Jerald Pierucci on the Alumni Game

In my in-box this morning:

I was a part of General Basketball back in the early to mid 90's, 1990-1994 to be exact. I would just like the thank Coach Wiebe for putting on a great event. It was an honor and privilege to play again on that floor. I had not been back to Shafter since I graduated and to be welcomed back was a great honor. I really appreciate what Coach is trying to do with bringing back Alumni to connect with the current team. I was impressed with the Generals speed and quickness, I wish them the best of luck in the up coming season. I am going to make it a priority to make a few games this year. I may wear the Red and Navy Blue of East high school now, but there will always be Royal Blue Running through my veins.

Jerald Pierucci, class act. East High, you're lucky to have him.

School Spirit

In the November 25th edition of the Shafter Press, sportswriter and Shafter loyalist David Armendariz laments that while the Wasco game still draws fans and even stirs the embers of that old General pride, those fires seem to have diminished, especially compared to "what they've got going eight miles away from Generalsville." "A lot of things need to be addressed," he continues "in order to bring back school spirit." He suggests new General hats and t-shirts and making sure the Alma Mater is played after football games as a starting point.

I agree that the rituals and symbols surrounding and supporting school spirit are important. Along those lines, I think the recent basketball alumni game and tip-off dinner are the kind of thing Armendariz could get behind. Still, I suspect that if Shafter spirit is lacking lately, the main reason is the losing. In my experience, fan pain from a loss is directly proportional to enthusiasm going in. With twenty-six losses for the football team in three years, at some point it becomes easier to direct enthusiasm to more promising outlets, or just stay home. Other things (blogs, for example) might make some difference, but winning is sunshine on that yellow spot in the grass where the little wading pool was. There is no replacement, but as we all know, bermuda grass never really dies. The Wasco example is actually encouraging here. Let's not forget, they left the pool on the grass for a long time.

The Transition to Basketball in the SSL

The end will come for even the best football teams. Wasco's season ended. Tehachapi and Taft live to fight another week. This probably doesn't matter much as far as basketball is concerned for two of these teams. None of Wasco's core returners are football players. Tehachapi is in a similar spot. However, four of Taft's eight returning varsity basketball players are on the football team. Most notably, the top returning scorer and rebounder from last year's squad, Hunter Liljeroos is the quarterback. Blake Emberson, charge taker extraordinaire (36! last year), will also be occupied with football duties until the magic runs out on the pigskin Wildcats. That could be next week. Taft will be underdogs against Washington Union. If they lose, the basketball team will only have to face Maricopa shorthanded. If not, they will be short for three more games.

Still A Local Boy

Bryan Nixon, Shafter alumnus and former coach of the Generals, coached his Centennial team to victory last night over Buchanan. The 26-24 win came on a 40 yard do-or-die field goal with one second on the clock. Eighth seed over the top seed, south valley over north, on the road, this was a big win. Zach Ewing called it "the upset of the year."

Congratulations to Bryan Nixon and his team.

Giving Thanks for Shafter Basketball

The Alumni Game and Tip-Off Dinner went well last night. The alumni team won the game 59-56.

If you have pictures or stories from the game, you can email me at shsbbl AT gmail.com.



Read more from Jerald Pierucci and Jeff Higbee.

Don't Forget

Your first chance to see the new edition of the Generals is tomorrow. JV-Frosh scrimmage at 5. Varsity versus alumni at 6. I believe that the $1 admission has been waived, so the basketball is free. The dinner after is $5 for adults and $3 for kids.

Shafter Skyline

I was looking for something else and came across this lovely picture of a Shafter sunset. Enjoy.

Speaking of Economics...

Channel 23 ran a nice story about two new businesses coming to Shafter. Most of the story is in the video. I've learned this the hard way. The headline is that that C-Tec and California Paper are moving to town and bringing about 85 jobs with them. Valley championships will follow.

Jimenez and Santos at Cuesta

Here is the season preview for the Cuesta College Cougars.

Highlights:

2009 redshirt Ralphie Santos (Shafter HS) was injured just before the start of last season, but is healthy for the 2009-10 campaign. He has added some strength in the off-season and adds toughness to the Cougars’ line-up. He is a strong ball handler and has demonstrated the ability to score.

