Jul 16, 2008

Local briefs: Dinges to coach San Mateo girls

FROM DAILY NEWS DISPATCHES

San Mateo High School has hired Nancy Dinges as its girls basketball coach.

Dingles is a Hillsdale High grad and one of the top players to ever come out of San Mateo County. She was the county's player of the year in 2000 after accumulating 315 3-pointers. She played at Pacific, where was second all-time in the conference in 3-pointers and an academic all-conference player four times.

Dinges spent her student teaching time at Westmoor High, where she was an assistant JV coach, going undefeated in her first season. She moved to Paso Robles to teach eightth grade math as well as be the head girls basketball coach. She moved back to the Peninsula last year and became a math teacher and basketball coach at Borel Middle School. She will teach match at San Mateo High.



Host families sought for young baseball players

Palo Alto Babe Ruth Baseball is seeking host families for the Pacific Southwest Regional 14-year-old All-Star tournament during the week of July 30-Aug. 6. Host families will host two to four players for three to six days. Hosts are expected to provide housing, transportation to practices and games and meals for the players. There will be an opening-night barbecue for all players and host families at Mitchell Park. Contact Kitzi Marchant at Kitzi@vendavo.com or Mike Piha at mike@in2change.com or call 650-269-6100.




Former USF player, booster Hal DeJulio dies at age 83

Hal DeJulio, a member of the University of San Francisco's 1949 NIT champion basketball team and who later proved instrumental in the recruiting of basketball legend Bill Russell to USF, passed away Saturday at age 83.

A public viewing will be held Friday at 5 p.m. at Graham-Hitch Mortuary in Pleasanton, with a vigil and rosary service to follow at 7. Funeral services will be held Saturday at 10:30 a.m. at St. Isadore's Church at 440 La Gorda Way in Danville.

DeJulio, a USF Hall of Fame member, later became a key booster. He served as a president and member of the USF Century Club, which supports USF Athletics.

"Hal was the most energetic, enthusiastic person I had ever met coming out of high school," said former Dons star Mike Farmer, a former NBA player. "He convinced me USF was the only place I could possibly go and play basketball and get an education and he was right. Hal was a great guy."



Menlo-Atherton all-stars made a strong run

The Menlo-Atherton 9-and-10-year-old All-Stars were eliminated after a four-game run in the District 52 tournament.

After losing its first game 8-6 to eventual runner-up San Carlos, M-A came back to beat Palo Alto and Pacifica behind terrific pitching performances by Nick O'Donnell and Andrew Daschbach who held both opponents to only one run.

M-A scored 10 runs and 19 runs in those victories with great hitting throughout the lineup. Daschbach helped his own cause with four hits, including a triple, double, two singles and five RBIs. Arnaud Laprais and Tyler Koo chipped in with two hits apiece and Jack Posthauer had a bases-clearing double.

The M-A defense turned three double plays in the tournament and played solid defense in each game. M-A was eliminated by Half Moon Bay in its fourth game.