Garden Grove League: Girls notes, players to watch

Garden Grove League notes

•Last season's standings: 1. Rancho Alamitos (9-1, 11-10); 2. La Quinta (8-2, 12-10); 3. Santiago (5-5, 10-17); 4. Bolsa Grande (4-6, 5-16); 5. Garden Grove (3-7, 6-19); 6. Los Amigos (1-9, 1-21). ...

•La Quinta (second round), Rancho Alamitos (second round) and Santiago (first round) qualified for the Division IV-AA playoffs last season. ...

•The Garden Grove League is grouped in Division IV-AA with the Santa Cruz, Coast Valley, Academy, San Joaquin, Victory, Harbor, Christian and Orange Coast Leagues for the playoffs this season. ...

•La Quinta's Yesenia Gomez averaged 16 points and 11 rebounds per game and was selected the Garden Grove League MVP last season. Gomez will miss two weeks at the start of the season because of a sprained elbow. ...

• La Quinta's Amanda Nguyen averaged 9 points per game and was a first-team all-league selection last season. ...

•La Quinta split its two games with Rancho Alamitos last season and was on track to share the league title before losing to Garden Grove in the regular-season finale, which gave the Vaqueros the outright league title. ...

•La Quinta received a late invitation to the prestigous Nike Extravaganza on Feb. 1 at Mater Dei.

Contact the writer: carias@ocregister.com