Sophomore Phillip Jimenez (Shafter HS) transferred to Cuesta after a season as a scholarship football player at Southern Utah. His toughness allows him to play either forward or off-guard, despite being only six-feet tall. Blair says, “He has a high basketball IQ and can shoot.”

Jelmini Back At It

She won something during the off-season.

High School Sports and Free Lunch, Or Why Tehachapi Should Not be in the SSL, part 2

Part 1.
The rankings of school enrollment in the Bakersfield area have a very loose relationship to the list of successful athletic programs. BHS is near the top in enrollment, which makes sense, but so is Arvin. Arvin has the 3rd highest enrollment of Bakersfield area schools, but typically finishes toward the bottom of the SSL. Centennial and Liberty, athletic powers, have the lowest enrollments of all the Bakersfield public schools. As it turns out, one would have a better idea of how good a school's football or basketball team would be by excluding the part of the enrolled population that receives free lunch from the calculation entirely.

I've tried to embed a spreadsheet with data from 20 area schools below (it's working for me). They are listed in order of their calpreps.com average rating over the past three years in basketball and football. I've used the Calpreps rating before. It is a computer rating like they use for the BCS in college football. As a predictor of who will win a game, it runs right about 80% nationwide. The blind computer does about as well as Zach Ewing has in football this year on teams that he has seen and has injury updates for. So it is a pretty good measure.



Below are graphs of the relationship between total enrollment and performance in football and basketball over the past three years and non free lunch enrollment and the same. The latter relationship is much tighter. The diverging atheltic performances of BHS, Golden Valley, and Arvin - all with similar enrollments - fall right where you would expect given the enrollment of non free lunch kids. They only seem like anomalies if you expect raw enrollment to matter. Ridgeview, Stockdale, and BHS are the only real outliers here. Ridgeview and Stockdale have been under-performing and BHS has been over-performing.
Tehachapi does not win the SSL title every year, but, like the Yankees, they have the best chance to win every year. This has been true since Garces left the league. It may be, in part, because of the culture of "mountain football," the weightlifting program, savvy coaching, etc. However, the success of Tehachapi football and basketball is not at all unusual for a school with its demographics. On the best school-level predictor of athletic success, Tehachapi is more like North, BHS, and Centennial than the other schools in the SSL. Tehachapi is also much closer to these schools geographically. They should move on.

Alumni Game

In my in-box this morning -

Dear General Shafter,

I would like to invite all readers to our Alumni Game on Wednesday, November 25. The night begins at 5pm with a scrimmage between our Frosh-Soph and JV teams. Following this at 6pm, our varsity team will take on a team of alumni players. All players, families, and fans in attendance are then invited to a dinner reception afterwards. Please note that the alumni players will all be a minimum of 10 years removed from their high school glory days, making for a team of slightly aged but distinguished players. Expected to attend are members of the 1994 valley champions, many all-SSL players, and former team MVPs. Please join us for a fun-filled night of watching the past, present, and future of Shafter basketball. Admission will be $1 at the door. Dinner tickets are $5 for adults and $3 for children.

Coach Wiebe

I wish I could be there.

High School Sports and Free Lunch, Or Why Tehachapi Should Not be in the SSL, part 1

From the top success feels like the natural result of virtue. The Yankees and Wall Street executives agree, hard work, smarts, and determination are what it takes to get ahead. The world is basically just and open to talent and ambition. Royals fans and the guy whose job on the line was just shipped to China typically have a more skeptical view. Lotteries are most popular with the poor. Maybe that is because they don't understand probability, but maybe the randomness of it just makes sense - the rest of the world seems to run on luck and long odds too.

Reality is surely a mix of these two pictures and high school sports are no different. I would be the last to deny that high school sports reward a certain strength of character with victories. However, I am also impressed by how often the schools that do best in at least the major sports of football and basketball are also among the most affluent and how often those with the worst teams are also among the poorest. But is this just my selective memory? Poor schools can't be at that much of a disadvantage. Look where professionals come from. It's not Beverly Hills.

This is something I have been interested in for a while now. Last year, I made a start on a study of the subject, taking enrollment and percentage of students on free lunch stats from the state and football ratings from Calpreps.com. I collected data for more than 400 California public schools - rich and poor, urban and rural, southern, northern, coastal, desert. It is a time intensive process and as I added schools the findings were so consistent that I decided to stop, satisfying my curiosity about three things: 1) The bigger the school, the better the football team 2) the lower the percentage of students on free lunch, the better the football team and 3) within a pretty wide enrollment range, percentage of kids on free lunch is better predictor of how good a school's football team will be than enrollment.

