Russ May has resigned as boys basketball coach at Los Alamitos. He accepted the men's basketball coaching position at Cerritos College. May coached the Griffins for 10 years. He led them to two CIF championships and eight Sunset League championships. Los Al has won the Sunset League title the past six years. May will remain at Los Alamitos as a teacher for this school year while he coaches at Cerritos, then will become a Cerritos College fulltime faculty member in the 2010-11 school year.

Russ May was as good as any coach in any sport in Orange County these past 10 years.

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Edison guard Kyle Boswell, 6-foot-1, has committed to UC Santa Barbara, Edison coach Rich Boyce confirmed today.

Boswell missed much of the 2008-09 season, his junor year, because of a back injury. He set the school single-season scoring record as a sophomore.  He can sign a letter of intent with UCSB in Novemeber.

And it's a guy from a big-time sports family in Orange County, a guy whose brother is a coach at a high-profile county school.

Nathan Call is the boys basketball coach at Yorba Linda High, which will open this fall with freshmen and sophomores.

Yorba Linda will field three basketball teams in 2009-10 -- a junior varsity, sophomore and a freshman team.

Call is a brother of Mater Dei basebal coach Burt Call. Like Burt and Wayne Call, Nathan played basketball at Capistrano Valley. Mark Thornton was the hoops coach at Capo at the time Nathan was there, and Thornton sure is a great teacher of the game.

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Boys basketball coach Tom McCluskey will not lose his physical education teaching position at Trabuco Hills, where staff reductions have occurred just as they have at other schools in the county.

Trabuco Hills athletic director Jack Recla made the announcement today.

The 2009-10 season will be McCluskey's sixth at the school. He has coached elsewhere, including Golden West College and at Tustin High. He coached Tustin to a state championship in the early 1990s.

McCluskey had received a reducion in force notice, but Trabuco Hills, with 900 incoming freshmen this coming fall, will not eliminate his position.