Riverside City College

Joe Harper, 53, will succeed Bob Shoup as football coach at Cal Lutheran. Harper has a career record of 177-46-6 in stints at Riverside City College, Cal Poly San Luis Obispo and Northern Arizona.

The Times' weekly football rankings: Others: Crenshaw, Chaparral, Westlake. Rankings are based on votes of nine members of the Times' high school staff. A first-place vote is worth 25 points, second-place is worth 24, etc. *--* Rk Team (Rec, Last Week's Result Next Game Rk Pts (LW) Section) 1 MATER Did not play vs. West Covina at Santa Ana 221 (1) DEIStadium, Friday (0-0, SS-Pac-5) 2 LONG BEACH d. Glenville (Ohio), 21-13 at Birmingham, Friday 219 (2) POLY(1-0, SS-Pac-5) 3 S.O.

Bethel Lauder and Karan Polk scored 16 points each to help Riverside City College defeat Fullerton College, 64-56, and win the California Community College women's basketball tournament Saturday night. Riverside ended the season with a 34-0 overall record. Fullerton finished 27-9.

The playoffs are considered the "second season," but Friday's second-round game of the Southern California Regionals will be second nature for the Rancho Santiago and Riverside baseball teams. The Orange Empire Conference teams have already met four times this season, splitting the two games at each site. They also met last year in the first game of the double-elimination regional playoffs. "Is it deja vu or what?" Rancho Santiago Coach Don Sneddon said.

Karan Polk, a Chapman College junior guard, has been declared academically ineligible for the remainder of the season. Polk transferred to Chapman from Riverside City College, where she helped the Tigers win last season's state title. Polk played 20 games for the Panthers, starting 17. She averaged 14.6 points and led the team in assists with 83.

The Times' weekly football rankings: Others: Crenshaw, Chaparral, Westlake. Rankings are based on votes of nine members of the Times' high school staff. A first-place vote is worth 25 points, second-place is worth 24, etc. *--* Rk Team (Rec, Last Week's Result Next Game Rk Pts (LW) Section) 1 MATER Did not play vs. West Covina at Santa Ana 221 (1) DEIStadium, Friday (0-0, SS-Pac-5) 2 LONG BEACH d. Glenville (Ohio), 21-13 at Birmingham, Friday 219 (2) POLY(1-0, SS-Pac-5) 3 S.O.

The playoffs are considered the "second season," but Friday's second-round game of the Southern California Regionals will be second nature for the Rancho Santiago and Riverside baseball teams. The Orange Empire Conference teams have already met four times this season, splitting the two games at each site. They also met last year in the first game of the double-elimination regional playoffs. "Is it deja vu or what?" Rancho Santiago Coach Don Sneddon said.

When a convicted rapist was recently charged with murdering 10 L.A. women, some longtime residents were reminded of a grisly case from the 1920s. On Feb. 2, 1928, Los Angeles County sheriff's deputies found a burlap bag containing a headless body in a La Puente ditch. A male teenager had been shot through the heart with a .22-caliber rifle.

Retired Air Force Col. Travis Hoover, one of the famous Doolittle's Raiders pilots who dropped bombs over Tokyo and three other cities in the first U.S. retaliatory raid on Japan after its Dec. 7, 1941, attack on Pearl Harbor, has died. He was 86. Hoover died Jan. 17 in Webb City, Mo., after nearly a year of declining health and a recent battle with pneumonia. The former pilot had lived in Joplin, Mo., since 1988.

Jesse James has definite ideas about fashion. He knows what he likes, and what he doesn't. The plaid shirt he's wearing buttoned up to the rim of his beefy neck--a shirt from the West Coast Choppers line that you can buy at Wal-Mart for $20--is something he likes. Of course he does: He designed it. He also likes the enzyme-washed, deconstructed T-shirts silk-screened with images of pistols and skulls that are hanging on racks in an office down the hall from his workshop in Long Beach.

Joe Harper, 53, will succeed Bob Shoup as football coach at Cal Lutheran. Harper has a career record of 177-46-6 in stints at Riverside City College, Cal Poly San Luis Obispo and Northern Arizona.

Karan Polk, a Chapman College junior guard, has been declared academically ineligible for the remainder of the season. Polk transferred to Chapman from Riverside City College, where she helped the Tigers win last season's state title. Polk played 20 games for the Panthers, starting 17. She averaged 14.6 points and led the team in assists with 83.

Bethel Lauder and Karan Polk scored 16 points each to help Riverside City College defeat Fullerton College, 64-56, and win the California Community College women's basketball tournament Saturday night. Riverside ended the season with a 34-0 overall record. Fullerton finished 27-9.

Riverside City College defeated Golden West, 5-2, in a season-opening nonconference softball game at Golden West on Monday. Heather Mackey went 2 for 3, scored a run and stole two bases for the Rustlers. Golden West (0-1) plays host to Moorpark at 3:30 today.

Tisa Rush came off the bench to score a game-high 17 points as Valley College routed El Camino, 74-47, in the championship game of the Riverside women's basketball tournament Wednesday. Ruth Aguilar, the tournament's most valuable player, scored 15 points and grabbed 12 rebounds for Valley (13-3) in the game at Riverside City College. Teammate Shagarro Lattin (4 points, 10 rebounds) also was named to the all-tournament team.