This year, I decided to think about the local scene. Tomorrow, I will have a post on the local area, complete with pretty graphs and an explanation of why Tehachapi should not be in the SSL.

Read part 2 here.

Shafter-Wasco Football

By popular request. Thanks to Pam Penner and the Shafter Athletics Department for passing this on. (Read the scores as Shafter-Wasco)
1. 1933 19-0

2. 1933 26-0

3. 1934 7-18

4. 1934 7-20

5. 1935 0-24

6. 1936 0-6

7. 1937 0-9

8. 1938 7-47

9. 1939 6-12

10. 1940 0-19

11. 1941 0-18

1942 WWII NO GAME

12. 1943 0-0

13. 1943 7-6

14. 1944 6-19

15. 1944 0-33

16. 1945 0-34

17. 1945 0-0

18. 1946 16-6

19. 1947 13-6

20. 1948 25-13

21. 1949 0-20

22. 1950 60-0

23. 1951 20-26

24. 1952 6-25

25. 1953 6-7

26. 1954 0-13

27. 1955 7-7

28. 1956 25-2

29. 1957 31-21

30. 1958 13-14

31. 1959 9-13

32. 1960 12-33

33. 1961 21-21

34. 1962 28-0

35. 1963 15-6

36. 1964 20-6

37. 1965 43-0

38. 1966 28-7

39. 1967 31-0

40. 1968 27-7

41. 1969 7-28

42. 1970 0-61

43. 1971 34-12

44. 1971 46-12

45. 1972 35-0

46. 1972 56-6

47. 1973 66-19

48. 1974 21-6

49. 1975 48-26

50. 1976 19-29

51. 1977 14-27

52. 1978 6-24

53. 1979 33-0

54. 1980 34-5

55. 1981 27-6

56. 1982 31-19

57. 1983 21-12

58. 1984 28-0

59. 1985 31-6

60. 1986 22-12

61. 1987 10-14

62. 1988 27-13

63. 1989 21-20

64. 1990 0-20

65. 1991 6-6

66. 1992 49-14

67. 1993 20-12

68. 1994 33-20

69. 1995 6-0

70. 1996 6-21

71. 1997 0-42

72. 1998 37-22

73. 1999 24-20

74. 2000 37-14

75. 2001 12-35

76. 2002 6-16

77. 2003 40-26

78. 2004 3-6

79. 2005 40-19

80. 2006 18-7

81. 2007 12-28

82. 2008 26-37

83. 2009 0-27

RECORD:

SHAFTER 43

WASCO 35

TIES 5

It's On

Update: From the email and the Californian, 27-0, Wasco. Congratulations to the Tigers for their first share of the SSL since 1961.

We'll get the results up here as soon as I get them. Those of you in attendance, feel free to report to the rest of us in the comments.

A couple of stories from the rallies. Apparently the Medina Affair did appear in both rallies. In Wasco, Rene Medina had some kind of surgical procedure transforming him from "redneck" to "Rene" symbolizing his transfer from Shafter to Wasco. I am sure there is something clever in there that was lost in the explanation. In Shafter, Athletic Director Doug Thompson stuck with the Bivouac formula for insult potency - specific and verifiable - impersonating the Wasco AD and saying that he was sorry to be late for the rally, but he was behind on some paperwork (reference to the Wasco AD's failure on the Medina transfer). Nice shot.

Zach Picks Wasco

No surprise here -

WASCO (7-2, 3-1 SSL) AT SHAFTER (2-7, 1-3) — The county's best rivalry has its next chapter at Shafter, and this could get interesting. For one thing, this series is rarely going to be a blowout. For another, Shafter is another one of those most improved teams. And finally, Wasco is coming off its win of the year (probably the decade), a home win against Tehachapi in which former Shafter standout Rene Medina made the big play, a 97-yard fourth-quarter strip, scoop and score in a 27-21 victory. So, with those intangibles going for them, can the Generals get a huge win and deny Wasco a share of its first league title since 1961? Nah. Shafter will hang in there for a while, but the Tigers' big-play ability will be too much in the end.
Prediction: Wasco 41, Shafter 16

The comments on Zach's blog can turn oddly threatening after his predictions, which makes no sense to me. I don't feel any animosity toward Zach for this. In fact, the best shot Shafter has is that Wasco comes in feeling cocky, so we should all be glad for this, insofar as it matters (probably doesn't). Between Wasco's chance to win league for the first time in fifty years and former General Rene Medina's role in making that possible, this could be one of the great stories in the history of the rivalry. It hardly needs to be said that when these two schools play, anything can happen. Should be fun.

