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Scott Sharts, who helped lead Simi Valley High to the Southern Section playoffs and a Marmonte League championship, has been named the Ventura County Player of the Year.

Sharts, a 6-6, 220-pound junior right-hander who was also the Marmonte MVP, finished the season 9-4 with an earned-run average of 4.04. He batted .469 with 33 runs batted in and set a school record with 11 home runs.

Also named to the team were teammates Tim Laker (.452), Greg Gerber (.489) and Darren Aurand (.324). Jim Henderson (.463), Matt Franco (.535), Greg Struhl (.365) and John Chiaramonte (7-3, 2.41) were chosen from Westlake. Ryan McMullen (.433) and Art Espinoza (.408) of Rio Mesa and Joe Summers (.411) of Royal also made the team.

Jerry Eckman of Ventura reached the semifinals of the pro stock competition at the National Hot Rod Assn. Budweiser Springnationals at National Trail Raceway in Columbus, Ohio, Sunday before losing to Butch Leal of Blacklick, N.Y.

Leal, who was defeated in the final round, clocked 7.591 on the quarter-mile track at a speed of 183.33 m.p.h. to barely beat Eckman’s elapsed time of 7.654 and 181.48 m.p.h. The event was the fifth in the 15-race Winston Drag Racing Series.

Hans Wesski of Simi Valley set a track record with 15.57-second lap in the modified division and Bob Oliver of Granada Hills won the Sportsman 30-lap NASCAR event in Saturday night’s racing at the Saugus Speedway.

It was Oliver’s second main-event win of the season.

Dave Phipps of Simi Valley had the fastest time in the Sportsman class at 17.13. Bob Lyon of Newhall finished second in the 40-lap Sportsman race.

Tonight’s racing lineup includes hobby and foreign stocks and jalopies. Qualifying begins at 7.

Saturday’s NASCAR racing will include 40-, 30-, 25- and 15-lap modified, sportsman, street stock and figure-8 events. Qualifying begins at 4 p.m., followed by the ego challenge, trophy dashes, heats, semi-main and feature races.

Jacqie DeLange of Burroughs High, a senior, was named to the Southern Section 4-A softball first team.

Teammate Christy Alves was named to the 4-A second team along with two other Foothill League selections, Christy Calderon and Debby Day of Burbank. Shireen Campbell and Julie Chellevold of Thousand Oaks, Vicki DuPree of Simi Valley and Chris Singer of Newbury Park were chosen from the Marmonte League.

In the 2-A, Janeen Duncan and Tiffani Riley of Alemany, Becca Berline of Notre Dame and Stephanie Keeler of Canyon were selected.

Keeler, a freshman, was the first Canyon player ever chosen for the list. Duncan recently was voted MVP of the San Fernando Valley League.

Melia Ouzts, a freshman outfielder at Moorpark College, has been named to the first-ever Community College Coach’s Assn. All-America team.

In 35 games, Ouzts batted .387 with a .575 on-base percentage and set a school-record 52 stolen bases for the Raiders, who finished 27-13.

Pitcher Karen Mead, who was 27-12 this year and 45-17 lifetime, signed a letter of intent to play for Louisiana Tech. Mead had 295 strikeouts this year and set a school career mark with 472 strikeouts. Teammate Peggy Liebel, formerly of Simi Valley High, signed to play for UC Santa Barbara. Liebel hit .251 with 24 stolen bases.

Mike Lowe and Peter Andersons of the Harvard High boys volleyball team--which advanced to the 3-A playoffs--were named to the All-Southern Section team.

Lowe, who will attend Stanford, was named to the first team. Andersons, a second-team selection, will attend Middlebury College in Vermont.

Hart High quarterback Jim Bonds, who will attend UCLA in the fall, is among five Valley-area players chosen to play for the South team in the Shrine Game on Aug. 1 at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena.

Others named to the South are tight end John Carpenter and linebacker Sean Howard of Crespi, defensive back Dion Lambert of Kennedy and quarterback Ken Sollom of Canyon.

Lambert and Howard also will attend UCLA. Sollom will attend Michigan and Carpenter has signed to attend Stanford.

Crespi’s Bill Redell will coach the South team.

Dani Elton, who averaged 9.1 points and 6.7 rebounds per game for the Simi Valley High girls basketball team, will attend Cal Lutheran on an athletic scholarship.

Elton, a guard, had 111 assists this season, third in school history. Simi Valley--a Southern Section 4-A semifinalist--had its most successful season at 23-4.

M.J. Nelson, a 1986 graduate of Simi Valley High, has won the starting halfback position at the University of Colorado after summer football workouts.

Nelson, a sophomore and a former Times All-Valley selection, will team with sophomore fullback O.C. Oliver.

Robin Romeo of Van Nuys was selected as the 1987 Women’s Bowler of the Year by a poll of Southern California Bowling Writers.