McGuire, Smith Selected for Touring Baseball Team

Ryan McGuire of El Camino Real and Agoura’s Brian Smith have been named to an all-star baseball team that will represent the United States in the Friendship Series in South Korea, Aug. 25-Sept. 5. McGuire is a senior first baseman and Smith is a senior third baseman. Dmitri Young, a junior third baseman from Rio Mesa, has been selected as an alternate.

Chatsworth High Coach Bob Lofrano will coach the team and helped in its selection. The team, sponsored by the U. S. Baseball Federation, will play four games against teams representing Japan and South Korea. Before that tournament, the team will play in Lodi on Aug. 15-19 against five other all-star teams that are grouped by telephone area codes.

Lofrano also will serve as the general manager of the 818 area-code team that will be coached by John Romano of Nogales High. The 818 team is not complete, but Lofrano said that former Hart catcher Casey Burrill, former Chatsworth infielder Vince Simili, Chatsworth pitcher Reed McMackin and Crespi infielder Mark Maurizi have been selected.

John Bushart, a left-handed pitcher from Thousand Oaks High who has accepted a scholarship to attend Cal State Northridge in the fall, will play on a baseball team that left today for a two-week tour of the Soviet Union and Northern Europe.

The team, called the Baseball Ambassadors and coached by John Meiers of Arcadia High, will play five games at Moscow University, including one against the Red Army Sports Club. The team also will conduct clinics and play games in Leningrad, U.S.S.R.; Helsinki, Finland; and Stockholm.

Mitch McMullen of Newhall and Steve deLaveaga, the career scoring leader at Cal Lutheran, have earned roster positions on the Lakers’ entry in the Southern California Summer Professional Basketball League at Loyola Marymount.

McMullen, a 6-10 center, was a first-team All-American at College of the Canyons in 1987 and played the past two seasons at San Diego State. He participated in free-agent camps with the Seattle SuperSonics and Denver Nuggets earlier this summer.

DeLaveaga, a 6-foot-4 guard, was a two-time NAIA District 3 Player of the Year at Cal Lutheran.

Paul Steele, former Westlake High boys’ tennis coach, has been hired to succeed John Siemens as Cal Lutheran men’s tennis coach, according to CLU Athletic Director Robert Doering.

The Warriors won consecutive Marmonte League tennis titles in 1986-87 under Steele, who was an All-American in tennis at Brigham Young in 1984. Steele also has been the head teaching pro at Sunset Hills Country Club in Thousand Oaks for the past four years.

Siemens, who led the Kingsmen to three NAIA District 3 titles in nine years at CLU, resigned for personal reasons.

Paul Stankowski of Oxnard shot a two-under-par 69 to finish a stroke out of the lead after the opening round of the 23rd Pacific Coast Golf Assn. Amateur Championship on Tuesday at the Olympic Club in San Francisco.

Robert Willis of Australia shot 68 on the par-71, 6,808-yard Lake Course to lead the field. Only five golfers managed to match or break par.

Other entries from the Valley area included Tony Chieffo of Granada Hills (75), Craig Steinberg of Van Nuys (77), Dan Pouliot of Burbank (80), Buz Greene of Thousand Oaks (80) and Dave Fernandes of Woodland Hills (82).

Daiva Tomkus of West Hills was selected to the U. S. National women’s volleyball team and will train with the national B team until Aug. 11.

Tomkus, a senior middle blocker at UCLA, is a two-time All-American and the 1988 Pacific 10 Conference Player of the Year.

The first international women’s pro beach doubles volleyball tournament will be held Aug. 11-13 in Fujisawa, Japan, near Tokyo.

Valley-area participants will include Heather Hafner of Calabasas, a former three-time NCAA Division II All-American at Cal State Northridge, and Linda Chisholm of Van Nuys.