Orange County Prep Review : For Anaheim, a Dreary Week, and Then Some

If you were to say that it was a dismal week for Anaheim High School athletics, you could still be accused of understatement, and hyperbole would be all but impossible.

It was that bad.

Monday, the girls’ soccer team lost to Brea-Olinda, 9-0.

Tuesday, Brea’s Carrie Egan scored 56 points against the Colonists, setting an Orange County girls’ basketball scoring record as Brea won, 119-26.

Wednesday, Anaheim’s boys’ basketball team did not score in the first quarter, losing to Brea by 40 points.

Thursday, it was the girls’ turn again, and they lost to Magnolia, 61-18.

Friday, Magnolia beat the Anaheim boys, 71-30.

The Colonists’ closest scrape with victory came Thursday, when the Brea boys’ soccer team scored a goal in the last 30 seconds, winning 2-1.

Which of these was the worst loss?

“Take your pick,” boys’ basketball Coach Conrad Byars said. “It doesn’t make much difference.”

Some details, if you can stomach them:

--Egan was the only Brea starter who played in Tuesday’s girls’ game, and a third-string point guard, Teresa Cross, set a Southern Section record for assists with 38.

“It was embarrassing for everybody,” said Brea Coach Mark Trakh, who kept Egan in the game only until she broke the record. “I was really uncomfortable the whole game. We’d run the shot clock down 29 seconds and throw up a prayer, but then we’d get the rebound. I found myself yelling at (the Brea players) not to shoot.”

--The boys’ team missed five layups in Wednesday’s game. The Colonists (2-12) have three freshmen on the roster and only three seniors, who among them have a broken finger, an injured knee and a sprained ankle.

“We are not a very good basketball team right now,” Byars said.

Wrestling Coach Removed: Bill Schindler, a walk-on wrestling coach at Pacifica, was removed by Principal Don Wise Friday after incidents in a match Thursday against Los Alamitos.

Official Gary Huff halted the match and declared a Pacifica forfeit after wrestlers on both teams complained of being bitten by their opponents.

“The wrestlers showed a lack of maturity and a lack of self-discipline, and I think the attitude of the kids reflected the coaching,” Wise said.

Wise named football Coach Bill Craven as wrestling coach for the remainder of the season.

Not Ranked and Not Rankled: The Southern California High School Soccer Coaches Assn. released new rankings last week, and undefeated Villa Park was nowhere to be found.

But Brian Halliday, Villa Park coach, said he is not concerned.

“I don’t mind the fact that the team isn’t ranked,” said Halliday, the former coach and general manager of the California Sunshine of the American Soccer League. He returned to coach Villa Park this season after a two-year hiatus. “I don’t pay much attention to rankings. They’re a bit strange.”

Marina (15-3-2) is the top-ranked team in division 4-A. The only other Orange County team in the top 10 is Santa Ana (10-1-3), a team that Villa Park (12-0-2) tied last week.

Westlake of Westlake Village, ranked eighth, is the only undefeated team in the top 10.

“We’re one of the sleepers,” Halliday said. “I don’t think (the coaches who vote) are aware of our record.”

The Spartans, who won the 32-team Irvine tournament earlier in the season, have played their last four games without goalkeeper Bryan Fisher, who was in an automobile accident before Christmas and recently underwent skin-graft surgery. Fisher had allowed just three goals and had six shutouts before being injured. His replacement, sophomore David Wetzler, has allowed only two goals in four games.

Brazilian Exchange: Robert Webster, the Newport Harbor swim coach who was given an expenses-paid trip to Brazil to conduct a clinic, has made preliminary arrangements with Newport Aquatics for a swimmers exchange with a group in Capanduva, Brazil, to take place in July.

Webster said he expects the program to involve 20 to 30 swimmers. Swimmers would pay their own expenses.

Webster was invited to conduct the clinic by the family of a Brazilian swimmer he coached at Laguna Beach High last season.

JV Game of the Week: With the score tied and one second left in triple-overtime Wednesday night, University had the ball under the Tustin basket. Jeff Bailey threw a length-of-the-court pass that nearly hit the roof of Tustin’s gym but came down into the hands of center Stefan Mumau, who made the catch near the free-throw line, turned and banked a shot at the buzzer, giving University a 69-67 victory.

Prep Notes

Bolsa Grande High football Coach Greg Shadid has been named the state’s 2-A division coach of the year by Cal-Hi Sports of Sacramento. Shadid led Bolsa Grande to a 13-1 record and the Central Conference title. . . . The Southern Section’s athletic symposium is scheduled for Feb. 10 in the Anaheim Convention Center. Cost for the symposium is $15. . . . The winter general meeting of the Orange County Athletic Directors’ Assn. is scheduled for next Monday in the Anaheim Stadium Club. The group will honor high school booster club presidents, with UC Irvine basketball Coach Bill Mulligan the guest speaker. . . . The third Gene Donnelly Memorial Golf Tournament benefiting Anaheim High’s athletic department is next Monday at the Alta Vista Country Club. Athletes scheduled to compete include Baltimore Oriole relief pitcher Don Aase, San Diego Padre infielder Tim Flannery, former prep football star Mickey Flynn and Orange County Hall of Fame inductee and former jockey Alex Maese. For further information, contact Anaheim Athletic Director Dan Miller at 999-3727.