Thran to Lead Football Teams on China Tour

Gary Thran, football coach at Harvard High, will lead a two-team contingent of 66 college students of the Amateur Sports Development USA Foundation on a 10-day trip to China beginning Monday.

The teams, which include Harvard graduates Chris Thabit (1985) and Todd Jones (‘86), will square off for games in Hong Kong and Canton.

The Harvard water polo team, led by Coach Rich Corso, will leave Tuesday for a two-week trip to Italy as guests of the Bergamo Waterpolo Club. The 17-member team will play 15 matches in 16 days in tournaments in Bergamo and Genoa.

Greg Baumgartner of Chaminade High and Tony Holiday of Cleveland will attend Fresno State in the fall as walk-on members of the school’s baseball team.

Holiday was Cleveland’s No. 3 pitcher and also played infield.

Baumgartner, who was 3-2 with a 5.69 earned-run average in 35 2/3 innings this season, said that the pair will work out with the team this fall in the hope of making an impressive showing in the spring.

“If things go well,” Baumgartner said, “we’ll probably ask them for some help with our financial situations.”

Fresno State was ranked among the nation’s top Division I teams last season.

Chaminade center fielder Tony Collatos, who batted .257, will attend Loyola Marymount where he will be a walk-on member of the baseball team. Collatos said that he might be offered scholarship money next season.

The fourth Ben Graham Scholarship golf tournament will be played Monday at Sunset Hills Country Club. The event has a $125 tax-deductible entry fee.

Proceeds will go to a scholarship fund at Cal State Northridge. More than $7,000 was raised last season in the name of Graham, who played at CSUN in the last decade and was a three-time Division II All-American.

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Doug Britton, a linebacker from Moorpark College, has signed a letter of intent to play at Washburn University in Topeka, Kan. Britton was an All-Western State Conference selection last season.