Mike Bellovich, who led Ocean View with...

Mike Bellovich, who led Ocean View with a .468 batting average this season and was second in the county with 37 runs batted in, has accepted a scholarship to play baseball at Pepperdine.

Bellovich, who transferred from Edison to Ocean View his junior year, was the Seahawks’ starting catcher for two seasons.

Ocean View (20-8) defeated Mission Viejo, 9-8, in a Southern Section Division I wild-card game Tuesday, and plays at Palos Verdes Peninsula in the first round at 3:15 p.m. today.

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John Simmons, a Southern Section swimming champion for El Toro, has been selected to compete in the U.S. Olympic Festival July 24-26 in San Antonio, his club, Irvine Novaquatics, announced.

Simmons, who has signed a letter of intent with Southern Methodist, won the section’s Division I 200 freestyle final in 1 minute 39.97 seconds and finished second in the 100 backstroke last weekend.

Simmons also will compete in the National Interscholastic Swimming Coaches Assn. meet June 12 in Indianapolis.

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Carrie Redfern, an all-Pacific Coast League runner from Laguna Beach, has decided to attend Irvine Valley College next year, according to Irvine Valley cross-country Coach Bill Leach.

Redfern joins a women’s cross-country team that finished second in the state last year and won the title in 1991.

Dave Swingler, an all-Pacific Coast League runner from Laguna Hills, will compete on the men’s cross-country team at Irvine Valley next year.

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Jerry Stowell, boys’ soccer coach at Los Alamitos for 15 years, has resigned, Athletic Director Frank Doretti said Thursday. Stowell led the Griffins to the Southern Section 2-A championship in 1992.

The school is accepting applications for a new coach. Call Doretti at (310) 430-3511 for further information.