L.A. BEAT : ANGELS FOUR DRAFTEES SIGN.The Angels have signed four additional players from the 1997 June Free Agent Draft to minor-league contracts. In all, Anaheim has signed 33 players from the 1997 Amateur Draft. The signees include fifth-round pick Michael Brunet, a right-hander from Pasco Hernando Community College (Fla.); seventh-rounder Robert Garrick, a catcher from Texas A&M; 10th-round pick Steve Green, a right-hander from Fort Scott C.C. (Kan.), and 53rd-round pick Steve Ahlers, a shortstop from Livermore High in the Bay Area. Garrick will report to Single-A Cedar Rapids (Iowa), Green is going to Single-A Boise. Brunet and Ahlers will join the rookie-league team in Butte (Mont.) ?13Marc J. Spears USC An abbreviation for U.S. Code. Power forward commits The men's basketball team has received an oral commitment from Brian Scalabrine, a 6-foot-9, 230-pound forward from Highline Community College Highline Community College is a junior college located in Des Moines, Washington, south of Seattle, Washington. Highline was founded in 1961 as the first community college in King County. in Des Moines, Wash. Scalabrine, who was also being recruited by Washington, Oregon, Miami and Boston College, averaged 15.2 points and 9.9 rebounds last season. He will sit out this season at Highline and enter USC as a sophomore. Scalabrine is personally tutored in his hometown of Enum Claw, Wash., by former 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 center Swen Nater. ?13Scott Wolf CSUN CSUN California State University Northridge Mission coach joins staff Former Los Angeles Mission College Los Angeles Mission College is a two-year community college located in Sylmar, California neighborhood of Los Angeles in the San Fernando Valley, United States. It is part of the Los Angeles Community College District. coach Randy Cooper is expected to be hired as an assistant to Mike Batesole on the Cal State Northridge baseball staff, according to Northridge athletic director Paul Bubb. Cooper has coached at Mission since 1996 but was left without a job when the school dropped its entire sports program. Cooper, 28, interviewed with Bubb and Batesole on Monday, according to Bubb. Cooper was out of town Wednesday and unavailable for comment. ``Basically everything is done except signing the contract,'' said Bubb. Cooper is a graduate of Hoover High School Hoover High School may refer to any of the following:
?13Vincent Bonsignore GALAXY Schedule is filling up The Galaxy's 2-0 victory over L.A. Firpo on Tuesday in the CONCACAF CONCACAF Confederation of North, Central American and Caribbean Association Football (Soccer) CONCACAF Confederacion Norte, Centroamericana y del Caribe de Futbol Asociacion (Spanish) Champions Cup, the top professional club tournament in the Western Hemisphere, is great news for a young team in a young league. It might not be so great for the Galaxy. The victory means it must play fellow Major League Soccer team D.C. United in a semifinal game Aug. 22 at RFK Stadium for the right to play in the final two days later. As a result, the team has rescheduled its Aug. 23 home game against Colorado to Sept. 10. If it makes the Aug. 24 Cup final, the Galaxy will have played seven games in 16 days. ?13Patrick Hipes |
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