On a night in which Dante Cunningham was inducted into Granite Hills Wall of Fame, the senior wasn’t going to lose.
Cunningham scored 24 points as the Granite Hills boys basketball team held off ... Full story
On a night in which Dante Cunningham was inducted into Granite Hills Wall of Fame, the senior wasn’t going to lose.
Cunningham scored 24 points as the Granite Hills boys basketball team held off Robert F. Kennedy 73-67 on Monday at Gra... Full story
The first quarter didn’t seem to be an indication of what was to come. Even though the Porterville boys basketball team was leading 7-5, no one could have expected the Panthers to score 62 points over the next three quarters. Especially... Full story
The Porterville-based TC VillainZ women’s flag football team recently won a tournament in Fresno, beating the Fresno Regulators 7-0, the Fresno Legends 28-0 and the Regulators 21-14 in overtime in the championship game. TC VillainZ is currently... Full story
One of Lindsay’s most prominent citizens over the last half century, Hal Munter, died on Friday. He was 86.
While Munter may be most known for his contributions to youth and high school sports in the community, he served the community ... Full story
One more to go for the showdown.
The Porterville High boys soccer team took care of business with a 6-1 win over Granite Hills on Monday at Rankin Stadium to move one step closer to a possible showdown with Monache for the East Yosemite Leag... Full story
Josh Turner, the son of Mark and Joette, has signed a letter of intente to play baseball at Northwestern College, an NAIA power in Iowa.
Mark grew up in Porterville and Joette still lives in Porterville.
Turner is a 6-5 pitcher/infielder fr... Full story
Bear Pascoe, a 2004 Granite Hills graduate, celebrates the New York Giants 21-17 win over the New England Patriots in the Super Bowl on Sunday in Indianapolis.... Full story
Bear Pascoe picked the right time to have the best game of his career, playing a key role in the New York Giants 21-17 win over the New England Patriots in Sunday’s Super Bowl.
Pascoe, a 2004 Granite Hills graduate, made four receptions for 33... Full story
INDIANAPOLIS — Take that, Brady. You too, Peyton.
Eli Manning is the big man in the NFL after one-upping Tom Brady and leading the New York Giants to a 21-17 victory over the New England Patriots in Sunday’s Super Bowl — in... Full story
Porterville College men’s basketball coach T.J. Jennings has been talking about a sense of urgency all year and if there’s ever a time of the season for the Pirates to have a sense of urgency, it’s now.
“The time is n... Full story
From the sun to the snow, former Porterville College basketball player Alton Williams has recently transferred to NAIA-power Montana State University-Northern.
Williams is one of two mid-season redshirts, waiting to play for the small colleg... Full story
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he Porterville College baseball team got off to a strong start last year, but couldn’t sustain that momentum as the season progress and when that happened, it became clear the team lacked depth in a lot of areas, especially on the mo... Full story
FECHNER PLAYER OF THE WEEK
Granite Hills graduate Emily Fechner, a freshman at College of the Sequoias, was named as the Central Valley Conference’s co-Player of the Week with Merced’s Kortani Brown in women’s basketball fo... Full story
The Porterville College men’s basketball team kept placing itself in a hole and kept coming back and coming back. In the end the Pirates couldn’t come all the way back.
So PC finds itself in a logjam in the race for a state playo... Full story
It’s the nature of the beast when it comes to small junior college women’s athletics. During the fall, the Porterville College softball team was optimistic about the upcoming season with what looked to be a talented group of playe... Full story
BASKETBALL
PC MEN 81, MERCED 66
Porterville College (11-10, 4-2 in the Central Valley Conference) moved into a tie for second placed in the CVC with COS on Wednesday at Merced. “It’s really in our hands in terms of our destiny,&... Full story
Porterville College sophomore guard Donald Lee was the Central Valley Conference Player of the Week in men’s basketball for this past week for his performance in PC’s 78-75 win at Reedley College.
It’s the second time in th... Full story
After hanging on for a 78-75 win at Reedley College on Saturday, the Porterville College men’s basketball team now really finds itself in a wide open race for second place in the Central Valley Conference and a state playoff berth.
PC ... Full story
The Porterville College men’s basketball team didn’t look like a team playing for second place in the Central Valley Conference in the first half. And while the Pirates came out with more of a “sense of urgency” as PC ... Full story
The men’s and women’s basketball teams at Porterville College spent most of the preseason traveling up and down California highways.
The long road trips, overnight hotel stays, and fast food gets old real quick for PC men’s... Full story
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he Porterville College baseball team got off to a strong start last year, but couldn’t sustain that momentum as the season progress and when that happened, it became clear the team lacked depth in a lot of areas, especially on the mo... Full story
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ith the recent reassignment of David Gong from being the girls swim coach to the boys swim coach at Granite Hills, the issue of just what teams are eligible to raise funds at the concession stands at that school’s sporting events has... Full story
The Popcorn Stand is periodically featured on the Recorder web site and the Porterville Recorder Sports Facebook page. (Actually, Recorder sports editor Charles Whisnand writes about whatever he wants when he feels like it). The column’... Full story
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helly Lozano is in that elite class of athletes who can call themselves multiple Hall of Famers. And the place where Lozano grew up in Brandon, S.D., hasn’t forgotten.
Lozano, who is now the girls basketball coach at Granite Hills, ... Full story
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here should definitely be many familiar faces to the community when former players for the Porterville and Monache boys and girls basketball teams take the floor for the second annual alumni games on Saturday.
Monache will face Portervill... Full story
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ochelle Lupio received the chance to take the first major step to playing softball at the next level. And she took full advantage of it.
The Porterville High senior was invited to the Las Vegas Softball Showcase, a camp in which head coac... Full story
Editor’s note: The Popcorn Stand is a column periodically (actually when Recorder Sports Editor Charles Whisnand feels like it) featured on the Recorder web site in which Whisnand writes about, well, whatever he wants. The name of the c... Full story
When I listened to Jon Miller give his speech at the National Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, N.Y., on Sunday, he graciously mentioned Monte Moore, the longtime Oakland A’s play-by-play announcer who has made Porterville his home for almo... Full story