Report: Forward Lee headed to Cal
Former Deer Valley star to transfer after 3 years at Kentucky
Former McDonald’s AllAmerican and Kentucky men’s basketball player Marcus Lee will transfer to Cal, according to reports from Scout.com and CBSSports.
Lee, a power forward who attended Deer Valley High School in Antioch, returns to the East Bay after three years at Kentucky. He averaged 6.4 points, 6.0 rebounds and 1.6 blocked shots over 21.8 minutes as a junior last season.
Lee, 6-foot-9, will have to sit out a season under NCAA rules and be eligible to play in 2017-18.
Lee had originally applied for the NBA draft but removed his name from consideration. In an earlier statement to ESPN, Kentucky coach John Calipari said Lee had decided to transfer to a school in the west to be closer to his family.
Basketball
Cal State East Bay hired former Stanford player Molly Goodenbour as coach of the women’s basketball team. Goodenbour joins CSUEB after a stint at Cal State Dominguez Hills, where she led the Toros to three straight conference titles and three straight NCAA tournament appearances.
Goodenbour played four years for Tara VanDerveer from 1989-93, winning four Pac-10 championships, making three NCAA Final Fours and winning two national championships (1990 and 1992).
Track and field
Sophomores Elise Cranny and Olivia Baker finished second in the 1,500 and 800, respectively, to lead the Stanford women to seventh place at the NCAA track and field championships in Eugene, Oregon.
Cranny, who set a school record of 4:09.54, barely lost to Mississippi State’s Marta Freitas, who began celebrating early, allowing the Cardinal runner to narrow the gap.
In the 800, Oregon’s Raevyn Rogers won her second consecutive title. Baker ran 2:05.65.
Baseball
Third baseman Cristian Paulino slammed a home run, but the San Jose Giants fell to Modesto 10-5 in California League action.
Stanford pitcher n Tristan Beck earned freshman All-America honors from Collegiate Baseball News. Beck led Stanford starters in ERA (2.48), innings (83.1) and strikeouts (76).
Rugby
Saint Mary’s center Dylan Audsley was named winner of the inaugural Rudy Scholz Award as the best men’s college rugby player in the country. Audsley led the Gaels to a DIA title last year has them back in the semifinals this year.
The award is named after Rudy Scholz, who played rugby for Santa Clara University and won Olympic gold medals with the U.S. team in 1920 and 1924.
Soccer
Stanford’s Tierna Davidson and Jordan DiBiasi and Cecilia Gee of Orinda and Jacey Pederson of Palo Alto have been called into the U.S. under-19 soccer team for a two-week trip to New Zealand. The Americans will play against New Zealand’s senior national team and under-20 squad before returning home June 20.