Greg Katz

Greg Katz, an assistant basketball coach at Santa Ana High School for seven seasons, has been named to a similar position at Century High. Century, also located in Santa Ana, will open in the fall with 1,000 freshmen and sophomores. Century will play a free-lance schedule and then join the Pacific Coast League in 1990-91. Katz, 38, joins Greg Coombs, former Santa Ana varsity coach. Santa Ana won four league titles and was runner-up three times with Katz as an assistant. He also led the freshman team to a 44-2 record in two seasons.

Greg Katz, an assistant basketball coach at Santa Ana High School for seven seasons, has been named to a similar position at Century High. Century, also located in Santa Ana, will open in the fall with 1,000 freshmen and sophomores. Century will play a free-lance schedule and then join the Pacific Coast League in 1990-91. Katz, 38, joins Greg Coombs, former Santa Ana varsity coach. Santa Ana won four league titles and was runner-up three times with Katz as an assistant. He also led the freshman team to a 44-2 record in two seasons.

Lisa Leslie of Inglewood Morningside High School, the national basketball player of the year last season, will play in the Fabulous 44 California Prep game Sunday at the Bren Center, event co-director Greg Katz said Wednesday. Or, make that the Fabulous 45. Leslie, who will play for USC next season, backed out of her commitment to play in the inaugural game last week to join a national touring team. She was replaced on the South team's roster by Mildred Conston of Oceanside.

Two state all-star basketball games, featuring the top boys' and girls' high school seniors, have been scheduled for June 24 at UC Irvine's Bren Center. The doubleheader will have a North vs. South format with a squad of 11 graduating seniors on four teams. It will be the first state all-star boys' game since 1971, and the first state all-star girls' game. The rosters will be announced in two weeks.

You're going to take a left here . . . . OK, now turn right at the sign . . . . All right, slow, that's it. No one on Shelly Street called Jesse Lynwood III "Jesse." He was Scootie, a name pinned to him by an aunt who noticed that, as a baby, he didn't crawl so much as scoot across the kitchen linoleum.

They are dedicated to their quest and tireless in their means to achieve it. And yet, for all their troubles and good intentions they are dubbed rats. Gym rats. Mouse would be much more endearing--Mickey is a mouse. Lion more noble; but alas, rat is the most accurate. First, consider a gym rat's simple-as-cheese desire: to play hoops. To play hoops indoors where they are free from elements such as wind, rain and darkness.

The weather outside was frightful, and things inside were almost as bleak, as the Santa Ana boys' basketball team played Orange Lutheran Friday afternoon in the Irvine High School gym. As one of many consolation-round matchups in the Irvine World News tournament, Santa Ana-Orange Lutheran had all the attraction of diced tofu. In the bleachers, yawns (plenty) outnumbered fans (few).

A scout from the University of Santa Clara came to Hacienda Heights Wilson High School last Wednesday to watch Esperanza center forward Paul Good, who was suppose to be playing against the Wildcats in a Southern Section 3-A playoff soccer game. But when he arrived at the second-round game, there was no No. 13. Good, the Aztecs' leading scorer and best player, had been suspended for a week by school authorities and was not allowed to play.

Contrasting styles of play and an outstanding collection of talent will be featured at 7:30 tonight in the 21st Orange County all-star boys' high school basketball game at Orange Coast College's Peterson Gymnasium. The North team will start a frontline that includes three players who have signed with Pacific 10 Conference programs while the South will counter with quickness and a three-guard offense.

After scoring 24 points in the Fabulous 44 California Prep basketball game Sunday, Earnest Killum of Lynwood High School wasn't talking about his dunks or his spinning moves to the basket. He was talking about team defense. Wait a minute. Team defense? In an all-star game? But that was how the South rallied from a 15-point deficit in the second half to beat the North, 127-109, in front of 1,500 fans in the state all-star game at the Bren Center.