Baseball: Hart's Bauer picks UCLA, will graduate early

Newhall Hart junior right-hander Trevor Bauer, who was 12-0 this season, has committed to UCLA and intends to graduate in December and join the Bruins in January.

Bauer said Saturday he wanted to finalize his decision before he leaves Monday for North Carolina to play in a tournament.

If he would have stayed for his senior season, he would have been considered a potential high draft choice. He has been throwing fastballs in the low 90s mph.

"I'm excited to be playing for UCLA," he said.

Bauer's arrival will give the Bruins potentially a group of top pitchers with last names starting in B _ Charles Brewer, Gavin Brooks and Bauer.

UCLA won out over Stanford for Bauer, who's a top student and wants to be an engineer.

-- Eric Sondheimer

-- Image by Ann Cusack/Los Angeles Times

Football: Los Alamitos QB is visiting Arizona State

Los Alamitos quarterback Clark Evans is headed to Arizona State this weekend to participate in a camp, and if the Sun Devils offer him a scholarship, he said he'd likely commit.

The 6-foot-4 senior did well on Saturday during the Dana Hills passing tournament and is one of the top three quarterbacks in Orange County.

-- Eric Sondheimer

Football: Hamilton hires ex-UCLA assistant

Former UCLA and Crenshaw assistant Eric Scott has been hired as offensive coordinator at Hamilton. He's one of three former Crenshaw assistants now working for Hamilton Coach Kelvin Moore.

-- Eric Sondheimer

Boys' basketball: Fairfax wins Watts Summer Games

Senior forward Solomon Hill was selected most valuable player as Fairfax won the Watts Summer Games boys' basketball championship with a 40-37 victory over Pasadena 

Fairfax defeated Lynwood in the semifinals and played without center Renardo Sidney. 

-- Eric Sondheimer

Football: Mater Dei wins Dana Hills passing tournament

So much for all that talk about Mater Dei lacking receivers as targets for All-American quarterback Matt Barkley.

They were good enough Saturday to help the Monarchs defeat Los Alamitos, 28-26, in the championship game of the seven-on-seven Dana Hills passing tournament.

Derek Campbell, Andrew Roth and Sean Sierra were among the new receivers making contributions. Los Alamitos defeated Mater Dei, 27-26, earlier in the day.

-- Eric Sondheimer

Football: Los Alamitos reaches final

With quarterback Clark Evans and an impressive group of receivers, Los Alamitos earned a spot in the championship game of the Dana Hills seven on tournament on Saturday.

Los Alamitos defeated Mater Dei, 27-26, to advance. The Griffins will play the winner of the Mater Dei-Tesoro game in the final at 2 p.m.

-- Eric Sondheimer

Football: Oaks Christian gets a sixth quarterback candidate

How many quarterbacks does it take to replace Christopher Potter of Oaks Christian?

Well, the Lions had five quarterbacks competing for the starting job during the spring, and a sixth, Chaminade transfer Nick Isham, arrived this week to join the competition.

Isham is one of three sophomores who transferred to Oaks Christian from Chaminade, and all will be eligible immediately under the new Southern Section transfer rules that allow a one-time transfer before a student's sophomore year.

It's Friday Night Football in June

Until now, about the only cure for the Friday Night Light blues has been to watch "Friday Night Lights" on DVD (the TV show, not the movie).

Good thing the 29th annual Hall of Fame game is coming up. The classic affair between East SGV vs. West SGV (with some kids from the Claremont and Bell Gardens area included) is providing the Friday Night fix you need on June 27 at 7 p.m. at Basset High.

Some of the players expected to take part are Oregon State-bound defensive back Kevan Walker of Arcadia, Northern Colorado-bound quarterback Matt Baca of Ayala, Utah State-bound running back Chris Harris of Duarte, defensive back/running back Kanaan Snowden of Charter Oak and running back Willie Youngblood of Muir.

Ray Hernandez of La Puente is the coach for the East, and Erick Escamilla of South El Monte is the coach for the West.

-- Jaime Cardenas

Girls' basketball: Full Speed ahead for USA U18 team

Nikki Speed, who helped her team win four Southern Section titles while at Marlborough, has been named to the USA Basketball U18 National team.

Speed was one of 12 players selected from among 35 who participated in the three-day tryout.

Speed, a guard who will attend Rutgers in the fall, was the only Southland player chosen. In fact, she is one of only three players who played west of Tulsa, Okla. The others were Ashley Corral of Vancouver (Wash.) Prairie and Joslyn Tinkle of Missoula (Mont.) Big Sky. Corral, by the way, will attend USC.

Among those who didn't make the squad were Jasmine Dixon, who was The Times' and the state player of the year, and junior Monique Oliver of Long Beach Poly.

-- Martin Henderson

Boys' volleyball: Valencia gets another 'unofficial' honor

I think it's safe to say that if there were such a thing as a national boys' volleyball champion, Valencia would be it.

Just weeks after the Southern Section-Toyota Division II champions were named the unofficial national champions by StudentSportsVolleyball.com, the Vikings were pegged as the No. 1 team in the nation by Rivals and CalHiSports.com in its postseason rankings.

Valencia (36-2), which has seven players moving on to Division I college programs, won its fourth division title in six years last month and posted a 94-11 game record. UCLA-bound Jamey Ker, the Division II Player of the Year, led the way with 309 kills.

Spectacularly, it is the second unofficial national championship Valencia has earned in the last two years. The Valencia softball team, which repeated as Division I champions this year, was declared as the best team in the nation by Rivals.com in 2007.

-- Austin Knoblauch