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GLENDALE — The following are odds and ends from the local sports scene. HOUSE CHOOSES TO BE A MATADOR Crescenta Valley High senior softball player Sydney House announced recently that she will play collegiately at Cal State Northridge. House, a first baseman and a reigning All-Area first-team pick, batted .405 with four home runs and 27 runs batted in for the Falcons. The All-Pacific League first-team member also scored 16 runs and finished with a .453 on-base percentage.

GLENDALE — Steve Rousey sensed uncertainty when he went in for his end-of-the-season evaluation. Having coached the Cal State University Northridge baseball team to its first winning season since he took over the program in 2002, Rousey's uncertainty was warranted, as the university elected to end the La Crescenta resident's tenure as Matadors coach, choosing not to renew his contract after its expiration this season. "I sensed something was up when I walked into the meeting Wednesday," Rousey said Thursday.

Four of the six candidates in what is widely known as the Berman-Sherman congressional race squared off Monday night, thanks to the Associated Students of Cal State Northridge's Big Politics series. Besides Democratic Reps. Brad Sherman and Howard Berman, who are engaged in a nationally watched, high-spending contest for a San Fernando Valley seat, Republicans Susan Shelley and Mark Reed participated in the candidates' forum at the Valley Performing Arts Center.  Forum planners said they invited the "leading" candidates, which meant no spot on stage for Democrat Vince Gilmore or Republican Navraj Singh.

Good morning, readers. Today is Thursday, July 12, 2012. Some good news and some bad news: Crime is down in the region, but homicides are on the rise this year. Shootings have decreased 34% in the San Fernando Valley. The Los Angeles Police Department has reported 33 homicides in the area  for 2012 .  Daily News Over in La Cañada Flintridge, burglaries have dropped . Valley Sun For the second time in the past month, a car chase has ended on the Hollywood (170)

NORTHRIDGE ? Scoring touchdowns and making a game-saving tackle will have to come some other time for Corbet Pollack. The 13-year-old Corbett could have gone on to play football with many of his former teammates who left the California Tribe, a Burbank-based travel baseball team, to play football in June. Pollack chose to be in the minority and spend the remainder of the summer learning how to hit, throw and catch a baseball. Pollack took his decision a step further, choosing to attend the Northridge Baseball Camp at Cal State Northridge.

Charles Rich Steve Rousey saw a chance. Doubt never crept into his mind and now he'll strive to fulfill a long-time obligation of coaching collegiate baseball at the Division I level. The La Crescenta resident was named the head coach at Cal State Northridge on Monday. Rousey, who had been the team's interim coach since June 3 after spending the two previous seasons as an assistant coach at CSUN, became the seventh coach since the program's inception in 1959.

La Crescenta resident Steve Rousey will conduct a baseball camp at Cal State Northridge four days this month. The camp, sponsored by the CUSN Matador baseball team, will take place at the university's baseball field on Dec. 2-3 and 30-31, from 9 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. each day. Aimed at youths ages 6-14, the camp will focus on hitting, pitching and fielding. Rousey, a baseball coach at CUSN, and his assistant coaches will provide instruction. The camp cost $143 per person and will include lunch and other items.

Charles Rich He's left USC with no regrets and quietly departed for Cal State Northridge. Don't suggest to Mark McCauley that it's a step down the ladder. He'll take the opposite approach and climb with little fanfare. McCauley, a former star infielder for the Crescenta Valley High baseball team that captured the CIF Southern Section Division I championship in 1998, transferred to CSUN in June with a pledge to possibly obtain a full-time position on the school's squad.

Charles Rich He's not bothered by the interim tag. Nor is he on pins and needles. With time spent recruiting and tending to scheduling and equipment budgeting issues, Steve Rousey doesn't plan to be concerned while operating within a specified timetable. Why should the La Crescenta resident worry about whether he might become the next head baseball coach at Cal State Northridge? He recently threw his name into the hat and now he must wait.

