High School Notebook : BBC Prefers Membership on Small Side

They are called the BBC, but not because they watch television programs from Great Britain.

The BBC--to Birmingham’s Dean Kline, Justin Bass and Lindsey Parker--stands for the Billy Barty Club because Kline, Bass and Parker each stand 5 feet, 6 inches or less.

Kline, a senior third baseman, is 5-6, Bass, a sophomore second baseman, is 5-5 and Parker, a senior outfielder, is 5-5. The trio is so small, special uniforms had to be ordered.

As soon as Birmingham Coach Wayne Sink saw them together, he tagged them with the moniker.

“The coach looked at us and said, ‘Geez, this is going to be the Billy Barty infield,’ ” Kline said. “Then, everyone started calling us that.”

And soon, people wanted to be a part of it.

“Other people on our team asked to get in it, but we told them they were too tall,” Bass said. “I guess there’s a desire out there to be short.”

Freaky Friday: There should have been a sign near the entrance of every baseball field in the Valley area Friday: “Warning, the following game will not be won until the final at-bat. Pregnant women and those on medication should consult their physician before attending today’s game.”

Three games were won in the final at-bats while in another, Hart’s 8-5 victory over San Gabriel, the Matadors had the tying run at the plate in their final at-bat before bowing out.

Simi Valley, which beat Westlake, 3-2, in eight innings, was the only area team to win its heart-stopper. The Pioneers (6-2, 1-0 in the Marmonte League) tied the score, 2-2, in the seventh on a two-run home run by Scott Sharts, then won it on a walk, sacrifice and single in the eighth.

Westlake (3-3, 0-1) loaded the bases in the seventh, but Sharts struck out Craig Cooper to end the inning. “We felt confident that if we could get out of the seventh inning, we could win,” Simi Valley Coach Mike Scyphers said.

Winning in the last few innings is nothing new to Simi Valley, which has won three games after trailing. “That’s the sign of a good club,” Scyphers said. “A club that’s not going to lay down. As long as we know we have a couple of outs left, we’re still fighting.”

Ups and downs: If Magic Mountain builds a new thrill ride in the next few months, North Hollywood Coach Brian York has a team they can name it after.

“This season has been a roller-coaster,” said York, whose Huskies are 3-2. “We can look very good from game to game, but, unfortunately, we can also play horribly from game to game.”

North Hollywood won its first two games but has lost two of its past three. Most frustrating, according to York, is how the team plays within each game.

“The thing that kills me is we can look very good to very bad, inning to inning,” he said.

Soccer honors: Reseda fullback Terry Davila was named the City Section Defensive Player of the Year after holding the City’s all-time scoring leader, Raul Haro, to one point in Reseda’s 3-1 victory over San Pedro in the championship game last month.

Davila and his brother Teddy, who also was voted first-team All-City, frustrated Haro, who was voted the offensive player of the year.

Halfback Mario Cristales and forward Robert Faretta from the Regents were voted to the honorable mention list.

Good morning, Jim: Alemany Coach Jim Ozella probably went to sleep Friday night thinking about his team’s controversial Del Rey League loss at Loyola. Saturday morning did not start out any better for him. Thousand Oaks’ Steve Sisco hit the game’s first pitch for a home run to right field and the Indians, The Times’ No. 4-ranked team in the Valley area, eventually lost, 6-5, in 10 innings.

After Saturday’s game, Ozella had a lengthy talk with his team, which fell to 6-3, discussing the squad’s attitude.

“We’re approaching games in a negative fashion,” Ozella said. “We’re trying to figure out what not to do to lose instead of trying to figure out what to do to win.”

Steven Fleischman contributed to this notebook.