BRIEFLY : Exponent System Still in Effect

The Los Angeles Board of Education decided Monday to continue the exponent system used for classifying athletes through the fall even if the board abolishes the system later this year.

Some levels of football, basketball and track are determined by a boy’s age, height and weight. A school board proposal under consideration would classify athletes by grade levels. A vote is not expected until August or September.

A big reason for keeping the exponent system through the fall was that it would have been too late to implement change.

District IV Team Eliminated

The District IV Senior Babe Ruth All-Star team Tuesday lost, 8-4, to Arroyo Seco and was eliminated from the double-elimination state tournament at Brookside Park in Pasadena.

In a first-round game last Saturday, the District IV team lost, 7-3, to the San Gabriel Valley All-Stars.

The team of 16-18-year-olds had come back last Sunday with a 9-3 win over East Anaheim prior to Tuesday’s loss.

Arroyo Seco, 2-1, must twice beat undefeated San Gabriel Valley to win the championship.

The winner of the tournament advances to the Regional playoffs Aug. 2-11 in Ogden, Utah.

NOTABLE

Pete Accardy of Cal State Northridge has been selected the NCAA Division II Swim Coach of the Year.

Accardy’s men’s team has dominated the division in recent years, winning the last five national championships and nine of the last 11.

Van Austin of Northridge was selected as the nation’s top diving coach in Division II. Austin coached Roland King, who won the one- and three-meter diving events at the national championships in March.

Charlie Brown, a once-promising lightweight who has a 24-3 record as a professional, was released by the Ten Goose Boxing team of North Hollywood last week.

Brown, 20, fought only once for Ten Goose, knocking out Ted Michaliszyn of Las Vegas in the 10th round of a hotly contested fight at the Country Club in Reseda last month.

Dan Goossen, manager of Ten Goose, said Brown had “strayed from the provisions” of his three-year contract. Goossen said among the provisions included in the contract included a training curfew and a ban on drinking and drug usage.

“Charlie didn’t want to go, but he also didn’t want to make the commitment that I wanted from him,” Goossen said. “I wanted him with us as long as he was willing to do the things we felt he had to do to be a winner. He was doing things I didn’t want him to do and he wasn’t doing things that I wanted him to do.”

Brown was unavailable for comment.

Harvard University’s Joe Carrabino, the Denver Nuggets’ sixth-round draft choice, was cut Monday after a three-day free-agent camp at Regis College in Denver.

“I played pretty well,” said the 6-8 1/2, 230-pound Carrabino, whose game is built more on fundamentals than flash. “But with their fast-breaking style, I just didn’t fit in. . . . There were a lot of great athletes in camp. They’re looking for good athletes--not necessarily fundamentally sound players, but guys who can run and jump.”

If no other NBA teams contact him, the former Crespi High star who went on to Ivy League Player of the Year and two-time Academic All-American honors, said he will take a “serious look” at playing in Europe.

The recent Ron Masak All-Star Golf Classic at the Woodland Hills Country Club raised more than $15,000 for the Muscular Dystrophy Association. Using a scramble format, the top four teams in this celebrity golf tournament were as follows: Joe Ferguson of Los Angeles Dodgers with Jack Folger, Ted Tacea, Stan Phillips and Ray Sabourin finished first with a 57 for 18 holes; Rick Rhoden, Pittsburgh Pirates’ pitcher, with Gene Bishop, Rick Reinmuth, Dr. Bob Schier and Eames Yates placed second with a 58; actor Jim MacKell, with teammates Jim Ashford, Joe Cummings, Richard Tarlow and Jack Chejwidden were two strokes behind the leaders at 59; and, the fourth-place team, headed by Dodger manager Tommy Lasorda, with a crew of Dick Jennings, Bill Blaney, Mark Burnett and John Darling, shot a 60.