Reseda High basketball Coach Jeff Halpern sounded...

Reseda High basketball Coach Jeff Halpern sounded more than a little envious as he sized up the talent at San Fernando.

“In a couple of years, boy, look out,” Halpern said.

Next season looks pretty good too.

Over the next year-plus, other teams in the Northwest Valley Conference will be making similar comments, and not just about San Fernando. While the Tigers have standout sophomores Javier Ramos (21.0-point average) and Jerome Elliott (14.0 points), who lead the team in scoring, four other teams in the conference also will have their leading scorer back for 1992-93.

At Cleveland, junior forward Shawn Bankhead is leading area City Section players with an average of 28.7 points. Junior guard Joe Wyatt of Kennedy is averaging 20.0, junior center Brady Mertes of Chatsworth is at 20.4 and junior forward Markee Brown of El Camino Real is at 19.6.

Halpern and Reseda are not completely out in the cold. Sophomore point guard Trenton Cross is second on the team in scoring at 12.9 and is averaging a team-high 6.3 assists.

Scoring: Reseda’s Marquis Burns entered play last week averaging 26.8 points, but by even the highest standard his two-game performance was sterling. Burns, a senior, made 31 of 50 shots (62%) from the field. He made 25 of 40 shots from two-point range and six of 10 from beyond the three-point line. Burns had 33 and 35 points in victories over Chatsworth and San Fernando, respectively, and raised his scoring average to 27.7. . . . Crescenta Valley’s Josh Willis moved into ninth place on the school’s scoring list. Willis, a 6-foot-6 senior guard, has 827 points.

Oak Park senior forward David Shaw scored 37 points and had 27 rebounds in two games last week.

Sherman Oaks CES is the only team in the Valley Pac-8 Conference that has four players with double-figure scoring averages. Mitch Shenkin (15.1) leads the Knights, followed by Khalif Muhammad (14.9), Barry McWright (13.2) and John Cannon (10.2).

Miscellaneous: Kyle Augustus, a Sherman Oaks CES point guard, leads players in the region with 8.8 assists per game. . . .

Sophomore Damon Ollie is North Hollywood’s leading scorer (15.2 points per game) and rebounder (13). . . .

Since Grant lost to North Hollywood, 63-44, the Lancers have won four consecutive games and have outscored their opponents by an average of 29 points.

Records: Tim Sebek winds down his career having already set six Nordhoff records: points (1,567), assists (495), rebounds (916), three-point baskets (131), field goals (517) and free throws made (402). In addition, his 24.7-point scoring average this season is well ahead of Larry Carlton’s 22.1 average in 1988. Sebek, who has made his past 15 free throws, is within range of Frank Jones’ season mark of 84%, set in 1977. Sebek has hit 118 of 143 (83%) free throws. . . .

With at least two games left, Calabasas’ Anthony Hampton is 27 rebounds shy of tying the school record for a season. He has 308. Jon Drezner, who plays at Brown University, set the record during the 1987-88 season. . . .

Oak Park is 4-4 at home after going two seasons without a victory at home. The Eagles were 0-21 last season. . . .

With four games left in Valley Pac-8 Conference play, North Hollywood (20-1, 7-0) can clinch a share of the Mid-Valley League title by beating Monroe today.

Statistics are current through Monday.

Regional Basketball

Top 10 Selected by sportswriters of The Times

Lst. Rk Wk Team League Record 1 1 North Hollywood Mid-Valley 20-1 2 2 Santa Clara Frontier 20-3 3 8 Kennedy North Valley 15-6 4 3 Buena Channel 18-4 5 NR Ventura Channel 19-4 6 4 Simi Valley Marmonte 18-5 7 5 Thousand Oaks Marmonte 15-7 8 6 Taft North Valley 13-4 9 7 Chatsworth West Valley 12-6 10 10 Quartz Hill Golden 15-7

NR--Not ranked.