VALLEY SPORTS : COLLEGE Digest : FOOTBALL : If Cal Lutheran Only Had Another Team’s 48 Guys, Then Maybe . . .

Cal Lutheran football Coach Bob Shoup doesn’t think much of his team’s chances this week against Cal State Sacramento. The team is wracked with injuries.

“How do you spell rout?” Shoup said. “Since the game is on their home field, Sacramento can suit up as many players as it wants. Their second 48 players are probably as good as our first 48. The only thing we have going for us is that the three teams in second in our conference are rooting for us. Now if only they would let us use some of their players. We may just show up and declare a forfeit.”

Cal State Northridge (2-1 in the WFC and 6-1 overall) is ranked No. 10 in this week’s Division II poll. It is the first time since 1981 that CSUN has cracked the Top 10. Santa Clara, the Matadors’ opponent this Saturday, was ranked sixth at one time this season but has fallen out of the Top 20. The Broncos, defending WFC champions, are 2-1 in conference, 3-4 overall.

Despite his bleak forecast on this week’s game, Shoup doesn’t plan any last-minute changes.

He remembers too well a game in the 1950s when he was a single-wing quarterback at UC Santa Barbara.

“That’s a good example of why you don’t make changes. We had a lot of personnel suited for the T-formation,” Shoup recalled. “So we got together and tried to convince the coach, Stan Williamson, to change over to the T for the last game of the year against San Diego State. We must have made a pretty good argument because he agreed.”

Final score that day: San Diego State 72, UC Santa Barbara 0.

Pierce College administrators will meet Friday to determine when the school’s football program will be reinstated, Athletic Director Marian McWilliams said Wednesday.

Although the possibility of fielding a team next season remains, it is not likely.

“If we can’t reasonably do it for this year, we’d like to hire a coach as soon as possible and get ready for fall 1988,” said Richard Moyer, assistant dean of student services. “If we hired somebody for 1987, we’d really want them in place in a matter of weeks.

“Right now, it’s getting near the end of the high school season and nobody from Pierce has gone out and begun the recruiting process. And we won’t return the sport with the thought that we’re going to lose.”

Pierce dropped its football and men’s basketball programs in June after its athletic budget was cut.

Cal Lutheran will be hurting Saturday with the loss of defensive tackle Mike Miller, who is lost for the season with a dislocated shoulder.

And who will take his place against a massive Sacramento offensive line that averages 277 pounds a man?

“It’s going to be like that old pea game at the carnival,” Shoup said. “With Miller, you just put him there and dare people. Now, we’ll have to move people around.”

Valley College is finally playing like Coach Chuck Ferrero expected it to.

The Monarchs (3-1 in conference) trail only College of the Desert (4-0) in the Southern California Conference, and Ferrero still believes his team can win the conference title--despite the Monarchs’ conference-opening loss to Desert.

“We can only control our own destiny,” Ferrero said. “All we can take care of is winning the rest of our league games. But I still expect us to win the conference and go on to a bowl game.”

Around the WFC: Sacramento has set conference records for total yards in a game (685) and rushing yards in a game (421). The Hornets have scored 221 points in winning four of their last five games. Sacramento kicker Matt Nilsson has set a WFC record by making 33 consecutive PATs. . . . Portland State tight end Barry Naone tied a conference record with 11 catches against Cal Lutheran. He shares the record with Northridge’s Charles Collins, who had 11 against Portland State last season. . . . All-WFC quarterback Greg Calcagno of Santa Clara got off to a slow start this season, but has come on with a flourish. He is second in the WFC in passing with 1,464 yards and has completed 139 of 217 pass attempts with 10 touchdowns and five interceptions.

Notable: USC All-American Jeff Bregel, an offensive tackle from Kennedy High, was one of 11 college seniors selected as 1986 scholar-athletes Tuesday by the National Football Foundation and College Football Hall of Fame. Each of the players won a $3,000 graduate fellowship. Bregel, who has a 3.12 grade-point average in business finance, was a Pac-10 All-academic honorable mention last season. A four-year starter, Bregel is a candidate for both the Outland Trophy and Lombardi Award.

Moorpark (4-2, 3-0), ranked 13th in the state by the JC Athletic Bureau, will meet No. 1-ranked Glendale (7-0, 4-0) Saturday at 1:30 p.m. at Glendale High. Glendale is also the top-rated team in the nation by USA Today and its defense is the state’s best, having given up an average of only 175 yards a game.

But last season, when the teams shared the Western State Conference championship, Moorpark held off a late rally to beat the Vaqueros, 21-14.