2 Clovis West and No. 3 Bullard -- last season's runner-up -- meet in the other D-I semifinal.

Redwood is putting up a pretty good fight as it seeks to bring an end to cross-town rival El Diamante's 19-game winning streak in West Yosemite League games, trialing 13-7 at halftime.

The Rangers, in fact, took a 7-6 lead on Joaquin Murillo's 28-yard touchdown pass to K.C. Pearce with 5:59 remaining in the second quarter.

But the Miners, two-time defending WYL champions, went back ahead with 15 seconds left in the first half when Aaron Sing capped a six-play, 55-yard drive with a 4-yard touchdown run.

Redwood was the undisputed ruler of West Yosemite League football during the 1990s, winning the title seven times.

But the current decade hasn't been as kind to the Rangers, who's only WYL title during the 2000s came in 2004, the year after Sanger vacated the league and the season before Visalia's newest high school - El Diamante - fielded its first senior class.

There's an interesting volleyball match on tap tonight in Visalia, one that should help shape the Central Section Division II playoff seedings that will be announced Nov. 7.

Lemoore, ranked third in D-II by The Bee, rides its 21-match winning streak into a West Yosemite League showdown with El Diamante. The match is scheduled to start at 6:30 p.m.

Parlier middleweight Mike Moreno takes on veteran mixed martial artist Xavier Foupa-Pokam in the main event of the Tachi Palace Fights card scheduled for Dec. 3 at the Lemoore casino.

Doors open at 5:30 p.m. with fights starting at 6:30.

Moreno, a talented up-and-comer, is 5-2 in his MMA career. Foupa-Pokam, a native of Paris, is 20-11.

Melissa Sweat, who led Stockdale High to the Central Section Division I girls basketball championship last season before transferring to Liberty-Madera Ranchos, gave an oral commitment to San Diego State.

Sweat is expected to sign her letter of intent in November. She had 24 points and 12 rebounds as second-seeded Stockdale defeated No. 1 Clovis West 70-60 for the section title March 7 at Selland Arena.

A full family move for work purposes prompted the transfer to Madera Ranchos. Sweat was a three-year starter for Stockdale, earning all-state honors from Cal-Hi Sports each year.

The No. 1 seed for the Central Section volleyball playoffs should be on the line tonight when Buchanan, top-ranked by The Bee in a poll put together by section coaches, plays at No. 2 Clovis West in a Tri-River Athletic Conference match.

At least that's what Golden Eagles coach Rhonda DeRuiter believes.

"Whoever wins this match should get No. 1 and whoever loses should get No. 2," DeRuiter said. "With the schedules [Buchanan and Clovis West] put together and the teams we have played and how they rank nationally, we should be considered the top two teams in the section."

We've got an interesting night of football brewing here at Central's beautiful Koligian Stadium.

The host Grizzlies - ranked sixth in the Central Section by The Bee - come into this one on a nice run having won three straight, a 41-27 victory over last season's Division II runner-up El Diamante, a 73-7 blowout of Sunnyside and a satisfying 24-3 triumph over defending Division I champion Clovis West.