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14TH ANNUAL
ALL-ALUMNI DINNER


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Margarita Saturday was a success by bringing together 175 past alumni and about 35 current students on the evening of Saturday, May 4, 2013. A wonderful dinner of chicken and beef kabobs, pilaf, salad and green beans prepared on site by Gary Lanfranco, class of 1964, and served by Senate members was a smashing success.

The 50/50 raffle which benefited Leadership on campus was won by Elaine Parnagian Sudjian, class of 1957. She walked away with $272 while Leadership received $272. Leadership is a student run organization supporting all school related events and community events. Students from all grade and activity levels are involved. Leadership plans on using their money to buy a large canopy for outdoor events. And Elaine is planning a vacation!

One of the highlights of the evening was getting a personal tour of the new south building by our principal, Dr. John Forbes. He was very excited to show off the building which will house administrative offices and the Senate chambers even though it had no lighting and took a good deal of imagination to realize what the finished offices would look like. Since the stairs were still incomplete, no one was allowed upstairs to see what the classrooms will look like. But that did not stop those attending the dinner to get a first hand look. The Senate members have been using a classroom for their meetings so are looking forward to their new digs. A lot of excitement was around those who had the chance to observe the first changes to the school in over 40 years…a long awaited change bringing back the classical look which was lost when Palmer and LaConte halls were tore down in 1970.

A silent dessert auction was fun for those who participated and even more fun when those desserts were taken to the tables and shared with other diners. Even if you lost out on one of the fantastic desserts available, a chance to partake of the sweet delights was enjoyed by all.

A special thank you to softball, football and JROTC who helped set up the venue in the morning and to rugby, Senate, football and Leadership who helped take things down after the dinner. Jazz band played music before dinner and Folkloric dancers in their beautiful costumes showed off their talents while diners cooled off in shaded areas with their margaritas.

Next year’s event---our 15th---will be held on Saturday, May 3, 2014. Save the date and join the fun.


Prep baseball:
North Yosemite League champ Fresno continues to humble opposing lineups


CRAIG KOHLRUSS/THE FRESNO BEE - Fresno High's Erik Scott tags out Hoover's Joel Hooper as he tries to steal home, ending the top of the third Friday. NYL-leading
Fresno won the game 4-0.

By Andy Boogaard - The Fresno Bee
Friday, May. 03, 2013 | 10:56 PM

A seventh purple and white North Yosemite League championship baseball sign will be ordered soon to join the others high above the backstop at Fresno High.

And maybe this one should include an asterisk if the Warriors close the season by sustaining a defensive pace that Hoover coach Sam Flores described Friday as "unreal."

His Patriots had just lost 4-0 as Brandon Acosta pitched a four-hitter and struck out 10 in Fresno's 10th shutout of an 18-8 season.

The Warriors, who clinched the NYL championship outright for their seventh conference title in the past 12 years under 626-game winning coach Ken Papi, have given up a total of 39 runs in 26 games.

"Ridiculous," said Flores, who went 0-3 to Fresno in the league. "You're not going to lose very many games when you do that. We've given up (121) and we have two pretty good arms."

Behind seniors Acosta (7-3, 0.60) and Jorge Alvarado (7-5, 1.42), and sophomore Josh Acosta (3-0, 0.56), the Warriors have a team ERA of 0.92.

Josh Acosta, who belted a three-run double to deep left and is the younger brother of Brandon, and catcher Eric Scott are sophomores and defensive anchors of a team that is 12-1 with a four-game lead in the NYL with two games remaining.

And left fielder Damian Herrera stoned a potential Hoover comeback with a sliding catch to close the game with two runners on base.

"They have pitchers who finished guys and they take care of the baseball; they don't kick it around," Flores said. "Scoring off them is very difficult -- very difficult."

He said this three days after seeing his team lose 6-3 at home to Fresno in a game Hoover led 3-0 with two outs, a 1-2 count and one runner on in the seventh inning.

"Nightmare," Flores said.

While surely not to that degree, many other NYL coaches nonetheless have been troubled by the Warriors, who have delivered seven of their shutouts in the league.

But the competition promises to stiffen in two weeks in the Central Section Division II playoffs, where Fresno will contend with the likes of Memorial (21-7) and Madera (18-8) out of the County/Metro Athletic Conference and East Yosemite League-leading Tulare Western (21-9-1).

Fresno has been promoted from D-III, where it placed second to Garces last year with a 4-3, eight-inning loss that closed a 28-3 season.

Alvarado went 14-1 in that one while earning All-State honors.

"Coming off that year, there's been a lot of pressure on him, but he's handled it well," said Warriors co-coach Jason Papi, son of 39-year coach and Fresno Athletic Hall of Famer Ken Papi.

"Brandon has followed (Alvarado's) lead. He didn't have his best stuff at all today. What you saw was a gutsy performance. This team has heart; it's one of the hardest-working groups we've ever had."


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in the recent texting contest sponsored by
Cherry Avenue Auction.

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