Orange County Roundup : High School All-Stars Play the Best From East Coast

A team of East Coast basketball players will meet an Orange County team in a high school all-star game tonight at 8 at Rancho Santiago College’s Cook Gymnasium.

Preseason All-American Clay Buckley, a 6-foot 10-inch center from Conestoga High School in Berwyn, Pa., will lead the East Coast team. Aaron Davis (6-7) of Willingboro High in New Jersey also is scheduled to play.

The Orange County team, which competes in the Slam-N-Jam summer league, will be led by two 6-10 centers, LeRon Ellis of Mater Dei and Mark Georgeson of Marina. Other top players are point guard Bret Johnson of El Toro and forward Ricky Butler of Ocean View.

Tickets, priced at $5 for adults and $3 for students, will be available at the door.

The La Paz Criterium will be held Saturday on a 1.5-mile four-turn course around the Ziggurat Building, 24000 Avila Road in Laguna Niguel. Racing will be in 10 categories, with the first race scheduled to begin at 7 a.m. and the last race scheduled to start at 1:20 p.m. The event is organized by the Velo Orange Bicycle Club.

Registration opens one hour before the start of each race across from the Ziggurat Building and ends 15 minutes before starting time. For more information, call 739-2249.

The California Raiders, national senior girls champions for the past five years, and the Gordons Panthers, national junior girls champions for the past three years, are among the 16 teams competing in this weekend’s Pony Girls Senior Invitational Softball Tournament, which runs today through Sunday at Cal State Fullerton.

The second annual David Hill Fight for the Handicapped boxing card, featuring 13 amateur bouts, will be held July 13 from 2 to 5 p.m. at the Irvine Marriott Hotel.

Special guests will include Ram players Hill, Eric Dickerson, Norwood Vann, LeRoy Irvin, and Doug Reed, and current or former boxers George Latka, Henry Tillman, Armando Muniz, Paul Gonzales, Hector Lopez, Jerry Quarry, Cisco Andrade, Mano Ramos and Danny “Little Red” Lopez.

Proceeds will benefit the Carl Harvey School for the Orthopedically Handicapped. For more information, call 241-6435.

Orange Coast College basketball Coach Tandy Gillis and his staff will hold a camp for boys and girls 8 to 13 at Peterson Gymnasium from 1 to 4 p.m. on July 14-18.

The camp will stress offensive and defensive techniques, movement without the ball, passing, rebounding and shooting. There also will be five-on-five league play, with individual and team awards presented. Early registration ($55 fee) is at the Community Service Office in the Student Center Building.

Gillis has coached the Pirates for 10 seasons, leading them to the state title in 1979. He previously coached at Corona del Mar High, where he led the Sea Kings to four Sea View League championships. He played on the University of California’s national championship team of 1959-60.

UC Irvine sophomore Jon Pinckney, a top skipper for the Anteater sailing team, has been named an All-American by the Intercollegiate Yacht Racing Assn.

Pinckney, a Balboa Island resident who was an honorable mention All-American last year, is the only West Coast representative on the 20-member team.

Pinckney placed first in the Pacific Coast Championships and Rose Bowl Regatta this year and third in Division A at the Collegiate National Championships in Providence, R.I., in June.

His brother, Mike Pinckney, also earned All-American honors after winning Division A for the College of Charleston, which won the national championship.

A series of horse shows will be part of the July 11-20 Orange County Fair in Costa Mesa. Hunter and jumper classes will be offered July 12 from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. A Western Horse Show, featuring a dressage exhibition to music by Sidney Payne at noon, will be held July 13 from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Polo games will be played July 18 and 19, with exhibitions by professional players from the Los Angeles Colts scheduled for July 18. A celebrity exhibition, featuring Doug Sheehan from the television series “Knots Landing,” will be held at noon on July 19.

An Andalusian Horse Show will be held on the fair’s closing day, July 20, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. The musical dressage exhibition will be repeated that day at noon.