SoftballArea high school players and coaches garnered...

Softball

Area high school players and coaches garnered the top awards in the City Section.

Seniors Jennifer Gould of El Camino Real and Stephanie Wood of Verdugo Hills were named 4-A and 3-A players of the year.

El Camino Real’s Neils Ludlow and Monroe’s Bill Hence earned coach of the year honors after each guided their team to a section title.

Gould (20-4), a right-hander who will attend Princeton on an academic scholarship, led the Conquistadores to the 4-A title this season for the second time in her four-year career. El Camino Real won its last title in 1991, when Gould was a freshman.

Wood, a shortstop who helped the Dons finish runner-up to Monroe in the 3-A final, batted .392 with 19 runs batted in and 21 runs.

Baseball

Six area seniors are among 20 first-team selections to the Southern Section Division I baseball team, chosen by the Amateur Athletic Foundation of Los Angeles.

The players are pitchers Rich Igou of Notre Dame and Jim Parque of Crescenta Valley, infielders Ryan Hankins of Simi Valley and Joel Mellinger of Royal, catcher Jon Schaeffer of Harvard-Westlake and outfielder Justin Bunch of Notre Dame.

Second-team selections include pitcher Ray Clinton of Newbury Park, catcher Jeff Bennett of Newbury Park, utility players Kary Kozlowski of Simi Valley, Maki Kramer of Royal and Keith Smith of Newbury Park, Thousand Oaks infielders Matt Elam and Greg Aguilar, infielder Kirk Hagge of Crescenta Valley and outfielder Brad Farlow of Crespi.

The Florida Marlins will conduct a post-draft tryout camp at Valley College on Tuesday. Registration begins at 8:30 a.m. with the tryout immediately following. American Legion players must bring a letter of approval either from their coach or post commander.

Volleyball

Martin Manser will take over the boys’ and girls’ teams at Camarillo, replacing Robert Cornelius, who also coached both teams.

Manser, a former athlete at Camarillo, was the junior varsity coach for both the boys’ and the girls’ teams last season.

Golf

Jason Gore of Arizona, a sophomore from Hart High, has received honorable mention on the Golf Coaches Assn. of America’s All-American team. Gore is a two-time Pacific 10 Conference individual champion. Arizona finished 10th in Golfweek magazine’s final NCAA Division I rankings.

Emilee Klein of Arizona State, a sophomore from Notre Dame High who won the NCAA Division I women’s title earlier this month, was named Golfweek’s female collegiate player of the month.