Carson QB Decides to Quit

Carson junior quarterback Beau Davis has quit the team on the week of the Colts’ first-round City Section playoff game against L.A. Jefferson.

Coach John Aguirre confirmed that Davis decided to leave the team on Monday after a meeting between the two.

Davis had been sharing duties with sophomore Boneigh Napoleon. Napoleon threw five touchdown passes and Davis one in last week’s 61-22 victory over Wilmington Banning.

Aguirre said Wednesday that he is open to Davis’ returning. Davis completed 48 of 112 passes for 1,005 yards and nine touchdowns with five interceptions.

-- Eric Stephens

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Bob Messina, the principal at Canyon Country Canyon, says there is no evidence supporting accusations of illegal recruiting by the school’s cross-country coaches.

Messina and Vice Principal Bill Bolde began an investigation after Messina received a letter on Nov. 5 accusing Canyon’s coaches and parents of some team members of recruiting middle-school runners from outside the school’s attendance area.

The letter was signed by cross-country and track coaches from Newhall Hart, Saugus and Valencia, the other three schools in the Santa Clarita Valley.

Dave DeLong, a Canyon co-coach, denied the allegations from the start and Messina echoed those sentiments.

“I know that our coaching staff is on the up and up,” Messina said. “We checked out the accusations and found that they were based on false information.”

Ashlee Brown of Riverside North, the two-time defending state champion in the girls’ 300-meter low hurdles, has signed a letter of intent with Penn State.

Brown, the No. 2-ranked low hurdler in the nation for the 2002 season, chose Penn State over Illinois, Miami and Arizona State.

Mackenzie Hill of Long Beach Wilson, who finished sixth in the 100 and 300 hurdles last season at the state track championships, signed with UCLA.

-- John Ortega

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Robert Yim, who is the No. 1-ranked boys’ tennis player in the U.S. Tennis Assn.’s 18-and-under division, has signed with UCLA.

Yim, a 5-foot-7 left-hander who played at Glendale High before enrolling in an independent-study program, advanced to the round of 16 in the Australian and U.S. Open junior tournaments this year.

-- Lauren Peterson

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Hayley Peirsol, a swimmer at Newport Harbor High, has signed with Auburn. Peirsol won the bronze medal in the 800-meter freestyle at the Pan Pacific Championships this year.

-- Dan Arritt

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Warren Anderson, a defensive lineman from Ventura St. Bonaventure, signed with Northwestern.

-- Eric Sondheimer