Centennial Told to Stop Ads for Transfers

Compton Centennial is one of two high schools in California that has been told by the California Interscholastic Federation to refrain from advertising transfer opportunities on a website for displaced Louisiana athletes because of possible violations of recruiting rules.

CIF Executive Director Marie Ishida has notified the state’s 10 section commissioners of the incidents. Southern Section Commissioner Jim Staunton spoke to Centennial officials about removing the notice. Anderson Valley High in Northern California also posted an item on the Louisiana High School Athletic Assn. website. High schools and families from several states have similar postings.

Ishida said in an e-mail that she was going to contact LHSAA officials and “tell them to quit posting these types of notices” from California schools.

Centennial’s posting read, “We can help displaced athletes in the sports of football, track and field, and girls’ basketball.”

Football and track Coach Aaron Craver, a former player with the New Orleans Saints, was listed as the contact.

Craver said he gave permission to a friend to post the listing but thought it was for any student from kindergarten through high school.

“I’m against athletes being recruited,” said Craver, who said his ties to New Orleans and the fact that families in Compton are willing to house families prompted him to give permission for the posting.

“I’m willing to help any kid get placed in school.”

-- Dan Loumena

Football

Mike Moustakas of Chatsworth, one of the top two-sport athletes in the City Section, will be sidelined the rest of the football season after breaking an ankle during practice on Wednesday.

Moustakas, a junior quarterback, passed for 256 yards and four touchdowns in Chatsworth’s 56-20 season-opening victory over Los Angeles Washington last week.

Moustakas, who is also an All-City shortstop, won’t require surgery and is expected to be healed in time for the baseball season.

-- Eric Sondheimer

Girls’ Volleyball

Manhattan Beach Mira Costa, which is led by 6-foot-5 senior Alix Klineman, will try to defend its title this weekend at the Las Vegas Durango tournament.

The 32-team event starts with pool play today and ends with bracket play Saturday.

Mira Costa (1-0), ranked No. 2 nationally by prepvolleyball.com, is seeded first. The Mustangs, defending state Division I champions, defeated Los Alamitos for the 2004 title.

The third-seeded Griffins (6-0) won the Iolani tournament in Hawaii three weeks ago and won the Cerritos Gahr tournament on Wednesday.

The Durango field includes second-seeded Louisville (Ky.) Assumption (3-0), the top-ranked team in the nation, which has five starters committed to Division I colleges. Lake Arrowhead Rim of the World (1-0), featuring middle blocker Sonja Newcombe, is seeded fourth.

“We feel a little green going into it, only because we’ve only had one match,” Mira Costa Coach Dae Lea Aldrich said.

“But I think for us, it’ll be just a matter of us stepping up to the level that we know we can play.”

Another major tournament that begins today and concludes Monday is the Dave Mohs/Orange County Championships.

The 32-team Division I tournament was won by host Huntington Beach Edison last year.

To defend the title the Chargers (0-1) will have to recover from a five-game loss to Mission Viejo. And they will have to do it without graduated middle blocker Colleen Burke, last year’s tournament MVP.

“We’re just not the same right now. We’re looking for our identity and just trying to play well,” Edison Coach Trent Jackson said.

“You’ve got to get hungry, and right now, we’re not.”

Kelly Hyder, a senior outside hitter, and senior middle blockers Lindsey Carter and Jessica Roy return from last year’s squad.

The tournament includes 2004 runner-up Corona del Mar and Anaheim Esperanza, the top-ranked team in the Southern Section Division I-AA poll.

-- Lauren Peterson

Cross-Country

Corona senior Alma Escobar, the defending Division I state champion, remains sidelined with a hip injury and will not defend her title Saturday at the Irvine Woodbridge Invitational.

Baseball

Brett Krill, a 6-4, 195-pound junior outfielder who played on the junior varsity last season at Aliso Viejo Aliso Niguel, has committed to UCLA. Krill played for the U.S. Youth national team this summer.