Pearson Replaces Starr at Woodland Hills Taft

Kevin Pearson, who guided Los Angeles Cathedral to six league championships in eight years as football coach, has been selected to replace Troy Starr as coach at Woodland Hills Taft.

Pearson, 37, will take over a Taft team that has lost in the City Championship game each of the last two seasons.

“The name of Taft speaks for itself,” Pearson said. “We’re in a situation where we can contend for the City title every year.”

Rick Sorrentino, who coached the junior varsity at North Hills Monroe for eight seasons, has been hired as baseball coach at North Hollywood.

Sorrentino replaces Brad Hodge, an interim coach who had taken over for George Vranau, who was fired before the start of the season.

-- Eric Sondheimer

Dennis Riedmiller, an assistant the last three years, has been promoted to head coach of the Camarillo football team. The Camarillo graduate played at Ventura College and Southwest Louisiana. He assisted at Oxnard Channel Islands.

He replaces Charlie Festerling, a longtime Camarillo assistant who was head coach for two years before stepping down for personal and health reasons.

Edward White, who joined L.A. Ribet Academy in the fall as defensive coordinator for the football team, replaces Erik Miller as the Fighting Frogs’ baseball coach this spring.

Miller, also the school’s athletic director, takes over as softball coach, replacing walk-on coach Molly Jamerson.

Fontana Kaiser football standout Omar Alvarez allegedly punched two 15-year-old students, a boy and a girl, leading school police to investigate whether charges should be filed.

Fontana Unified School District officers expect to file a report with the San Bernardino County district attorney’s office by Friday, Chief Pat McCurry said.

Alvarez, a 6-foot-1, 218-pound linebacker selected by The Times to the Inland Empire all-region team after making 180 tackles last season, and a 16-year-old boy allegedly fought with two girls and two boys from Kaiser after following the foursome’s truck to a residence at 7:20 a.m. Monday, police said.

Alvarez was accused of punching one girl and one boy, McCurry said. The 16-year-old, whose name was not released, allegedly assaulted the other pair, pulling a knife on the second girl.

-- Danielle Samaniego

About 100 hundred fencers are expected to compete in the Southern California Scholastic Fencing League’s final individual epee and sabre tournament from 10:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday at San Diego Mission Bay High.