Castellanos Named MVP in East Valley

Poly High pitcher Eddie Castellanos has been named the East Valley League’s Most Valuable Player in a vote of coaches.

Castellanos, a senior right-hander who helped Poly win the league title, leads all area pitchers with a 12-0 record. The Parrots (22-3) were 17-0 in league play and are seeded first in the City Section 4-A Division playoffs that begin Friday.

Castellanos has recorded 10 complete games and has struck out 58 and walked 21 in 82 1/3 innings.

The Southern Section first-round baseball playoff game between Thousand Oaks and host Culver City that was scheduled for Friday has been moved to today at 3 p.m. because of a conflict with a school prom at Thousand Oaks.

Funeral services for Leti G. Tago, a former assistant football coach at St. Genevieve High, are scheduled for Friday at 8 p.m. at the church at St. Genevieve in Panorama City. Tago died May 9 after a long illness. He was 33.

Tago was an All-City Section player at Cleveland in the 1970s and coached at St. Genevieve on the staff of former Coach Lindon Crow, who has retired.

All four heats of the 300-meter intermediate hurdles in the Southern Section 4-A Division preliminaries will be re-run today at 3 p.m. at Gahr High in Cerritos. The event is being restaged because the hurdles were misplaced in one of the heats in Saturday’s 4-A preliminaries.

The Southern Section initially planned to re-run just one heat but national rules dictate that all four heats must be repeated.

Dennis Callin of Simi Valley and Marie Meyers of Newbury Park have been named to the six-member United States Equestrian Team dressage squad that will compete in the World Equestrian Games.

The games will be held in Stockholm, July 24-29. Team selections were based on a series of qualifying shows and two selection trials, as well as on the 1989 competitive records of horse and rider.

Four area drivers top the standings of the NASCAR All-American Challenge Series Southwest Tour after Saturday’s 100-lap main event at Stockton 99 Speedway.

Ron Hornaday Jr. of Palmdale (635 points), Ray Hooper Jr. of Palmdale (568), Dennis Dyer of Palmdale (564) and M. K. Kanke of Granada Hills (559) lead the 50-driver circuit.

Hornaday, the tour’s top money-winner with $4,250, finished third at Stockton behind winner Troy Beebe of Modesto (22nd in the standings) and Loran Kelley of Vacaville (fifth).

Defending tour champion Dan Press of Frazier Park, with two victories this season, is 10th among the points leaders.