NOTES : Servite Leaves Today to Play in Nation’s Capital

Sightseeing trips to the White House, the Library of Congress, the Supreme Court and the Smithsonian Institution will be on the agenda for the Servite High School basketball team during its five-day trip to Washington that begins today.

A traveling party of 50, including coaches and their wives, players, parents and boosters, will depart from Los Angeles at 9 a.m. today and arrive in the nation’s capital at 5 p.m.

Servite will compete in the eight-team Washington Post Holiday Classic, meeting national power Baltimore Dunbar in the first round at 8:45 tonight. Dunbar is ranked third in the nation by USA Today. The Friars return at 7 p.m. Tuesday.

Shawn Green, former Tustin High School outfielder who signed with the Toronto Blue Jays, had his first baseball card released recently Classic cards. The card pictures Green batting in a Tustin uniform.

Green also will begin appearing on baseball cards by Upper Deck and Topps in the next couple of weeks. Green will report to the Blue Jays’ spring training camp in Florida in March after completing his first semester at Stanford.

Former Loara star Tes Whitlock, who established an Orange County single-game scoring record with 63 points against Saddleback last season, had his jersey No. 33 retired Friday in a halftime ceremony.

The ceremony was supposed to take place before the game, but Whitlock didn’t arrive until after the Orange-Loara game had started. Whitlock is a Proposition 48 student-athlete at Arizona State, where he is sitting out the year.

“Tes has had to make a major adjustment to become a college student, first and foremost,” Loara Coach Ed Prange said. “He has three 90-minute study halls each week, and if he misses one of them, the coaches make him run the next day.”

Vince Brown of Tustin will coach an all-star team in the 1992 Beijing Boys and Youth Baseball Tournament Aug. 7-18 in the People’s Republic of China.

The tournament, sponsored by the Beijing Baseball Assn., features teams from the Philippines, Taiwan, Japan and Hawaii.

Contrary to popular belief, student-athletes don’t have to be All-Southern Section selections to earn college athletic scholarships. A new publication with forms and sample letters of how to secure scholarship funds is available through the National Sports Foundation.

The publication guides qualified student-athletes through the process of applying for scholarships and includes lists of colleges and conferences. Interested parties can obtain the publication by sending a self-addressed, stamped envelope to: National Sports Foundation, P.O. Box 940, Oakhurst, N.J. 07755.