Debbie Green

She was called a pixie by a national magazine, scrawny by her college coach and considered too small to make it big. But the introspective dark-haired girl from Westminster had a heart that wouldn't quit and unmatched determination.

She was called a pixie by a national magazine, scrawny by her college coach and considered too small to make it big. But the introspective dark-haired girl from Westminster had a heart that wouldn't quit and unmatched determination.

Bob Boone, Bob Boyd, Steve DeBerg, Debbie Green, Johnnie Johnson, Dan Quisenberry and Leon Wood will bring to 86 the number of inductees into the Orange County Sports Hall of Fame when they are enshrined in ceremonies on April 30. Boone caught a major-league record 2,264 games in his 19-year major league career, seven of which were with the Angels. The six-time Gold Glove Award winner and Villa Park resident is a scout for the Cincinnati Reds.

Bob Boone, Bob Boyd, Steve DeBerg, Debbie Green, Johnnie Johnson, Dan Quisenberry and Leon Wood will bring to 86 the number of inductees into the Orange County Sports Hall of Fame when they are enshrined in ceremonies on April 30. Boone caught a major-league record 2,264 games in his 19-year major league career, seven of which were with the Angels. The six-time Gold Glove Award winner and Villa Park resident is a scout for the Cincinnati Reds.

Flo Hyman, perhaps the most recognizable name in international volleyball, collapsed during a match in Japan Friday night and died of heart failure. A member of the U.S. Olympic team that won a silver medal in the 1984 Games at Long Beach, Hyman, 31, was playing for Daiei, Inc., in a Japanese women's league match against Hitachi, Ltd., in Matsue City, about 380 miles west of Tokyo.

Volleyball Assistants--Rita Crockett and Debbie Green, members of the 1984 Olympic women's volleyball team, have been named assistant women's volleyball coaches at Cal State Long Beach.

The Starlites, Los Angeles' entry in the women's Major League Volleyball league, won their home opener Sunday night, defeating the Minnesota Monarchs, 16-14, 15-4, 15-3, before 1,112 at Cal State Long Beach. Debbie Green-Vargas, a member of the 1984 U.S. Olympic team, had 37 assists, and former UCLA player Patty Dodd had 13 kills as the Starlites improved their record to 2-0, having swept New York in their first match.

Taylor Dent of Newport Beach won his quarterfinal match Friday at the U.S. Tennis Assn. boys' 18-16 tournament in Kalamazoo, Mich. Dent, seeded sixth, defeated Jeffrey Morrison of Huntington, W. Va., 6-4, 3-6, 7-6 (7-5 in the tiebreaker). * Michael Hilde, 12, of the Mission Viejo Nadadores won the bronze medal in the boys' 13-and-under three-meter springboard competition Friday at the Speedo National Junior Diving Championships in Austin, Texas.

The Los Angeles Starlites play host to the San Jose Golddiggers tonight in a women's Major League Volleyball match tonight at Golden West College at 7:30 p.m. Los Angles has been playing its home matches at Loyola Marymount University, but is moving some dates to Golden West in hopes of attracting larger crowds. The Starlites (7-1) are led by Debbie Green, Jeanne Beauprey and Rita Crockett, who were all members of the U.S.

A look at the fast-moving singles in three Orange County neighborhoods. MUSIC PLUS, 18645 Beach Blvd., Huntington Beach (714) 842-6169. Anotha Ho, J.J. Fad (Dream Team) D.J.'s and M.C.'s, Rodney O. (Egyptian Empire Records) Party Your Body, Stevie B. (L.M.R.) Going Back to Cali, L.L. Cool J. (Def Jam) Rocket 2 U, The Jets (MCA). PEER RECORDS, 4249 Campus Drive, Irvine (714) 854-8854.

The Orange County Sports Hall of Fame will present its Lifetime Achievement Award to Newport Beach's Paul Salata at its annual induction banquet April 30 at the Anaheim Marriott. Salata, 71, who is a founding member of the hall of fame, is perhaps most renowned for creating Irrelevant Week, which has been honoring the last player picked in the NFL draft for the past 23 years. He played wide receiver for USC in the 1940s and later for the Baltimore Colts and San Francisco 49ers.

Major League Volleyball, the first professional volleyball league exclusively for women, enters an uncertain arena this month hoping to capitalize on the sport's Olympic popularity. The league begins its four-month, 22-match season in late February with six franchises: Chicago Breeze, Dallas Belles, Los Angeles Starlites, Minnesota Monarchs, New York Liberties and San Francisco Gold Diggers.