Burgess, Chenowith to Play in All-Star Game at Pyramid

Chris Burgess (Woodbridge High/Duke) and Eric Chenowith (Villa Park/Kansas) will play in the third Southern California Summer Showcase all-star basketball game at 7:30 p.m. Sunday at Long Beach State’s Pyramid. It marks the last game of this year’s FILA Summer Pro League.

Twenty-two of Southern California’s top seniors will make up the teams. Also scheduled to play are Baron Davis (Santa Monica Crossroads/UCLA), Travis Reed (Fontana Miller/UCLA), Dino Tanner (Inglewood/Oregon State) and Greg Lakey (Lynwood/USC).

Preceding the Summer Showcase is the summer league’s pro-division championship game at 5 p.m. Tickets, which are priced at $9 for reserved seating and $7 for general admission, are available at the Pyramid box office or through Ticketmaster at (714) 740-2000.

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Chris Ball of Irvine and teammate Curt Bader of Bloomfield, Iowa, a three-time Olympian, finished third in the K-2 200-meter race in the U.S. Canoe and Kayak Championships on Lake Lanier, Ga.

In the women’s K-1W 500-meter race, Ruth Nortje of Gainesville beat 1996 Olympians Lia Roussett of Newport Beach and DeAnne Hemmens of Costa Mesa.

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Kathleen Celio of the Southern California Blues scored the only goal for the Dana Point-based soccer team in a 3-1 loss to the Texas Longhorns ’79 in a semifinal game of the under-19 girls’ U.S. Youth Soccer National Championship in Phoenix.

Celio scored the Blues’ goal from about 15 yards in the 38th minute to make it 2-1 at halftime. The Longhorns, from Dallas, put the game away in the 74th minute when Nikki Hales scored.

The Blues will play today for third place.

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Four county baseball players were recently selected to the second South All-State team by the California Baseball Coaches Assn.

The county players: Garrett Atkins (University), third base; Jeff Leuenberger (Canyon), pitcher/second base; Jim Munroe (Servite), pitcher, and Tommy Nicholson (Esperanza), shortstop.

The team is comprised of seniors from the Southern, San Diego and Los Angeles City sections who were nominated by their coaches.