Ribet Academy

Faith Baptist High will try to extend its surprising season tonight when the Contenders meet Ribet Academy at La Canada High at 7:30 in the Division V semifinals of the Southern California regional basketball tournament. With three sophomores and a junior in the lineup, the Contenders (20-10) struggled to a third-place finish in the Delphic League but stormed to the Southern Section 1-A Division title and a victory in the state playoffs Tuesday.

Bruce English made a 15-foot corner jump shot at the buzzer to lift second-seeded La Verne Lutheran to a 62-61 upset of top-seeded Windward in the Southern Section Division 5AA boys' basketball championship game Thursday night at Colony High. Freshman Eric Cooper's jumper pulled the Trojans to within a point with 31 seconds remaining. Windward guard Jordan Wilson was fouled but missed the first free throw in a one-and-one situation. C.J. Cooper drove to the basket and was fouled, making both free throws to give Lutheran (23-8)

The Glendale area was well represented in the Southern Section boys' and girls' basketball playoffs, which began Tuesday. Ribet Academy opened as the top-seeded team in the Southern Section boys' Small Schools division and promptly rolled over Garden Grove Claremont, 106-14. La Canada, seeded fourth in the 3-A, has a first-round bye. Flintridge Sacred Heart was seeded second in the girls' 2-AA division. Crescenta Valley (16-8) defeated Hacienda Heights Wilson (9-14), 70-54, in a 4-A game; St.

A Los Angeles private school already being sued over an alleged sexual relationship between a coach and a student now faces a second lawsuit involving another former coach and a 16-year-old girl. The suit, filed last month on behalf of the student, who is now 20, alleges that Ribet Academy never should have hired Jrmirol Duncan as a basketball coach because he had previously been convicted of marijuana possession and violence against a former spouse.

Joe Hines scored on a 17-yard run and on a 52-yard punt return in the third quarter for Ribet Academy in a 26-0 victory over Campbell Hall in an Academy League football game Thursday night at Birmingham High. Hines' 17-yard run gave Ribet Academy (1-8, 1-3 in league play) a 13-0 lead. Quarterback Matt Kaplan of Campbell Hall (3-6, 1-3) completed 14 of 22 passes for 165 yards and had one pass intercepted.

The Ribet Academy boys' basketball team fulfilled its own preseason expectations by winning the Division V state championship. The Fighting Frogs finished the season 32-2 after defeating University High of San Francisco, 70-65, Friday at the Oakland Coliseum Arena. Ribet won the championship game without senior point guard Jrmirol Duncan, who injured his right knee in the Southern regional final against Rio Hondo Prep.

The Ribet Academy boys' basketball team will be after its first state championship when the Fighting Frogs play University High of San Francisco on Friday night in the Division V final at the Oakland Coliseum. Ribet (31-2), which won its second consecutive Southern Section title two weeks ago, advanced to the state final with a 63-56 overtime victory over Rio Hondo Prep last Saturday. University (29-3) advanced to the final by defeating defending state champion Colusa, 74-73.

A tony college preparatory school in La Canada Flintridge will relocate this fall to the site of the former Pater Noster High School in Glassell Park, school officials announced this week. Ribet Academy, which serves just under 600 students from preschool through 12th grade, will move to the 8.5-acre campus at San Fernando Road and the Glendale Freeway because it has outgrown the facilities it leases from the La Canada Unified School District.

The Ribet Academy High boys' basketball team set a Southern Section record for most points scored in a game Friday night in a 144-38 victory over Antelope Valley Christian at La Canada. Ribet Academy broke the record of 140 points set by Gardena Serra against Los Angeles Salesian during the 1980-81 season. Ribet Academy scored 42 points in the first quarter, 28 in the second, 37 in the third and 34 in the fourth. Jrmirol Duncan led the Fighting Frogs with 33 points.

Harry Morgan had served his time. Done his piece. After more than 12 years of coaching high school football, he was free. It was someone else's turn to shoulder the responsibility. Then came the phone call. We're looking for a football coach , Harry . You come highly recommended . "Not interested," Morgan said. The caller persisted. This is a first-year program, Harry. "First year?" Morgan was intrigued. The Ribet Academy Fighting Frogs need you, Harry. "Ribet?

