Carpenter Picks Arizona State

Quarterback Rudy Carpenter of Westlake Village Westlake has committed to Arizona State, deciding not to wait to see if he can qualify academically at UCLA. He passed for 2,705 yards and 35 touchdowns this season.

Another player from Westlake’s Southern Section Division IV championship team, running back Tahj Mowry, has committed to Savannah State, an NCAA Division I-AA school in Savannah, Ga.

Eric Sondheimer

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Girls’ Basketball

Sade Wiley-Gatewood of top-ranked Lynwood has been selected for the Women’s Basketball Coaches Assn. High School All-America game April 3 in conjunction with the women’s NCAA Final Four at New Orleans. The game will be played at Tulane.

Wiley-Gatewood, who is averaging 23 points and 9.5 assists, sat out for the first time this season Jan. 14 because of a knee injury.

She is expected to be sidelined this week, when the Knights play at Cerritos Gahr tonight and play host to Downey on Friday in San Gabriel Valley League games, and play host to Perris in a nonleague game Saturday.

Natasha Thomas of Inglewood Morningside had 10 blocked shots in the Monarchs’ 70-57 victory Friday over Redondo. Though the 6-foot-3 senior has scored only 13 points the last two games, she has 15 blocks.

Martin Henderson

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Girls’ Soccer

Fullerton Sunny Hills (19-2, 3-0 in league) is one of the hottest teams in the Southland, largely because of forward Tanya Taylor, who Thursday set a school freshman season record with 20 goals.

Taylor scored five goals this week in two Freeway League games. She had three goals in Sunny Hills’ 11-0 victory over Buena Park on Jan. 13 and two in the team’s 4-0 victory over La Habra on Thursday.

Taylor, who has 13 assists, scored the game-winning goal in the Lancers’ 1-0 victory over Aliso Niguel on Dec. 10. She has two more goals than sophomore forward Jessica Sharpe, who has been the other major threat on offense.

“We put a lot of pressure on teams,” said Coach Jeff Gordon, whose squad has 15 shutouts. “We believe the best goalies are the ones who make zero saves.”

The Lancers have won their league championship nine of the last 13 seasons, but Fullerton Troy won last season with a 10-0 record.

The teams meet for the first time this season at 3:15 p.m. on Tuesday at Sunny Hills.

Elia Powers

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Boys’ Soccer

Huntington Beach Edison, the No. 4-ranked team in the Southland by The Times, could take a four-point lead in the Sunset League standings with a victory today over visiting Fountain Valley.

Edison (15-1) hasn’t blown out any if its opponents in rolling to a 4-0 start in league play. The Chargers have won each game by a goal, with two of those victories coming in overtime.

Fountain Valley (14-2-1, 3-1) was upset by Los Alamitos last week, but could move into a tie for first place with a victory today.

John Ortega

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Girls’ Water Polo

Mike Goar, coach of Mira Loma Jurupa Valley, has been put on paid administrative leave by the Jurupa Unified School District pending an investigation into an unspecified personnel matter.

“I’m not answering any questions at this time,” Goar said.

Citing personnel issues, Jurupa Valley school officials also would not comment on the matter, and district officials did not return phones messages.

“I’m just on the outside looking in. I don’t know all the details,” said Ben Bunz, Jurupa Valley’s assistant principal in charge of operations, athletics and activities. “There’s just things that have to be investigated and that I’m just not at liberty to say.”

In the absence of Goar, who also coaches the school’s swimming teams, assistant Cami Wilson has been coaching the water polo team on an interim basis. Jurupa Valley was the Southern Section Division VI runner-up to Rowland last season.

Irvine Woodbridge Coach Dion Gray, the starting goalie for the U.S. national women’s water polo team from 1976 to 1986, attended a ceremony at St. Louis on Saturday honoring her and five others who will be part of the first class of women to be inducted into the U.S. Water Polo Hall of Fame at Ft. Lauderdale, Fla.

Gray, 47, was a member of three U.S. teams that finished third in World Championships in Germany in 1978, in Ecuador in 1982 and in Spain in 1986.

“I’m definitely honored and proud to be in the first group. We blazed a lot of trails,” Gray said beforehand.

The induction ceremony took place in conjunction with the U.S. Water Polo’s annual convention at the Missouri Athletic Club.

Lauren Peterson

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Wrestling

Santa Monica freshman Jazzy Green went 3-1 with two pins to finish second in the 98-pound weight division Saturday at the Napa Valley Vintage girls’ tournament, which featured more than 200 participants.

Green lost in the finals, 8-6, to Vallejo Bethel senior Maribeth Graham, who is ranked No. 3 in the state by the California Women’s Wrestling Assn. Green, who also finished second at the Thousand Oaks tournament, is 14-2 in matches against girls.

Rafer Weigel

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Girls’ Volleyball

Cynthia Barboza of Long Beach Wilson has been selected Gatorade’s California High School Girls’ Volleyball player of the year.

A Times’ All-Star selection this season and its player of the year in 2002, Barboza, a middle blocker, is one of the top recruits in the nation. She had 550 kills, 46 blocks and 38 aces in leading the Bruins to a 30-9 record this season.

--Bob Rohwer