Major Transfer for Channel Islands

Jaline Bradley, the top returning girls’ basketball player in Ventura County, has transferred from Oxnard to Channel Islands High, Marmonte League co-champions last season.

Channel Islands Athletic Director Alfred Tarazon said Thursday that Bradley transferred because she moved in with her mother, who lives in the Channel Islands attendance district.

Bradley, a 5-foot-7 junior point guard and two-time all-county selection, averaged 18.4 points, five rebounds, 4.2 assists and 2.9 steals a game last season for Oxnard (18-12), which won the Southern Section Division I-AA title.

“I wish she was playing for us next season because she has done so much for the program,” Oxnard Coach Ryle Lynch-Cole said. “But she made the decision to go to Channel Islands and I don’t have a problem with that.”

Tennis champions: Benjamin Martin of Burbank won the boys’ 16 singles title and Shervin Saedinia of West Hills took the girls’ 18 title Thursday in the Northridge Junior Open tennis tournament at Cal State Northridge. Martin beat Sean Nagel of La Quinta, 6-0, 6-1. Saedinia beat Khushchehr Italia of Burbank, 6-3, 6-4.

Remembrance: Funeral services for former Kennedy High running back Jaret Harris will be at 1 p.m. today at San Fernando Mortuary. Harris was shot and killed Sunday night while riding a motor scooter in Hubert H. Humphrey Park.

Another transfer: Joe Mailangi, a 6-foot-1, 255-pound junior lineman, transferred from Birmingham to Crespi.

Super preps: Several high school football players in the region are listed as prospects of varying promise in Superprep Magazine’s 1997 preseason issue.

Topping the charts is Notre Dame tailback Justin Fargas, listed as the nation’s top running back recruit and second among all California prospects behind Dominguez quarterback Jason Thomas.

Palmdale’s Matt Leonard is No. 9 nationally among defensive linemen and No. 6 among California players. Agoura quarterback Ryan McCann is rated the country’s 16th-best quarterback prospect and 18th-best Californian and Oxnard running back Desmond Davis is listed No. 20 among the nation’s running backs and No. 25 prospect in California.

Others ranked among California’s top players: Taft defensive back Sedric Hurns (29), Agoura tight end Marcus Helfman (32), Montclair Prep linebacker Kevin Bentley (41), Granada Hills receiver Leon Pimky (64), Alemany tailback Miguel Fletcher (65), Palmdale running back Jason Anderson (66), Burbank tight end Vardan Mkhitarian (67), Sylmar lineman Ray Solis (68), Camarillo tight end Justin Denham (69), Antelope Valley safety Justin Mobley (70), Agoura lineman Derek Graf (77), St. Bonaventure lineman Andrew Jones (78), Moorpark defensive back Erris Green (98) and Burroughs receiver Glenn Adriatico (103). Listed as “on the bubble” are Sylmar’s Shaun Avalos, Birmingham’s Emmanuel Evans and Demetrius Patterson and Crescenta Valley’s Kenny Pritchett.

Taking the lead: Justin Ohye of Calabasas has a four-shot lead in the 13-14 age division after two rounds of the American Golf Assn. Colorado Junior Golf Roundup at Legacy Ridge Golf Course in Westminster, Colo.

Ohye shot rounds of 71 and 70 and is at three-under-par 141. The final round is today.