San Diego

The San Diego Police Department’s basketball team will face the faculty and alumni of Sweetwater High School at 6:30 p.m. tonight at the high school’s gym in a benefit game for the police officers’ memorial fund. Community realations officer Matthew Weathersby said that Lt. Gov. Leo McCarthy will present roses to Coleen Riggs, widow of Officer Thomas Riggs, who was killed in the line of duty April 7; Eileen Gonzalez, widow of Officer Dennis Gonzalez, who was killed in 1981 in a hit-and-run accident, and Sharon Tonahill, the mother of Officer Kimberly Tonahill, who was killed along with Officer Timothy Roupp in Balboa Park in 1984. Riggs and another slain officer, Michael Anaya, who was killed in 1979, were alumni of Sweetwater High School. Admission is $2. The fund has collected $11,000 of the $20,000 needed to build a memorial at the new police station at 14th Street and Broadway downtown, Weathersby added. The game is expected to raise at least $1,000, he said.