Campbell Hall

No. 11 North Hollywood Campbell Hall (10-3, 1-0) at No. 16 L.A. Windward (10-5, 1-0) Tonight, 7 GAME OF THE DAY Why it matters: There will be no fewer than six college prospects on the court in an Olympic League game between two of the top small schools in the Southland. Windward has UCLA-bound Anthony Stover and Michigan-bound Darius Morris.

Get ready for an invasion of private jets arriving from Lexington, Ky.; Durham, N.C.; Gainesville, Fla.; and elsewhere carrying college basketball coaches hoping to woo a growing group of talented guards from the high school class of 2015. The days when Southern California wasn't represented at the McDonald's All American Game will be a thing of the past thanks to an infusion of young talent from the Inland Empire to the San Fernando Valley. College recruiters already have their eyes on three sophomore guards who have established themselves as elite national prospects — Tyler Dorsey of Bellflower St. John Bosco, Marcus LoVett Jr. of Burbank Providence and Aaron Holiday of North Hollywood Campbell Hall.

Rowan Pearson of Campbell Hall High, a 6-foot-3 junior transfer from Granada Hills, returned this week in time for Delphic League basketball play. Pearson, who played in the first four games, had been held out of the lineup the previous seven games while his athletic eligibility was being verified, Coach Jon Palarz said.

Rank, School (Division, Record) Las week, Next game (Last rank) 1. MATER DEI (SS-1AA, 18-0)*d. St. John Bosco, 79-67; d. Orange Lutheran, 75-59. Next: at Servite, Wednesday (1) 2. BISHOP MONTGOMERY (SS-4AA, 19-0)*d. Bishop Amat, 74-44; at Serra, 58-34; d. St. John Bosco, 74-63. Next: La Salle, Wednesday (2) 3. LONG BEACH POLY (SS-1A, 15-1)*d. Long Beach Jordan, 86-46; d. Millikan, 85-68; d. Compton, 65-49. Next: at Lakewood, Monday (3) 4. ETIWANDA (SS-1AA, 12-2)*d.

North Hollywood Campbell Hall became the first boys' basketball team in 15 years to make it through the regular season and Southern Section playoffs without a loss when the top-seeded Vikings defeated third-seeded Los Angeles Verbum Dei, 84-61, in the Division IV-AA championship game Thursday night at Loyola Marymount. Campbell Hall (28-0) became the first team from the section to go unbeaten on the way to a title since Oxnard Santa Clara in 1990.

It is back to court today for the CIF Southern Section, which has had its share of legal troubles in recent years. The plaintiff this time is Campbell Hall High in North Hollywood, which is seeking a temporary restraining order that will allow its boys' basketball team to participate in this week's playoffs. Campbell Hall won the Delphic League with a 14-8 record but had to forfeit eight victories for using an ineligible player, junior Rowan Pearson.

If Cicely and Lena Carew had an ace or a kill for every time someone asked The Question, they'd have shattered Southern Section records long ago. Yes, they are related to Rod Carew, a member of baseball's Hall of Fame. No, the Campbell Hall High volleyball sisters don't see Rod that often, but their father, Topper, is a cousin of his. "Everybody asks me and I say, 'Well, yeah,' " Cicely said. "I don't really think about it because I hear it so often."

The road through the playoffs was expected to be a little bumpier this season for the top-seeded North Hollywood Campbell Hall boys' basketball team, which finished undefeated last season and won the Division IV state title. But few expected the Vikings to hit a pothole the size of Gardena Serra.

Despite 30 kills by Tim Jensen and 16 more by Rob Rappaport, Campbell Hall High lost to Redondo, 15-7, 7-15, 15-2, 15-3, in the first round of the Southern Section 3-A Division volleyball playoffs Wednesday night at Campbell Hall. Ty Leatherman had 61 assists and committed only three ball-handling errors for Campbell Hall (14-4), the second-place team from the Camino Real League.

Joe Jackson, who coached the Campbell Hall High boys' basketball team to a berth in the state playoffs last season before losing his job in the spring, has been hired as an assistant men's basketball coach at Valley College. Jackson was an assistant coach at Valley for two seasons before taking the job at Campbell Hall before the 1988-89 season.

Smiling, giggling, laughing — watching Chad Eaton play baseball, you'd never know that his senior season is about to end only three weeks after it began. "What I admire about him is being brave, strong and mentally tough, being able to wake up and find a sanctuary on the baseball field and giving 100%," North Hollywood Campbell Hall Coach Juan Velazquez said. "It puts a smile on my face every day. " On Saturday, Eaton will take the mound as the starting pitcher for Campbell Hall in a 1:30 p.m. home game against Glendale Hoover.

Trisha Brown Dance Company When and where: 8 p.m. Saturday; Valley Performing Arts Center, Northridge Tickets: $25-$70 http://www.valleyperformingartscenter.org Stephen Petronio Company When and where: 8 p.m. Monday; Campbell Hall, UC Santa Barbara Tickets: $40; artsandlectures.sa.ucsb.edu When and where: 8 p.m. Wednesday; University Theatre, UC Riverside Tickets: $30;...

A UCLA history class studying the 1960s was stunned to learn recently that a violent incident in the black power movement had occurred on the Westwood campus and that there was nothing to mark it. So they and their instructor set out to memorialize two UCLA students, both Black Panther Party members, who were shot to death in Campbell Hall on Jan. 17, 1969, in an alleged dispute over leadership in a fledgling black studies program. On Tuesday, two plaques honoring Alprentice "Bunchy" Carter and John J. Huggins Jr. as social justice advocates were unveiled in a Campbell Hall ceremony attended by relatives of the slain men, among others.

Denzel Washington, actor, sports fan and former L.A. Windward parent, showed up Tuesday night in the Wildcats' gym and was passing around his cellphone so his son, Malcolm, last season's point guard, could offer a pep talk to a couple of Windward players. And when Denzel hands you his phone, you gladly take it. "I think there are only a few people in the world you don't question their authority when they pass you a phone," Windward Coach Miguel Villegas said. Malcolm Washington, a freshman at Pennsylvania, wanted to wish Windward good luck against rival North Hollywood Campbell Hall.

With the chants of protesters wafting into their meeting room and armed police standing guard, the University of California's Board of Regents approved a 32%, or $2,500, increase in undergraduate fees Thursday, but promised more financial aid to keep needy students from dropping out. A raucous crowd of about 2,000, including students and labor union activists who traveled from other UC campuses, faced a large force of UC police and CHP officers in...

TUESDAY'S RESULT No. 13 Los Angeles Windward 61, North Hollywood Campbell Hall 57 (OT) Leading contributors: Windward had four players score in double figures, led by Darius Morris' 20 points and Wesley Saunders' 17 points. James Johnson scored 15 points for Campbell Hall. The scoop: Windward missed all six of its free-throw attempts in the fourth quarter in blowing a five-point lead in the final minute of regulation. But the Wildcats got two free throws from Morris with 6.9 seconds left in overtime to clinch the victory.

Alex Lopez, a 6-foot-10 eighth-grader, has announced that he will attend Campbell Hall High, a Delphic League school in North Hollywood that went 9-13 last basketball season. Lopez, 14, a highly touted basketball prospect who had narrowed his choices to Campbell Hall, Notre Dame and an unnamed City Section school, currently attends Portola Junior High in Granada Hills and plays on an American Roundball Corp. team coached by ARC founder Rich Goldberg.