A Glendale teenager who had sex with her basketball coach has sued him, her former private high school and its owner. The girl and her parents filed the lawsuit Tuesday in Los Angeles County Superior Court. It accuses Paul Calvin Clark III--convicted in June on four counts of sex with a minor--of manipulating the girl into an illegal sexual relationship, which she says began last year in his office at Ribet Academy, a private school in the Glassell Park area of Los Angeles.

A former basketball coach at Ribet Academy in Los Angeles was convicted Wednesday on four counts of having sex with a Glendale girl who played on his high school team. A Superior Court jury in Pasadena found Paul Calvin Clark III, 34, not guilty on eight counts and it deadlocked on four counts. Clark faces up to seven years in state prison for unlawful sexual intercourse with a minor under age 16, penetration with a foreign object and two counts of oral copulation.

A 16-year-old girl testified Thursday that she willingly had sex last year with her basketball coach, and kept the relationship from her parents and school officials to prevent him from going to jail. The Glendale girl told jurors on the second day of the statutory rape trial in Los Angeles Superior Court that her friendship with Paul Calvin Clark III first became sexual in January 2001.

A former basketball coach at Ribet Academy faces felony charges for allegedly having sex with a 15-year-old girl on his team. Paul Calvin Clark III, 34, of Duarte has pleaded not guilty to three counts of unlawful sexual intercourse with a minor and one count of oral copulation. He was released from custody on $105,000 bond after his July arrest and no longer works at Ribet, a private school near the Glendale Freeway in Glassell Park.

School is out at Ribet Academy, and the students are not the only ones feeling relieved. A nasty legal fight between the school's owners made for what parents and teachers say was a divisive year at the 650-student campus near the Glendale Freeway. Unlike most private schools, Ribet Academy (pronounced rib-BAY) is a for-profit corporation, owned entirely by Ronald Sires--now in a protracted divorce--and the man he is suing for alleged embezzlement, Gerd Heymann.

An autopsy is pending for a high school basketball player who died Monday night after collapsing during practice, a spokesman for the Los Angeles County coroner's office said Tuesday. Lawrence Jenkins, 17, a senior at Ribet Academy in Los Angeles, was pronounced dead at 7:51 p.m. Monday at Glendale Memorial Hospital and Health Center after he was transported from the school by paramedics. Lt.

Ribet Academy is in La Canada, but the way the Fighting Frogs' boys' basketball team has been scoring points lately, the campus should be moved to Century City. Ribet, the defending Southern Section Small Schools champion, scored more than 100 points twice last week in Heritage League victories. The Fighting Frogs set a school record for points in a 125-29 victory over Pacific Christian on Thursday, then beat Antelope Valley Christian, 125-51, on Saturday.

School is out at Ribet Academy, and the students are not the only ones feeling relieved. A nasty legal fight between the school's owners made for what parents and teachers say was a divisive year at the 650-student campus near the Glendale Freeway. Unlike most private schools, Ribet Academy (pronounced rib-BAY) is a for-profit corporation, owned entirely by Ronald Sires--now in a protracted divorce--and the man he is suing for alleged embezzlement, Gerd Heymann.

Lawrence Jenkins, a basketball player at Los Angeles Ribet Academy High, collapsed and died Monday night. Jenkins, 17, was taken from the school by paramedics to Glendale Memorial Hospital and Health Center at 5:30 p.m. and was pronounced dead at 7:51 p.m., a hospital spokesman said. The Los Angeles County coroner's office is investigating the cause of death, the spokesman said.

Joe Hines scored on a 17-yard run and on a 52-yard punt return in the third quarter for Ribet Academy in a 26-0 victory over Campbell Hall in an Academy League football game Thursday night at Birmingham High. Hines' 17-yard run gave Ribet Academy (1-8, 1-3 in league play) a 13-0 lead. Quarterback Matt Kaplan of Campbell Hall (3-6, 1-3) completed 14 of 22 passes for 165 yards and had one pass intercepted.