Alta Loma hires baseball coach from college ranks
Alta Loma's new baseball coach, Tim Burton, was approved by the school board Tuesday night and officially took over the program this week after Ted Persell, who coached the Braves for the last eight seasons, resigned in May.
Burton's coaching experience has been primarily in the collegiate ranks with stints at USC, Riverside Community College and, most recently, Cal Poly Pomona, where he has spent a total of six years as an assistant. He hopes to step into the deep Baseline League and maintain a quality program at Alta Loma.
"I think there's a good enough mix of returning players and newcomers that we'll be competitive here," Burton, 37, said. "This is a rich league we're in, but I'm excited about what we've got."
Alta Loma made the playoffs four consecutive seasons until finishing a game out of the postseason last year behind Etiwanda, which surged to the CIF-SS Division 2 finals.
"Baseball has been traditionally good under Ted Persell the last two or three years," Alta Loma athletic director Brett Proctor said. "I expect (Burton) to continue that competitiveness and be in the league title hunt and hopefully he will raise that to an even higher level."
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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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