A signing party is planned for Rancho Cucamonga

Rancho Cucamonga High School will celebrate 12 athletes signing letters of intent on Wednesday in the school's multi-purpose room.

Among the signees: golfer Rico Hoey (USC); softball player Justine McLean (Florida); girls' soccer players Danielle Lopez (UC Riverside) and McKinsey Martinez (UC Santa Barbara); baseball player Mason Fishback (Oregon State); football players Tahaan Goodman (UCLA), AJ Latu (Arizona State), Ami Latu (Arizona State), Armond Hawkins (Idaho), Chris Hawkins (USC), Ty Lauderdale (Menlo) and Tyan Washington (Azusa Pacific).

Also track athlete Jordan Munford will announce his college decision. Hawkins is already enrolled at USC.

-- Eric Sondheimer

Vista Murrieta athletic program receives national award

Coach and Athletic Director magazine has named Vista Murrieta High as a recipient of its National Interscholastic Program of Excellence award for public schools above 1,000.

Vista Murrieta was selected as "a school where academics, athletics, activities and the arts are emphasized equally, allowing their students to be actively involved in all areas so that they become well rounded citizens," according to the magazine's editor-in-chief, Michael Austin.

-- Eric Sondheimer

 

Girls' soccer: Three top Southland players are on U17 World Cup team

Three top players from Southernn California _ Amber Munerlyn of Corona Santiago, Maddie Bauer of Santa Ana Mater Dei and Arielle Ship of Westlake Village Westlake _ are on the U17 Women's World Cup team that just came back from competition in Eastern Europe.

The team plays in the World Cup beginning Sept. 22 in Azerbaijan. A final training camp and roster will be decided later this month.

-- Eric Sondheimer

Golf: Rico Hoey of Rancho Cucamonga wins Central Regional qualifier

Rico Hoey of Rancho Cucamonga and Aaron Wise of Corona Santiago each shot 69 on Monday at the Central Individual Regional qualifier at Mission Lakes Country Club, with Hoey emerging as the medalist after a card off.

The Southern Section individual golf finals are next Monday at Victoria Country Club.

-- Eric Sondheimer

Football: Time Warner Cable announces 2011 schedule

Time Warner Cable has announced its schedule for the 2011 football season:

Sept. 2--Mater Dei at Carson

Sept. 9--Venice at Chaminade

Sept. 16--Thousand Oaks at Moorpark

Sept. 23--Orange Lutheran vs. La Habra at Cerritos College

Sept. 30--Serra at Narbonne

Oct. 7--Oxnard at Ventura

Oct. 14--Sherman Oaks Notre Dame at Crespi

Oct. 21--Canyon Country Canyon at Valencia

Oct. 28--Loyola at Bishop Amat

Nov. 4--Garfield vs. L.A. Roosevelt at East L.A. College

Nov. 11--Charter Oak at Chino Hills

--Ben Bolch

Boys' basketball: Fullcourt Press Lead Guard Camp held this weekend

Mater Dei's Katin Reinhardt and Stanley Johnson will be among the Southern California players participating in the Fullcourt Press Lead Guard Camp on Saturday and Sunday at Cal State Dominguez Hills.

The camp runs from 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. each day and includes skills, drills and lectures during the day, with scrimmages and pick-up games in the afternoon and early evening.

Other players scheduled to participate: Windward's Nick Stover, Price's Chance Murray, St. Bernard's Brandon Randolph, La Verne Lutheran's Eric Cooper, Loyola's Parker Cartwright, Sierra Canyon's Jahmel Taylor and Derryck Thornton, Alemany's Bear Henderson, Ribet Academy's Tyler Dorsey, Providence's Marcus LoVett, Dominguez's E.J. Johnson, Taft's Sandro Alberto, Loyola's Jacob Hazzard and Max Hazard, Fairfax's Reggie Theus Jr., Harvard-Westlake's Derrick Newton, Bishop Montgomery's Lamond Murray Jr., Mater Dei's Kameron Murrell, Pacific Hills' Namon Wright, St. John Bosco's Eris Winder, Inglewood's Randy Onwuasor, Servite's Bryan Velasco, Great Oak's Latrelle Franklin, Taft's Kris Yanku and Long Beach Poly's Ke'jhan Feagin.

--Ben Bolch

Baseball: Redlands East Valley's Jackson McClelland and Justin Jacome announce commitments

Redlands East Valley right-hander Jackson McClelland has committed to Pepperdine and left-hander Justin Jacome has committed to Santa Barbara, according to Wildcats Coach James Cordes.

--Ben Bolch

Timothy Lopes leads Milwaukee Brewers to victory in Area Code Games

Edison senior Timothy Lopes went two for two with a walk and a run batted in to lead the Southern California-stocked Milwaukee Brewers to a 4-2 victory over the New York Yankees in their opening game of the Area Code Games on Saturday at Blair Field in Long Beach.

The Brewers broke open a tie score with two runs in the fourth inning and then relied on their strong pitching the rest of the way. Pitching across the street from his high school, Long Beach Wilson right-hander Chase De Jong pitched two perfect innings, striking out four. UCLA-bound left-hander Max Fried pitched two solid innings.

Placentia El Dorado's Kyle Twomey pitched a scoreless inning before La Verne Bonita's Justin Garza completed the final two innings.

Tanner Rahier, who attends Palm Desert but plays for an amateur wood bat league during the high school season, received the Jose Bautista "Beastmode" Award after making the defensive play of the game. Rahier turned an unconventional double play by tagging out a runner attempting to steal second base and then throwing home to get a runner attempting to score from third base. He also doubled and scored a run.

Another offensive hero for the Brewers was Upland senior Daniel Robertson, who tripled and scored on a single by Ron Miller of Gardena Serra. The Brewers play the Royals at 2:30 p.m. Sunday in a game scheduled to run nine innings, two longer than normal.

--Ben Bolch

Four Southern Californians make 14-under USA Baseball national team

Four players from Southern California were among the 18 who made the final USA Baseball 14-under national team roster that will travel to San Felipe, Venezuela, to compete in the COPABE Pan Am 14-under championships Aug. 14-22.

Infielder-outfielder William Aguilar of Lawndale, pitcher-catcher Chris Betts of Long Beach, pitcher Bailey Falter of Chino Hills and infielder-pitcher Isaak Gutierrez of Norwalk were among the six players from California to make the team, the most from any state.

The team will play two intrasquad scrimmages Saturday and Sunday before playing host to a pair of exhibition games against the Canes 15-under team from Charlotte, N.C., on Monday and Tuesday in Cary, N.C. The team leaves for Venezuela on Thursday and then plays its first game the following day against Brazil.

Pool play runs from Friday through Aug. 18, with the semifinals on Aug. 19 and the championship on Aug. 21.

--Ben Bolch

Southern Section names Glenn Martinez assistant commissioner

Glenn Martinez, an assistant principal at Covina Charter Oak, has been hired as an assistant commissioner with the Southern Section, taking over the position vacated by Rob Wigod, who was promoted to Southern Section commissioner.

It remains to be seen if Martinez will take over Wigod's previous duties, which included handling football.

Martinez spent 19 years coaching baseball and football at La Puente Bishop Amat. He has been the vice principal in charge of student services and athletics at Charter Oak since 2002.

-- Eric Sondheimer