All-City Forward Picks UCLA

Trevor Ariza, a 6-foot-8 All-City forward at Westchester High, has committed to UCLA.

He averaged 12 points and 12 rebounds a game last season for the Comets, who won the City Section and state Division I basketball titles. Ariza, who has not achieved a qualifying test score, is the first Bruin commitment for the 2003-04 season. He chose UCLA over Washington and Indiana.

-- Steve Henson

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Former NBA player Mack Calvin has resigned after one season as boys’ basketball coach at Compton Dominguez, said Christine Sanchez, director of communications for the Compton Unified School District.

Calvin, 54, guided the Dons last season to a 15-12 record and the second round of the Southern Section Division III-AA playoffs.

The former USC guard, who played four of his 11 pro seasons in the NBA, did not return repeated phone messages seeking comment.

A Los Angeles Superior Court jury recently awarded Calvin $210,000 after ruling he was the victim of discrimination based on race while coaching Cal State Dominguez Hills’ men’s basketball team during the 1996-97 season. Calvin, who is African American, had his one-year renewable contract terminated after one season. Cal State Dominguez Hills is appealing the decision.

-- Ben Bolch

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Undefeated Michael Haddan of Irvine Woodbridge took eight seconds off the Irvine Regional Park course record in winning the boys’ sweepstakes race of the Orange County cross-country championships last Saturday, but he is not expected to run in the sweepstakes race at the Mt. San Antonio College Invitational on Saturday. Haddan, a junior, will run in the Division II race as he did last year.

“We want to make sure that he does not race hard too often during the regular season and thus hopefully be more effective at the end of the season for the [Southern Section] and state championships,” Woodbridge Coach George Varvas wrote in an e-mail.

Two-time Orange County girls’ champion Anaheim Esperanza is the defending team sweepstakes champion at Mt. SAC, but none of the Aztecs’ top runners will compete Saturday because Coach Rich Medellin also feels it would be one too many hard races this season.

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Huntington Beach forfeited its nonleague football victory over Fountain Valley Los Amigos for using a 14-year-old player without filing the proper documentation, the Southern Section reported. Huntington Beach’s record falls to 3-3 and Los Amigos’ improves to 5-1.

-- Eric Maddy