Pete Tereschuk

Laguna Hills High School has hired Pete Tereschuk to coach baseball, Athletic Director Dave Brown said Thursday. Tereschuk, junior varsity coach at Lakewood High School the past two years, replaces Jack Hodges, who resigned after 10 seasons to become baseball coach at Saddleback College. Tereschuk was varsity coach at Long Beach Wilson from 1982-1987. He also has been an assistant at San Diego State. "We think he had a good combination of experience," Brown said.

Laguna Hills High School has hired Pete Tereschuk to coach baseball, Athletic Director Dave Brown said Thursday. Tereschuk, junior varsity coach at Lakewood High School the past two years, replaces Jack Hodges, who resigned after 10 seasons to become baseball coach at Saddleback College. Tereschuk was varsity coach at Long Beach Wilson from 1982-1987. He also has been an assistant at San Diego State. "We think he had a good combination of experience," Brown said.

They are brothers cut from different cloth, whose lives move in parallel. One is a shy young man with an aggressive coaching style, the other is gregarious and a scholar of the game. It is a tale of two Tereschuks, whose love for each other guides them in their roles as high school baseball coaches. But Pete and Tom Tereschuk are better remembered as all-star football players at Lakewood High School in the 1970s.

They are brothers cut from different cloth, whose lives move in parallel. One is a shy young man with an aggressive coaching style, the other is gregarious and a scholar of the game. It is a tale of two Tereschuks, whose love for each other guides them in their roles as high school baseball coaches. But Pete and Tom Tereschuk are better remembered as all-star football players at Lakewood High School in the 1970s.

Whittier College has selected Erin Bridges as its softball coach and as a women's soccer assistant. A 2000 graduate of UC San Diego, Bridges was chosen the school's athlete of the year as a senior, when she was an All-American softball player. * Pete Tereschuk, who coached the Laguna Hills High baseball team from 1989-99 and was an assistant last season, has been hired to replace Jeff Cecil. Cecil resigned to take an assistant coaching position at Chapman University.

Laguna Hills took advantage of Brett Nista's strong pitching to defeat Kennedy, 4-1, in a first-round game of the Southern Section 3-A playoffs Friday at Kennedy High School. The Hawks (19-8) will advance to the second round to play host to Norco Tuesday. Norco beat Calexico, 9-4, also Friday. Nista (7-1) was in command as he struck out four, walked two and yielded only four hits. "As usual, he was right around the plate," Laguna Hills Coach Pete Tereschuk said.

1992 RECORDS OVERALL LEAGUE 20-9 12-3 COACH RECORD AT SCHOOL Pete Tereschuk 55-29 RETURNING STARTERS YR. POS. B-T Ron Devito Jr. DH-P R-R Matt Johnson Jr. 1B-P R-R Mike Messinger Sr. 1B L-R Jamie Miller Jr. P R-R Brett Nista Jr. SS-P R-R Matt Stilson Sr. OF L-L OTHER TOP RETURNERS: YR.: POS.: B-T None TOP NEWCOMERS YR. POS. B-T Dave Barnard Sr. OF R-R Casey Bennett Jr. IF-P R-R Matt Evans Jr. OF R-R Mike McAloney Sr. 2B-OF R-R Ryan McDermott Jr. P R-R Brendan McGraw So. OF R-R Ryan Miller Sr.

School: Laguna Hills High Sport: Baseball Position: Pitcher/catcher Class: Senior A second-team all-Pacific Coast League outfielder for Laguna Hills last season, Wilkes picked up a couple of new positions--pitcher and catcher--playing summer baseball--and this season it's unlikely that he will be second to anyone. "Everything he's doing now, he's doing for the first time--other than hitting," Laguna Hills Coach Pete Tereschuk said.

University Coach Chris Conlin has a warning for any team unimpressed with Laguna Hills' early record. "They have athletes as good as any school in the county," said Conlin, after sitting through the Hawks' 10-3 victory over the Trojans in Pacific Coast League play. "The difference between their athletes and ours is night and day." On Tuesday, the difference between the teams, which have had a friendly yet intense rivalry the last few seasons, was muscle. Laguna Hills had it, University did not.

1993 RECORDS: OVERALL: 9-15 LEAGUE: 6-8 COACH: Tom Tereschuk RECORD AT SCHOOL: 0-0 RETURNING STARTER YR. POS. B-T Kirk Rossi Sr. SS R-R TOP RETURNERS YR. POS. B-T Erick Jekums Sr. OF R-R Kevin Krotz Sr. C R-R Ross Miedecke Sr. P L-L Mike Sullivan Sr. OF R-R TOP NEWCOMERS YR. POS. B-T Rocky Berlanga Jr. OF R-R Rick Chessman So. P/Inf R-R John Demaio Jr. P R-R Jon Goldsmith Jr. OF R-R Brian Greene Jr. P/3B R-R Jim Munroe Fr. P/Inf R-R Greg Shaia Jr. Inf/C R-R Dave Watters Jr.