Another Rivalry Game

From the second round of league play last year against Wasco:



Alex Gonzalez played a great game, hitting all five of his three point attempts, including this one to ice the game and inspire a rare break in Wiebe's game face.

Music- "Your Hand in Mine," Explosions in the Sky

Football Notes

The SSL this year is composed of two perfect triangles of parity with a wide gap between them. Taft, Tehachapi and Wasco all have one loss and one win against each other and have handled the bottom three of BCHS, Shafter, and Arvin easily. Each team in the bottom triangle is also 1 and 1 against the other two. On Friday, the top three play the bottom three and are 30+ point favorites in each game.

Not that anyone in Shafter cares about SSL placing at this point, but the novelty of Shafter's situation is interesting. If Shafter beats Wasco on Friday, they will likely find themselves dropping (sort of) in the SSL standings from a tie for second into third place.

Wasco has not won an SSL title in football since 1961. Shafter has the next longest drought in the league, sharing the top spot with Taft and Tehachapi in 2000.

Worthy of Pause

Google, for better or worse, tells me how you came here. Having been through one Wasco Week on this blog, I know that people all over the country and all over the world will search phrases like "Wasco Shafter rivalry" this week and spend some time with the past. Perhaps your nephew is playing in the game, or the smells of browning grass and fallen sycamore leaves took you back to your playing days. Perhaps you swung the Tiger or tossed a General onto the bonfire. You've sung the songs. You've heard the nervous clatter of cleats on concrete, the snare drum ricocheting around the parking lot. It has happened already and it is, I think, a remarkable thing, worthy of pause.

Update: Reading this again with some sleep (yes, you really can sleep when you're dead), I thought "pause for what?" I guess what I was trying to get at while hardly able to bring myself to come out with it, is that Shafter people can be grateful for Wasco because the rivalry is a good thing. It connects scattered people to home and football to life. As horrifying as the thought of being a Wasconian is, they are lucky compared to those with no rooting interest at all. Win or lose, for all of us the game matters.

Question for the Exchange Rally

The Shafter-Wasco rivalry, some might say, is about the narcissism of small differences. Shafter and Wasco are 7 miles apart and might seem indistinguishable to an outsider. This is why highly specific, verifiable insults that don't also implicate your own side are so important. For example: Wasco's city government is reckless, a fact highlighted by the Securities and Exchange Commission forbidding the city from issuing more debt in the late 1990s. I also like to bring up the witness of great anthropologist Walter Goldschmidt, who spent some time observing Wasco in the 1940s and concluded that, as a rule, collective efforts of Wasconians end in failure.

People from Wasco counter that they have a better auditorium. It is a nice auditorium, but it only serves to remind how bad the gymnasium is. Moreover, taken together, these two buildings illustrate how disordered Wasco's priorities are.

All of this is provides background for the big question that looms over the exchange rally - Will Wasco refer to the Medina Affair? Pitched in a certain way, a skit highlighting Rene Medina transferring from Shafter to Wasco has the makings of a potent insult. It is no secret that Wasco has often been stung by people living between Shafter and Wasco opting to go to high school in Shafter. Here is a case of, not just any student, but one of the best athletes in his class, shifting allegiance from Shafter to Wasco. The problem with that way of telling the story, however, is that it undermines the official version, which is a story of Medina sacrificing for the good of his family and explicitly not deciding based on his school or sport preferences. That is the story that got the CIF off of Wasco's back.

Obviously a skit would have zero effect on Medina's status with the CIF and it wouldn't make the official story untrue. It would just be a contradiction. For a town that, for years, held up a sign before visitors, that read "Wasco: A Nice Place to Live," contradiction is nothing new.

Gerald is Okay

It was touch and go for a while, but Gerald Rodriguez seems to be on the road to recovery. He was in a brutal car accident a few months back. I saw in the Shafter Press that he was able to serve as an honorary captain at a football game a few weeks ago. He will have an honorary spot on the basketball roster, but is not expected to play.

