Softball Games to Benefit Triana

A softball fund-raiser will be staged at Camino Real Park in Ventura on Sunday to help offset the medical costs of Buena High softball player Tanya Triana, who has lymphatic cancer. Games will be played at 1 and 3 p.m.

Triana, a freshman, was a reserve third baseman and pitcher this season for the Buena varsity. Physicians last month determined that she has a malignant tumor in her chest and she is undergoing chemotherapy.

Her father Art was a member of the Camarillo Kings fast-pitch men’s softball team, which won the International Softball Congress world title in 1981 and 1982. Her brother Aaron was a quarterback on the Buena football team and shortstop for the baseball team.

Coggins said that O-positive blood donations can be made in Triana’s name at United Blood Services in Ventura: 805-654-1600.

Financial donations can be made in Triana’s name to the American Commercial Bank of Ventura, 805-642-0383.

Friends of the family are trying to organize a fund-raiser dinner. Volunteers and sponsors willing to donate food for the event also are being sought.

Information: 805-487-4696 or 805-484-3596.

Suzi Shimoyama, a Times All-Valley and All-City Section basketball player at North Hollywood High, will undergo knee surgery Monday after suffering a severe injury during a club tournament game last month.

Shimoyama, a senior point guard who has signed a letter of intent with California, is expected to be sidelined for six months and will redshirt her first season.

Thurlow Rogers of Van Nuys and John Wordin of West Hills finished first and second in the United States Cycling Federation state district championships last weekend in Bakersfield.

Rogers, of Van Nuys, finished the 100-mile race in four hours, approximately 30 seconds ahead of Wordin, a member of the Velo Avanti-Mrs. Gooch’s cycling team.

American Legion baseball teams are being sought to play in the annual Gene Waid Memorial tournament at Camarillo High.

The event, named for a longtime supporter of youth baseball in Ventura County, will run July 2-5 at Camarillo.

Four teams currently are entered, and space is available for as many as eight, organizer Jack Willard said.

Information: 805-482-4689.

Cleveland High will dedicate its tennis courts to the late Arnie Leckman in a ceremony preceding a benefit basketball game at the school at 7 p.m. Friday.

Leckman, the school’s longtime tennis coach, died a few weeks after his retirement last June.

The benefit game will pit current and former members of the Raiders against Cleveland staff and alumni. Willie Brown, Mike Haynes and Terry McDaniel have committed to play.

Former Cleveland basketball standout Adonis Jordan, the point guard at Kansas, will be the honorary alumni coach. The Raiders and Jordan will be available to sign autographs at halftime.

Proceeds will help benefit the Cleveland football team.

Information: 818-349-8410, ext. 335, or 818-986-8973.