Muir Girls Send Powerful Team to Masters Track Meet

After winning the CIF Southern Section 4-A Division title in girls track and field last week, Muir High of Pasadena will have the most athletes from the San Gabriel Valley in the CIF Masters Meet at 6:30 p.m. Friday at Cerritos College in Norwalk.

The Mustangs have qualified seven individuals and two relay teams, led by sprinter Inger Miller.

Miller, a junior, won the 100- and 200-meter dashes in the 4-A finals last week and posted the second-fastest qualifying time to Rio Mesa’s Angela Burnham in both events. Miller won the 100 in 11.53 seconds and the 200 in 24.10 seconds.

She also ran the anchor leg on both relay teams, which posted exceptional times. The Mustangs had the fastest qualifying time, 3:47.47, in the 1,600 relay and second fastest to Hawthorne in the 400 relay at 47.14 seconds.

Other Muir girls competing are Akua Sutherland in the triple jump and 100-meter low hurdles, Taminika Terry in the 100 and 200 meters and Staci Moore in the 400 meters.

Walnut has five qualifiers headed by Juliana Yendork and Kimya Phillips.

Yendork has the top qualifying mark by far in both the long jump and triple jump. She set a Southern Section and 2-A record of 41-9 1/2 in the triple jump and a 2-A record of 19-8 in the long jump last week. She also qualified for the 200 meters in 25.13 seconds.

Phillips has qualified in the shot put and the discus, winning both in the 2-A finals. She posted marks of 39-1 1/4 in the shot and 134-2 in the discus.

Duarte will compete in four events. The Falcons will have Phetima Woods in the 100 meters and Jeanine Stewart in the 400 and also qualified its 400 and 1,600 relay teams.

Another top runner is Karen Hecox of South Hills in the 1,600 and 3,200 meters. Hecox easily won 2-A titles in both events last week and has the fastest qualifying mark in the 1,600. She posted times of 4:53.90 in the 1,600 and 10:45.89 in the 3,200.

In the boys division, the valley’s best hope for an individual title may be high jumper Mark Wilson of Charter Oak. The senior, who will attend UCLA, posted the top overall qualifying mark of 6-8 in the 4-A finals.

Other possible standouts are Rick Provenzano of Arcadia in 800 meters, Robert Nelson of Muir in 3,200 meters and Pasadena’s 1,600 relay team.

Senior catcher Chris Goldbach of Cal Poly Pomona, who led the California Collegiate Athletic Assn. in batting average and runs batted in, has been named the conference’s Most Valuable Player.

Goldbach carried a .387 average--including a .405 mark in conference games--with 53 RBI. He also posted the second longest hitting streak in Pomona history--30 games.

The Broncos placed four other players on the all-conference first team: senior shortstop Dave Hajek, junior outfielder Chris Butterfield, senior outfielder Brian Grier and senior utility player Dan Fouts.

Grier finished .0003 behind Goldbach in the conference batting race at .3869 to .3872, had 35 RBIs and closed the season with a 17-game hitting streak.

Butterfield batted .361 with a team-leading nine home runs. Hajek hit .354 with a team high of 56 runs scored and 16 stolen bases and Fouts batted .344.

The Broncos finished third in the CCAA at 17-13 and were 24-28 overall. Cal State L.A., which finished fifth in the conference and was 21-30 overall, added two players to the all-conference first team.

The Golden Eagles landed junior outfielder Rex De La Nuez and senior third baseman Brad Mengel. De La Nuez led the team with a .362 batting average and had nine home runs, 45 RBIs and 26 stolen bases. Mengel was the second-leading hitter at .347 and had three homers and 40 RBIs.

Second-team selections include pitchers Wayne Koklys of Pomona and Abdon Pinon of Cal State and second baseman Miccal Jackson of Pomona.

The University of La Verne, which won the conference baseball championship with a 15-3 record and was 20-20 overall, has placed four players on the All-Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference first team.

La Verne landed sophomore pitcher Paul Janssen, senior infielders Ron Hubel and Eric Smith and junior outfielder Alan MacLeod on the 13-player squad.

Hubel had an exceptional season. He tied for the SCIAC lead in home runs with 10, finished first in runs batted in with 49 and was third in batting average at .389.

MacLeod was also among conference leaders with a .362 batting average and nine home runs, and Smith led the SCIAC in stolen bases with 32. Janssen posted a 4-5 record and 4.03 earned-run average--sixth best in the conference--as a starting pitcher for the Leopards.

Claremont-Mudd-Scripps, which finished second in the conference at 14-4 and was 24-14 overall, added three players to the team: senior pitcher Scott Stallings, junior infielder Paul Urrutia and freshman designated hitter Marc Sherman.

Stallings led the conference in ERA at 2.48, wins with nine and complete games with eight. He finished with a 9-4 record.

Sherman and Urrutia finished among the conference hitting leaders. Sherman had a .363 batting average with 10 homers and 44 RBIs and Urrutia hit .364.

Other first-team selections include junior outfielder Greg Silver of Pomona-Pitzer and freshman pitcher Dave Stoll and junior infielder Tom Bonetto of Occidental.

Durelle Schimek of Cal Poly Pomona will be out to defend national titles in the heptathlon and javelin in the NCAA Division II track and field championships today through Sunday at Hampton, Va.

Schimek is among favorites in both events. The junior has posted season bests of 5,507 points in the heptathlon and 178-4 in the javelin. She will also compete in the high jump. Her top leap is 5-10.

Another Pomona athlete expected to contend for a title is senior Jon Eagleton, who finished fourth in the decathlon in the Division II national meet last year. Eagleton has a best of 6,925 points this season.