This is Interesting

Taft beat Shafter 42-7 at their place. Sadly, this wasn't unexpected. Shafter scored on a pass from Ricardo Castro to basketballer Jakob Velasquez.

More surprising was Wasco beating Tehachapi 27-21 and in dramatic fashion. "Wasco's Rene Medina stripped a Tehachapi runner and went 97 yards the other way for the game-winning touchdown in the fourth quarter, giving the Tigers a share of the league lead with Tehachapi and Taft."

This is the first time Wasco has beaten Tehachapi since an 0-2 game in 1995, snapping a 13 game streak of Wasco losses. This has also elevated l'affaire Medina to a whole new level. Medina won the game and saved Wasco's shot at a share of the SSL title. It also raises the stakes of the Wasco-Shafter game.

The Foolishness of Winners

Here are two blog posts from different sports, but about the same thing - "fundamental attribution error." So I learned from Don Nikkel's post about the 1965-66 season -

In social psychology there is a concept called the “fundamental attribution error” that I’m tempted to apply to the Generals’ 65-66 season. That concept points out that when we explain other people’s shortcomings we attribute it to their personal qualities; while when we explain our own shortcomings we attribute it to our circumstances. When my neighbor doesn’t mow his lawn it’s because he’s lazy; when I don’t mow mine it’s because I’m busy.

Joe Posnaski notes that Yankees talk about how their character and teamwork won the World Series, when it is clear to everyone else that they won because they can buy the best players. "And then, if you are a not a Yankees fan, you will want to throw up."

Matthew Yglesias thinks Bill Simmons is fooling himself by believing that growing up a Celtics fan in the era of Larry Legend gives him special insights on the game. Simmons reasons that great players understand the game best, so watching them should give their fans superior understanding. At this point Yglesias could have simply pointed to Yankee fans and moved on, but he gives us a bit more:

You sentimentalize teams you root for, and if you root for a team that’s really good—the Celtics or the Lakers or the Yankees—you wind up sentimentalizing success. And since the point of a sports competition is to win the games, sentimentalizing success gets people extremely confused. Thus we wind up hearing an awful lot in the book about “character” and how you need good character guys to win. If you’re a Celtics fan, this probably makes a lot of emotional (sense). The Spurs succeeded in the 2000s because of their great character guys. They were good people. Which means that the Celtics won all those championships because they were such good people.

Truly learning the game, Ygelsias says, requires being able to watch great teams without the distortion of identifying with them too closely.

Otherwise, you get too hung up on the idea that the ‘86 Celtics were better than the ‘96 Bulls (something that all and only people from Boston seem to think) and start twisting your whole worldview around to accommodate that conclusion.

True Bivouac junkies will know that I would like nothing more than to insert a comment about BCHS and the Sindex here, but I just can't bring myself to do it. They have been losing in football lately so I guess there's not as much sport in it.

A less sympathetic, smart-alecky reader might claim that I am guilty of the fundamental attribution error myself, especially with respect to Wasco. "Was it not you, General Shafter, who said in this space not one month ago that 'the deep flaws in the collective character of Wasco' threatened to undermine their football program? You regularly treat Wasco's losses as an expression of deficient moral character, but you don't apply the same standard to Shafter."

Based on the rudeness of this comment, I must assume that such a reader would be from Wasco and, being from Wasco, in no position to question the moral consistency of anyone.

Deep Thoughts

I'm told that when long time and recently retired Shafter math teacher Mike Nichols would call Friday quizzes "quizipoos," it really cut the tension and made the whole thing fun... What's that? It didn't?... Okay, never mind. It was a nice try though, I'm sure.

I am chock full of ideas to write about and not enough time. One big idea in particular occupies my thoughts. It is so sparkly and true that I want to be sure I don't diminish it too much in the telling. Hopefully, I will deliver it soon after Wasco week. (That, I believe, is what they call "foreshadowing.")

Shafter Cross-Country Sweeps SSL

Varsity and JV, Boys and Girls, the Shafter runners are League Champions. Congratulations, all.

Photos and times here.

Wasco Week: A Primer

Football takes over The Bivouac for one week each year. That week has not technically started, but now is the time to start preparing. Here are some of the key posts from last year.

Outsider appreciation for the rivalry. And more.

The improbable 1995 victory - Part One and Part Two. This story gets better every time I read it. It has it all: Charlie Rekosh, Mark Richardson-led visualization, classless Wasconians, and sweet victory.

