Marty Albert has resigned as interim boys’...

Marty Albert has resigned as interim boys’ and girls’ track and field coach at Century High, Girls’ Athletic Director Lisa Treen said.

Albert, an assistant football coach at the school, replaced John Knox, who resigned at the start of the 1996-97 school year to spend more time with his family and concentrate on coaching cross-country at Century.

Also at Century, Bill Snyder, assistant varsity basketball coach, resigned as varsity softball coach. after his assistant coach--and wife--Jill Snyder resigned to concentrate on her new teaching job in South County.

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John Lepak of La Habra Heights shot a two-round total of 135 to win the overall boys’ title at the Yorba Linda Junior Invitational at Yorba Linda Country Club. Hana Kim of Los Angeles won the girls’ title, defeating Candie Kung, 15, of Fountain Valley on the first hole of sudden death. Kim and Kung finished at 147.

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Robyn Yorke of Huntington Beach, a four-time All-American softball player at Fresno State, has been given a $5,000 NCAA postgraduate scholarship. She is the seventh athlete at the school to receive the award and the first softball player honored.

Yorke was a three-time academic All-American. Yorke, who received a bachelors degree in liberal studies with an emphasis on teacher education, will continue postgraduate work at Long Beach State.

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The Orange Unified School District’s Board of Education will decide at its August meeting if it will restore $240,000 in coaching stipends it trimmed from the budget before the 1992-93 school year, said Dave Zirkle, the district’s athletic director.

Zirkle presented to the board Thursday a proposal that would not only restore the stipends but also provide each high school in the district--Canyon, El Modena, Orange and Villa Park--an additional $20,000 for boys’ volleyball, golf and girls’ water polo.

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More than 250 of the top U.S. junior badminton players are expected to compete for $10,000 in scholarships in the Junior National Championships beginning Monday at the Orange County Badminton Club.

Events, which continue through Wednesday, include boys’ and girls’ singles, boys’ and girls’ doubles and mixed doubles in five age divisions. Registration is $30 for one event and $15 for each additional event. Admission is free.

The club is at 1432 N. Main Street in Orange. For more information, call (714) 639-6222.

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Kathleen Celio, a former Rosary High standout who now plays for Santa Clara, scored two goals in the final eight minutes of the second overtime period to lift the Southern California Blues to a 2-1 semifinal victory over Lamorinda United (Calif.) in the under-19 girls’ division of the Snickers U.S. Youth Far West Regionals Soccer Championships in West Jordan, Utah. The Dana Point Blues play the San Diego Surf today for the championship.

The other Orange County girls’ teams that advanced to the finals include the Blues’ under-17 girls, who shut out the West Orange County United Riptide with goals by Megan Schlegal of Trabuco Hills and Tracy Winzen of Mater Dei to win, 2-0.

In the under-15 division, the Blues scored another shutout, defeating the Casper (Wyo.) Blades, 3-0. And in the under-14, the North Huntington Beach Black beat Columbine Istari (Colo.), 1-0.

The North Huntington Beach under-14 boys also advanced, as did the Irvine Strikers (under-13). The finals will be played today.