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Melissa Sutton, who graduated this month from Newbury Park High, finished first among 150 runners in the All-American Prep Cross-Country championship in New Orleans on Tuesday.

Sutton, a three-time Southern Section 4-A Division champion, covered the 5,000-meter course in 19:18, two seconds faster than second-place finisher Nikki Cormak, the Colorado state champion. The top three seniors from each state were invited to the event, which was sponsored by the National High School Athletic Coaches Assn. The top five finishers earned All-American honors.

Sutton was undefeated this season and will attend UCLA in the fall.

Doug Fairman of Thousand Oaks finished 48th in the boys race with a time of 17:56.1.

Pierre Rodnunsky, a reserve infielder for Cal State Northridge, has signed as a free agent with the Butte, Ma., Copperkings of the Pioneer League for rookies.

Butte is a co-op affiliate of the Milwaukee and Texas organizations. Rodnunsky signed Friday. He played at Granada Hills High and Pierce College before attending CSUN.

The Ventura-Santa Barbara Sharks, a club basketball team that includes Keira Irwin and Shannon Solway of Simi Valley, Danielle Bryce of Westlake, Kristi Gellenbeck of Thousand Oaks, Katie Krause of Newbury Park and Karrie Parsons of Burbank, will participate in the Northern California Summer Shootout in Chico on June 26-28.

The Sharks finished second in the event last year.

The team hosts its own tournament July 17-19 at Pepperdine University in Malibu.

Tom Osendorf has been released from his Cal State Northridge football letter of intent so he can attend Cal State Bakersfield to wrestle.

The 6-2, 230-pound nose tackle from Savanna High in Anaheim finished seventh in the heavyweight division of the high school state wrestling meet.

John Bonilla, the starting center fielder at the University of San Diego for the past two seasons, has transferred to Cal State Northridge.

Bonilla, a junior, hit .330 with 30 stolen bases last season and is a graduate of Notre Dame High in Sherman Oaks.

Lisa Rood of North Hollywood High was a finalist in the 1986-87 statewide Scholar-Athlete of the Year competition, the CIF announced.

To qualify as a candidate, students must have a grade-point average of 3.7, two seasons of varsity experience and maintain a record of good citizenship. Rood, who played softball at North Hollywood, was one of 18 finalists.

Kristine White of Camarillo was one of 151 soccer players selected to compete in the Region IV trials at the U.S. Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs, Colo.

White, 19, is a freshman at Cal State Dominguez Hills and a graduate of Rio Mesa High.

Sportsman class driver Bob Oliver of Granada Hills and stock car racer John Cran of Reseda will each try for their third straight victory Saturday night at Saugus Speedway.

Last Saturday, Oliver won the Sportsman 30-lap event, defeating Joe Stewart of Chatsworth, and Cran won the 25-lap stock car race, setting a track record of 18.62 as he edged runner-up Don Rogers of Simi Valley. Jim Marlewski of Simi Valley won the 15-lap figure-8 event.

In Friday’s racing, Bill McLean of Canoga Park and Dave Blankenship of Reseda each won their sixth hobby stock competitions this season. McLean won the 25-lap oval and Blankenship won the 15-lap figure-8 race.

Saturday’s competition begins with qualifying at 4 p.m., followed by trophy dashes, heat races, semi-main and feature races.

As part of a three-player swap, the Philadelphia Phillies acquired minor league pitcher Dan Clay--formerly of Pierce College--in a trade that sent left-handed pitcher Dan Schatzeder to the Minnesota Twins.

Clay, a right-hander, moves from Portland of the Triple-A Pacific Coast League to Maine of the Triple-A International League.

Suzy Rouda of Camarillo finished second in the National Amateur Arm Wrestling championships earlier this month in Fontana. Rouda, 31, won four of five bouts in the 135-pound class.

Rouda finished second in the U.S. championships in May and will compete in the World Professional Arm Wrestling competition at the Ventura County Fairgrounds on Aug. 29.

Several members of the Gymnastics Olympica USA youth team of Van Nuys won top honors as the team placed first among California entries at the U.S. Gymnastics Federation state championships June 13-14 in Agoura.

Gina Canterella, 10, of Simi Valley, won the state championship in the uneven bars in her age division. She also placed fourth in the all-around and vault.

Rochelle Ramos, 10, of Canoga Park, won the state title in the vault.

Charisse Phillips of L.A. Baptist, 12, won state championships in the vault and floor exercise in her division, placed second in the all-around and fourth in uneven bars.

Stephanie Le Sueur of Encino won the beam championship in the 13-year-old division, placed third in the all-around, fourth in the vault and fifth in uneven bars.

Mary Ann Sanesi, 13, of Northridge, tied for first in the vault in the senior division, finished second in the all-around, balance beam and floor exercise and third in the uneven bars.

Members of the home team swept a majority of the top awards at the California Sun Gymnastics Simi Valley Invitational last Sunday.

Simi Valley (172.3) narrowly defeated Encino (170.9) and Chatsworth (169.4) in the advanced-beginner class. Simi Valley swept the first five places in the all-around competition. Lysa Montgomery finished first, followed by Bridget Nibler, Christina Mandros, Kathleen Madelon and Amber Poliskey.

Chris Casazza of Chaminade High will tour Europe and the Soviet Union this summer as a member of a California all-star soccer team.

Casazza, a junior who led Chaminade in scoring and to the Southern Section playoffs, will visit Denmark, Holland, Sweden, West Germany and the Soviet Union next month.