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.

Stay tuned to OCVarsity.com for the listing of the newly approved leagues for 2010-2014. (Update: Click here for the newly approved leagues.)

The process started with all 12 of the Orange County League representatives voting in favor of the Orange County Area proposal. The trio of appeals were heard, but after hearing those no council member made a proposal to support an appeal.

Yes, not much of a fight today.

The big news earlier was the placement of gridiron powers Oaks Christian and St. Bonaventure in the Marmonte League for football only.

After that was approved, a good chunk of the crowd here left.

Update 1

The CIF Southern Section Council is on a short break but Orange County is up next for its releaguing vote. As council meetings goes, this has been a wild affair.

Tons of people. Emotional pleas. Lots of handouts. Old Southern Section officials surfacing to see the action - Bill Clark and Paul Castillo are here.

The big question for OC is whether Laguna Hills, Western and/or Brea appeal their placement and how that goes. Stay tuned for the latest.

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.

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.

Brown, a 6-foot-4 senior guard, and teammate Avery Johnson were IV-AA co-players of the year last season when they led the Seahawks to the division championship. Ocean View also advanced to the state Division III final in which they lost to Sacred Heart Cathedral of San Francisco. Brown averaged 12 points a game on a balanced-scoring team that went 27-8.

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.

Caudill is a 7--foot center. He is one of three Californians invited to the camp, which is to prepare the team for next summer's World Championships in Germany.

The other California players: Angelo Chol, from Hoover of San Diego; and and Norvell Pelle, from Dominguez of Compton.

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.

King is the second member of Mater Dei's basketball team that has committed to a Pac-10 school. He joins Tyler Lamb (UCLA).

Monarchs guard Gary Franklin withrew his commitment to USC after Tim Floyd resigned as coach this past June.

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).