Tex Wallis, whose 656 career coaching victories at La Habra is the second-highest total in Orange County history, passed away Tuesday night. He was 83.
Wallis was not only a great coach, but a great person. He was extremely kind to me, as a young guy covering sports for the old Brea-La Habra Daily Star-Progress in the late 1970s.
Services are private. There will be a memorial service in the La Habra gym on Nov. 7, time to be announced. There is a picture of Wallis hanging in that gym.


Mater Dei boys basketball coach Gary McKnight said Andy Brown, former Mater Dei player, tore his ACL at a Stanford practice over the weekend.






