Area Roundup : ‘Pro Stars’ Game Set Aug. 18 at UCI

Byron Scott’s third “Pro Stars” charity basketball game will be played Aug. 18 at the Bren Center at UC Irvine.

Money raised from the game will go toward the Byron Scott Children’s Fund, a non-profit charity.

Scott will be joined in the 7:20 p.m. game by Laker teammates Michael Cooper and Orlando Woolridge. John Sally of the NBA-champion Detroit Pistons, Kurt Rambis of Charlotte and Benoit Benjamin of the Clippers also are scheduled to play.

Tickets can be purchased from the Bren Center box office, the Sports Chalet or Ticketron. Prices are $17, $15, and $11 with $2 off for children under 8 and senior citizens. Tickets can be purchased by calling 634-1300.

Many of the top surfers and bodyboarders will compete in Dive N’ Surf Pro-Am at Laguna Niguel’s Salt Creek Beach Park Aug. 9-13. Total prize money is $35,000 in the fifth stop of the Bud Pro Surfing Tour. The winner of the surfing competition gets $6,000 and $1,500 goes to the winner of the bodyboarding division.

Mike Lambresi of Oceanside, the two-time defending tour champion, and runner-up Dino Andino of San Clemente are scheduled to compete in the field of 192 surfers.

Mike Stewart of Hawaii, the defending world champion, heads a field of 40 expected to compete in the bodyboarding division.

Former Cal State Fullerton basketball star Richard Morton has been named the player of the year in the New Zealand Basketball League, where he averaged 40 points a game for Dow New Plymouth, a team in New Plymouth, New Zealand.

Morton, who averaged 22 points a game at Fullerton in 1988, was on the Indiana Pacers roster briefly last season before joining the Rochester Flyers of the Continental Basketball Assn. He has been invited to the Golden State Warriors rookie camp, his agent said.