Scott Fills Newbury Park Varsity Baseball Coaching Vacancy

Curtis Scott, the Newbury Park junior varsity baseball coach for one season, has been selected as the Panthers’ varsity coach.

Scott replaces Gary Fabricius, who resigned at the end of the season this spring to pursue a football coaching career.

Scott played for Fabricius in 1987, his senior year at Newbury Park, and played briefly at Moorpark College.

After a stint as a high school baseball umpire, Scott began his coaching career with the Newbury Park freshman team in 1990.

He coached the junior varsity at University High in 1992 and 1993 and he was a varsity assistant at Moorpark High in 1994. He returned to Newbury Park to coach the junior varsity this spring.

Scott, 26, will have five returning starters when he begins his first season as a varsity coach next spring.

“I’m real excited,� he said. “I feel like I’m really prepared. I’ve had some good experience, worked with [former Pepperdine Coach] Andy Lopez and [UCLA Coach] Gary Adams at their summer camps and I feel I can use some of their philosophies and put them into play at Newbury Park.�

Scott will remain a full-time teacher at Los Cerritos Junior High in Thousand Oaks.

Scott’s hiring fills the final baseball coaching vacancy in the Marmonte League. Westlake hired David Wilder as its coach last week and Simi Valley named Tom D’Errico this week.

Track and Field

Eric Stewart, a recent graduate of Buena High who placed second in the 300-meter intermediate hurdles and third in the 110 highs in this year’s Southern Section Division II championships, will attend Ventura College in the fall.

Stewart ran a region-leading 38.53 seconds to place fifth in the intermediate hurdles at the Southern Section Masters Meet. He also ran 14.5 in the highs in his first season of varsity competition.

The 6-foot-1, 180-pound Stewart will also play football at Ventura. He was a second-team All-Channel League defensive back in 1994.

Bryan Krill, a recent graduate of USC who placed fourth in the 400 in this year’s Pacific 10 Conference championships, will be an assistant coach at Moorpark College.

The former Thousand Oaks High and Moorpark College standout ran bests of 45.55 in the 400 and 20.3 in the 200 this season.

He anchored USC to fourth place in the 400-meter relay with a time of 39.10, and to fifth place with a time of 3 minutes 3.47 seconds in the 1,600 relay last month at the NCAA Division I championships.

Cross-Country

Chadd Aldrich, the No. 4 runner at Thousand Oaks High when the Lancers won the 1993 state Division I title, has transferred from Liberty (Va.) University to Moorpark College.

Aldrich was 14th in the 1993 State championships and finished ninth in the 1,600 in the 1994 Southern Section Division I track and field finals. He had bests of 4:22.05 in the 1,600 and 9:33.45 in the 3,200 at Thousand Oaks.

* Contributing: Jeff Fletcher, John Ortega.