Cuban Water Polo Star Defects to U.S. After Alamo Cup

Lazaro Fernandez Bueno of Cuba defected to the United States after the Alamo Cup tournament in Newport Beach, U.S. Water Polo announced Tuesday.

Bueno, 6 feet 5, 215 pounds, was selected the most outstanding defensive player at the Alamo Cup and helped Cuba finish third. At the 1993 Alamo Cup, a team physician and player from Cuba also defected to the United States.

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Six Orange County players were named to the U.S. National Youth Water Polo team after tryouts last weekend at West Valley College in Saratoga.

Brian Brown from Santa Ana, Brian Heifferon from Fullerton, Rob Mattivi of Yorba Linda, Jerry Smith of Los Alamitos, Greg Stoll of Lake Forest and Adam Wright of Seal Beach made the 13-player roster.

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Mike Good, a quarterback from Los Alamitos High, will play in the Shrine All-Star football game July 23 at Citrus College in Azusa, he said. Good, who has signed with Northern Arizona, withdrew from the North squad of the Orange County All-Star football game July 9 because of an illness in his family.

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The Balboa Bay-Reebok Volleyball Club defeated Kokoro of Huntington Beach, 15-3, 15-12, in the 18-and-under Division championship match of the West Coast Southern California Volleyball Assn. tournament Tuesday at Cal State Dominguez Hills.

Jeremy Darner of Dana Hills High and Mitch McCoy of Newport Harbor are two standouts on the team, which will enter the Junior Olympics, held July 7-10 in Austin, Tex., as the top-seeded team.

Jeremy Bart of Huntington Beach and Brandon Taliaferro of San Clemente led Balboa Bay White to a third-place finish in the tournament.

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The Rams hired Tony Wyllie as assistant director of public relations.

Wyllie, a former intern with the San Diego Chargers and a 1993 graduate of Texas Southern, replaces Dave Pearson, who accepted the media relations director position with the Houston Oilers.