SportScope : Redondo Beach Soccer Team Is Runner-Up in Title Series

The Fourth Division boys all-star soccer team from Region 34 in Redondo Beach finished second in the American Youth Soccer Organization Southern California championships. Division 4 is for ages 10-11. The team was coached by Hector Mendoza of Harbor City.

The Bravos slow-pitch softball team will enter the first Senior World Series at Greensboro, N.C., in September, sponsor Joe Bravo announced. The Bravos, based in Lawndale, have won the senior world title four consecutive times in the 60-and-older class and two consecutive times in the 55-and-over division.

A pair of top-ranked UCLA teams are in action this weekend. The men’s tennis team will be at No. 2 UC Berkeley this afternoon, followed by a match at No. 7 Stanford on Saturday. UCLA is 23-1 this season (8-0 in Pac-10 play). California is 18-5, 3-4, and Stanford is 12-4, 5-2. The Bruin men’s volleyball team (26-4 overall) plays host to No. 4 USC (27-9) tonight at 7:30. The game will be cablecast live on Prime Ticket.

Another full weekend is scheduled at Ascot Raceway. CMC Motocross runs tonight at 7:30. Saturday the CRA sprint cars return from a two-week midwestern swing. Action begins at 8 p.m. with a 40-lap main event. At 6 p.m. Sunday, pro stocks, bomber figure 8s, oval cars and hobby stocks race. Ascot will be back on cable network ESPN live Thursday in a twilight midget event that begins at 5:30.

The Loyola Marymount women’s varsity and novice crew teams will compete in the Oxnard Regatta on Saturday. Last weekend at the State Schools Championship Regatta in Sacramento, the varsity lightweight women and novice open-weight women won titles, while the varsity open-weight women and varsity heavyweight men won silver medals.

Loyola Marymount will close out its men’s volleyball season tonight at ho home against Stanford in a 7:30 match in Gersten Pavilion. The Lions are 5-16 overall and 4-15 in the Western Intercollegiate Volleyball Assn. The Lions are coming off a three-game sweep of Cal State Northridge on Tuesday that moved them into ninth place in the powerful conference. The Cardinal, coming off a three-game upset of UCLA on Wednesday, is second in the WIVA at 14-3 and 20-5 and hope to earn a bid to the NCAA regionals.

Loyola’s golf team, coming off an impressive showing in the Pt. Loma Invitational at San Diego, will compete in the West Coast Athletic Conference tournament Sunday through Tuesday at Portland. Senior Eugene Burns was the medalist at the Pt. Loma tourney with a 36-hole total of 142 at Monte Vista Golf Club. He had rounds of 74 and 68, carding two eagles the second day. The Lions finished fourth in a field of 12.