Just got off the phone with Laguna Hills (Calif.) High coach Jim Martin who said that his star junior guard Lauren Engeln is planning to be at UConn this weekend for an unofficial visit.

The 5-foot-11 Engeln had originally hoped to be on campus when the Huskies played Oklahoma on Nov. 30 but those plans fell through. Martin said she is expected to be in attendance when UConn plays Pittsburgh on Sunday.

Engeln, the Pacific Coast League MVP and Division IV-AA Player of Year as a sophomore, is averaging 18.2 points, 10.6 rebounds, 2.4 assists and 3.1 steals for Laguna Hills, which finished the regular season with a 19-5 record. The pairings for the state tournament will be announced on Sunday and Martin said Laguna Hills will open postseason play a week from today. With 1,409 career points, Engeln could reach the 1,500-point plateau depending on how far Laguna Hills advances in the state tournament. UConn is hoping to have Michala Johnson, a 6-foot-3 forward from Montini Catholic High in Lombard, Ill. and Bria Hartley, a guard at North Babylon (N.Y.) who has been listed anywhere from 5-7 to 5-10, to make visits but I haven't heard anything concrete about when those visits will occur.

Now for a bit of news on one of UConn's former great - Nykesha Sales didn't waste much time making an impact for the ZVVK USK Prague team. Signed recently to fill the roster spot formerly held by ex-Husky Swin Cash, Sales did not score in her first game but in game No. 2 she had 22 points off the bench in Wednesday's 115-71 win over Valosun Brno.

Evanthia Maltsi and Lindsay Whalen, Sales' former teammates with the Connecticut Sun, had 24 and 10 points respectively for ZVVK USK Prague.