Exchange Rally.

Yours truly gets defensive.

A hard fought loss.

Housekeeping Note

You may have noticed some new posts adding to the archive known as "the virtual barbershop." I put in some time on this over the weekend, mainly trying to make the thing more navigable. You can now go to the next or prior year from a season page. I also added a few more opponent pages, including Wasco. I intend to continue improving it and adding to it with pictures and video as I am able.

Shafter Press Sentence of the Week

From the top story, "Council approves notice of intent"-

"The item regarded the city's intent to file a notice of intent for projects they wished to obtain funding for."

Another Jimmy Laughlin Highlight

Shafter-Kern Valley

Series Record: 29 wins, 3 losses
Longest Streak: 18 wins 1962-63 to 1987-88
Current Streak: 4 wins

1962-63: Shafter 51, Kern Valley 32
1964-65: Shafter 61, Kern Valley 53
1965-66: Shafter 60, Kern Valley 40
1973-74: Shafter 66, Kern Valley 52
1974-75: Shafter 52, Kern Valley L
1975-76: Shafter 61, Kern Valley 41
1975-76: Shafter 51, Kern Valley 41
1976-77: Shafter 51, Kern Valley 50
1977-78: Shafter 56, Kern Valley 36
1979-80: Shafter 77, Kern Valley 41
1981-82: Shafter 67, Kern Valley 44
1982-83: Shafter 69, Kern Valley 36
1982-83: Shafter 70, Kern Valley 19
1983-84: Shafter 82, Kern Valley 48
1984-85: Shafter 70, Kern Valley 42
1984-85: Shafter 75, Kern Valley 45
1985-86: Shafter 54, Kern Valley 52
1986-87: Shafter 54, Kern Valley 39
1987-88: Shafter 48, Kern Valley 60
1988-89: Shafter 65, Kern Valley 46
1989-90: Shafter 72, Kern Valley L
1989-90: Shafter 73, Kern Valley 67
1990-91: Shafter 59, Kern Valley 58
1990-91: Shafter 57, Kern Valley 69
1991-92: Shafter 75, Kern Valley 60
1992-93: Shafter 82, Kern Valley 67
1993-94: Shafter 43, Kern Valley 32
1994-95: Shafter 51, Kern Valley 62
1997-98: Shafter, 45 Kern Valley, 42
1998-99: Shafter, 44 Kern Valley, 35
1999-00: Shafter 63, Kern Valley 38
2000-01: Shafter, 54 Kern Valley 34

Coach John Wiebe

Career Record: 34-68
2007-08: 6-18
2008-09: 9-18
2009-10: 7-18
2010-11: 12-14

Coach Ed Watts

Career Record: 94-93
1999-00: 12-12
2000-01: 16-9
2001-02: 16-11
2002-03: 19-12
2004-05: 3-24
2005-06: 11-17
2006-07: 17-8

Coach Stan Davis

Career Record: 54-68
1994-95: 10-12
1995-96: 4-21
1996-97: 8-16
1997-98: 15-9
1998-99: 17-10

Coach Jeff Scott

Career Record: 2-24
2003-04: 2-24

Shafter Coaches

James Wilson (1930-31 and 1931-32): 4-10-3
R.L. Gates (1932-33 to 1934-35 and 1942-43): 18-18
William White (1935-36 to 1939-40): 19-25
Jack Montgomery (1940-41 and 1941-42): 11-12
Lowell Todd (1943-44 to 1952-53): 78-90
Hank Moroski (1953-54 to 1956-57): 22-39
Marlin Olsen (1957-58 and 1958-59): 18-22
John Wagonner (1959-60 to 1961-62): 32-24
Bob Mears (1962-63): 14-7
Bob Hampton (1963-64 to 1966-67): 36-53
Pat Wennihan (1967-68 to 1969-70): 32-27
Ed Janzen (1970-71 to 1973-74): 36-43
Charles Rekosh (1974-75 to 1979-80): 69-72
Radon Fortenberry (1980-81 to 1989-90): 136-94
Ron Lauria (1990-91 to 1993-94): 56-37
Stan Davis (1994-95 to 1998-99): 54-68
Ed Watts (1999-00 to 2002-03 and 2004-05 to 2006-07): 94-93
Jeff Scott (2003-04): 2-24
John Wiebe (2007-08 to 2010-11): 34-68

