BRIEFLY

Prime Ticket to Televise CIF Events

The Southern Section has signed a contract with the Prime Ticket cable television network to air football, basketball and girls volleyball championship games. Coverage will begin Dec. 12 with a delayed broadcast of the Big Five Conference football title game at Anaheim Stadium.

Prime Ticket, which also televises Los Angeles Lakers, Los Angeles Kings and local college sports, is broadcast to about 1.5 million homes.

“We at the CIF feel this is the beginning of a new frontier in regards to media coverage,” CIF Southern Section Athletic Commissioner Stan Thomas said in a prepared statement. “Prime Ticket’s professional coverage will give our outstanding teams and student-athletes the kind of exposure they truly deserve.”

The CIF said the agreement could later include the Southern Section track and field championships and extended basketball coverage.

The Big Five football championship game will be shown on Prime Ticket on Dec. 21 at 11 p.m. Another Southern Section conference title game will be televised the following night. Other events scheduled to air are the boys 5-A Division basketball championship on March 7 and the girls 5-A Division volleyball finals in 1987. Prime Ticket has the option of televising the boys and girls 4-A Division basketball finals on March 6-7, and the 1987 track and field championships.

Prime Ticket will pay each school involved in a telecast $250 per sport.

Valley’s Largest Race Scheduled for Sunday

More than 3,000 runners are expected to participate in Sunday’s Steve Sax Run for Hope--comprised of a 5K and a 10K race--with all proceeds benefiting the City of Hope, a nonprofit medical center.

The races will begin at Pierce College and the runners will cover courses over the campus and through the Warner Center business district. The 5K starts at 8:15 a.m. and the 10K at 9 a.m.

The entry fee is $12.

Farrel Entered in Kinney Championships

Christy Farrell of Thousand Oaks heads a group of Valley area high school runners entered in the Kinney Western Regional Cross-Country Championship, a 5,000-meter race scheduled for Dec. 6 in Fresno.

Farrell, a senior, finished eighth in last year’s regional to qualify for the national championship race in San Diego.

Others entered include Heather Scobie, a sophomore at Saugus, Michelle Lewis, a senior at Buena in Ventura, and Richard Erbes, a senior at Glendale.

The top eight finishers in each of four regional races will advance to the national championship race Dec. 13 in San Diego’s Balboa Park.

NOTABLE

Nigel Miguel, a former Notre Dame High standout and a starter on the UCLA basketball team in the 1984-85 season, has been named promotion chairman for the American Roundball Corp., a nonprofit youth basketball organization.

Miguel will be in charge of raising funds to send a Valley basketball all-star team to Europe next summer to compete against national youth teams from Germany, France, England, Holland and Belgium. American Roundball spokesman Richard Goldberg said the group must raise $20,000 to send the 10-player team to Europe.

Miguel played in the Continental Basketball League last year and was cut by the NBA’s New Jersey Nets this year.

Tom Hays of the Annandale Country Club in Pasadena and Serge Ballif of the Wilshire Country Club in Sherman Oaks have been elected to the executive committee of the Southern California Golf Assn.

Hays became vice president of the organization, while Ballif was elected treasurer.

The organization’s new president is Steve Miletich of Los Angeles.

Members of the general board include John Bell of the Lakeside Country Club in Studio City and Al Woodard of the Oakmont Country Club in Pasadena.