Quina Says He Was Fired by Simi Valley

Stan Quina said Saturday he has been fired as Simi Valley High football coach.

Quina, the Pioneers’ walk-on coach the past three seasons, has been openly seeking a coaching job that included a teaching position for several months.

“My stance all along was I would like to stay (at Simi Valley) if I wasn’t offered anything else,” Quina said, “but (the school) needed a commitment and I couldn’t give one because if there was a high school coaching and teaching job offered, even over the summer, I’d be nuts not to take it.”

Quina, 37, applied for positions at St. Francis, Crescenta Valley and several Orange County schools, but was not offered any jobs. He said he is being considered for a assistant job at Ventura College.

Quina said the Simi Valley job has been advertised within the district.

Men’s Tennis

Second-seeded Dexter MacBride will face fourth-seeded Pierre Mareschal in today’s 2 p.m. final of the $2,000 Cabrini Open at Cabrini Villas in Burbank.

MacBride defeated Desi McBride, 6-3, 3-6, 6-3, in the semifinals, and Mareschal defeated Julio Carluen, 6-4, 4-6, 7-5. Carluen eliminated top-seeded Bruce Manson Hing, 0-6, 6-1, 6-4, in the earlier quarterfinal round.

Softball

Antelope Valley, Canyons and Moorpark colleges were among the teams seeded Saturday for the Southern California junior college softball regional Friday and Saturday.

The 16 teams in the regional are split into four brackets of four teams each. The winners of each bracket advance to the state championships May 21-23 at the Riverside Sports Complex.

Antelope Valley, seeded No. 3, will play host to Bracket No. 3. The Marauders (39-8), Foothill Conference champions, will play Friday against No. 14 Pasadena City (15-15), the South Coast Conference third-place team.

Moorpark (17-14), the No. 1 entry from the Western State Conference, is in Bracket No. 1 at Palomar College. The Raiders, seeded No. 8, will open against No. 9 Mt. San Antonio (17-14), the South Coast Conference No. 2 team. Palomar (43-3) is seeded No. 1 in the regional for the eighth consecutive year.

Canyons (17-8), seeded No. 10 and the No. 2 entry from the WSC, will meet No. 7 San Diego Mesa (18-15) on Friday in the opening round of Bracket No. 2 at Cypress College.

Competition in Bracket No. 4 will be held at Long Beach City College.