Shafter-Lemoore

Series Record: 8 wins, 15 losses

Current Streak: 5 losses

1951-52: Shafter 42, Lemoore 59
1951-52: Shafter 57, Lemoore 65
1952-53: Shafter 67, Lemoore 35
1952-53: Shafter 60, Lemoore 45
1953-54: Shafter 49, Lemoore 61
1953-54: Shafter 48, Lemoore 37
1954-55: Shafter 36, Lemoore 39
1954-55: Shafter 33, Lemoore 47
1959-60: Shafter 36, Lemoore 38
1960-61: Shafter 73, Lemoore 55
1960-61: Shafter 65, Lemoore 50
1961-62: Shafter 32, Lemoore 37
1961-62: Shafter 53, Lemoore 45
1962-63: Shafter 36, Lemoore 51
1962-63: Shafter 46, Lemoore 51
1963-64: Shafter 37, Lemoore 38
1963-64: Shafter 47, Lemoore 45
1964-65: Shafter 54, Lemoore 49
1964-65: Shafter 51, Lemoore 57
1976-77: Shafter 39, Lemoore 73
1989-90: Shafter 51, Lemoore 82
1990-91: Shafter 52, Lemoore 83
2005-06: Shafter 73, Lemoore 81

Shafter-Dinuba

Series Record: 4 wins, 5 losses

Current Streak: 3 losses

1950-51: Shafter 49, Dinuba 55
1950-51: Shafter 60, Dinuba 50
1958-59: Shafter 31, Dinuba 30
1994-95: Shafter 59, Dinuba 53
1998-99: Shafter, 65 Dinuba, 69
2001-02: Shafter, 68 Dinuba 55
2003-04: Shafter 44, Dinuba 67
2007-08: Shafter 50, Dinuba 67
2007-08: Shafter 50, Dinuba 63

Shafter-Porterville

Series Record: 9 wins, 16 losses

Longest Winning Streak: 3 (1998-99 to 2001-02)
Longest Losing Streak: 9 (1953-54 to 1979-80)
Current Streak: 1 win

1952-53: Shafter 44, Porterville 35
1953-54: Shafter 43, Porterville 57
1955-56: Shafter 34, Porterville 39
1956-57: Shafter 29, Porterville 46
1957-58: Shafter 30, Porterville 35
1973-74: Shafter 70, Porterville 72
1974-75: Shafter 54, Porterville 84
1976-77: Shafter 53, Porterville 66
1976-77: Shafter 54, Porterville 66
1979-80: Shafter 46, Porterville 68
1980-81: Shafter 54, Porterville 42
1987-88: Shafter 56, Porterville 54
1988-89: Shafter 52, Porterville 60
1989-90: Shafter 56, Porterville 62
1990-91: Shafter 53, Porterville 72
1991-92: Shafter 44, Porterville 64
1992-93: Shafter 75, Porterville 60
1993-94: Shafter 40, Porterville 42
1998-99: Shafter 35, Porterville, 19
1999-00: Shafter 42, Porterville 35
2000-01: Shafter 60, Porterville 44
2001-02: Shafter 51, Porterville 46
2004-05: Shafter 49, Porterville 79
2005-06: Shafter 46, Porterville 25

Shafter-Sierra

Series Record: 1 win, 3 losses

Current Streak: 2 losses

1987-88: Shafter 52, Sierra 58
2000-01: Shafter 55, Sierra 58
2001-02: Shafter 70, Sierra 63
2008-09: Shafter 55, Sierra 62

Shafter-Lindsay

Series Record: 11 wins, 1 loss

Current Streak: 11 wins

1948-49: Shafter 34, Lindsay 43
1948-49: Shafter 34, Lindsay 32
1950-51: Shafter 40, Lindsay 16
1950-51: Shafter 68, Lindsay 39
1964-65: Shafter 51, Lindsay 45
1964-65: Shafter 67, Lindsay 60
1965-66: Shafter 44, Lindsay 40
1967-68: Shafter 53, Lindsay 51
1968-69: Shafter 64, Lindsay 44
1976-77: Shafter 76, Lindsay 64
1992-93: Shafter 60, Lindsay 31
1995-96: Shafter 47, Lindsay 45

