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.
LONG BEACH - Brea Olinda, Laguna Hills and Western each appealed their releaguing positions but none received any support in an anticlimatic finish to what had been a wild CIF-SS Council meeting.
Stay tuned to OCVarsity.com for the listing of the newly approved leagues for 2010-2014. (Update: Click here for the newly approved leagues.)
Mater Dei boys basketball coach Gary McKnight said Andy Brown, former Mater Dei player, tore his ACL at a Stanford practice over the weekend.
Brown, a forward, was All-County first team as a junior and probably was the county's best player going into this senior year, the 2008-09 season. But Brown tore the ACL in January and missed much of his senior season.
It's awful to hear that Brown, a great young man, did it again to the same knee while practicing at Stanford.
Mater Dei 6-foot-4 senior guard Gary Franklin committed today to Cal, Mater Dei coach Gary McKnight announced.
Franklin had committed last year to USC, by withdrew from that commitment after a Trojans coaching change.
Franklin averaged 14 points and 5 assists a game last year, and led Mater Dei with 63 3-pointers.
Mater Dei teammate Tyler Lamb committed to UCLA two years ago, and the Monarchs' Keala King, who transferred to Mater Dei from Dominguez of Compton, committed to Arizona State.
CIF-Southern Section Division IV-AA co-player of the year in 2008-09 Anthony Brown of Ocean View committed to Stanford this morning, Ocean View coach Jim Harris confirmed. Read the rest of this entry »
K.C. Caudill, a junior this year at Brea Olinda, is one of 20 players nationwide invited to the USA Basketball National Development Team's camp, Oct. 9-11 in Colorado Springs. Read the rest of this entry »
Clay McKnight, son of Mater Dei basketball coach Gary McKnight, has been hired as the boys basketball coach at Fairmont Prep, Fairmont athletic director Mark Alves announced Wednesday.
Mater Dei's All-County senior guard, Gary Franklin, recently had visits from UConn coach Jim Calhoun and UCLA coach Ben Howland and he will make a recruiting visit to Baylor this weekend.
Franklin had committed to USC but backed off during the coaching change at the school.
The early signing period for basketball and a bunch of other sports is in November.
Mater Dei boys basketball player Keala King, a 6-foot-5 senior guard who transferred from Dominguez, has committed to Arizona State, Monarchs coach Gary McKnight told Steve Fryer on Wednesday.
Clay McKnight, son of Mater Dei boys basketball coach Gary McKnight, confirmed he was among the three finalists for the boys basketball coaching position at JSerra that went to longtime club coach and personal skills instructor Joedy Gardner.
Clay, on the basketball coaching staff at UCLA, was an All-County guard at Mater Dei where he was one of the best three-point shooters in county history.
More on that and other topics in the Fryer column at ocvarsity.com later today (and in print Wednesday in the Register).
One of the all-time good guys in Orange County basketball, former Magnolia coach Al Walin, sent along the bad news that his son Andrew died last week; age 35. Had battled Lymphoma; got the flu, that turned in pneumonia with difficult complications.
Services: Tuesday, September 8 at 11:00 AM at Fountain Valley United Methodist Church, 18225 Bushard Street, and there will be a viewing at Dilday Brothers Mortuary, 17911 Beach Blvd., Huntington Beach on Monday, September 7, 6:00-8:00PM.
Pass it along to those who might want to know.
JSerra selected a well-known name in Southern California basketball to become head coach of its boys basketball team.
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