Chelette Wins Coaching Award

Foothill Conference champion Antelope Valley College placed four players, more than any other school, on the 11-member, all-conference men’s basketball team, and the Marauders’ Newton Chelette was selected as coach of the year.

Tony Madison, a 6-foot-2 freshman guard; Paul Ernst, a 6-2 sophomore guard; Walter Brooks, a 6-3 sophomore guard; and Steve Walker, a 6-7 center, represented Antelope Valley on the all-conference team.

Madison averaged 16.2 points a game to lead the Marauders in scoring and made a school-record 107 three-point shots. Ernst, a transfer from Santa Barbara City College, averaged 15.5 and Brooks averaged 12.2. Walker grabbed a team-high 7.9 rebounds a game and scored 12.2.

Chelette, in his first season at Antelope Valley, guided the team to a 27-6 overall record, 13-1 in conference play.

The West Valley Eagles Track Club won the midget boys’ (ages 11 and 12) mile relay at the Times/Eagle Indoor Games at The Forum last Friday, adding to the 4 x 160-yard race it won at the Sunkist Invitational at the Sports Arena last month.

The team of Armone Lochard, Bryant Hayes, Jalal Milby and Larry Phillips ran 4 minutes 18.7 seconds.

Peter De La Cerda, a 1989 graduate of Granada Hills High, placed first in the Desert Princess Biathlon short course triathlon earlier this month in Palm Springs.

De La Cerda completed the event--which included a 1 3/4-mile run, 10-mile bike ride and a second 1 3/4-mile run--in 44 minutes 35 seconds.