Brea, Chino Hills Ayala Girls Will Meet in Wooden Classic

A girls’ basketball game between Brea Olinda High and Chino Hills Ayala, beginning at 4:30 p.m., has been added to the John Wooden Classic High School Invitational Dec. 4 at the Arrowhead Pond.

In the boys’ games, Los Alamitos plays Vista Rancho Buena Vista at 6 p.m. Compton Dominguez will play Texas defending 4-A state champion Houston Waltrip at 7:30, and Mater Dei meets Glendora at 9 p.m.

Tickets go on sale Oct. 17 at the Pond box office, Ticketmaster, the Southern Section office in Cerritos and at participating schools.

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Former La Quinta baseball player Gerald Laird will have his uniform number (9) retired Friday morning in a ceremony at the school.

Laird, who was selected Times Orange County player of the year in 1997 and ‘98, was the first county player with a single-season batting average over .600. He batted .630 last spring.

Laird was drafted in the second round of baseball’s June amateur draft by the Oakland Athletics, but he did not sign and currently attends Cypress College.

He finished his Aztec career with eight school records and seven county records, including career hits (210), hits in a season (68), doubles (54), home runs (29) and runs scored (169).