Baseball

Mike McMullen, former Glendale College and Kennedy High pitcher, has signed with the San Francisco Giants and is scheduled to make his first professional start today.

McMullen, a 6-foot-6, 210-pound right-hander, was 6-6 with a 4.35 earned-run average at Glendale. He was drafted in the 14th round by the Giants, who--said McMullen--clocked his fastball at 91 m.p.h. last week and made him the No. 3 man in the rotation at Class-A Scottsdale.

Tim Montez has accepted an assistant coaching position at UC Santa Barbara.

Montez spent the last three seasons as the assistant for Walt Steele at Montclair Prep. The Mounties won the Southern Section 1-A Division championship in 1990 and 1991, and finished 20-5-1 this season.

A former Pepperdine player, Montez also was Pepperdine’s pitching coach from 1988-90.

Todd Singleton pitched a complete game to lead the Westlake-Royal American Legion team to a 4-2 victory over the North Valley Rangers, an area Babe Ruth team, on Friday at the Sierra Nevada Classic at Reno.

Westlake-Royal will play Yakima, Wash., or Seattle in the semifinals at 5 p.m. today. Westlake-Royal lost to both teams during pool play. The Rangers drop into the consolation bracket.

Bryan Fernandez and David Brown had two hits apiece for Westlake-Royal. Mike Jaramillo and Jeff Christiansen each had two hits for the North Valley Rangers.

Buena first baseman Gary Paul and Burroughs outfielder Karl Castro have been named to the All-Southern Section Division II team. Hart right-hander Gary Stephenson was a second-team selection.

Paul, who batted .426 with 31 runs batted in, was drafted by the San Diego Padres in the 50th round, but opted to sign with Cal State Long Beach. Castro batted .438 for the Indians. Stephenson, the Foothill League most valuable player, was 9-4 with an 0.98 ERA. Stephenson turned down an offer to sign with the Angels after being a 41st-round pick.

Basketball

Hoover High forward Chad Reese, an All-Pacific League and All-Southern Section selection, will play for UC San Diego, a Division III school, next season. Reese, who averaged 25.9 points and 7.8 rebounds per game, also will play in China in August with a team composed mostly of UC San Diego basketball players.

Tennis

Rafael Huerta of Chatsworth tops the list of Valley athletes who were selected to the Los Angeles All-City Section boys’ tennis team. Huerta, who won his second City singles championship and finished 28-0 this season, was selected to the first team.

The doubles teams of Joe Nguyen and Tom Yang and Corey Carnes and Jay Schweitzer of El Camino Real and Brian Sobel and Jason Uslander of Taft were selected to the first-team doubles roster.

Taft’s Dvir Levy was selected to the singles second team. Second-team doubles selections include Chatsworth’s pairs of Eric Aron and Jeff Labovitch and Parag Vaish and Mike Seeman and Taft’s Greg Rothman and Liron Artzi.

John Gould of El Camino Real is a third-team singles selection, and Grant’s doubles team of Dan Abramovitch and Andy Hahn was chosen for the third team.

Golf

Jeremy Adams of Camarillo failed to qualify in the American Junior Golf Assn. Texace San Antonio Shootout by shooting a 12-over-par 84 in San Antonio, Tex.

Carrie Leary of Valencia lost, 2-up, to Jean Smith of Boise, Ida., in the first round of the U.S. Women’s Amateur Public Links Championship in Jackson, Wyo.