BRIEFLY IN SPORTS

Club baseball team has spots available

The Vikings Baseball Club of Huntington Beach is looking for four enthusiastic players to complete its 2007-2008 roster.

The club team seeks a catcher and pitcher as well as two versatile players.

To be eligible for the team, a player’s 13th birthday must fall between May 1, 2007, and April 30, 2008.

For more information and to set up a tryout, call David D’Alessandro at (714) 448-7663, or e-mail him at barbizonla.barbizon@ verizon.net. Interested players also can visit the team’s website at eteamz.active.com/hbvikings/.

Hoops registration now underway

The Huntington Beach chapter of National Junior Basketball is accepting registration for its upcoming winter league which begins in November.

Registration is open to players in first through eighth grades until Oct. 6. Player evaluations will be Oct. 14.

Registration may be filed at www.hbnjb.org. For more information, call (714) 619-2733.

Edison falls to No. 7 in football poll

Coming off its first loss of the season — 6-0 to Servite — Edison fell from fourth to seventh in the latest CIF-Southern Section Pac-5 Division football poll.

Servite used the win over Edison to climb from sixth to fourth in the poll.

Mater Dei, Edison’s opponent Friday, still heads the poll. The rankings were released Tuesday by the Southern Section office in Los Alamitos.

Pac-5 Division rankings: 1. Mater Dei; 2. Orange Lutheran; 3. Long Beach Poly; 4. Servite; 5. Notre Dame/Sherman Oaks; 6. Los Alamitos; 7. Edison; 8. Crespi; 9. Mission Viejo; 10. Compton.