Valley Roundup : Ventura County Players Continue Torrid Scoring

They may be called the West team for the sake of uniformity, but make no mistake, players on the West squad in the men’s team handball competition at the U.S. Olympic Sports Festival are really Condors in disguise.

Or so it would seem.

Members of the Condors, a team handball club based in Ventura, continued their scoring onslaught Monday, accounting for 13 of the West’s goals in a 20-17 victory over the South.

Jeff Fruin of Camarillo became the third different Condor player to lead the West in scoring, tossing in six goals, including four in the last 12 minutes of the first half.

Kevin Withrow of Thousand Oaks, who scored seven times Sunday, added four more. Denny Fercho of Camarillo added three.

The West improved its record to 2-1. Condor players have now scored 39 of the West’s 58 goals.

SPEED-SKATING

Keith King of Studio City, making his third Festival appearance, was shut out in the individual competition, failing to reach the finals in all three of his events.

That left younger brother Charles, 19, in charge of upholding the family name.

He did not disappoint. Charles King won a silver medal in the men’s 1,000-meter race. His time of 1:41.81 was just off the pace set by John Coyle of West Bloomfield, Mich., who won the gold in 1:41.70.

King added another silver by skating the opening leg on the East’s 5,000-meter relay team. That gave him a medal total of three, including a gold--his first in two years of Festival competition--on Sunday in the men’s 1,500.

Keith King earned a bronze medal by racing the anchor leg for the South team in the 5,000 relay.

MEN’S BASKETBALL

For the third consecutive game, Don MacLean scored in double figures and for the first time his West team won, 86-84, over the North.

MacLean, a UCLA sophomore out of Simi Valley High, scored 11 points and grabbed seven rebounds in 18 minutes.

All of MacLean’s points, and all but one of his rebounds, came in 11 minutes of playing time in the first half.

The West, which will play for the bronze medal at 1 p.m. on Wednesday, trailed, 46-36, at the half, but rallied to deal the North its first loss.

Mitchell Butler, a UCLA freshman out of Oakwood School, had six rebounds and two steals but did not score in 20 minutes of action for the West. Teammate Adonis Jordan, a Kansas freshman out of Cleveland High, had two points and two assists in nine minutes.

FIELD HOCKEY

Mark Ruvalcaba scored what proved to be the game-winning goal as the South defeated the North, 5-2.

Ruvalcaba, from Thousand Oaks, scored on a penalty kick with 1:36 remaining in the first half.

Five different players scored for North, which improved its record to 1-0-1. John O’Neill of Newbury Park, Alvin Pagan of Simi Valley, Gurdeep Kooner of Long Beach and Sammy Hoang of Westlake Village also scored goals.

The West, which also consists predominately of Valley-area players, emerged with its second tie in two days, 2-2, against the East.

Larry Amar of Camarillo and Benjamin Maruquin scored for the West and goalkeeper Tom Vano of Simi Valley had six saves.

TABLE TENNIS

Carol Davidson of North Hollywood won four of six singles matches and teamed with Kerry Terrel of Richland, Wash., to win two of three doubles events as the West earned a bronze medal in the team competition.

Davidson had a perfect record in the West defeated the gold-medal winning South team in head-to-head competition.

WRESTLING

Gogi Parseghian of Glendale, the nephew of former Notre Dame football coach Ara Parseghian, beat 1988 Olympian Anthony Amado at 125.5 pounds to earn a spot on the U. S. team that will compete in the world championships next month in Switzerland.

“I wanted to represent the United States and finally I did it,’ said Parseghian, who couldn’t compete for the U. S. in Seoul because he did not have his citizenship. “I love this country. I’m proud I’m American now.”