South Bay Lakers assistant coach and Monterey High graduate Perry Huang will be one of the assistant coaches this summer for the Los Angeles Lakers Summer League team.
The Lakers Summer League will be made up of draft choices, free agents and players from the team’s G-League squad.
Huang, who played basketball at Monterey High and Fresno Pacific, and spent a season coaching at Monterey Peninsula College, gave up his role as a WNBA assistant coach in Seattle last year to take the Lakers G-League assistant coaching job.
During his eight-year professional coaching career, Huang has served as an assistant coach for the Suns and Pelicans G-League teams, while being a part of two WNBA title teams in Seattle.
The Lakers Summer League team will be at the Chase Center in San Francisco for games on July 5, 6 and 8.
Segura helps Oregon State
Eric Segura showed out on one of college baseball’s biggest stages, hurling three shutout innings of relief against USC last week to help Oregon State reach the NCAA Super Regionals this past weekend.
The former Soledad High hurler was dominant for the Beavers, striking out five, while allowing one hit on 56 pitches.
Segura, who is tied for the team lead in wins this spring at 8-2, has made 16 appearances for the 43-13 Beavers, including five starts.
Hitting 95 mph on the radar gun against USC, the 6-foot-2 right-hander has 74 strikeouts in 54.1 innings, sporting a 4.45 earned run average.
The Herald’s Baseball Player of the Year in 2022 at Soledad, Segura is 14-3 over two seasons at Oregon State, with 146 strikeouts in 123 innings.
Salinas’ Amaral enters transfer portal
Coming off a season in which she led the University of Notre Dame in hitting, homers and runs batted in, Addison Amaral has entered the NCAA softball transfer portal.
Amaral is listed as the top middle infielder in the transfer portal, where more than 30 colleges are chasing her services.
The Herald’s 2023 Female Athlete of the Year, Amaral led the Fighting Irish in eight different offensive categories last spring, while starting every game at shortstop.
A two-time all-Atlantic Coast Conference second team selection, Amaral has a career .352 batting average at Notre Dame.
Named to the ACC all-Freshman team in 2024, Amaral has hit 19 homers and driven in 96 runs in two seasons for the Fighting Irish, with 26 doubles and 60 runs scored.
Having played second base her freshman season, the former Notre Dame of Salinas multi-sport athlete finished with a .958 fielding percentage at shortstop last spring.
Amaral earned all-county honors in volleyball and softball at Notre Dame in Salinas, helping the Spirits to a CCS Division I softball title in 2023.
Aldrete playing Double A for A’s
Infielder Carter Aldrete has played in 33 games this season for the Sacramento Athletes’ Double A team in Midland, Texas.
Aldrete, who played on an Independent team not affiliated with a Major League team last year, has hit two homers and driven in 15 runs for Midland, sporting a .270 on-base percentage
Last year, the former Monterey High and Arizona State slugger tore up pitching for Cleburne of the American Association, hitting .341 with 21 homers and a .412 on-base percentage.
A minor league all-star in 2024 for Cleburne and in 2022 for the Giants Class A team, Aldrete spent the spring with the A’s parent club.
In five-plus minor league seasons between three levels, Aldrete has hit 60 homers and driven in 284 runs.
Drafted in the 15th round in 2019 by the San Francisco Giants out of Arizona State, Aldrete’s uncle is current A’s bench coach Mike Aldrete.
Johnson-Toney Football Camp
The Boys and Girls Club of Monterey County will showcase the 13th annual Johnson-Toney free football camp.
The camp for boys and girls ages 9-14 will be staged June 24-27 at the Cal State Monterey Bay soccer fields, with boys and girls ages 15-17 slated for July 22-25 at Rabobank Stadium in Salinas.
Ron Johnson and Anthony Toney, who both played for the Philadelphia Eagles, have been a part of the camp since its inception when it was called the Herm Edwards Football Camp.
The camp is non-contact, mirroring the NFL Play 60 Character Camp. Coaches will teach basic football skills, as well as gratitude, self-control, loyalty, honor, truthfulness and integrity.
The youth camp is limited to 300 participants, with the high school portion limited to 100 kids. The deadline to register is June 23. Register on-line at bgcmpc.org
Coaches needed
Carmel is looking for a varsity girls volleyball coach, a varsity boys and girls cross country coach, a JV flag football coach and a JV boys water polo coach. Go to http://carmelunfied.org
Marina is looking for varsity, JV and freshman head coaches this coming fall for girls’ volleyball. Go to edjoin.org
Officials needed
Peninsula Sports Incorporate is looking for high school and middle school officials for all sports this season. Varsity officials are paid $100 a game.
There is an immediate need for officials in the fall for football, flag football, water polo, field hockey and volleyball. Training is provided. Call Tom Emery at (831) 241-1101.