Area Roundup

Two national champions will be among the 300 players competing in the 1985 Pacific Mutual Pro-Am Racquetball championships today through Sunday at Los Caballeros Racquet and Sports Club in Fountain Valley. The prizes will total more than $10,000, with proceeds to benefit the Arthritis Foundation.

The top 10 women pros are expected to compete, including eight-time national champion Lynn Adams of Costa Mesa, national doubles champion Terri Gilreath of Mission Viejo and Rookie of the Year Marci Drexler of North Hollywood.

Senior setter Jackie Bougie earned her second straight Most Valuable Player award as Cal State Fullerton women’s volleyball Coach Fran Cummings announced the recipients of the 1985 team awards at a banquet held Wednesday night.

Bougie, from Cajon High School in San Bernardino, led the Titans in set assists (740) and was an honorable mention selection on the All-Pacific Coast Athletic Assn. team. Senior outside hitter Joan McGhee, who set a single-season kill mark of 295, earned the Coaches’ Award.

Most improved honors went to freshman middle blocker Stephanie Melton and sophomore outside hitter Wendy Knapp. The Titans finished the 1985 season with a 9-25 overall record and were 1-15 in the PCAA.

Newport Harbor High School’s Buffy Rabbitt, who finished 10th among 600 entrants in last weekend’s Kinney Western Regionals at Fresno, is the second alternate for the Kinney National High School Cross-Country Championships, to be held Saturday at San Diego’s Balboa Park.

The top eight at the Western Regionals qualified for the National Championships, but if two qualifiers can’t compete because of injury or illness, the Newport senior would move into the prestigious field. The Kinney Nationals bring together the top 32 girls and the top 32 boys in the country.

Chapman College women’s soccer Coach Eunice Bobert has been named 1985 West Regional Coach of the Year by the National Soccer Coaches Assn. of America. Bobert led the Panthers to an 11-8-1 record, including a berth in the NCAA Division II playoffs. The national coach of the year for Division II will be selected at the national convention in St. Louis on Jan. 17.