Galbraith to Coach Monarchs

Kevin Galbraith has been hired to coach the men’s track and field program at Valley College.

Galbraith has been an assistant coach with Asics Track West, a Santa Monica-based club team, for the past three seasons. Before that, he was an assistant cross-country coach at Loyola Marymount from 1986-92.

Galbraith takes over a once-proud track program that hit rock bottom this year.

The Monarch men failed to score a point in last month’s Western State Conference championships after co-Coaches Mike Norman and Tim Kanappen failed to get their entries in by the deadline.

Football

Chris Hedrick of Crescenta Valley High has been selected to play for the West team in the Hall of Fame Game at Citrus College on July 14.

Hedrick, a running back, is one of 80 seniors from the greater San Gabriel Valley selected to participate.

Baseball

Sites for the City Section 4-A Division semifinals Tuesday have been confirmed. Kennedy (24-4) will play host to Banning (19-12) at Birmingham High and El Camino Real (19-8-1) will play Carson (22-10) at El Camino College in Torrance. Both games are scheduled for 3 p.m.

L.A. Baptist High junior John Wilson has been named most valuable player of the Alpha League.

A pitcher and outfielder for the Knights, Wilson went 8-2 and helped L.A. Baptist to a 20-4 record, a third consecutive league title and the second round of the Southern Section Division V playoffs.

Softball

The Southern Section announced the sites of semifinal games Tuesday involving several area teams.

Westlake (24-6) will face Marina in a Division I semifinal at Golden West College.

In a Division IV game La Canada (23-3) plays Valley View at Temple City High.

In Division V, Fillmore (18-5) will play host to Cerritos Valley Christian at Shiells Park and Ontario Christian will face La Reina (23-5) at Cal Lutheran.

Cornerstone Christian (20-0-1) has advanced to the Division VI semifinals and will take on Boron at Freedom Park. All games are scheduled for 3:15 p.m.

Calabasas High senior Melissa Krolik has been named Frontier League player of the year.

Krolik, who has signed a letter of with New Mexico, is a four-time all-league selection. She was 13-5 as the Coyotes’ primary pitcher and helped the team to the second round of the Southern Section Division V playoffs.

Volleyball

Marc Denitz, who led Nordhoff High to the Frontier League title, was named coach of the year in the Frontier League.

Dalen Rigby and Greg Coleman (Nordhoff), Jonathan Fanaly (Calabasas) and Orlando Orta (Moorpark) made all-league.

Michael Paloma of Kennedy and Earnest Yun of Granada Hills were named co-MVPs in the Northwest Valley League.

Cycling

Warner Center is playing host to the fourth Grand Prix of Bicycle Racing on Sunday.

Eleven races in professional and amateur categories will be held starting at 7:30 a.m. Members of the Valley-based Nutra-Fig Racing Team are entered.

Information: 818-884-8525.

Golf

Lauren Serwitz has been named manager of Saticoy Country Club, replacing John Quinlan, who resigned after seven years because of illness.

Serwitz spent the last four years at Sacramento Capitol Club in Northern California.

The ninth Notre Dame High alumni tournament is scheduled for June 26 at Porter Valley Country Club in Northridge.

Information: 818-501-2305.

Gymnastics

Grant High won the City Section girls’ gymnastics championship Wednesday. Darci Richielu swept the vault, bars, beam and flex titles at level 7.

* Contributing: John Ortega, Bryan Rodgers, Tris Wykes.