Here are the latest CIF-SS Division 1 rankings.

1. Aliso Niguel

2. Corona del Mar

3. San Clemente

4. Foothill

5. Harvard-Westlake

6. Mission Viejo

7. Villa Park

8. Dana Hills

9. Flintridge Sacred Heart

T10. Canyon

T10. Los Alamitos

T10. Mater Dei

T10. Saugus

T10. Chaminade

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Carmel High School junior middle hitter Lauren Pitz has made a verbal commitment to play at Georgia Tech, according to a release from a Team Indiana release. Pitz plays club volleyball for Team Indiana.

Pitz is a member of Team Indiana. Pitz was selected to The Stars Super Team after this past season. Pitz had 257 kills, .430 hitting percentage, 72 solo blocks, 59 block assists, six ace and 23 digs for the Greyhounds (26-3).

La Salle will announce Tuesday that Campbell Hall’s Russell Godron will become the Lancers’ next head football coach, according to sources.

Gordon, who spent 15 seasons at Campbell Hall, takes over Antoine Peterson, who was fired after four years at the helm compiling a 7-34 record.

La Salle sent out a release that an announcement that the new coach will be introduced to boosters in a meeting at 6:30 p.m.

When reached on his cell phone Monday morning, Gordon declined to comment. Gordon has spent the last eight seasons as head coach at Campbell Hall. He has a 52-31 record. Gordon will coach the East team in Sunday’s L.A. Daily News All-Star footballg ame at College of the Canyons. He coached the East team in 2006, leading them to a 24-21 win.

Gordon was seen at the Maranatha-La Salle boys basketball game last week. He was flanked by several of his assistant coaches who are expected to join him at La Salle. 

Gordon was the defensive coordinator at Bethel Christian before joining Campbell Hall.

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Saras D. Sarasvathy (“Entrepreneurial Thinking”) wrote her dissertation at Carnegie Mellon on entrepreneurial expertise and has parlayed that into a specialization in the area of “effectuation,” which examines the creation and growth of new organizations and markets. Her book Effectuation: Elements of Entrepreneurial Expertise (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2009) examines the way entrepreneurs think. In addition to serving on the editorial boards of Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal and the Journal of Business Venturing, she also acts as an advisor to education programs on entrepreneurship in Asia and Europe. In December 2010, Darden awarded Sarasvathy a Wachovia award for excellence in research development. Earlier, in September 2007, Fortune Small Business magazine named Sarasvathy one of 18 top professors in the field of entrepreneurship.

Students we interviewed feel that Sarasvathy, who has been an associate professor at Darden since 2004, is one of the up-and-coming scholars of entrepreneurship in the world. One alu

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The two teams that have combined to win the last three 4A state girls basketball championships went to battle in Region 8 action on Tuesday night.

Springville and Mountain View have been building a storied rivalry for years and took each other on in each team’s first Region 8 contest of the 2011-2012 season. The Springville Red Devils came out on top in this version of the rivalry with the 48-40 victory in Mountain View’s gym.

The Red Devils are trying to build a new team to reach championship heights of the past two years, and the Bruins are also building a formidable squad, trying to regain their championship form of three seasons ago.

Both teams are a little up-and-down on the season so far with identical 4-4 records after the battle Tuesday night. The Red Devils, however, find themselves with the advantage in the Region 8 race with a 1-0 record, while the Bruins started the season 0-1.

Springville jumped out to a 12-8 lead in the first period behind solid play from Hannah Packard and Savannah Park, who each picked up four points in the opening stanza.

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WARWICK — La Salle rallied from a nine-point deficit three times in the first half and an 11-point deficit in the last six minutes of the game and defeated Bishop Hendricken, 55-53. The Rams improved to 7-1 overall, 3-1 in Division I. Hendricken dropped to 3-5, 1-3.

After falling behind 51-40 in the second half, the Rams stormed back and outscored the Hawks, 15-2.

Tommy Hunt of La Salle led all scorers with 17 points. Michael Clark added 14 and Jared Thompson 10. Nick Bourdeau scored 14 and Lee Messier 13 for Hendricken.

The score was tied at the half, 31-31.

Read the full account in the eEdition and in the newspaper on Wednesday.