CHATTER: USC'S ACHING THROWING ELBOWS A CONCERN FOR GILLESPIE.Byline: Chris Cocoles Staff Writer Seated at a cramped head table inside Long Beach State's Pyramid on Tuesday, USC's Mike Gillespie There are 3 sports coaches with the name Mike Gillespie:
Now Gillespie will watch the tender elbows of several key players as the Trojans prepare for a possible College World Series run. USC An abbreviation for U.S. Code. , ranked third and sixth in the preseason polls, watched another pitcher develop elbow soreness Monday. The severity of promising sophomore Brett Bannister's arm injury is uncertain. But it comes at a time when the Trojans must test the strength of Fraser Dizard and Brett's older brother Brian Bannister Brian Bannister (born February 28, 1981) is a starting pitcher for the Kansas City Royals in Major League Baseball. He is the oldest son of former major-league all star pitcher Floyd Bannister. Amateur Baseball Bannister was born in Scottsdale, Arizona. . Both missed most or all of 2002 and had surgery. ``We think it's not serious, but you learn (from past situations),'' Gillespie said about Brett Bannister during the news conference. ``It's the buzzword A term that refers to the latest technology or a term that sounds catchy. If not a flash in the pan, new technologies become mainstream. For example, Java was a hot buzzword in the 1990s, but should remain a major topic for decades. . It goes off and you worry. It's a day-to-day thing. You check and check and worry about the next time he pitches.'' USC ace Anthony Reyes Anthony Loza Reyes (born October 16, 1981 in Whittier, California) is a right-handed pitcher in the St. Louis Cardinals organization of Major League Baseball. Reyes is a Whittier, California native. probably wouldn't have returned, but his own elbow problems dropped his draft status from a no-brainer first-rounder to the 12th round. ``Reyes, Dizard and Brian Bannister seem to be healthy,'' Gillespie said. ``You wonder whatever the cause was before, is it going to happen again? You've got to be very careful about their pitch counts and even how you call a game. You try to be in tune with what they think.'' Trojans senior Anthony Lunetta will give his natural shortstop position a try again after Tommy John surgery Tommy John surgery, known by doctors as ulnar collateral ligament reconstruction (or UCL), is a surgical procedure in which a ligament in the medial elbow is replaced with a tendon from elsewhere in the body (often from the forearm, hamstring, knee, or foot of the following his sophomore year relegated the former freshman All-American to second-base and designated-hitter duties. ... The participating baseball coaches agreed a primary reason for gathering was to promote their underexposed un·der·ex·pose tr.v. un·der·ex·posed, un·der·ex·pos·ing, un·der·ex·pos·es 1. To expose (film) to light for too short a time or to light or radiation insufficient to produce normal image contrast. 2. sport throughout Southern California Southern California, also colloquially known as SoCal, is the southern portion of the U.S. state of California. Centered on the cities of Los Angeles and San Diego, Southern California is home to nearly 24 million people and is the nation's second most populated region, . Some of the nation's premier programs are in greater L.A., but they have had trouble drawing fans. ``Part of the intrigue for me is selling the college game. More than half the guys in the big leagues played college ball,'' said Gwynn, the future Hall of Famer taking over at San Diego San Diego (săn dēā`gō), city (1990 pop. 1,110,549), seat of San Diego co., S Calif., on San Diego Bay; inc. 1850. San Diego includes the unincorporated communities of La Jolla and Spring Valley. Coronado is across the bay. State this season. ``It's like nobody knows that college baseball exists.''... Gail Malone, a standout in women's volleyball at Valley College from 1975-77, has been selected to the California Community College Hall of Fame and will be honored March 27 at the California Commission on Athletics convention in Reno, Nev. Malone helped the Monarchs win a state championship in 1976 and later transferred to Long Beach State, where she became an All-American as a senior. Malone also served as coach of the Valley College women's team, played professional volleyball in Italy and represented the United States in beach volleyball at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta. ... Valley College athletes Maria Tonione (swimming) and Michael Hoy (swimming and water polo) were among 20 community-college students in California to be named to the Pepsi Scholar Athlete Honor Roll. Tonione finished with a 3.91 grade-point average, and Hoy finished with a 3.81 GPA GPA abbr. grade point average Noun 1. GPA - a measure of a student's academic achievement at a college or university; calculated by dividing the total number of grade points received by the total number attempted . ... Fans of the Calabasas High baseball program will have to divide their loyalties when college baseball season begins, as four members of the Coyotes' class of 2002 are playing at four-year universities. Pitcher Matt Green recently transferred from UC Davis to Claremont-McKenna, pitcher Justin Segal plays for UC Santa Barbara, pitcher Brad Schultz plays for University of Pacific and infielder Glen Greenberg will redshirt at Cal Poly Pomona. Also, current Calabasas catcher Aaron Lowenstein has signed with UC Irvine. ... Sophomore Won Yoo, expected to be Hart High of Newhall's top baseball pitcher this season, plans to move back to South Korea next month. Yoo, whose fastball was clocked at 88 mph last year, was 4-3 with 38 strikeouts in 41 innings as a freshman. His father was a coach for the Lancaster JetHawks last season but returned to South Korea to be its national team coach. ... UCLA UCLA University of California at Los Angeles UCLA University Center for Learning Assistance (Illinois State University) UCLA University of Carrollton, TX and Lower Addison, TX senior Onnie Willis has been selected the Pacific-10 Conference Gymnast of the Week. Willis, a 12-time All-American and the 2001 NCAA NCAA abbr. National Collegiate Athletic Association all-around co-champion, won the all-around at the Bruin Classic against California, Cal State Fullerton and UC Davis on Sunday, scoring a career-high 39.8 in that home opener. Her individual scores were 9.95 on vault (tied for first place), 9.925 on bars (tied for second place), a career-high 9.975 on the balance beam (second place) and 9.95 on the floor exercise (second place). She also helped the Bruins establish a season-high score for any team in the nation this year (198.275) and the second-highest score in UCLA history. UCLA produced its fifth-highest vault score (49.525), its fourth-highest bars score (49.625) and its second-highest beam score (49.65). Willis' honor is her first of the season and third of her career. ... Hart kicker Will Simons has been accepted by Princeton University and will try out for the football team. ``Hopefully, I'll be able to compete for a starting slot,'' said Simons, who will arrive on campus in late August to attend workouts. Staff writers Rich Hammond, Gerry Gittelson and Ramona Shelburne contributed to this report. |
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