Watley Gets Invitation to Olympic Tryouts

Natasha Watley, a shortstop who will attend UCLA as a freshman this fall, has been selected to participate in the U.S. Olympic softball tryouts, Sept. 1-5 in Midland, Mich., her father, Ed Watley, said.

Watley, 17, was a two-time Times Orange County first-team selection at Woodbridge High.

BASEBALL

Several members of the Angels will sign autographs on Saturday to help raise funds for Kiley Condon, who has been diagnosed with cancer. Kiley is the 2-year-old son of Anaheim police officer Kerry Condon and his wife, Maura.

The autograph sessions will start at 9 a.m. at J.T. Schmid’s Restaurant and Brewery, across Katella Avenue from the Arrowhead Pond. There will be a $20 donation per autograph.

The signing schedule: 9-10 a.m.--Rod Carew, Steve Sparks, Jim Edmonds, Garret Anderson, Troy Glaus, Mark Petkovsek; 10-11 a.m.--Carew, Tim Salmon, Chuck Finley, Todd Greene, Ken Hill, Darin Erstad; 11 a.m.-noon--Carew, Mo Vaughn, Gary DiSarcina, Shigetoshi Hasegawa, Larry Bowa.

Flower Park in Santa Ana will be rededicated as Angels Community Park in ceremonies beginning at 10:30 a.m. Saturday.

The two-acre park, located at 914 W. Third St., underwent an improvement project that began in November 1997. Through Angels Care, $100,000 was donated for playground equipment, restrooms, concrete tables, benches and barbecues. Trees also were planted and lighting improved. The Assistance League of Santa Ana donated $20,000.

There will be a pancake/menudo breakfast at 9 a.m.

VOLLEYBALL

Allison Englebrecht, a member of two Southern Section and state championship girls’ volleyball teams at Corona del Mar High, has signed to play professionally for the Yverdon team in the Swiss National Volleyball League, according to her father, Roy Englebrecht.

Allison coached the Corona del Mar frosh/soph girls’ volleyball team the past two seasons and taught at Pomona Elementary School in Costa Mesa. She played collegiately at Portland.

HORSE RACING

John Cooper is hoping to take another step toward a major Los Alamitos quarter horse milestone when he sends out the successful gray colt Separatist in tonight’s trials to the $145,000 California Sires Cup Futurity.

An Idaho native, Cooper needs 20 victories to reach 1,000.

Separatist paid off big for Cooper earlier in the year when the horse won the $376,000 Governor’s Cup, but Cooper, 61, said he isn’t counting on anything yet.