Several Schools in the Region Set to Renew Rivalries Friday

By the luck of the draw--or astute planning by a schedule-maker--several rivalries will be renewed next Friday night.

Boys’ action finds Notre Dame at Crespi, Burbank at Burroughs, Ventura meeting Buena at Ventura College, Thousand Oaks at Westlake, and Glendale at Hoover. All games are at 7:30, except Notre Dame-Crespi at 7.

The Thousand Oaks-Westlake and Burbank-Burroughs games are the second half of doubleheaders. The girls’ games start at 6 p.m.

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Ventura senior Jeff Staniland, the leading scorer among boys’ players in Ventura County, became the school’s career scoring leader with 24 points in a 74-67 loss to Oxnard on Wednesday.

With 1,211 points in 61 games, Staniland surpassed Danny Roberts, who scored 1,202 points in 81 games from 1965-68.

Staniland, who is on pace to break the Ventura single-season scoring mark, averages 27.1 points.

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Notre Dame senior Chris Williams missed the Knights’ 67-50 Mission League loss to Chaminade on Wednesday and was expected to miss Friday’s game against Harvard-Westlake because of a viral infection, Coach Rob DiMuro said.

Williams, a 6-foot-8 center, averages 15.3 points and 10.3 rebounds.

GIRLS’ NOTES

Alemany will play four-time state Division IV champion Campolindo today during the daylong La Mirinda Shootout at Acalanes High in Concord.

The Indians arrived in the Bay Area on Friday so they could attend the women’s game later that night between Cal State L.A. and San Francisco State, a contest that featured a matchup of former All-Southern Section guards from Alemany.

Kelli Kobayashi is a freshman starter at Cal State L.A. Kelly McKay is a junior at San Francisco State.

Kobayashi and McKay were teammates at Alemany in 1994-95.

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Starting today, Buena begins a three-game swing that will have an important impact on its season.

The Bulldogs, ranked No. 1 in the region by The Times, take on second-ranked Crescenta Valley in a nonleague game tonight at Crescenta Valley.

Next week, Buena faces Santa Barbara and Ventura, the Channel League teams with the best chance of ending the Bulldogs’ 59-game league winning streak.

“It’s getting to be that time of the year,” Buena Coach Joe Vaughan said. “We have some big, big games coming up.”

Santa Barbara defeated Ventura, 55-50, Thursday night.

Staff writer Mike Hiserman and correspondents Mike Bresnahan, Dave Desmond and Lauren Peterson contributed to this notebook.