May 2010 Archives
Here are the rosters for the Inland Valley High School All-Star baseball and softball games. The 17th annual baseball game will be played June 9 at the Rancho Cucamonga Epicenter and the 7th edition of the softball game will take place June 7 at Big League Dreams in Mira Loma. All participants are seniors who were selected based on their athletic and academic achievement.
BASEBALL
North
P - Cesar Aguilar, Miller
P - David Cook, Upland
P - Angus Miller, Summit
P - Sergio Navarro, Eisenhower
P - Derek Penilla, San Dimas
P - Mikey Ramirez, Etiwanda
C - Tim Helton, Upland
C - Jake Hernandez, Los Osos
C - George Ortega, Damien
1B - Ryan Halstead, Los Osos
1B - Adrian Lopez, Fontana
2B - Anthony Fernandez, Los Osos
2B - Erik Lewis, Damien
Continue reading Inland Valley HS All-Star baseball/softball rosters.
Tickets for Friday's Etiwanda High School alumni basketball game are $8 for adults, $5 for children and $3 for current Etiwanda students. Varsity boys basketball alumni will receive free admission and pre-sale tickets are only available for current Etiwanda students. All other tickets for the third edition of the Etiwanda alumni game will be sold at the door.
The current Etiwanda varsity will take on a team of alumni that includes Etiwanda class of 2005 Darren Collison of the New Orleans Hornets and Jeff Pendergraph of the Portland Trailblazers, each fresh off their rookie seasons in the NBA. The alumni team will consist of graduates ranging from the class of 2000-2009.
The game will begin at 6:30 p.m. in the Etiwanda gym but the doors will open at 5:30. For more information, e-mail game organizer Gary Clark, Etiwanda class of 2002, at gmclark84@yahoo.com.
The alumni roster is as follows:
Continue reading Etiwanda alumni basketball game roster set.
The CIF-SS Masters Swimming Meet was held Tuesday at Belmont Plaza in Long Beach. Not all local swimmers made the story. Here are the Inland Valley competitors:
BOYS
200 medley relay: 20. Damien 1:41.65; 200 free: 7. Sam Jardine (Claremont) 1:42.85, 19. Damon Pitre (Damien) 1:47.05, 20. Carson May (Damien) 1:49.02; 50 free: 12. Caleb Guarino (Bonita) 21.77, 14. Chris Lodolo (Damien) 21.96; 100 free: 6. Jason Haney (Damien) 47.15; 500 free: 6. Sam Jardine (Claremont) 4:35.64, 7. Dylan Gabel (Los Osos) 4:36.60, 22. May (Damien) 4:57.25; 200 free relay: 7. Redlands East Valley 1:27.94, 18. Damien 1:29.72; 100 back: 13. Gabel (Los Osos) 53.73; 100 breast: 11. Bennett Yuan (Diamond Bar) 59.99, 24. Johnny Beal (Damien) 1:01.97; 400 free relay: 3. Damien 3:12.11.
Girls
200 medley relay: 11. Ayala 1:53.63, 12. St. Lucy's 1:53.68, 24. Claremont 1:59.26; 200 free: 23. Vi Nguyen (Ayala) 1:59.44; 200 IM: 9. Ashley Tse (Ayala) 2:07.63, 14. Rebecca Coan (Los Osos) 2:10.55; 50 free: 16. Maddie Lovrensky (Alta Loma) 24.78; 100 fly: 7. Coan (Los Osos) 58.47, 13. Kayla Clark (Ayala) 59.09; 100 free: 23. Vi Nguyen (Ayala) 55.46; 500 free: 7. Madeline Harbach (St. Lucy's) 5:05.59, 19. Tana Wilson (Claremont) 5:21.70; 200 free relay: 9. Ayala 1:41.56, 17. St. Lucy's 1:42.56; 100 back: 17. Lovrensky (Alta Loma) 1:00.76; 100 breast: 5. Tse (Ayala) 1:04.74
Maybe the ball flies a little further in the thin desert air of the Inland Valley. Whatever the reason there is apparently a little more offense down here than in Northern California...
Though she didn't know it until it was over, Samantha Albanese of Castilleja High School in Palo Alto tied a national record with 10 consecutive no-hitters. Though her travel ball coach labeled the senior bound for Northwestern "maybe the most underrated pitcher in the nation," she is pulling in the publicity now.
Some of her numbers this season: an 0.06 ERA, 14 no-hitters, 15 shutouts and a 15-2-1 record. She's not to shabby on offense either with a .615 batting average and 47 RBIs.
