Foothill to host 'Human Fund' event
The event's name is tongue-in-cheek, but the games are serious business at the fifth annual Hoops 4 Human Fund showcase Tuesday at Foothill High School.
Four ranked teams and a defending Sac-Joaquin Section champion will play in the five varsity boys games.
The schedule:
• 1 p.m. – San Juan vs. No. 18 Union Mine.
• 2:30 p.m. – Rio Linda vs. Division II section champion St. Mary's-Stockton.
• 4 p.m. – Highlands vs. Monterey Trail.
• 5:30 p.m. – No. 6 Burbank vs. No. 13 Del Campo.
• 7 p.m. – No. 8 Foothill vs. Elk Grove.
Five junior varsity games will be played the same day at Rio Linda. Two freshman games will be played that morning at Foothill.
According to event organizer and Foothill coach Drew Hibbs, the event's title inspiration came from a "Seinfeld" episode in which a character, George Costanza, invented an imaginary charity called "The Human Fund."
While money raised goes to the Foothill's basketball program, not a charity, Hibbs says his colleagues at the Foothill Farms school have taken to the theme from the classic sitcom.
Posters, including "Monk's Cafe," "No Soup for You," and "Dr. van Nostrum," hang in the gym in tribute to the show, which TV Guide named the greatest television program of all time in 2002.
Hibbs says there's even a "Festivus" pole.
"We started with four teams, now we have a waiting list," Hibbs said. "It's definitely caught on."
Nightingale, UCLA in volleyball Final Four
Last fall, Zoe Nightingale was putting down kills and blocking shots in earning The Bee Girls Volleyball Player of the Year honor for St. Francis.
This season, as a true freshman, Nightingale has helped UCLA reach the NCAA Division I Final Four at the Alamodome in San Antonio.
Nightingale, a Pacific-12 Conference All-Freshman honorable mention, will play for the ninth-seeded Bruins (28-6) today at 4 p.m. against 12th-seeded Florida State (28-6). Third-seeded Illinois (31-4) plays seventh-seeded USC (29-4) in the 6 p.m. semifinal.
The winners will meet Saturday for the national title.
The 6-foot-3 Nightingale, a middle blocker, has 116 kills, 59 blocks and is averaging 1.81 points per set for the Bruins.
In the regional semifinals in Lexington, Ky., UCLA ended Penn State's bid for a fifth consecutive national title with a 3-0 win. Nightingale had three blocks in that match.
Area rowers sign letters of intent
Folsom High's Sarah Ringler and St. Francis' Emalia Seto, members of the Capital Crew club rowing team of Gold River, have signed national letters of intent with Tulsa.
Ringler and Seto were members of the Capital Crew lightweight four that finished fourth at the Youth National Championships in June in Tennessee.
– Bill Paterson
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