WSC Picks Heggen as Top Player in Softball

Moorpark College’s Jamie Heggen was chosen Western State Conference softball Player of the Year and teammate Robin Thomas was named the conference’s top pitcher in voting by coaches.

Heggen, a freshman center fielder, also was a first-team all-state selection of the California Community College Softball Coaches’ Assn.

Heggen batted .488 in conference play and led WSC players in hits, runs (19), runs batted in (14), home runs (three) and steals (18) in conference play. She batted .393 overall.

Thomas, also a freshman, was 12-1 with an 0.48 earned-run average in conference play. She was a second-team all-state selection.

Moorpark’s Missy Cress, Audra Olive and Melissa Maples were chosen for the WSC first team, as were Jill Greenwood of Canyons and Karin Knoop of Valley.

Olive also was named to the all-state second team.

Becca Berline, a two-time All-Southern Section pitcher from Notre Dame High, has signed a letter of intent with UC Santa Barbara.

Berline is 15-8 this season with 157 strikeouts in 167 innings and an 0.29 ERA. In her career at Notre Dame, she is 67-27 with 725 strikeouts in 665 innings pitched.

USC junior utility player Jeff Cirillo and UCLA sophomore outfielder Joe Wolfe, who played at Valley high schools, were chosen to the All-Pacific 10 Conference baseball team, the league said.

Cirillo played at Providence and Wolfe, whose .382 batting average is third in the Pac-10, played at Chatsworth.

Wolfe also is second in the conference with 30 stolen bases.

The City Section first-round baseball playoff game between Monroe and host University that was scheduled for Friday has been rescheduled for Thursday at 3 p.m. because of a scheduling conflict at University.

El Camino Real High players Bobby Kim, Ryan McGuire and Pat Treend will share the West Valley League’s MVP award after a vote by league coaches.

McGuire (6-1, 2.10 ERA) and Treend (10-0, 1.29) formed the City Section’s top pitching combination for El Camino Real (18-2-1), which won the league title with a 15-1-1 record. McGuire also batted .329 with 23 runs batted in and a team-high five home runs.

Treend has a team-high 24 RBIs to go with a .365 average. Kim, a senior catcher, is batting .375 and has driven in 23 runs.

Debbie Dickmann, Chris Pippins and Ted Hollahan were recognized as the top senior athletes at Cal State Northridge during an awards banquet Monday.

Dickmann, who is expected to be named an NCAA Division II softball All-American for the fourth time, is 102-20 with 73 shutouts in her Northridge career.

Pippins and Hollahan shared the award for top senior male athlete.

Pippins placed second to junior teammate Kevin Hendrix in the 100 and the 200 meters in last weekend’s California Collegiate Athletic Assn. Championships at UC Riverside. He has run the 100 in 10.52 seconds and the 200 in 20.98 (wind-aided) this season.

Hollahan set Division II swimming records in the 100- and 200-yard freestyle events in 1988. He was second in the 200-yard event this spring in the national meet and third in the 100.

Thurlow Rogers of Van Nuys who at one point was in 126th place in the $300,000 Tour de Trump, finished America’s richest cycling race in 17th.

Rogers completed the 1,107-mile race, which concluded Sunday, in 45 hours 40 minutes 8 seconds, 19:59 behind winner Raul Alcala of Mexico. Rogers was 52nd in the event’s final stage, a 108.5-mile road race from Northampton, Mass. to Boston.

He earned $1,450 for his overall finish and shared in the $1,500 his seven-man Subaru-Montgomery team received for its fifth-place finish in the team standings.

Jackie Lott was hired as women’s basketball coach at Antelope Valley College.

In addition Mark Covert, the interim track coach this season, was hired in a permanent capacity.

Lott, who succeeds Jane Cwayna, coached at El Camino College for four years and most recently was an assistant at St. Cloud (Minn.) State.

Covert has coached at Glendale and Valley junior colleges.