CHATTER: LOCAL PAIR HAS GAME(S).Byline: Vincent Bonsignore Staff Writer Two familiar basketball players from the region now playing at UC Santa Barbara Santa Barbara (săn'tə bär`brə, –bərə), city (1990 pop. 85,571), seat of Santa Barbara co., S Calif., on the Pacific Ocean; inc. 1850. will be in action this week against local schools. The Gauchos, whose top two scorers are former Simi Valley Simi Valley (sē`mē, sĭm`ē), city (1990 pop. 100,217), Ventura co., SW Calif. in an oil, fruit, and farm region; laid out 1887, inc. 1969. High standout Branduinn Fullove and former Hoover of Glendale star Mark Hull, visit Loyola Marymount tonight and play host to Pepperdine on Saturday. Fullove, who stepped into the lineup last year as a freshman, is averaging 16.8 points. Hull is right behind at 16.2. UCSB UCSB University of California at Santa Barbara UCSB University of Casual Sex and Beer coach Bob Williams This article is about the rugby player. For the college basketball coach, see Bob Williams (basketball coach). For the baseball player, see . Bob Williams was an Australian rugby league player for the Eastern Suburbs club. is pleased with Fullove's progress. ``We recruited him as a highly regarded player out of Simi Valley and felt all along he had a chance to be an impact player here,'' Williams said. Incidentally, former Canoga Park standout Cecil Brown is a redshirt freshman with the Gauchos. ``We feel he has an extremely bright future,'' Williams said of Brown. ... Alemany of Mission Hills has named Bill Bedgood and Alan Woskanian as interim boys' basketball coaches, replacing Chris Dunbar, who left the Indians this week to take over at Chatsworth. Bedgood and Woskanian were assistants under Dunbar. ``I have complete confidence in them because they've been with the kids for a while,'' Alemany athletic director Athletic director (commonly, "athletics director") is a position at many American colleges and universities, as well as in larger high schools and middle schools, which oversees the work of the coaches and related staff involved in intercollegiate or interscholastic athletic Tim Browne said. Browne said he will search for a permanent replacement at the end of the season. ... Two local quarterbacks probably will get a chance to win a job in the NFL NFL abbr. National Football League NFL (US) n abbr (= National Football League) → Fußball-Nationalliga next season. Former Hart of Newhall standout David Neill, who just completed his senior year at Nevada, is rated by one so-called expert as the ninth-best QB prospect entering the NFL draft. Cal State Northridge's Marcus Brady is No. 19. Neill is given high marks for his quick release, timing, footwork and speed. His arm is NFL quality and he has shown intelligence and the discipline to put in film-study time. There are concerns about the 6-foot-3, 215-pounder's slender build, his lack of consistency as a passer and a drop-off in poise when he gets hit a lot through the course of the game. However, he's expected to get drafted and has a chance to make a team. Brady's strengths are his athletic ability and speed. He's a threat to run and has playmaking ability. At 5-11, he is undersized undersized see dwarfism, runt. . Scouts consider him a free-agent type and feel his best chance is to play in the Canadian Football League Canadian Football League (CFL) Major Canadian professional gridiron football organization, formed in 1958. The league's Western Conference includes teams from Edmonton, Calgary, British Columbia, Saskatchewan, and Winnipeg; its Eastern Conference comprises teams from , where his athletic ability will be more of an asset. |
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