NOTEBOOK : Reed to Toil for Manual Arts

Travis Reed is only a sophomore, but he’s attending his third high school, Manual Arts, this fall.

Reed was the only freshman on Crenshaw High’s state champion basketball team in March. After the season, the 6-foot-5 left-handed guard-forward moved to Fontana and played on A.B. Miller High’s summer league team.

He recently moved back to Los Angeles and enrolled at Manual Arts. Reed will join a Toiler team that finished 20-5 last season and reached the City Section 4-A quarterfinals. Manual Arts was 17-3 this summer and won the Sports World tournament.

“We had a pretty successful summer, but we didn’t have a dominant go-to guy,” Manual Arts Coach Randolph Simpson said. “Travis is multitalented. He’s a utility man who can play on the perimeter or post up. We’ll play him wherever he is needed.”

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Coaches’ corner: If anyone is familiar with the Marshall High football program, it’s Jim Beattie, the first-year coach at Northern Conference rival Eagle Rock. Beattie coached Marshall to the 1982 City 2-A title and has been a teacher at the school for the last 21 years.

Beattie, 59, who has coached either football, basketball, track or cross-country at Marshall since 1973, replaced Gary Kuniyuki, who resigned at Eagle Rock shortly before the season. . . .

The Belmont High boys’ cross-country team is seeking its 11th City title. Coach Alex Carmona and assistant coaches Everaldo Silva and Jorge Marquez ran on the Sentinels’ first City champion team in 1983. . . .

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Soccer update: The Cal State Los Angeles soccer team is eighth in the NCAA Division II rankings. Senior midfielder Jesus Gonzalez, who leads the team with six goals and 12 points, was named most valuable player of the Cal State Bakersfield tournament after leading Cal State L.A. (7-0-1) to the tournament title.

Defenders Dario Gomez, Oscar Legaspi, midfielders Luis Hernandez and Juan Carlos Elizarraraz, and forward Mike Martinez also return for Cal State L.A., which is trying for its second California Collegiate Athletic Assn. title in three years. The Golden Eagles open CCAA play Saturday at Cal Poly Pomona.

East L.A. College is led by midfielder Sergio Vasquez, an All-South Coast Conference selection who scored 15 goals and helped the Huskies to a 20-2-2 record and reach the Southern California regional finals.

Freshman Jorge Flores was a member of the United States World Cup national teams for ages 20-and-under and 17-and-under and was recruited by UCLA and Old Dominion.

The team also includes Flavio Rodriguez, Eddie Ferrer and Ernesto Serrano of Bell, Martin Castillo of Bell Gardens, Ricardo Saucedo of Garfield High and Arturo Lopez of Roosevelt.

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College Football: Although UCLA was beaten by Nebraska last week, 49-21, there were a few shining moments.

Freshman wide receiver Jim McElroy, an All-City selection from Washington High last season, provided a couple when he made two receptions for 32 yards in his first college game.

It might have gone unnoticed since top receivers Kevin Jordan and All-American J.J. Stokes get all the attention, but Stokes did not play and UCLA was getting blown out at the time. Their regulars were taken out and the 6-0, 170-pound McElroy had his chance and made the most of it.

Correspondent Gary Chavez contributed to this report.