High School Athletics Los Angeles

Left-handed pitcher Mike Kunes of Chatsworth High has become the first two-time City Section player of the year in baseball since Randy Wolf of El Camino Real in 1993 and 1994. Kunes, 13-1 with a 2.60 earned-run average, was selected for the Amateur Athletic Foundation-sponsored award by a panel of sportswriters. He is one of five members from Chatsworth's City Championship team selected All-City. Joining Kunes on the team are shortstop Matt Fisher and outfielders Steve Kracow and Chad Redfern.

Marquis Brignac was ready to chuck it all. Forget the football scholarship to Cal State Northridge. To heck with the Gridiron War all-star game tonight at Santa Monica College. Death has a way of rearranging one's priorities. The Taft High running back learned Tuesday night that Jacoby Brigg, his 16-year-old cousin, had died of leukemia. Suddenly, football seemed a lot less interesting. So did pretty much everything else.

BRIAN BROWN El Camino Real, Junior * He won City Section championships in the 200 individual medley and 100-yard backstroke for the second consecutive year. His backstroke time of 53.49 seconds eclipsed a section record set in 1976 and was good enough to qualify for All-American consideration.

BADMINTON * SOUTHERN SECTION * Team Division I: Garden Grove * Individual Boys Singles: Tam Nguyen, Garden Grove Doubles: Dung Huynh/Chris Ngu, Alhambra * Individual Girls Singles: Amy Nguy, Villa Park Doubles: May Mangkalakir/Bonnie Wong, Villa Park * Mixed doubles May Mangkalakir/Mike Chansawangpuvana, Villa Park BASEBALL * CITY SECTION Championship: Chatsworth Division: Cleveland * SOUTHERN SECTION Division I: Arlington Division II: Hart Division III: El Dorado Division IV: Corona del Mar

All marks are season bests. Wind-aided marks cannot be considered for season bests. Times in hundredths are fully automatic. To convert hand times to fully automatic times, add .24 to hand times in races 300 meters or less; add .14 to hand times in 400-meter races. Because of the inconsistency of hand times in races of 200 meters or less, there is a fully-automatic list and a hand-timed list for marks in the 100, 200, boys' 110 high hurdles and girls' 100 high hurdles.

Chatsworth and Poly, two schools fed up with finishing second, will meet tonight at 7:30 for the City Championship baseball title at Dodger Stadium. Chatsworth (26-3) is so focused on winning the championship that players hardly celebrated after a 12-2 semifinal win over South Gate. Losses to El Camino Real in the 1993, '94 and '98 finals have made the Chancellors determined not to leave Dodger Stadium without a title.

Chatsworth High has been seeded No. 1 for the City Championship baseball tournament, but you wouldn't know it based on the seedings a committee of coaches voted on Wednesday night at Hamilton High. "We would have been better off coming in second in our league," a frustrated Chatsworth Coach Tom Meusborn said. "If we win this, we'll definitely deserve it." Despite losing only one game in more than one month, Chatsworth (23-3) will open the playoffs on Tuesday at home against No.

Westlake and Hart, the region's top two high school boys' golf programs in the 1990s, are among 21 teams playing today in the Southern Section championships at La Purisima Golf Course in Lompoc. Westlake, coming off its eighth consecutive Marmonte League title, advanced to to the tournament by finishing second to San Luis Obispo in the Northern Regional at River Ridge Golf Club in Oxnard on Monday.

The calls and letters have trickled in for years now, and as much as the seasons changed, the complaints remained rather consistent. Until lately, when the trickle became more of a stream. Each Tuesday on most weeks during the school year, we publish statistical leaders for the high school football, boys' basketball and baseball teams in the Valley and Ventura County regions. On Wednesdays, we run similar packages for girls' basketball and softball.

Westlake High has forfeited a baseball victory over Thousand Oaks because a player who had been ejected in the Warriors' previous game was in the dugout, a violation of Southern Section rules. First baseman Garett Michaels, ejected Wednesday against Moorpark, was in street clothes Friday during Westlake's 3-1 Marmonte League victory over Thousand Oaks. According to Southern Section rules, an ejected player cannot be present at his team's next game.