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Knights, Ripon win in inaugural RC Classic
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RIPON — Reinforcements arrived just in time for the inaugural Ripon Christian Classic on Friday.The host Knights welcomed key players from their CIF State Northern California Regional Championships-qualifying girls basketball team and kicked off their new tournament with a 5-1 thumping of Los Banos. Rival Ripon also won its opener and blanked Big Valley Christian, 4-0.The win is also Ripon Christian’s first in its new stadium, and Paige Vos became the first varsity girls soccer player from the school to score a goal with her long-range free kick in the first half.Ripon Christian (3-3) rolled from there, scoring four more in the second half before Los Banos (0-6-1) answered in the waning minutes. Cynthia Van Vliet doubled the Knights’ early lead within the first five minutes of the second half.