Huntington Beach High

The Get Skillz Football Camp for youth grades K through eighth is Sunday at Edison High. The camp is run by Edison senior Elijah Herrera (All-Sunset League, All-CIF) and other Charger players from the school's 2012 CIF Southern Section Southwest Division championship football team and will take place from 1 to 3 p.m. at the school's front field. Agility, seven-on-seven and one-on-one drills, and a punt, pass and kick competition, will be offered. A $15 donation per camper is requested with all proceeds benefiting the David Bolda Football Scholarship Memorial Fund.

JERRY PERSON "I think my name is there," Huntington Beach resident Herb Day said as we talked about the upcoming rededication of the World War II memorial plaque at the entrance of the auditorium to Huntington Beach High School. The ceremony will take place at 4 p.m. on Saturday. My friend, the late Rusty Shepard, had told me about this piece of Huntington High history, and he was very proud that his name was on there and that it was still around to honor his school buddies who served in World War II. I have heard about this historic plaque from several people over the years, and at first, I got this World War II plaque mixed up with the wooden plaque erected in a vacant lot on the corner of Main Street and Olive Avenue that honored all H.B. residents who served in that war. I am indebted to Rosemary McCormick Robinson for supplying me with the information on this rededication ceremony.

Here's a sneak peak at a few key players who figure to make an impact for Huntington Beach High in 2000, with a comment on each from Coach Tony Ciarelli: RUSS OSCHMAN, TB, 5-10, 190, Sr.: "Great vision and explosive. Should be our guy this year." BRIAN RUZIECKI, DE/OL, 6-4, 255, Jr.: "A big, aggressive, physical player." MIKE DeHART, WR/FS/K, 6-4, 185, Sr.: "Very athletic and should give us a boost in our kicking game." RUSS CHEMBERLEN, OL/DE, 6-3, 250, Sr.: "Another big, physical, aggressive guy."

Vickie Covert and Terry Ortiz began in October to prepare for the revival of the once-successful Huntington Beach High School Educational Foundation’s golf tournament. Now, all they need is the community behind them. The lack of golfers has the two organizers, both parents at the school, worried that the fundraiser Monday may not be enough to fill the school’s most recent budget gap. The organizers’ goal is 100 participants, but turnout so far has been much smaller than that.

George Pascoe is no stranger to coaching football at Marina High, or to coaching high school football in Huntington Beach. And while he knows his next task might be challenging, he is excited for the opportunity. Pascoe, 55, has been named the head coach at Marina. The former coach at Huntington Beach High (1983-’95) has also been assistant coach at Marina for the past six years. Following the stint with the Oilers, he was an assistant coach at Golden West College for six years before landing with the Vikings.

The Huntington Beach High girls' tennis team came up with a smashing effort in its Sea View League debut, as the Oilers defeated host Foothill, 13-5. Huntington overpowered the Knights in singles play, winning all nine sets. At No. 1 singles, Oilers senior Stacy Kaufman won by scores of 6-1, 6-0 and junior Leslie Lewis — subbing for Kaufman at No. 1 — won 6-4. Junior Jennifer Heumann swept her three Knights opponents by identical scores of 6-0 at No. 2 singles and junior Monica Stupaczuk won by scores of 6-3, 6-4, and freshman Kala Johnson — subbing for Stupaczuk — won by a 6-2 count.

It's finals week at Huntington Beach High, but things are far from finalized for the Oilers' girls' basketball team. At the halfway point of the Sea View League girls' basketball race, Huntington sits alone at the top of the heap. The Oilers won their first five league outings and embark on the second round of league play beginning tonight with a 7 p.m. home date with Trabuco Hills. If the first meeting between the two schools is any indication of what might come tonight — Huntington clobbered the Mustangs, 71-24, on the opening night of league play on Jan. 4 — then consider the Oilers to be a heavy favorite, despite hitting the books hard this week.

Five local athletes won individual titles and one relay team ran to a championship as the Sunset and Sea View leagues conducted track and field prelims and finals events last week. Huntington Beach High's boys' team, which turned in its first winning season in 18 years, earned a third-place finish in the final Sea View League standings in a finals meet held at Trabuco Hills High. Winning individual events for the Oilers were junior Josh Smith in the 400 (50.6) and senior Stephen Gabbard in the shotput (55-5 1/2 )

Andrew Wainer ISSUE: DIGITAL HIGH SCHOOL GRANTS Vote: 5-0 Summary: At Tuesday's meeting, the school board approved Marina, Westminster and Huntington Beach high schools' applications to the California Department of Education for a Digital High School technology installation grant. Marina is applying for $715,200, Huntington Beach High is applying for $679,500, and Westminster wants $769,200 for the high-tech program. The program was passed by the state Legislature in 1997 to encourage computer literacy in students and faculty.

