More Hardware for Douglas, Greco

Ruben Douglas of Bell-Jeff High and Michelle Greco of Crescenta Valley are not only The Times’ Valley basketball players of the year, they are the only players from the region selected Southern Section players of the year.

Greco is Division I player of the year and Douglas was honored in Division IV by the Southern California Interscholastic Coaches Assn.

Greco averaged 22.2 points for the Falcons, who won the Pacific League title and reached the quarterfinals in I-AA.

Douglas led the state in scoring, averaging 34.6 points for the Guards, who advanced to the semifinals in IV-A.

Twenty-four other players from the region were selected to All-Southern Section teams in their divisions.

Rafael Berumen of Simi Valley and Jerrohn Jordan of Valencia were selected to the Division I team and Daniel Bobik of Newbury Park made the Division II squad.

Chaminade, III-A champion, is represented by Justin Beach, Justin Stewart and Scott Long. Matthew Moore of La Canada and Joey Riccio of Santa Paula also were selected in Division III.

Mike West of Bell-Jeff was selected in Division IV and Josh Glass of Campbell Hall, B.J. Ward of Santa Clara and Rocky Steryo and Jed Hall of Montclair Prep were honored in Division V.

Renae Hoffman of Buena made the Division I team and Damaris Hinojosa of Moorpark is on the Division II squad.

Erin Barker and Nell Becker of Nordhoff, Kate Beckler and Kelli Kobayashi of Alemany and Brooke Porter and Omelogo Udeze of Harvard-Westlake were selected in Division III.

Stacy Cobb of Bell-Jeff and Christine Lambert of Paraclete made the Division IV team and Susanna Hallahan of Santa Clara was selected in Division V.

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In the City Section, it may be a bit premature to consider Gilbert Arenas of Grant High and Kent Dennis of Cleveland favorites for 4-A boys’ player of the year in 1999, but they were two of three non-seniors selected to the All-City 4-A team.

Keron Wilkerson of North Hollywood and Harold Shevlin of Taft were also selected to the 4-A team by a panel of sportswriters.

Arenas, a 6-foot-3 guard, led Grant to a share of the East Valley League title, averaging 29.8 points a game.

Dennis, a transfer from Bell-Jeff, averaged 20.4 points for the Cavaliers.

Wilkerson, a 6-4 forward averaged 24.9 points for the Huskies.

Shevlin, a 6-4 point guard, helped the Toreadors to their first league title since 1992.

Senior David Bluthenthal, who helped Westchester win the State Division I title, was selected player of the year.

Juniors George Wrighster and Jeremiah Turner of City champion Sylmar were selected to the 3-A team.

Emmanuel Evans, Stanley Fletcher and Fahim Hassankhail of 3-A runner-up Birmingham also made the team along with Devin Montgomery and Luis DeLaRosa of San Fernando, and Ellis Richardson of Poly.

Allen Kordich of San Pedro, who averaged 24.5 points a game, was selected City 3-A player of the year.