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Matt LaBelle has resigned as athletic director at Simi Valley.

LaBelle will continue to coach baseball and will be able to spend more time with his family

Christian Lopes, one of the Southland's top baseball prospects, has transferred from Valencia to Edison in Huntington Beach.

He transferred out today, and the Lopes family has rented an apartment in Huntington Beach. Lopes' brother Tim, who played on Valencia's varsity team as a freshman, also transferred.

-- Gerry Gittelson

Here are the pools for the 2010 So. Cal. Easton showdown tournament hosted by Moorpark High.

Pool A: Alemany, Canyon, Chatsworth, Hueneme
Pool B: Mooraprk, Rio Mesa, San Luis Obispo, Santa Monica
Pool C: Agoura, Cleveland, Harvard-Westlake, Lancaster
Pool D: Calabasas, Crespi, Kennedy, Quartz Hill
Pool E: Chaminade, Palmdale, St. Bonaventure, West Ranch
Pool F: Hart, Thousand Oaks, Westlake, Ventura
Pool G: Burroughs, Camarillo, Oaks Christian, Valencia
Pool H: Buena, El Camino Real, Knight, Simi Valley

There is a link to aprintable schedule at musketeerbaseball.org

Ryan Keller, a hard-throwing right-hander from West Ranch High, has committed to University of San Diego.

-- Gerry Gittelson

Outfielders Josh Mason and Michael Hubbard, two of Crespi's top returning players, have committed to Stony Brook University in New York, where they'll join former teammate Tyler Johnson, a Stony Brook sophomore pitcher.

"It's a good story. Josh and Michael played Little League together at Woodland Hills Sunrise, and their dream was always to play together in high school and college," said Elliott Mason, Josh's dad.

-- Gerry Gittelson

Avondre Bollar, a Thousand Oaks junior who is a top baseball player and starting quarterback for the football team, has committed to play baseball at San Diego State.

-- Gerry Gittelson

Well-traveled Chuck Berrington is the new coach at Providence in Burbank, his third stop over the past three years following stints at Newbury Park for one season this past spring and Taft for three seasons. He previously coached at Westlake for seven seasons before resigning in 2002, then worked as an assistant at Moorpark JC.

Newbury Park finished 20-10 and placed third in the Marmonte League under Berrington last season.

-- Gerry Gittelson

Jordan Brower, a top baseball baseball player at Newbury Park whom you might remember as the starting pitcher for Conejo Valley in the 2004 Little League World Series championship game in Williamsport, Pa., has accepted a Cal Poly SLO scholarship.

-- Gerry Gittelson

Josh Goossen-Brown, a first-team All-Southern Section and second-team Cal-Hi Sports all-state selection at Notre Dame High this past season, has taken his pitching talents to L.A. Valley College with plans still in place to eventually land a major-college scholarship.

-- Gerry Gittelson

The M & M boys from Chatsworth, Mike Moustakas and Matt Dominguez, continue their Major League baseball journey after both being drafted in the first round in 2007 - Moustakas No. 2 overall by the Kansas City Royals and Dominguez No. 12 by the Florida Marlins.

Moustakas is batting .250 with 16 home runs and 86 RBIs for Single-A Wilimington, N.C., while Dominguez is batting .247 with 13 home runs at Double-A Jacksonville, Fla.

gerry.gittelson@dailynews.com