Cash Rico overcomes an injury and leads the team to the Eyl title

Cash Rico's Grit and determination drove him back onto the baseball field.

During his junior year, Rico suffered an injury to play football. His kneecap kept getting room and no longer missed what was operated on in winter.

That meant that he would miss most of the baseball season.

Rico played in four games later in spring, but still had ongoing operation.

“To be honest, it was pretty hard,” said Rico. “When I came back from the knee surgery, it was as if I didn't know that it took a while. With all the swelling and mobility, it was so difficult to return 100%again. The rehab process was really difficult.”

Rico had a goal – to go back to the field with his teammates.

So he went to the rehab process every day.

His training regime included strength and condition, yoga and exercises that focused on mobility. A few of his favorite workouts were crouching and stretching.

In the football season, Rico and his knee felt comfortable that he played East Yosemite League on the way to the player of East Yosemite League 2024 on his way to defensive player in 2024. He achieved 59 duels, five for a loss, a sack, four interceptions and three passable controls for a Rangers team that moved into the playoffs of Division II of the central department.

“This whole year I felt 100%,” said Rico. “I was ready to go.”

With his injury behind him, Rico established himself this season as one of the leading home romans of the central section.

In statistics that were reported to Maxpreps.com, Ricos seven Homer are bound to the sixth most frequent section. His seven homes lead Tulare County this season too.

“It's incredible,” said Rico. “Seeing the ball that goes over the fence is one of the best feelings you can have. Just rounding off the bases, it is just pure joy to touch the home plate.”

Rico struck a bomb with three runs in a 8: 3 victory against Mission Oak on March 7 and hit a thing with two runs on March 10 to defeat Sunnyside with 11: 1.

Then, in a 12: 2-route by Justin Garza on March 26, Rico triggered a few Homer with two runs. Another explosion with two runs followed in a 4-1 win against Golden West on April 3.

During the spring holidays in the Fresno Easter Classic, Rico also beat a three-run Homerun in an 8: 7 defeat against West Park-Roseville.

Rico started his seventh Homerun of the season on April 24th in an 11-0 Shutout by Mt. Whitney.

“It was great because I was there to see everything he did last year to get back on the field at the end of last year,” said Dan Hydash, head coach from Redwood. “And only to prepare for football and baseball this year was really hardworking with his rehab and did this every day and comes here and extends.

By May 7th, Rico has registered an average value of 0.424 with 28 runs, 30 RBIs, 21 walks, 10 double, triple and four stolen bases.

Hydash praised Rico for his ability to defend himself from his injury.

“Baseball is a hard game,” said Hydash. “It is a repetition game. If you miss repetitions, if you miss bats, it is usually difficult for us in the course of a season to return at the end of the year, but he was able to do this for us last year. He was not known this year.

Redwood (18: 7, 12: 1) held his third East Yosemite League championship in a row this season behind Rico's home.

The Rangers run under Hydash was remarkable. You won four titles in a row and seven in 11 seasons.

Rico heads a Redwood team that achieves an average of 6.48 runs per game.

What is it like to have someone who can hit the long ball?

“It is good that we have someone like that, especially someone who likes cash,” said Redwood Shortstop Isaac Esquivel. “He comes in a coupling when we need it. A big racket like be helps us a lot.”

Since Redwood came into the Eyl for the school year 2022-23, he has dominated the league game and put together with 42: 1.

The Rangers lost their first Eyl game in three seasons this spring and fell 5-1 against Monache on March 27.

Despite this flaw, Redwood exceeded her league enemies at 97-36 this season.

Under Hydash, the Rangers won seven league championships, including four crowns of the West Yosemite League (2014, 2017, 2019, 2022) and three consecutive Eyl titles (2023, 2024, 2025).

“What do I really repeat to the players is:” Do you know what? At this point it is a responsibility to continue this success tradition, “said Hydash.” It is a lot of responsibility and stress, because every year people expect that we are a good ball club and everyone is ready to play ourselves. You want to play us. They want to beat us. This is a great responsibility for a high school team that you can take over, but you really handled it with it. You use the work. “

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