The Giants baseball team won it’s opening round playoff game 2-0 at Modesto Junior College on Tuesday. This was a single game elimination and COS will go on to play Sierra College With the help of three pitchers COS was able to shutout the Modesto offense. Starter Erick McCrae went five innings only surrendering three [...]
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Softball Headed to Playoffs
The Lady Giants Softball team is headed to regional playoffs after the stellar performance that they put on this season. COS will be the 11 seed in the Northern California Regional, and will face off against 7-seeded Sierra College. It will be a best of three game series that will start on Saturday May 4 [...]
Giants Close out Season with a Win
The baseball team closed out their regular season with a 5-1 win at Taft College on Friday. The pitching was the story for COS on this day. Staff ace Leland Tilley went eight innings, only allowing one run and surrendering no walks. He also had eight strikeouts. Ryan Guajardo pitched the ninth inning to close [...]
WATCH: COS Loses Close Game to Porterville
College of the Sequoias’ baseball team lost their last home game in a nail-biter to Porterville College 5-4 on Thursday. The game started out troublesome for the Giants when their starting pitcher Cole Compton gave up an early home run. Compton would later pitch six innings, also giving up another two runs. Rudy Navarro had [...]
College Hires New Athletic Director
College of the Sequoias has hired Visalia native Brent Davis as its new Athletic Director, Superintendent/President Stan Carrizosa announced Friday. Davis will take over the position on July 1, 2013. Davis will replacing Lamel Harris, who resigned as Athletic Director in March. Davis is a Redwood graduate and College of the Sequoias transfer student. “Davis [...]
Former Giant makes NFL Draft
For COS football player Sheldon Richardson was drafted in the first round of Thursday’s NFL Draft by the New York Jets. The Defensive Lineman went thirteenth overall, but was projected by many experts to later in the first round. The St. Louis, Missouri native played at COS in the 2009, 2010 seasons. He then transferred to [...]
Track Runner Adriana Chaves Dodges Boston Marathon Bombing
Editors note: We initially ran this story spell Chaves’ name ’Adrianna’ and not ‘Adriana’, we apologies to for this mistake and it should be corrected now COS long-distance runner Adriana Chaves finished the Boston Marathon despite the fact that it was bombed. Chaves finished the marathon 25 minutes before the initial bomb was set off. “I had no clue what [...]
Cheerleader Tryouts Underway
COS Cheerleader tryouts have begun. They started on Monday and run until Thursday with a workshop on Friday. Besides Circuit training, running, they take gymnastics and work on dance skills. Actual practices will begin in Mid June and will run three days a week. The team will cheer at all Football games, home or away, [...]
Lady Giants blowout Merced College
The Lady Giants defeated Merced College 7-1 in the first game of a doubleheader on Tuesday. The game started off quick when Merced drove in a run in the first inning. COS answered back with a run of their own to tie the game 1-1. Starting pitcher Maylene Mazon held Merced to only one run throughout the whole [...]
WATCH: Lady Giants Sweep Doubleheader
The Lady Giants Softball team took the second game of a doubleheader by a score of 11-6 over Merced College on Tuesday. COS also won the first game with a score of 7-1.COS got the scoring started in the second inning when Brigit Godfrey drove a line drive to Right Feld for an RBI single. [...]