Noon Throws Shot 66-2 1/2 at Indoor Meet

Brent Noon, a Fallbrook High School junior, recorded a 66-feet-2 1/2 shotput throw, the best indoors for a high school athlete nationally in two seasons, at the Simplot Games at Idaho State Saturday.

Noon was just shy of breaking the national indoor record of 67 feet set in 1969.

Noon’s victory earned him an all-expense paid trip to the national scholastic junior championships held at the Naval Academy at Annapolis, Md., March 11 and 12.

Members of the UC San Diego women’s track team picked up seven firsts at the Pomona Pitzer all-comers meet:

Andrea Kouremetis, 200 (26.38), Gisele English, 800 (2:28.04) and 1500 (4:51.6), Vicki Dunckley, 400 hurdles (71.5), Rachel Beerman, shot put (38-4 1/2) and discus (118-11). The UCSD 4 x 100 relay team took first with a time of 51.90.

UCSD’s Scott Sargent won the hammer throw in 166-7 to qualify for the Division III national meet. The UCSD 4 x 100 men’s team took first in 3:24.6.

MEN’S BASKETBALL

Point Loma Nazarene held off Cal Lutheran in triple overtime, 135-128.

Kevin Barbarick, a senior forward, led Point Loma (8-19, 5-7) with a career-high 28 points, Ron Hubbard added 25. Cal Lutheran is 3-9, 9-17.

BASEBALL

Five UC San Diego pitchers allowed 15 runs on 10 hits as UCSD lost to visiting San Francisco State, 15-3, in a nonconference game. Greg McNight limited UCSD (3-2) to three hits and a walk in eight innings. Ian Zook (0-1) took the loss for UCSD. Gary Fessia homered for UCSD.

John Allen (1-0) allowed just three hits as host Point Loma Nazarene College defeated The Masters, 9-3, in the first game of a doubleheader. Point Loma Nazarene lost the second game, 7-6. Mark Ratikin and Craig Gastineau each homered in the first game for Point Loma Nazarene. The Masters (1-7) scored two runs in the seventh and two in the ninth in the second-game comeback. John Thibert homered for Point Loma Nazarene (2-4).

Brian Dunn singled in two runs with two outs in the bottom of the ninth to give San Diego State a 4-3 victory over UC Irvine at Smith Field. Dave Riddle (2-0) won for the Aztecs (8-2). Irvine is 2-7-1.

USD split a doubleheader with visiting Cal State Los Angeles, winning the first game, 8-4, and losing the second, 8-1. Parris Sorianello and Rick Doane hit home runs to lead USD (4-4) in the first game.

WOMEN’S BASKETBALL

Shawndel Reddic blocked five shots, four during a second-half comeback, as host Point Loma Nazarene defeated Cal Lutheran, 68-61, in a Golden State Athletic Conference game. Cal Lutheran led at the half, 38-32. Shannon Anderson led Point Loma Nazarene (17-10, 6-4) with 18 points and Camille Armijo and Lisa Mowday added 10 each.

TENNIS

Third-seeded Yoram Baron of U.S. International University defeated No. 4 David Stewart of the University of San Diego, 0-6, 6-3, 6-0, to win the San Diego Intercollegiate Tennis Tournament No. 1-2 singles division championship.

USD’s Dan Mattera defeated Rick Matheson, also of USD, 6-0, 6-3, to win the No. 5-6 singles championship. In the No. 3-4 singles division championship, Rice’s Ken Thome defeated Steve Campbell, also of Rice, 7-5, 6-2.

Hawaii (9-4) defeated host UC San Diego, 5-3, in a nonconference men’s match. The Rainbows clinched the match with victories at No. 1 and No. 3 doubles. UCSD (3-3) got singles victories from Sig Huber (No. 1), Francois Monnar (No. 2) and Chris Belloli (No. 4).

The host Point Loma Nazarene men defeated Azusa Pacific, 5-4. Hans Hogstead and John Cress recorded singles victories for Point Loma (0-3, 0-1).

Top-ranked Stanford (5-0) routed the San Diego State women, 9-0, at Stanford. No. 20 SDSU is 2-3.

The USD women (7-3) defeated Minnesota, 6-3, at the BYU Round Robin in Provo, Utah, winning five of six singles matches. Jennifer Larking defeated Ann Gorde, 7-5, 6-3 at No. 1 singles.