If she couldn't do anything to stop excessive teenage drinking, Micayla Vermeeren wanted to do something to prevent anyone else from getting hurt or dying in a related car accent . And in some cases, from dying. Spurred by the death of Kelly Morehouse, who died in a traffic incident involving an alleged drunk driver, the 18-year-old senior from Huntington Beach High School took it upon herself to start a free designated-driving service on Facebook called HB On Call. "I'm not trying to condone any of the behavior that's going on - underage drinking, drug usage, any of that stuff," she said.

HUNTINGTON BEACH — TJ DeFalco opened with an ace serve Thursday night and from there, it was aces all around for the Huntington Beach High boys' volleyball team. The Oilers reserved a spot in Saturday's CIF Southern California Regional Division 1 championship match by sweeping past visiting San Clemente, 25-20, 25-18, 26-24, before another great crowd at Huntington's Elmer Combs Gymnasium. Huntington, the top seed in the tournament, returns to Santiago Canyon College in Orange for Saturday's 7:30 p.m. Division 1 finale.

ORANGE - Craig Pazanti cradled the championship plaque securely under his left arm while he wiped his brow with his right hand late Saturday night at center court at Santiago Canyon College. "I've been telling the kids all year that I thought they were the best team," Pazanti said, still wiping away sweat on occasion, the beads the result of an intense match his Huntington Beach High boys' volleyball team had just fought through, and survived. Pazanti was proven right - his Oilers are the No. 1 team.

ORANGE - Craig Pazanti cradled the championship plaque securely under his left arm while he wiped his brow with his right hand late Saturday at center court at Santiago Canyon College. "I've been telling the kids all year, that I thought they were the best team," Pazanti said, the sweat he was still wiping away on occasion, the beads the result of an intense match his Huntington Beach High boys' volleyball team had just fought and survived. Pazanti was proven right - his Oilers are the No. 1 team.

Huntington Beach High needed a win on the final day of the regular season on May 9, to stay in the conversation for the CIF Southern Section baseball playoffs. The Oilers stayed relevant by winning, 5-0, at Edison. The victory led to a playoff berth that they were awarded Monday and on Tuesday they remained alive in Division 1 postseason play. Huntington went to Riverside to battle ML King in a Division 1 wild-card game between teams that were at-large entries to the playoffs.

Zoran Forgiarini and Suzy Mathieson held first serve, with hopes that others would follow. Forgiarini, the surfing and frosh/soph football coach at Edison High, and Mathieson, who coached girls' junior varsity volleyball, varsity softball and JV golf for the Chargers, learned last year of a girls' prep sand (beach) club volleyball league. The two coaches teamed to create the club sport of girls' sand volleyball at Edison, forming it with a roster of 15 players. The Chargers, many of whom played indoor girls' volleyball during the fall 2012 CIF Southern Section season, then went to work on fundamentals and figuring out their two-player teams format during workouts at Newland Street at Huntington State Beach.

Edison High will hold its second Texas Hold 'Em Poker Tournament, a fundraiser to benefit the school's athletic department, Saturday at the Huntington Beach Elks Lodge (7711 Talbert Avenue, Huntington Beach). The event includes food, prizes and a silent auction. Registration can be found at http://www.ehspoker.com . Registration also will be accepted at the door starting at 5 p.m. the day of the event and first hand will be drawn at 6 p.m. The tournament is limited to 250 people and participants must be 21 years of age. * Camp taking place at Marina A Youth Strength and Speed Camp is underway at Marina High.

Thursday Track and Field (2 p.m.) Sunset League Finals (at Huntington Beach High) Golden West League Finals Swimming (2 p.m.) Golden West League Finals (at Ocean View High) Softball (3:15 p.m.) Marina at Edison Los Alamitos at Fountain Valley Huntington at Newport Harbor * Friday Softball (3:15 p.m.) Ocean View at Westminster Baseball (3:15 p.m.) Edison at Fountain Valley Los Alamitos at Huntington Marina at Newport Harbor Ocean View at Orange Boys' Volleyball (7 p.m.)

AYSO Region 143 will conduct tryouts for its EXTRA program on Sunday. Tryouts will be held at Meadow View School (5702 Clark Drive, Huntington Beach). Boys' and girls' Under-9-U12 tryouts are from 9 to 11a.m., and U13-U14 divisions are from 12:30 to 2:30 p.m. Check-in is 30 minutes prior to each tryout. The AYSO EXTRA program offers a more advanced level of competition. For more information, visit http://www.ayso143.org. — From staff reports * Edison poker tournament fundraiser Edison High will hold its second Texas Hold 'Em Poker Tournament, a fundraiser to benefit the school's athletic department, on May 4 at the Huntington Beach Elks Lodge (7711 Talbert Avenue, Huntington Beach)