Cardinals Spend a Pick on Treend

Pat Treend of El Camino Real has been selected in the 16th round of the baseball amateur draft by the St. Louis Cardinals. The 6-foot-4, 195-pound senior right-hander posted a 12-1 record with a 1.23 earned-run average and struck out 106 batters in 91 innings.

Treend, who has committed to UC Santa Barbara, also batted .369 with 28 runs batted in.

Mike Muhlethaler, a 1987 graduate of Crescenta Valley High and now a junior at Cal, was a late-round selection of the Oakland Athletics.

A utility infielder, Muhlethaler batted .317 with seven home runs in 126 at-bats this season.

Steve Lepken, a highly regarded distance runner from Hart High, will attend College of the Canyons in the fall, Cougar track and cross-country Coach Fred De La Vega said.

In the Southern Section 3-A Division track championships in May, Lepken timed a personal-best 4 minutes 17.10 seconds in the 1,600 meters to finish second.

Bill Lake, the offensive line coach at Granada Hills High, has resigned his post, according to Highlander co-Coach Darryl Stroh.

Lake, who will remain the school’s wrestling coach, will be replaced by Jim Hopper, a walk-on assistant for the past four seasons.

Moorpark College sophomores Mary Bittner and Tony Kerr have been named winners of the College Scholar Athlete Awards, according to Athletic Director Paul Dunham. Bittner, a starting guard for the basketball team and a long jumper and triple jumper for the Raider track team, maintained a 3.95 grade-point average. Kerr, with a 3.82 GPA, was an All-Western State Conference defensive back for the football team.

City 3-A Division champion Monroe and runner-up Verdugo Hills dominated the All-City Section volleyball team, chosen in a vote of coaches.

Monroe placed seniors Eric Ramey, Pierre Masequesmay and Brad Packer on the first team and Verdugo Hills landed juniors Kheng Lim and Soi Hoang on the seven-member squad.

Each school placed two players on the second team--senior Scott Kwan and Dale Domingo (Verdugo Hills) and senior Jean Masequesmay and senior Matt Johnson (Monroe.)

Marshall’s Seve Tran was the most valuable player.

Laura Kirkpatrick, Valley College’s center, has orally committed to play basketball for Sonoma State, Valley Coach Doug Michelson said. Kirkpatrick is a 5-10 sophomore from Buckley High.

Pitcher Josh Brown and outfielders Dan Larson and Joe Tushnet were chosen tri-players of the year in the Mid-Valley League, as announced by the coaches.

Larson, who batted .376, and Brown, who finished with an 11-2 record and a 1.62 ERA, led Birmingham High to a 19-7-1 record and the City Section 4-A Division quarterfinals in Coach Wayne Sink’s final year. Tushnet batted .561 and stole 37 bases for Reseda.

Brad Kearns, 25, won the Orange County Performing Arts triathlon on Sunday, covering the 1.5 kilometer swim, 40K bicyle ride and 10K run in a course-record 1 hour 49 minutes 33 seconds.

Kearns, of Malibu, competed in cross-country and track at Taft High. He won $2,000.

Former Santa Clara High player Stacey Cvijanovich signed a contract Wednesday to play for the Las Vegas Silver Streaks in the World Basketball League.

Cvijanovich, a member of Nevada Las Vegas’ 1990 NCAA champion team, is the son of Santa Clara Coach Lou Cvijanovich and was the Southern Section 2-A Division Player of the Year in 1985.