Orange Glen’s Nyberg Picks San Diego State

Jake Nyberg, Orange Glen High School’s record-breaking wide receiver, has announced he will sign a national letter of intent to attend San Diego State University.

Nyberg (6-feet 1-inch, 180 pounds) follows teammate Cree Morris, a quarterback who verbally committed to the Aztecs last month, and Orange Glen’s former coach, Dave Lay, who was named SDSU’s offensive coordinator.

Said Nyberg, “I just couldn’t find any disadvantages. Everything is so perfect. They’ve got Cree and Coach there, so everything seemed perfect.”

The No. 1 receiver in the state, Nyberg caught 93 passes for 1,456 yards this season. His 93 catches broke the San Diego Section record of 91 (set by Fallbrook’s Bill Dunckel in 1986). And his yardage was second to Jay McNabney of Carlsbad, who had 1,734 receiving yards in 1980.

Nyberg’s best game was probably his last. He caught 12 passes for 207 yards in Orange Glen’s 31-28 loss to Morse in the Class 3-A final in San Diego Jack Murphy Stadium.

Quarterback John Lynch, whose senior season at Torrey Pines High School was limited to five quarters because of a broken ankle, verbally committed to play football as well as baseball at Stanford.

Lynch had narrowed his choices to Stanford and Washington State before making his decision Monday night.

“When I went down with the broken ankle,” he said, “I thought it was over. Most of the colleges I talked with checked with their team doctors, and they said I could come back 100% from the injury, but I was still pretty scared.”

Lynch, who passed for 1,292 yards out of an option offense his junior year, was limited to 346 yards his senior season, after Torrey Pines had switched offenses to accentuate his skills.

MEN’S BASKETBALL

Christian Heritage defeated UC San Diego, 101-90, in a nonconference game at Granite Hills High School, improving its home winning streak to 11 games.

The Hawks (17-3) were led by Brad Soucie with 24 points. Six players scored in double figures for Christian Heritage, and Rundy Foster came off the bench and had 14 assists for the Hawks. Rick Batt and Gordon McNeill led the Tritons (5-12) with 17 points apiece.

Cal Lutheran’s Blake Miraglia made a shot in the final 5 seconds to beat Point Loma Nazarene, 90-89, in a Golden State Athletic Conference game in Thousand Oaks.

PLNC led, 87-86, with 1:44 left when the Crusaders’ Brian Thurston fouled out. Cal Lutheran (1-4 in league) made both free throws to take an 88-87 lead. Mark Ryan made a jump shot to hand the lead back to Point Loma Nazarene (3-2 in league), but Cal Lutheran took possession with 12 seconds left and held the ball until the final shot.

WOMEN’S BASKETBALL

Camille Armijo scored 19 points and Shawndel Reddic had 12 as Point Loma Nazarene defeated host Cal Lutheran, 68-65, in a Golden State Athletic Conference game. Cal Lutheran led, 65-64, with 30 seconds left, but Shannon Anderson made 2 free throws with 14 seconds left, and Ann Duffy made 2 more with 3 seconds to play for Point Loma Nazarene (12-8, 2-2).

WOMEN’S GOLF

U.S. International’s Allison Shapcott shot a 7-over par 72 to put her in sixth after two rounds of the Yamaha USC Invitational at the Oakmont Country Club in Glendale.

Shapcott takes a combined 156 going into today’s final round on the 6,157-yard course. Wendy Kaupp (83-77-160) of San Diego State is 15th.

MEN’S VOLLEYBALL

SDSU defeated visiting UC Irvine, 15-11, 15-10, 15-5, in the Aztecs’ nonconference season-opener in Peterson Gym.

Eric Etebari led the 12th-ranked Aztecs (1-0) with 20 kills.

Nate Brown had 16 kills and Jeff Babcock 10 as host UC San Diego defeated Princeton, 15-5, 14-16, 15-9, 15-3, in a nonconference match. UCSD is 1-4, Princeton is 0-1.