SportsScope

Bishop Amat High School in La Puente has named Alex Acosta, an All-CIF performer for the school in 1978, as its new boys basketball coach.

Acosta, assistant varsity coach at Bishop Amat the last three years, replaces John Montgomery, who resigned after coaching the Lancers for 12 years. Montgomery’s team finished with a 9-14 overall record last season.

Acosta was one of the top players on Bishop Amat’s 1978 team, which was the first of Montgomery’s teams to reach the CIF playoffs. Acosta also played at Citrus College and the University of Redlands.

Many of the top athletes and coaches in South Pasadena High School history were inducted into the South Pasadena Athletic Hall of Fame last week.

Among the 130 inductees were former Los Angeles Dodger Tommy Hutton, former University of Iowa quarterback Gordon Bohannon, University of Cincinnati football coach Dave Curry and former San Francisco 49ers and USC assistant coach Mike Giddings.

The list included athletes and coaches at the school from 1911 to present.

Seven former athletic standouts at Pomona-Pitzer College have been inducted into the school’s athletic hall of fame.

The seven are Dan King, a standout in football and golf; Bradley Kraft (soccer); Brent Malan (football, baseball); Thomas Moore (soccer); Pat NeprudMehls (volleyball, badminton); Robert Orell (track and field), and Steve Smith (track and field).

With the new members, Pomona-Pitzer has 115 members in its athletic hall of fame.

West Coach Bill Maloney of San Marino High and East Coach Bob Baiz of Claremont have named their coaching staffs for the seventh annual National Football Foundation Hall of Fame Game on Aug. 8 at Arroyo High.

Jim Brownfield, the game director, said Loren Kleinrock, Martin Udell and Joe Bayer--three of Maloney’s assistants at San Marino--will be assistants for the West team.

Four of the seven assistants for the East team coach with Baiz at Claremont. They are Don Warhurst, Jack Harper, Rick Dutton and Fred Akman. The others are Glenn Killingsworth of Chaffey, Tom Carroll of Damien and Pete Merandi of Upland.

Rick Shaw of Muir High School was one of 10 boys and 10 girls who were finalists for the 1986 CIF high school Scholar-Athlete of the Year award.

Shaw, one of the top performers in the CIF Southern Section in the 800-meter run, was selected from a field of 447 scholar-athletes.