Chevalier Set to Replace Hill

Cleveland High boys’ basketball Coach Andre Chevalier has emerged as the leading candidate to replace Eddie Hill as an assistant at Cal State Northridge. Hill recently took a job as recruiting coordinator at San Jose State.

Chevalier, like Hill, played at Cleveland under current Northridge Coach Bobby Braswell. He is also a former Northridge point guard and the career leader in scoring, assists and steals.

The leading candidate to replace Butch Hawking as part-time Northridge assistant is Rob Ramaker, who was at Oregon when Braswell was an assistant there. Ramaker, 23, also attended UC Santa Barbara.

Hawking, a former Simi Valley High star, left Northridge to become an assistant at Kansas State under Coach Tom Asbury, who coached at Pepperdine.

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Bryant Ching, girls’ coach at Monroe High for the last eight seasons, resigned Wednesday. Ching guided the Vikings to two league championships.

Ching will continue to coach softball at Sherman Oaks CES.

SOFTBALL

Meaghan Finnerty of Moorpark has been selected as most valuable player in the Frontier League. Leonard V. Mata of Santa Paula was coach of the year.

First-team selections included Erin Heinbechner, Cori Fredette and Davis Beck of Moorpark, Kelly Cheever, Sara Hall, Jessica Armacost and Amy Rosson of Calabasas and Tanya Lopez of Santa Paula.

TENNIS

Westlake High will travel today to Mission Viejo, a 15-3 winner Wednesday over Foothill, for a Southern Section Division II team tournament semifinal.

Harvard-Westlake will travel today to Palm Desert to play a semifinal in Division III. Both matches begin at 3:15 p.m.

VOLLEYBALL

Monroe High outside hitter Hugo Cabadas was selected the City Section 3-A Division boys’ player of the year.

Cabadas, a senior, was the kill leader for the Vikings, who won the 3-A championship.

Joe Nargi and Tomer Firouzman of Taft, the 4-A Division runner-up, Frank Nguyen of Granada Hills and Jeff Toon of Kennedy were first-team selections in the 4-A Division.

David Lurth of Chatsworth, Afram Naoum and Elan Yakovee of Taft and Mike Aleman of Granada Hills were second-team 4-A selections.

Rob Nielson of Palisades was the 4-A player of the year.

Other 3-A first-team selections included James Taruc and Jose Sanchez of Monroe, Ervin Gonzalez of Sylmar and Gilbert Ramos of Poly.

Ioannis Avramis of Van Nuys, James Word of Poly and Fabian Landeros of Sylmar were second-team 3-A selections.

BASEBALL

Crescenta Valley High will host Palmdale at 4 p.m. Friday at Stengel Field in a Southern Section Division I quarterfinal baseball playoff game.

Crescenta Valley (22-3-1), ranked third in the region by The Times and the Pacific League champion, is coming off a 5-4 victory Tuesday over Royal (18-8), ranked sixth and champion of the Marmonte League. Palmdale (21-5), No. 7 in the region and Golden League champion, upset fourth-ranked Crespi (22-6-1), the Mission League champion, 4-3, on Tuesday.

Other matchups Friday include Moorpark at Westlake and South Hills at Burroughs in Division III. [See box for pairings.]

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Baseball Pairings

Southern Section quarterfinals, 3 p.m. Friday unless noted:

* Division I: Palmdale vs. Crescenta Valley, 4 p.m., at Stengel Field

* Division II: Hueneme at La Mirada

* Division III: Moorpark at Westlake; South Hills at Burroughs

* Division IV: St. Francis at La Quinta

* Division V: L.A. Baptist at St. Bonaventure; Viewpoint at Kern Valley

* Division VI: Pacific Coast Christian at Grace Brethren