NOTEBOOK / SEAN WATERS : Waves to Open Season at Texas Tech

Pepperdine, the two-time defending West Coast Conference champion and a winner of 33 consecutive league games, will open its 1992-93 basketball season Dec. 1 at Texas Tech.

The Waves’ first home game will be Dec. 5 against Cal State Sonoma.

Pepperdine will play at North Carolina-Charlotte Dec. 11 before returning home to play UC Santa Barbara Dec. 14.

The Waves will play host to Gonzaga Jan. 15 in their WCC opener. Pepperdine beat Gonzaga to win its second consecutive WCC tournament title last season.

Honors--Five players from the Crossroads High championship softball team were selected to the Southern Section Small Schools Division All-Star team.

Third baseman Jennifer Abramson was selected most valuable player in the Small Schools Division. Also selected to the first team were pitcher Jessica Schulman, shortstop Emily Cummins and catcher Vernna Rocha. First baseman-pitcher Linda Ripoll made the second team.

Crossroads’s Tom Gray was selected coach of the year.

The Roadrunners defeated San Bernardino Christian, 3-2, to win the Small Schools championship at Mayfair Park. It was the first girls’ title for the school.

The Roadrunners will compete in the 1-A Division next year.

Names in the news--Beverly Hills High golf and assistant basketball coach Richard Schreiber has been named the school’s athletic director. Schreiber replaces Jack Dyck, who is taking a one-year leave to serve as athletic director at Sandpoint High in Idaho.

Jason Newman, the school’s physical education chairman and varsity tennis coach, has been selected basketball coach. Newman had coached the junior varsity basketball team. He replaces Bill Smith.

Signings--Chris Sheff, a Laguna Hills High graduate and a member of Pepperdine’s national championship baseball team, signed a professional contract Sunday with the Florida Marlins, his father, Craig, said.

Sheff, a junior center fielder who batted .348 with 10 home runs during the season, was a 10th-round pick and will report today to the Marlins’ rookie team in Erie, Pa.

Signings, Part II--Patrick Cunningham, a 1985 Beverly Hills High graduate, has signed with the Phoenix Cardinals.

An offensive tackle who spent the spring with the Orlando Thunder, Cunningham was the only unanimous selection to the All-World League team.

Cunningham, who played collegiately at Texas A&M;, appeared in two games for the Indianapolis Colts in 1990.

Staff writers Martin Beck and Steven Herbert contributed to this notebook.