Sockers Sign Nogueira to a Two-Year Contract

Sockers goalkeeper Victor Nogueira has signed a two-year contract, Coach Ron Newman announced Tuesday.

Nogueira was the 1989 Major Indoor Soccer League goalkeeper of the year and finished second in the league with victories (19) and third in saves (400). He was acquired as a free agent from the Cleveland Force last October after hurting his Achilles tendon against the Sockers in March of 1988, an injury that put his career in jeopardy.

“I knew I’d be back,” Nogueira said. “It was just a matter of getting a team. Luckily, Ron (Newman) picked me up.”

Nogueira set a MISL record 2.86 goals-against average in 33 games this season. He was the backbone of the defensive unit that allowed the fewest goals in the league (168).

GOLF

San Diego’s Chris Riley is second after the opening round of the 42nd U.S. Golf Assn. Junior Amateur Championship at Singing Hills Golf and Country Club in El Cajon.

Riley shot a 34-35--69 on the par-72, 6,670 yard course. He is one stroke behind Chris Edgmon (33-35--68) of Edmond, Okla. Todd Demsey of Rancho Santa Fe shot a 75.

La Jolla’s Harry Rudolph took medalist honors at the 68th Broadmoor Men’s Invitational Tournament in Colorado Springs, Colo. Rudolph shot a 6-under 138 through two days of qualifying. His 69 Tuesday was the low score on the East Course.

Match play on the 7,218-yard Broadmoor East course begins today and ends Sunday.

Leta Lindley of Carlsbad finished eighth with a 148 in the qualifying rounds of the USGA Girls’ Junior Championship in Southern Pines, N.C. She advanced to today’s match play at Pine Needles Resort.

Rialto’s Brandie Burton, winner of the 15-17 girls’ Junior World title in La Jolla last week, took medalist honors with a record-low 138.

CYCLING

Kevin Peck of San Diego is third going into the quarterfinals of the men’s 4,000-meter individual pursuits at the U.S. Track Cycling Nationals at the Marymoor Velodrome in Redmond, Wash.

Tim Bengston of El Segundo (4:54.98) and Steve Hegg (4:56.37) of Dana Point, the 1984 Olympic gold medalist in the men’s individual pursuit, are first and second.

OLYMPIC FESTIVAL

Linda French of La Jolla won gold and bronze medals in women’s badminton competition at the U.S. Olympic Festival in Midwest City, Okla. French defeated Erika von Heiland of Anaheim, 11-6, 11-6, for a singles bronze, then teamed with Linda Safarik-Tong of Berkeley for a gold in doubles. French and Safarik-Tong defeated Traci Britton of Manhattan Beach and von Heiland, 17-16, 15-4.

In boxing, U.S. amateur champion Raul Marquez of Houston defeated San Diego’s Larry Dixon, 3-2, at 147 pounds. Marquez, 17, had previously defeated Dixon, 5-0, in the semifinals of the U.S. amateur championship.

Jeremy McGuire of Encinitas has been named to the U.S. Junior National Men’s Field Hockey team by the American Field Hockey Assn. The team will compete in the Junior World Cup in Malaysia following the Olympic Festival.

SAN DIEGO STATE

Former associate trainer Brian Barry has been named head athletic trainer at San Diego State. Barry had been interim head trainer since November, when former trainer Don Kaverman was appointed associate athletic director for student affairs.

Barry will oversee the Aztecs’ sports medicine administration and athletic training of the men’s basketball team.

WRESTLING

Steve Fraser, the first American to win an Olympic gold medal in Greco-Roman wrestling, will speak at Domino’s Pizza of San Diego quarterly awards banquet Thursday at 11:30 a.m. at the downtown Embassy Suites Hotel.

BASEBALL

The San Diego Gems finished in a three-way tie for second in the first 35-and Older World Series recently completed in Minneapolis. Eight teams participated in round-robin play.

Jim Martin of Carlsbad hit the only home run of the series, and Wayne Craw of El Cajon and Lynn Sparks of Pacific Beach were the Gems’ winning pitchers. The Gems (2-1) finished behind Wisconsin (3-0).