TOLUCA LAKE ? No matter the circumstances, he wasn?t going to squander a golden opportunity. About two weeks ago, Nick Delio was at his Valencia home when the phone rang. It was the Southern California Golf Assn., which invited Delio to participate in the 97th annual California Amateur Championship at Oakmont Country Club and Lakeside Golf Club. At first stunned by the query, the 18-year-old Delio eventually accepted the invitation. Then he made the most of his chance. The sixth-seeded Delio reached the apex of his career Saturday when he knocked off 20th-seeded Austin Roberts, 7 and 5, at Lakeside to win the championship.

Good morning, readers. Today is Thursday, July 12, 2012. Some good news and some bad news: Crime is down in the region, but homicides are on the rise this year. Shootings have decreased 34% in the San Fernando Valley. The Los Angeles Police Department has reported 33 homicides in the area  for 2012 .  Daily News Over in La Cañada Flintridge, burglaries have dropped . Valley Sun For the second time in the past month, a car chase has ended on the Hollywood (170)

Four of the six candidates in what is widely known as the Berman-Sherman congressional race squared off Monday night, thanks to the Associated Students of Cal State Northridge's Big Politics series. Besides Democratic Reps. Brad Sherman and Howard Berman, who are engaged in a nationally watched, high-spending contest for a San Fernando Valley seat, Republicans Susan Shelley and Mark Reed participated in the candidates' forum at the Valley Performing Arts Center.  Forum planners said they invited the "leading" candidates, which meant no spot on stage for Democrat Vince Gilmore or Republican Navraj Singh.

The following are updates on area athletes at the collegiate level. Rian Younker (St. Francis High, 2009) junior, defensive lineman, California Lutheran University football: The former All-Area and All-Mission League pick turned in an impressive performance for the Kingsmen on Saturday in their Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference opener. Playing their first night home game in program history, the Kingsmen overcame a 24-point deficit to rally for a 28-24 victory against visiting University of Redlands.

Cal State Northridge officials planned to finish their search for a possible campus gunman Tuesday afternoon and reopen the evacuated Oviatt Library. Capt. Alfredo Fernandez of the campus police department said officers are waiting for a Los Angeles Police Department bomb-sniffing dog to arrive and go through the building before reopening the library. It was evacuated at 10:27 a.m. after a staffer reported that a man in the library said he had a gun. According to a statement sent out by the university, the man was described as 5-feet-8 with short, spiky hair, and wearing jeans and a white T-shirt that read "human rights violation.

GLENDALE — The following are odds and ends from the local sports scene. HOUSE CHOOSES TO BE A MATADOR Crescenta Valley High senior softball player Sydney House announced recently that she will play collegiately at Cal State Northridge. House, a first baseman and a reigning All-Area first-team pick, batted .405 with four home runs and 27 runs batted in for the Falcons. The All-Pacific League first-team member also scored 16 runs and finished with a .453 on-base percentage.

GLENDALE — The following are updates on area athletes at the collegiate level. Luke Collis (St. Francis High, 2007) Occidental College junior quarterback: It was another banner day for the former Golden Knights standout. Collis led the Tigers to a 30-0 romp over host La Verne on Saturday in a Southern California Interscholastic Athletic Conference win. For the second time this season, Collis surpassed the 300-yard mark, completing 24 of 32 passes for 340 yards, four touchdowns and one interception.

GLENDALE — Steve Rousey sensed uncertainty when he went in for his end-of-the-season evaluation. Having coached the Cal State University Northridge baseball team to its first winning season since he took over the program in 2002, Rousey's uncertainty was warranted, as the university elected to end the La Crescenta resident's tenure as Matadors coach, choosing not to renew his contract after its expiration this season. "I sensed something was up when I walked into the meeting Wednesday," Rousey said Thursday.

GLENDALE — The following are updates on area athletes at the collegiate level.   Sam Orlandini (Flintridge Sacred Heart Academy, 2008) sophomore setter, Cal State Northridge women’s volleyball: Orlandini, a former All-CIF member and two-time All-Area pick, and the Matadors saw their season come to a close Nov. 21 with a 25-15, 25-21, 25-18 Big West Conference loss against visiting UC Santa Barbara. Orlandini did not participate in that match for CSUN, which finished 8-22 and 4-12 in conference.