Red Rockets perfect after 26-12 victory

The Red Rockets capped an unbeaten run through the Murdy Park C

League girls’ basketball season by downing the Bad Girls on the final

day of the regular season, 26-12, at the City Gym in Huntington

Beach.

The Red Rockets claimed the title behind the play of Kelsey

Minato, Heather Hollander, Laura Hollander, Alexandra Lane, Jessica

Tran, Chaye Telander, Angelica Sanchez and Amanda Salz.

The Red Rockets, coached by Martin Lane and Bart Hollander, ended

the season with an 8-0 record.

The team will be honored, Lane said, by the Huntington Beach City

Council at its April 9 meeting at City Hall.

In other local hoops news:

Villasenor, Braun earn scholarship award

Seniors Natalie Villasenor and Billy Braun have been named the

female and male recipients of the 2003 Harry W. Montague Basketball

Memorial Award and Scholarship at Edison High, the school announced

this week.

Villasenor has been with Edison’s girls’ basketball program for

four years, received the Captain’s Award and is a First Team

All-Sunset League pick.

Braun played four years in the boys’ basketball program, playing

varsity for three years.

Both student athletes, each of whom do volunteer work within the

community, will receive a $500 scholarship.

Each year the award committee seeks out one male, one female,

senior within the Edison basketball programs who most exemplifies

values such as extra effort, sense of team work and desire for

personal growth, both on and off the court.

The annual award is given in memory of Montague, the director of

Edison Community Center and originator of Huntington Beach Parks and

Recreation basketball program.

Montague died from injuries sustained in a 1988 bicycle accident.