Cal Lutheran’s Berman Named All-American

Four Cal Lutheran baseball players have received NCAA Division III All-American honors from the American Baseball Coaches Assn. Pitcher Jeff Berman, a former Newbury Park High player, was the lone first-team choice.

Berman, a 6-foot-1, 200-pound senior right-hander, has a 9-2 record, 1.48 earned-run average and one save.

Second-team choices included second baseman Joe Cascione (Pierce College/St. Genevieve High), who is batting .365 with six home runs and 41 runs batted in; outfielder Eric Johnson (Cal State Northridge transfer/Chatsworth High), who is batting .434, with five home runs and 44 RBIs, and pitcher Mike Winslow, who has an 8-0 record and 1.92 ERA.

Baseball

UCLA first baseman Ryan McGuire was a first-team selection and USC catcher Casey Burrill was a second-team choice on the 1993 NCAA Division I All-American team. McGuire, a junior from El Camino Real High, has a .390 batting average, 25 home runs and 89 RBIs. Burrill, a senior from Hart High, has a .414 average, 13 home runs and 52 RBIs.

West Hills Pony Baseball will play host to a series of four games Saturday against teams of inner-city youths as part of the Reviving Baseball in Innercities program. The league has donated $1,000 to RBI. In addition to the games, which begin at 10 a.m., West Hills will welcome three guest speakers: former Dodger Lou Johnson, Prime Ticket’s Glen Walker and L.A. City Councilwoman Joy Picus.

Michael Green of Sherman Oaks was one of four University of Pennsylvania players selected to the All-Ivy League team. Green, a sophomore who played at University High, had a .430 batting average and a .509 on-base percentage.

Swimming

William Hart of Valley College was named the 1993 Wilson Scholar Athlete by the Western State Conference. Hart, a sophomore who competes in water polo, carries a 3.93 grade-point average as an architectural major and plans to attend USC in the fall.

Water Polo

Jim Toring of Harvard-Westlake High was named to the Alamo Cup A team, one of two national teams that will compete in the Alamo Cup on June 9-13 in Long Beach, Newport Beach and La Jolla. Toring is the only high school player on the 16-man A-team roster. Harvard-Westlake’s Rich Corso is coach of the A team.