Life seems to accelerate like one of Bob Hawking’s Simi Valley High boys basketball teams on a fast break. So make sure to take advantage of the trip up and back. That was the message to the assembled student-athletes as Hawking, who coached the highest scoring boys basketball team in Ventura County history in 1987-88, closed his induction speech during the Ventura County Sports Hall of Fame’s annual induction dinner on Sunday, June 7, at the Serra Center in Camarillo.