Peter Diepenbrock will be back next season diagraming X’s and O’s for the Palo Alto High boys basketball team. The man who coached Jeremy Lin in high school is returning to the job he held for 11 years before stepping down in 2008 to coach at Canada College.

Diepenbrock takes over for Adam Sax, who Diepenbrock said stepped down to take over at Amador Valley.

“A lot of the kids on the team that go to school here, even though I haven’t coached them on a team, I’ve had them in my summer camp over the years,” said Diepenbrock, who is in his 18th year teaching at Palo Alto. “I already know a lot of the kids. It just kind of seemed like the right thing to do.”

Under Diepenbrock — and led by Lin — Palo Alto pulled off one of the great upsets in state history, beating Mater Dei of Santa Ana in the Division II state final in 2006.

Foothill High’s Ryan Knop shot a 4-under-par 67 at Monarch Bay Golf Course in San Leandro to earn medalist honors at the North Coast Section Division I Tournament of Champions. De La Salle won the team title and will advance with Foothill and Monte Vista to the CIF NorCal championships on May 18 at Corral de Tierra Country Club. College USF has hired longtime De La Salle High-Concord basketball coach Frank Allocco as the Dons’ associate head coach. The Dons announced the hiring Monday. Allocco had a record of 654-99 in 24 seasons as a high school coach, spending the last 18 at De La Salle. He won three state championships, including one at Northgate-Walnut Creek, and is the only California boys coach to win a state basketball title at two schools. He reached 600 wins faster than any coach in state basketball history. “There are too many things to list that I know Frank will bring to our program,” USF head coach Rex Walters said in a release. “We are excited to work with him.”

Saint Mary’s catcher Nate Nolan was named West Coast Conference baseball player of the week. He went 7 for 11, scored six runs and drove in eight in three games.