DIGEST : Campbell Has Enough, Resigns Monroe Post

Kevin Campbell, baseball coach at Monroe High the past 10 seasons, has resigned to spend more time with his family.

Campbell, who will still teach at Monroe, said assistant coach Rick Sorrentino is likely to get the job.

Sorrentino, 25, coached the Monroe summer team and will teach at Monroe in the fall.

Monroe also lost catcher David Lusk and outfielder Josh Miranda, both junior starters, who have transferred to Kennedy. Lusk batted .360 and drove in 30 runs and Miranda hit .451 and stole 28 bases for the Vikings last season.

Lusk said both players were denied entrance to Kennedy as freshmen, but took advantage of California’s open enrollment law, now in its second year.

Tennis

The last two Valley players in the main draw of the U.S. Tennis Assn. National Junior Championships were eliminated in the round of 16.

Seventh-seeded Mike Bryan of Camarillo fell to No. 11 Tripp Phillips of Charlotte, N.C., 6-1, 6-4, in the boys’ 18-and-under tournament in Kalamazoo, Mich.

Nicholas Weiss of Tarzana lost to Cody Conley of Floyds Knobs, Ind., 7-6 (7-3), 6-3.

In a doubles quarterfinal, Bryan and his twin, Bob Bryan, defeated Nick Crowell of Amarillo, Tex., and Alex Kim of Potomac, Md., 7-6, 6-2.

Bowling

Hobo Boothe of Canoga Park is in ninth place with 3,505 pins after two rounds of the Showboat Invitational PBA Senior Tournament in Las Vegas. Boothe trails Dave Soutar by 59 pins.

Allan Chodor of Canoga is 16th at 3.449.

Signings

Javier Ramirez, runner-up in the 1994 State Division III cross-country championships for Nordhoff High, and Eric Neumann, a 6-foot-10 inch high jumper from Santa Clara Wilcox, have made commitments to Cal State Northridge.

Ramirez chose Northridge over Southern Methodist and Westmont College. The 1993 and ’94 Southern Section Division III cross-country champion won the section Division III title in the 3,200 meters in May.

Matt Reynolds, a 6-5, 225-pound defensive tackle from Long Beach City College, has signed a letter of intent with Cal State Northridge.

Contributing: Dana Haddad, Michael Lazarus, John Ortega, Bryan Rodgers.