Swim Titles on the Line

The Long Beach Wilson boys’ swim team and the Huntington Beach Marina girls’ team could have a hard time trying to defend their titles in the 45th Long Beach Wilson Invitational, which begins at 5 tonight at Belmont Plaza in Long Beach.

The meet’s 12-school field includes Goleta Dos Pueblos, whose boys’ team is ranked No. 1 in the Southland by The Times.

The Chargers, who are participating in the first meet south of Ventura County, feature senior Danny Beal, The Times’ boys’ swimmer of the year in 2003.

He is the defending Southern Section champion in the 100-yard butterfly and 200 freestyle.

With Beal, seniors Michael Bowen and Egan Gans and sophomore Kevin Kuga, Dos Pueblos is strong in the relays.

Marina, with Mallory Bojorquez in the 200 individual medley, is expected to be challenged by Long Beach Wilson and Los Alamitos.

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Mission Hills Alemany senior Renee Viveros, the Mission League champion in the 100-yard backstroke the past three years, will compete in Olympic trials for Mexico, April 23-28 in Obregon, Mexico.

Her father, Gus Viveros, was born in Mexico and Renee has dual citizenship.

Viveros, who plans to take a recruiting trip to USC this weekend, placed fourth in the 100-yard butterfly (57.76 seconds) and eighth (58.47) in the 100-yard backstroke in last year’s Southern Section Division I finals.

She said she would attempt to qualify for Mexico’s national team in the 100- and 200-meter backstrokes, the 200 individual medley and the 100 and 200 butterfly events.

-- Lauren Peterson

Boys’ Tennis

Jason Jung of Torrance meets Thousand Oaks’ Sam Querry, the No. 5 seeded player, in the Boys’ 16 singles semifinals today at 9:30 a.m. in the Easter Bowl National Championship at the Riviera Resort and Racquet Club in Palm Springs.

The top-seeded team of Jonathan Calienes of Chino Hills Ayala and Alex Krueger-Wyman of Pasadena Poly face second-seeded Jamie Hunt and Conor Pollock of San Antonio in the Boys’ 16 doubles finals at 3 p.m. today.

-- Elia Powers

Basketball

Reseda Cleveland’s Nick Young and Bryce Taylor of North Hollywood Harvard-Westlake will lead opposing teams in the eighth Battle of the Valley senior boys’ all-star basketball game at 7 p.m. on April 17 at Cal State Northridge.

Young, a 6-foot-6 guard-forward, and Taylor, a 6-5 guard, were recently named to CalHi Sports’ all-state team.

Joining Young on the West team will be such players as Marcus Everett, a 6-3 guard from West Hills Chaminade, and North Hills Monroe’s Dawin Whiten, a 6-3 guard.

Among the players who will join Taylor on the East team are Adam Rich, a 6-5 guard-forward from Newhall Hart, and Chris Booker, a 6-2 guard from Sylmar.

Clarissa Ricks, a 6-3 center from Reseda, will lead the West and Stefanie Clark, a 5-9 guard-forward from Harvard-Westlake, will lead the East in the girls’ game, which begins at 5 p.m.

Admission to the doubleheader is $10 for adults and $5 for students and children 12 and under.

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David Wolfe, who coached the Rialto Eisenhower girls’ basketball team to Citrus Belt League titles in five of the last seven seasons and never won fewer than 22 games, has been named girls’ basketball coach at Rialto Carter, which begins play in the fall.

Wolfe, who had a 65-5 league record, joins a growing staff for the new school, and is the second basketball coach from Eisenhower. Steve Johnson, who coached the Eisenhower boys to a section title in 2003, is Carter’s athletic director.

-- Martin Henderson