Shafter-Coalinga

Series Record: 60 wins, 7 losses

Longest Winning Streak: 18 (1963-64 to 1979-80 and 1980-81 to 1989-90)
Longest Losing Streak: 1
Current Streak: 1 loss

1951-52: Shafter 60, Coalinga 50
1951-52: Shafter 61, Coalinga 42
1952-53: Shafter 57, Coalinga 46
1952-53: Shafter 62, Coalinga 44
1953-54: Shafter 40, Coalinga 44
1953-54: Shafter 44, Coalinga 41
1954-55: Shafter 41, Coalinga 30
1954-55: Shafter 33, Coalinga 18
1957:58: Shafter 66, Coalinga 52
1957-58: Shafter 64, Coalinga 48
1958-59: Shafter 42, Coalinga 54
1958-59: Shafter 58, Coalinga 57
1959-60: Shafter 50, Coalinga 47
1959-60: Shafter 36, Coalinga 55
1960-61: Shafter 60, Coalinga 38
1960-61: Shafter W, Coalinga L
1961-62: Shafter 50, Coalinga 32
1961-62: Shafter W, Coalinga L
1962-63: Shafter 51, Coalinga 38
1962-63: Shafter 40, Coalinga 53
1963-64: Shafter 45, Coalinga 39
1963-64: Shafter 63, Coalinga 56
1964-65: Shafter 76, Coalinga 42
1964-65: Shafter 77, Coalinga 33
1973-74: Shafter 71, Coalinga 39
1973-74: Shafter 87, Coalinga 59
1974-75: Shafter 65, Coalinga 50
1974-75: Shafter 47, Coalinga 43
1975-76: Shafter 60, Coalinga 43
1975-76: Shafter 55, Coalinga 46
1976-77: Shafter 75, Coalinga 50
1976-77: Shafter 60, Coalinga 46
1977-78: Shafter 65, Coalinga 54
1977-78: Shafter 47, Coalinga 41
1978-79: Shafter 55, Coalinga 47
1978-79: Shafter 59, Coalinga 50
1979-80: Shafter 59, Coalinga 53
1979-80: Shafter 59, Coalinga 52
1980-81: Shafter 43, Coalinga 44
1980-81: Shafter 49, Coalinga 42
1981-82: Shafter 58, Coalinga 53
1981-82: Shafter 65, Coalinga 52
1982-83: Shafter 48, Coalinga 45
1982-83: Shafter 63, Coalinga 43
1983-84: Shafter 61, Coalinga 35
1983-84: Shafter 59, Coalinga 41
1984-85: Shafter 60, Coalinga 33
1984-85: Shafter 70, Coalinga 50
1985-86: Shafter 58, Coalinga 37
1985-86: Shafter 55, Coalinga 41
1986-87: Shafter 72, Coalinga 31
1986-87: Shafter 65, Coalinga 36
1987-88: Shafter 64, Coalinga 38
1987-88: Shafter 69, Coalinga 45
1988-89: Shafter 66, Coalinga 48
1988-89: Shafter 64, Coalinga 39
1989-90: Shafter 53, Coalinga 67
1989-90: Shafter 54, Coalinga 53
1992-93: Shafter 68, Coalinga 62
1993-94: Shafter 58, Coalinga 55
1997-98: Shafter, 55 Coalinga, 31
1998-99: Shafter, 66 Coalinga, 54
1999-00: Shafter 65, Coalinga 58
2000-01: Shafter 58, Coalinga 47
2001-02: Shafter 57, Coalinga 38
2002-03: Shafter 56, Coalinga 45
2003-04: Shafter 36, Coalinga 43

Shafter-Avenal

Series Record: 7 wins, 1 loss

Current Streak: 7 wins

1945-46: Shafter 20, Avenal 26
1946-47: Shafter 26, Avenal 22
1947-48: Shafter W, Avenal L
1949-50: Shafter 50, Avenal 39
1950-51: Shafter 40, Avenal 35
1992-93: Shafter 45, Avenal 43
1993-94: Shafter 62, Avenal 38
1996-97: Shafter 40, Avenal 36

Shafter-Tulare Union

Series Record: 2 wins, 4 losses

1933-34: Shafter 22, Tulare 11
1957-58: Shafter 29, Tulare 48
1958-59: Shafter 31, Tulare 43
1959-60: Shafter 30, Tulare 58
1971-72: Shafter 61, Tulare 57
1995-96: Shafter 37, Tulare Union 48