LOCAL NOTES

The Los Alamitos-Mater Dei game will be televised live at 7 p.m. Saturday on Fox Sports West 2.

Southern Section spokesman Thom Simmons said Commissioner Dean Crowley gave the go-ahead for the live broadcast Monday afternoon after conferring with Fox officials. A replay of the game is scheduled for 10 a.m. Sunday on Fox Sports West 2.

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Dave Brown has stepped down as Capistrano Valley football coach, Athletic Director Tom White said Monday.

Brown had a 20-22-2 record in four seasons. Capistrano Valley was a South Coast League co-champion in 1996 and reached the second round of the section’s Division I playoffs in 1995 and ’96.

Capistrano Valley as 2-6-2 in 1997 and 3-7 in 1998. The Cougars didn’t win a league game in either season.

“It was mutual decision between me and the administration,” Brown. “I had a couple good seasons and I’m proud the way coaches and players responded the last two years even though we did not do as well. The program will benefit by a new person.”

White said the school would begin accepting applications today through Jan. 5, and hoped to interview candidates Jan. 6-7.

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University senior Allyson Marquand decided to forgo Saturday’s state cross-country championships even before the Trojans qualified for the team competition, her coach, Dan Wroblicky said.

On Saturday, Marquand was in Florida, where she qualified for the U.S. under-18 women’s national soccer team. Meanwhile, at Woodward Park in Fresno, her Trojan teammates finished eighth in the state Division I finals.

Marquand said that she told Wroblicky after the Sea View League finals of her plans.

“I would have loved to have been there,” she said of the cross-country finals. “All my teammates supported me in my decision, and I supported them.”

Marquand, who has signed to play soccer at Stanford, will return to Florida for a training camp Dec. 28-Jan. 5. The team’s first international game will take place in February.