OCVarsity.com's Steve Fryer
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Public school leads CIF's list of county schools with cleared transfers
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The CIF-Southern Section office released data on transfers it cleared for athletic eligibility thus far this current school year, and the school that received the most transfers is an Orange County school — but not a private or parochial school.
It is Corona del Mar, which received 24 transfers. The top four schools in transfer destinations in the section are all public schools, including Beckman with 18.
JSerra has the most among county private schools, with 18, and is the only county private school on the list of 10 or more transfers. Mission Viejo, Dana Hills and Tesoro were the other county schools that made the list.
The marketing departments at Mater Dei and Orange Lutheran better have a pretty good explanation why their schools are not living up to their reputations.
Taking a look around Orange County high school sports:
•On a similar topic: A recent e-mail asked for results of a challenge made in our ocvarsity.com blogs, a challenge to readers to produce evidence of undue influence among county athletic programs. The only result of the challenge: A copy of a 1988 newspaper story about Mater Dei being found guilty of undue influence when a quarterback transferred there in '88, before current Mater Dei coach Bruce Rollinson took over the program and before this year's senior class was born.
•County leagues' boys athletes of the year can be found at ocvarsity.com this morning, and the girls will be added later today. From those league athletes of the year, the Orange County Athletic Directors Association has selected its county male and female athletes of the year. Those two individuals will be announced, and all league athletes of the year honored, at the OCADA's student-athlete awards banquet May 27 at Anaheim Convention Center.
•There are some great matches in tonight's boys volleyball quarterfinals: San Clemente at Newport Harbor and Santa Margarita at Woodbridge, both Division I matches.
•Admission is $9 for adults and $5 for children 13 and under and for students with student identification for the CIF-SS track and field championship Saturday at Mt. San Antonio College. Parking: $5.
•Woodbridge junior J.J. Altobelli tied the school baseball single-season hits record with 41, equaling the mark set by Ryan Lemmon in 1993. Lemmon, All-County outfielder, passed away in an automobile accident shortly after his senior year; the stadium at Windrow Park, where Woodbridge plays its home baseball games, is named for him. Altobelli is a son of Orange Coast College baseball coach John Altobelli.
•Ever wonder how much high school baseball umpires are paid? For the playoffs, it is $70 for the plate umpire, $67 for the base umpire. Having heard spectators threaten umpires at games the past two weeks brings into question if the pay is just compensation.
•The mercy rule in baseball was eliminated a few years ago, and a look at some of the playoff scores in Divisions VI and VII makes one wonder why. Then this happens: Late in Beckman's 14-0 playoff victory over Garden Grove on Tuesday, Julio Vasquez got a pinch-hit single, was immediately removed for a pinch runner and was greeted like a hero by players, coaches and parents when he returned to the dugout. Vasquez, a popular junior who wanted to serve the baseball program and his school in some manner, made the team as student-manager and never would have gotten the opportunity for that deserving moment of glory if the mercy rule was in place.
Contact the writer: sfryer@ocregister.com
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