SportScope : Heat, Fighting for Lead, at Home Against Santa Barbara

The Los Angeles Heat of the Western Soccer League plays host to Real Santa Barbara in a South Division match Saturday night at 7 at West High School in Torrance. The Heat split its matches last week, dropping a 1-0 final at Portland before taking a 4-2 victory at California of Van Nuys. The Heat is in second place in the WSL South, a point behind the San Diego Nomads. San Diego defeated Real Santa Barbara, 2-0, May 26. L.A. announced that the time for its June 18 game with Seattle at West High has been changed from 4 to 5 p.m.

With the ESPN cablecasts of its Thunder Series completed at Ascot Park, the track will rely on some of its regular events in June. Motorcycles run tonight in the quarter-mile in the CMC Motocross at 7:30. In the Ascot South Bay Stadium tonight at 7 the feature is four-wheel-drive vehicles. Sprint cars of the CRA Series race Saturday night at 8. The 14th annual Antique Race Car and Old-Timers Night also will be run, with dozens of old racing automobiles displayed. The regular card of NASCAR pro stocks, bombers, figure 8s and hobby stocks returns Sunday night at 6. Stock cars take a break June 11 so the track can run an enduro race of 150 laps for foreign and domestic factory compacts.