NOTEBOOK : Allan Leads All-Rio Hondo Soccer Team

Ross Allan, a senior sweeper who led La Canada High’s soccer team to second place in the Southern Section 1-A Division playoffs, was selected Most Valuable Player in the Rio Hondo League by a vote of league coaches.

Allan was one of seven Spartans selected to the All-Rio Hondo League first team. The others are Jensen Jaraba, Matt Corlett, Roy Messineo, Matt Billiti, Kenny Burns, Malcolm Dicks and Hjalmar Hundhammer.

La Canada was 22-2-2 this season, losing to Walnut, 3-1, in the 1-A Division championship match.

Fast feat: Rick Provenzano of Glendale College recorded the season’s fastest 800 meters by a Southern California junior college runner at the Bronco Relays at Cal Poly Pomona two weeks ago.

Provenzano finished in 1 minute 51.90 seconds, shattering both his personal best of 1:52.54, which he ran last May at Arcadia High, and his seasonal best of 1:53.55, set in January.

Hall of Famer: Crescenta Valley High graduate Michelle Hampton, a former NCAA Division II swimming champion at Cal State Northridge, has been inducted into the university’s hall of fame.

Hampton, 29, was a 14-time All-American at Northridge, where she set several school and Division II records.

Honor roll: Pasadena City College guard Chris Jones, a former All-Southern Section basketball player at La Canada, was selected to the All-South Coast Conference first team by league coaches.

Jones, 6-foot-5, averaged 20.5 points and 6.8 rebounds for Pasadena, which finished third in the conference standings.

Add honor roll: Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference coaches named Occidental College basketball players Sharon Bruner and Kelly Stephenson to the all-conference first team.

Bruner, a senior guard, was Occidental’s leading scorer, averaging 13.6 points a game.

Stephenson, a senior forward, averaged 11.3 points and 8.1 rebounds for the Tigers.