Los Alamitos Hosts Governor’s Cup Derby Saturday

The Governor’s Cup Derby quarter horse trials will be Saturday at Los Alamitos Race Course, marking the return of American Quarter Horse Assn. champion Secret Card and Pacific Coast Quarter Horse Racing Assn. champion Make It Anywhere.

Twenty-four horses will compete in three 400-yard trials. Those with the 10 fastest times will advance to the final on California Champions Night, June 23. The Governor’s Cup Derby is part of a 12-race series that features more than $900,000 in purses for California-bred quarter horses.

Secret Card won five times in 11 starts and earned $344,977 last year. The bay filly is trained by Jaime Gomez, who also trained Make It Anywhere.

Make It Anywhere was voted the top 2-year-old colt by PCQHRA after earning $301,678 last year.

Also entered are Copper Buff, the Governor’s Cup Futurity winner last year, and Blue Grass Bounce.

BASKETBALL

Marcel Jones, a 6-foot-4 guard from West Hills Chaminade, has been accepted at Mater Dei and will play for the Monarchs next season, his father Michael said.

Jones was a part-time starter last season as a freshman and averaged 5.8 points for an Eagle team that finished 19-9 and reached the quarterfinal round of the Southern Section Division III-AA playoffs.

He attended Chatsworth Sierra Canyon Middle School with Harrison Schaen, Mater Dei’s junior center.

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Foothill’s Courtney Fossatti and Fountain Valley’s Jenny Doezie each drove in a run to help the American team to a 6-1 victory Thursday in the Coaches’ All-Star Game at Barber Park in Irvine.

Rosary’s Dana Kenney drove in teammate Christa Arriaga with the only run for the National, which got only two hits against Fossatti, St. Margaret’s Monique Kettler, Valencia’s Michelle Whiteman, Fountain Valley’s Jackie Brown and Orange Lutheran’s Laura Miklos.