PREP BASKETBALL NOTEBOOK: ROBINSON READY TO MAKE IMPACT.

Byline: Vincent Bonsignore Staff Writer

For Chatsworth High basketball standout Frank Robinson, the wait is finally over. After spending his sophomore year on the Chancellors' junior varsity last season, Robinson makes his varsity debut this weekend at the War on the Floor tournament.

War on the Floor runs Saturday through Wednesday at Pierce College and Taft High of Woodland Hills.

Robinson, perhaps the top junior player in the region, transferred to Chatsworth from Littlerock last year, making him ineligible to play varsity sports. So he played on the JV team and dominated, averaging 42 points per game.

Now he's back where he belongs. Robinson played on the Littlerock varsity team as a freshman two years ago.

``I'm excited and I'm ready to go,'' said Robinson, a 6-3 guard.

Robinson used his time well on the JV team, working on his ballhandling and passing skills, two weaknesses that he now considers strengths.

``Some people may have looked at going down there to play as a sentence or punishment, but I looked at it as an opportunity to work on my game and get better,'' Robinson said. ``I tried to make the most of it.''

Obviously scoring wasn't a problem for Robinson. In fact, there were times it came so easily to him that he tried to look for other ways to make an impact.

``That's when I'd work on other things like making the pass and handling the ball. I'd see how many assists I could get and how I could get my teammates involved more,'' Robinson said. ``Those are skills I needed to work on anyway, and that was a great setting to do that.''

--Huge Mounties: Montclair Prep of Van Nuys might not be the best team in the region, but the Mounties will clearly be the biggest. And if their impressive size translates to success on the court, by the end of next year, they might well be the top team, too.

Montclair Prep has a projected front line of 6-foot-10 Blaise Lough, 6-8 Marko Bozovic and 6-8 Derek Daniels. In addition, the Mounties bring 6-10 Sebastian Anderle off the bench.

``We have a chance to be a good team, there's no doubt about that,'' said Mounties coach Tyrone Fuller. ``The goal right now is to try to get those guys to play to their size.''

Lough and Bozovic played on the Montclair Prep junior varsity last season as foreign-exchange transfers. Lough is from Cameroon and Bozovic is from Yugoslavia. The Mounties also have 6-3 Yugoslav exchange student Slobodan Cvijovic, who joined Lough and Bozovic on the JV team.

``It was a chance for them to get acclimated to American basketball, which is a little more physical than what they're used to, especially Slobodan and Marko,'' Fuller said.

Anderle, who is from Germany, played last season with the varsity, which finished second in the Delphic League. With the additions joining Daniels, Robert Lewis, Mark Johnson and Charlie Kranzdorff, the Mounties could become an area power.

Fuller won't waste time while getting the Mounties ready - they'll play in prestigious tournaments in Las Vegas and Torrey Pines, and he also wants to schedule games against top teams in Los Angeles and Orange County.

``We don't want to go out and bully schools, we want to play against the best teams we can,'' Fuller said.