Diener’s Pitching Days at Alemany Are Over

Alemany High softball pitcher Kim Diener has been diagnosed with tendinitis in her right elbow and shoulder and will not pitch again this season.

Diener, a senior who has committed to Long Beach State, was 56-15 during the last three seasons and led the Indians to Mission League championships in 1996 and ’97. As a junior, she was 22-4 and earned most valuable player honors.

The right-hander has been told by doctors that she can still bat if she feels no pain. Diener is among the region’s leaders with three home runs.

Alemany, which has won eight consecutive league titles, lost to Notre Dame, 5-4, on Friday without Diener and fell three games behind first-place Chaminade.

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Big-time honor: Former Thousand Oaks High pitcher Jennifer Sharron was selected the Big East Conference’s pitcher of the year.

Sharron (15-6), a freshman left-hander at Notre Dame, finished the regular season with a conference-best 0.90 ERA.

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High five: Five Cal Lutheran players were selected to the All-Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference team: pitcher Kathy Proffitt, second baseman Wendy Jackson, third baseman Mandi Comer, catcher Donna Scott and outfielder Kylie Gongola.

FOOTBALL

Smith heads south: Highland High quarterback Camy Smith said he will attend Morehouse College, a Division II school in Atlanta.

Smith passed for 4,336 yards and 32 touchdowns in three seasons, including 1,912 yards and 16 touchdowns as a junior when he led the Bulldogs to a share of their first Golden League title.

VOLLEYBALL

Headead to Cal Lu: Brandy Hori, a 5-foot-6 setter-defensive specialist from Waimea High in Hawaii, has committed to Cal Lutheran.

SOCCER

Bucknell-bound: La Canada’s Sarah Klang-Glienna, a midfielder who earned second-team All-Southern Section Division III honors last season, has committed to Bucknell University in Lewisburg, Penn. The Bison, an eighth-year Division I program, play in the Patriot League and was 7-12 last season.

GOLF

Stunner: Brandon Christianson, a 12-year-old from Valencia, shocked more than 1,400 competitors by winning the Los Angeles area Toyota Golf Skills Challenge on Wednesday in Fullerton.

Christianson, a sixth-grader at Valencia Valley school, is the youngest player to win the overall title in any Toyota Golf Skills Challenge.

Playing in the 13-and-under age group, Christianson scored a 15 and tied with men’s open division winner Chris Murphy of Los Angeles and men’s senior division winner Dale Dulaney of Anaheim.

Christianson was declared overall winner based on tiebreaking procedures.

He advances to the national finals Nov. 7 at the Ojai Valley Inn and Spa.