The Colleges : Bonds Rekindles Fond Memories at CLU

Tom Bonds might be gone, but the former Cal Lutheran quarterback is not forgotten.

He jogged some memories Saturday when he threw a touchdown pass in the annual Cal Lutheran--alumni scrimmage at Mount Clef Stadium. Bonds hit Jim Osborn on a four-yard scoring strike with 1:59 remaining in the first half for the alumni team’s only score in a 7-7 tie.

Jim Bees, the leading candidate to succeed Bonds at quarterback, completed 9 of 10 passes for 89 yards for the varsity. He hit wide receiver Tyler Jones with a four-yard touchdown pass for Cal Lutheran’s only score.

Junior Dan Nagelmann, competing with Bees at quarterback, played the second half for the alumni. Bonds left at halftime to watch his brother Jim play quarterback for UCLA.

Nagelmann completed 6 of 16 passes for 83 yards.

Distance runner: Darren Bernard, a sophomore member of the Cal Lutheran track team, reckoned that retaining his British citizenship would someday come in handy. Sure enough, last month he was invited to compete in the British Olympic Trials in the 400 meters.

Bernard placed fourth in his heat and failed to qualify for the final. His time of 48 seconds was well off his personal best--and CLU record--of 46.65. Bernard, originally from Croydon, England, graduated from Thousand Oaks High.

Quiz time: Occidental and Azusa Pacific field Division III football teams, which puts them at the bottom of the NCAA’s barrel. Yet both teams have placed running backs with NFL teams in the past three years. Can you name the players? (Answer below).

Brahma bull: Enger, 52, has coached at Cal State Los Angeles, East L. A. College and several high schools. But when the Brahmas line up for Saturday night’s opener against visiting East L. A.--marking the return of the Pierce program after a two-year hiatus--Enger said he will be feeling some butterflies.

“Any football coach that has any of his mind left is going to be nervous,” Enger said. “The players do fine in practice and once they snap the ball, they hardly know their own name. You just never know.”

Change of pace: Steve Pinkston, one of four quarterbacks vying for the starting quarterback job at Moorpark College, has been moved to tight end. That leaves sophomore David Sommer and freshmen Jayson Merrill and Mike Henry competing for the position.

Pinkston, a 6-foot, 3-inch, 205-pound freshman, asked Coach Jim Bittner for the change after Pinkston became dissatisfied with his performance at quarterback.

He had not played a full season at the position since 1984, his senior year at Simi Valley High. Pinkston spent the past two years on a Mormon mission.

Quiz answer: Vance Mueller, a reserve tailback with the Raiders, last played for Occidental in 1985. Christian Okoye, who played for Azusa Pacific in 1986, was the Kansas City Chiefs’ leading rusher last season as a rookie.

Temporarily sidelined: Mike Trevathan, a sophomore receiver at Montana, is at home in Thousand Oaks after rupturing a ligament in his right knee against Eastern New Mexico on Saturday. The injury occurred on his first catch in the 35-6 season-opening Montana win.

Last season, the tough-luck Trevathan injured the same knee while returning a punt and also suffered two concussions.

“It was an injury-plagued season. Now, I’m starting off with the same old nonsense,” he said. “I was trying to keep my feet in bounds and the defender and me both went up and he came down across my legs and it kind of hyper-extended.”

There is good news, however. Trevathan, who starts at wide receiver and returns punts, plans to return to Montana on Monday and should be ready for a Sept. 24 game against Idaho.

“The doctor in Montana had taken X-rays and decided that he wanted to do arthroscopic surgery right away and surgery if necessary,” said Trevathan, an all-Ventura County receiver at Thousand Oaks in 1985. “There was no pain, no swelling. So, we came back to see my own knee specialist and he determined it was only stretched.”

King for a day: Former Crespi High and Loyola Marymount standout Mike Yoest was ignored in the National Basketball Assn. draft last June, but he received one more chance to earn a job.

Yoest, a free agent, participated in a Sacramento Kings’ five-day camp, which ended two weeks ago at Cosumnes River College. Of the 12 players who took part, 10 were rookies or free agents.

Yoest, a 6-7 forward, played well but did not receive an invitation to training camp because the Kings simply have too many returning players at his position, a team spokesman said.

Yoest is Loyola’s fourth all-time leading scorer with 1,601 points and its seventh-leading rebounder with 707. A four-year starter, he helped Loyola to a school-best 28-4 record last season. He led the team in field-goal percentage (.564) and free-throw percentage (.808).

Master’s blasters: The Master’s College women’s volleyball team opened its season Tuesday night with a loss to Cal Baptist.

However, first-year Coach Dean Conk is not worried about the Lady Mustangs, who were 20-10 overall, 9-2 in NAIA District III play en route to the playoffs last season.

Sam Farmer, Steven Herbert and staff writers Mike Hiserman, Gary Klein,Vince Kowalick and Ralph Nichols contributed to this notebook.