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Story Created: Mar 16, 2010 at 6:24 PM PST

Story Updated: Mar 17, 2010 at 4:32 PM PST

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COLLISION COACHES
Inglewood High School’s Patrick Roy will coach the Southern Section team and Taft’s Derrick Taylor heads the City for the Collision XII All-Star Basketball Games April 24 at El Camino College.

Ayala’s Mel Sims and Narbonne’s Vicky Sanders will coach the girls game.

“This is a tremendous honor for me,” Roy said. “I missed it last year, but I am on deck for this year to go out this year on a winning note.”

“I was finally able to win one last year, so I want to come back and defend my crown so to speak,” Taylor said.

Sims has a record of 8-3 in this game.

“Hey, I guess I’ll keep doing it until somebody beats me,” he said. “I feel really good about the event and I want to keep dominating it.”

Sanders will be coaching the City team for the third time in four years.

“The gap is getting narrow,” she said. “I know the City does not have the number of schools to draw from as the Southern Section, but here are no excuses and I am going to fix that.”

JAVIER HONORED
Former Warren High School star Liz Javier has been named the Big West Conference softball player of the week after batting .533 in leading Long Beach State to a 4-1 record.

The junior from Downey was 8-for-15, posted a .650 on-base average, scored three runs and walked five times during the Long Beach Invitational.

She had multiple hits against Purdue, Buffalo and San Diego and also recorded at least one base hit against Notre Dame and Idaho State.

Javier is a transfer from Mt. San Antonio College.

NET HONORS FOR KISS
Cal State L.A.’s Dora Kiss is the California Collegiate Athletic Association women’s tennis player of the week.

The senior from Budapest, Hungary went 4-0 at No. 1 singles and 3-1 at No. 1 doubles during the week.

JORDAN RULES
Cal State Dominguez Hills left fielder/designated player Katie Jordan is the California Collegiate Athletic Association softball player of the week.

The senior from Huntington Beach, helped the Toros take three of four from Cal State East Bay over the weekend by batting .636 (7-for-11) with five runs scored and an RBI.

ONE-TWO PUNCH
UCLA sophomore right-handers Trevor Bauer and Gerrit Cole have earned national player of the week honors from Collegiate Baseball. Bauer was also Pac-10 pitcher of the week and MVP of the Whataburger College Classic in Corpus Christi, Texas over the weekend.

On back-to-back nights in the tournament, Bauer and Cole each struck out 15 to help the No. 12 Bruins (13-0) win three games. Cole is 4-0 and Bauer 3-0.

CIF RANKINGS
Salesian High School is ranked No. 1 in this week’s Southern Section Division 5 boys volleyball poll. The defending champion Mustangs are just ahead of St. Margaret’s, the team they beat in last year’s section final.

In Division 4, San Gabriel is fifth and Downey is 10th.

In this week’s softball rankings, Warren is eighth and Downey ninth in Division 3. Downey Calvary Chapel is seventh and St. Matthias 10th in Division 7.

OWIN BENEFIT
Oakland Raiders cornerback Nnamdi Asomugha will host the fourth annual OWIN Foundation benefit at 7 p.m. Saturday at the Four Points Sheraton in Los Angeles. Former Laker A.C. Green will be the guest speaker.

All money raised will go to the OWIN Foundation, which supports orphans and widows in Africa.

Tickets are $125 and can be purchased by calling (310) 325-0009 or online at owinfoundation.org/events

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