Moreau's Josh Uy (left) has his shot blocked by Logan's Ron Sun (center) and Aniq Masood (right) in their Mission Valley Athletic League playoff match at Washington High School in Fremont, California Tuesday May 6, 2008. photo by Anda Chu

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Skyline High's Kwame Vaughn confirmed this afternoon that he was released from his scholarship to Loyola Marymount and will now play basketball for the University of San Francisco.

He had signed with LMU under previous coach Rodney Tention, but Tention resigned after the season and was replaced by former UNLV coach Bill Bayno. Vaughn didn't fit as well in Bayno's program, which Skyline coach Terrance Ransom described as wanting "more experienced, more impact players." Ransom believes Vaughn needed a place that has a coach "that's going to be a little more patient."

Vaughn said he like the atmosphere around the program at USF.

"I feel the coaching staff is much more serious and much more interested in me," Vaughn said. "They're definitely trying to change the program around to be a winning program."

Read more in tomorrow's Oakland Tribune.

This is the place to come to find out who got in and who got left out of the North Coast Section baseball playoffs. We will be doing a live blog from the seeding meeting at Las Lomas High on May 18 beginning around 9 a.m. All the information will be posted here right as it happens!

We will soon have our prediction on what the baseball playoff field will look like (checkout the 2-A softball prediction on our sister site right now!) so be sure to check for that in the upcoming week. Our sister blog, East Bay Prep Sports, will be doing a live blog of the softball meeting on the same day at the same time. So be sure to have both windows open!

Mission San Jose’s Pitcher Mike Garcia throws against Kennedy during their Mission Valley Athletic League game in Fremont, California Friday May 2, 2008. photo by Anda Chu

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There is some interesting discussion going on about the controversy surrounding the Cal High baseball program at our sister blog, "aPARENTLYspeaking'' Perhaps it should be required reading for parents whose kids play competitive sports?!

They've been released. Let us know what you think.

Boys Player of the Year: Frank Otis, McClymonds
Boys Coach of the Year: Dwight Nathaniel, McClymonds

Girls Player of the Year: Alex Carbonel, American
Girls Coach of the Year: Cheryl Draper, Berkeley

Photo by Alison Yin/Oakland Tribune

BOYS FIRST TEAM

Davion Berry, Hayward
Will Brew, St. Mary's
Damian Lillard, Oakland
Damon Powell, McClymonds
Jonathon Williams, Kennedy

GIRLS FIRST TEAM

Casey Morris, Piedmont
Jazmine Perkins, Berkeley
Ebony Richardson, Castlemont
DeNesha Stallworth, Pinole Valley
Morgan Woodrow, Washington

BOYS SECOND TEAM

Chris Brew, St. Mary's
Scott Clark, Foothill
William Cherry, McClymonds
E.J. Farris, Newark Memorial
Kwame Vaughn, Skyline

GIRLS SECOND TEAM

Katie Batlin, Miramonte
Danielle Mauldin, St. Mary's
Malia Nahinu, Moreau Catholic
Niveen Rasheed, Monte Vista
Patrice Saindon, Deer Valley

BOYS THIRD TEAM

James Albright, Fremont-Oakland
D.J. Broome, Castro Valley
Jourdan DeMunyck, Castro Valley
Chris Jones, Newark Memorial
Jack Trotter, Campolindo.

GIRLS THIRD TEAM

Nneamaka Anyanwu, Skyline
Robbie Brigham, McClymonds
Samantha Gipson, San Leandro
Mikyla Lyles, Amador Valley
Crystal Whittington, Castlemont.

Mission San Jose's Tony Lin hits a forehand shot in his singles match

against Irvington's Eddie Sanghani.

For more photos from the week of April 21 check out The Argus Week in Prep Sports photo gallery

The All-East Bay Basketball teams will be released on Thursday in the Oakland Tribune, Daily Review, Fremont Argus and Tri-Valley Herald. The players of the year, coaches of the year as well as first, second and third teams are voted on by the combined staffs of the above-mentioned papers and take into account all schools within the East Bay.

I'm not going to tell you who we picked (you have to wait for Thursday for that), but why don't you throw out some guesses on who you think the players and coaches of the year will be. You can even go all the way and try to select the five first-teamers we picked. Or you can just wait and see what we come up with when it's released Thursday. We'll also be posting a slideshow online from our player of the year photo shoot, which was done at Oakland's F.M. Smith Park on Park Blvd.

American athletic director Steve Kline confirmed Tuesday that the baseball team (both varsity and JV) will forfeit the remaining three games of the season _ all Mission Valley Athletic League games.

That will give the Eagles a final overall record of 7-16 and a 3-9 MVAL mark.

Until the forfeits (varsity), the Eagles were in the hunt for one of the four MVAL playoff berths.

Dennis Dixon — San Leandro — Oregon — Pittsburg (5th round)
Josh Johnson — Oakland Tech — Univ. of San Diego — Tampa Bay (5th round)
Kyle Wright — Monte Vista — Miami — Vikings (FA)
Cameron Colvin — DLS — Oregon — 49ers (FA)
Robert Jordan — Hayward — Cal — 49ers (FA)

No word on Sam Keller (SRV, Nebraska) yet.