Dana Hills Fires Orloff as Football CoachScott...

Dana Hills Fires Orloff as Football Coach

Scott Orloff has been fired as the football coach at Dana Hills High. Orloff’s team finished 2-8 last season, 0-5 in the South Coast League. He compiled a 22-39-1 record in six seasons but took the program to the playoffs in his second year, its first appearance in six seasons.

“I talked to the principal [Carolyn Williams] at the end of November about our direction and we were set in place,” Orloff said. “We were rolling, working hard in the weight room. I was called into the office on Friday and all that was said to me was that we were going in a different direction and [I was] asked to resign. There was no other reason given. I said I wasn’t going to do it. I wasn’t going to quit on my kids, my coaches or my community.”

Williams, the fourth principal in Orloff’s six years at Dana Hills, agreed she wanted the program to move in a different direction. She said wins and losses weren’t a primary factor in her decision but declined to address specifics.

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Girls’ Basketball Games Have Sites Changed

The Martin Luther King Jr. Classic girls’ basketball event, which had been scheduled to take place at a number of sites, will now be played Monday at Anaheim Canyon High.

The featured matchup is Troy, ranked No. 4 in the region by The Times, playing No. 3 San Clemente at 6:30 p.m.

Other games on the schedule are Anaheim Canyon vs. Corona del Mar, 10:30 a.m.; Riverside King vs. Fontana, noon; Rim of the World vs. Redlands, 1:30 p.m.; Oakland Castlemont vs. Fresno Clovis West, 3:30 p.m.; Norco vs. La Jolla Country Day, 5 p.m.; Rialto Eisenhower vs. Corona Centennial, 8 p.m.

Martin Henderson

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Corona del Mar’s Ball Wins Title in San Diego

Third-seeded Cameron Ball defeated Kenneth Brown of Los Angeles, 6-2, 6-2, to win the boys’ 18 division championship of the 32nd San Diego Junior Singles tournament on Sunday at the Barnes Tennis Center.

Ball is a senior at Corona del Mar High.

Judith De Vera, The Times’ 2001 girls’ tennis player of the year from Carson High, lived up to the No. 1 seeding she carried and defeated sixth-seeded Lauren Jones of Mission Viejo Capistrano Valley High, 6-2, 6-1, in the girls’ 18 division final.

Lauren Peterson