Her career numbers are almost as ridiculous: 15 perfect games (5 shy of the national record), 48 shutouts, a 0.27 ERA, a 58-12-1 record and a .589 batting average.
Here is a link to the maxpreps.com's story.
Considering the amount of graduates who play basketball for a living, the Etiwanda High School alumni basketball game on May 21 won't exactly be full of players trying to capture their former glory.
Fresh off their NBA rookie seasons, New Orleans Hornets point guard Darren Collison of UCLA fame and Portland Trail Blazers power forward Jeff Pendergraph will headline a group of players that includes some who play professionally overseas. Collison, who won a CIF championiship at Etiwanda with the Arizona State-bound Pendergraph in 2005 and led UCLA to three final four appearances in four seasons, thrived in the absence of injured Hornets point guard Chris Paul, averaging 19 points and 8.5 assists the last three months of this season.
The alumni game will begin at 6:30 p.m. at Etiwanda on May 21.
Monrovia High School track coach Mike Knowles apparently didn't have his sportsmanship bracelet on during the Rio Hondo League track meet on April 29. After a South Pasadena pole vaulter won her team the league championship with a dramatic final vault on the meet's final event, Knowles had her disqualified for wearing a friendship bracelet. The violation of the no-jewelry rule by South Pasadena's best pole vaulter happened to dock the team enough points to award Knowles' Monrovia team the league championship.
Here's a link to the story on SI.com.
Three-time state champion hurdler Kori Carter may be more fun off the track than she is good on it. This was not lost on Staff Writer J.P. Hoornstra, who encountered the eccentric Claremont High School senior while she dominated the Baseline League track meet on Friday.
Enjoy this post on J.P's blog.
Scott Morrison, the former Damien High School football coach, has accepted the head coaching position at Workman High School in the City of Industry. Morrison, a Damien alum, was let go as Damien's coach before the 2009 season and replaced by Greg Gano. Morrison was Damien's coach from 2003-08, making the playoffs four times and winning two Sierra League titles. He continued to teach English at Damien this past year.
Morrison coached at Citrus College last fall, serving as the Special Teams Coordinator/Strength & Conditioning Coach/Outside Receivers Coach.
Claremont High School senior Tyler Singleton will likely receive a 180-day jail sentence for his conviction of statutory rape, he learned in a hearing on Wednesday. The Claremont running back pleaded no contest in March to a felony and a misdemeanor for allegedly having sex with two underage classmates.
Singleton, 18, won't be formally sentenced until June 9, but his mother and the mother of a 14-year-old victim of Singleton's argued their points regarding the length of his sentence in Pomona Superior Court on Wednesday. Read the entire story here.
For reasons that remain unknown, longtime Etiwanda High School baseball coach Shane Moses resigned his position prior to the Eagles' game with Claremont on April 22, one of two games he missed before returning to his post a week ago. Moses declined to comment on why he resigned or returned to Etiwanda.
"Every program has its issues," Moses said. "We choose not to air our dirty laundry."
Etiwanda athletic director Brice Sunderland did not return multiple messages seeking comment.
Former Mater Dei High School basketball duo David and Travis Wear, whom several Inland Valley teams know well, is transferring from North Carolina after one season, according to this SI.com story.
Though the Tarheels are coming off a sub-standard season following their national championship two years ago, several touted recruits are set to join the team this season. The Wears, who both played decent reserve minutes as true freshmen, weren't expected to be threatened seeing as the lauded incoming freshmen are perimeter players. The Wear's father called a surprised North Carolina coach Roy Williams Wednesday night and asked for the players' release from their scholarships.
Bonita baseball coach John Knott is organizing a baseball tournament for next season pitting the Inland Empire's best high school baseball teams against those from the San Gabriel Valley.
A 32-team bracket set to face off next March has filled more than halfway already with commitments from Inland Empire schools such as Redlands East Valley, Alta Loma, Rancho Cucamonga, Los Osos, Damien and Diamond Ranch. San Gabriel Valley schools already committed include Covina Northview, Covina Charter Oak and West Covina South Hills.
"We think it could create some really good rivalries between the San Gabriel Valley and the Inland Empire," Knott said. "There are already some rivalries there but we hope this will help them grow. There's a lot of good baseball in those two areas and we want to showcase that."
Continue reading I.E vs. SGV baseball tournament in the works .
About Clay
Clay Fowler has been covering high school sports for six years in California and Texas. He was born in Dallas, attended the University of Texas and worked in Central Texas before joining the Daily Bulletin staff in 2006.
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