ZEILE COULD RETURN TO HART.

Byline: Gerry Gittelson Community Sports

Organizers are hoping to confirm major-leaguer Todd Zeile for Hart High's annual alumni baseball game, scheduled for Feb. 22 at 10 a.m.

Zeile, 37, is a 14-year veteran in the big leagues - including a stint with the Dodgers - who is playing for the New York Yankees this season after batting .273 with 18 home runs for the Colorado Rockies in 2002.

His brother, Mike, also played baseball at Hart and is scheduled to participate in the alumni event. Another former Hart player, pitcher Andrew Lorraine, also might make an appearance. Lorraine has pitched for seven major-league teams over the past seven years, including a brief stint with the Milwaukee Brewers last season.

Jim Bonds, a former star baseball and football player at Hart who played football at UCLA and is now head football coach at St. Francis High in La Canada, is among about 20 alums who have confirmed.

Event organizer Bob Fick said the alumni will play their own game instead of playing Hart's varsity - ``That's the way they did it last year and it made for a fun time,'' Fick said - so the varsity will have its own scrimmage beginning at 8:30 a.m.

A ceremony honoring former Hart coach Mike Halcovich, fellow alum Chris Vasquez and longtime statistician Mike Gaber is scheduled for 10 a.m.

Fick said he's still searching for former Hart players wishing to participate. For information, call Fick at [phone].

--Halcrow takes first: Santa Clarita resident Ron Halcrow placed first in the Masters Division at the recent Speed Skating Championships at Valencia Ice Station, one of seven locals who finished among the top four in their division.

The others included Marie Valentine (girls 12-13 years old) and Chris Bowden (Masters) who placed second; Riley Bowden (Intermediate Boys, 16-17) and Don Ness (Masters) who placed third; and Don Meramble (Masters) and Sophie Valentine (girls, 10-11) who placed fourth.

--Add Valencia Ice Station: Television personality Lisa Guerrero of Fox Sports will host the Starlight Foundation Stars With Sticks charity hockey event Saturday night at the Ice Station. Presale tickets are available at the Ice Station.

--Collins welcomes back players: Valencia High boys' basketball coach Robert ``Rocket'' Collins, who played at the Master's College back in the 1970s when the school was called L.A. Baptist, has been living or working in Santa Clarita for three decades.

``I remember when the Valencia Town Center was an onion field,'' he said.

Nothing gives Collins more satisfaction than when former players call or come by to say hello. That's why it was a special day last week when two of his former players, Fabian Leon and Larry Phillips, coincidentally rang Collins within 10 minutes of each other. Collins invited both of them to come talk to his basketball team.

``It was great. They talked to my kids about values and hard work,'' Collins said.