Spring Valley’s Barrett Tied for County Open Lead

Bill Barrett of Spring Valley is one of four golfers tied for the lead after the first round of the Buie San Diego County Open at Torrey Pines South Golf Course Wednesday.

Barrett, Jeff Wilson of Vallejo, Kevin Sutherland of Sacramento and Mike Swartz of Phoenix shot 68. San Diego amateur Tom Wolvier shot a 70, and Carito Villaroman, also of San Diego, shot a 70. Defending champion Roger Gunn shot 72.

The second round will begin today at 6:45 a.m., and the tournament will conclude Friday.

Two San Diego players were eliminated in the first round of match play at the U.S. Women’s Amateur golf championship at Pinehurst, N.C.

Wendy Modic, the county amateur champion from Chula Vista, was defeated by Terri Thompson of Savannah, Ga., 1 up. Elizabeth Bowen of Bonita was beaten by Junior World champion Brandi Burton of Rialto, 7 and 6.

San Diego’s Pat Duncan was 11 strokes back at 150 and Vista’s Jerry Michals stood at 153 after two rounds of the 23rd Pacific Coast Golf Assn. Amateur Championship on the Lake Course of the Olympic Club in San Francisco.

John Abendroth of Burlingame leads at 71-68--139. Duncan followed an opening 76 with a 74 and Michals shot 78-75. Jack Spradlin of San Diego shot 79-76--155 and failed to make the cut.

TRACK AND FIELD

The San Diego State men’s and women’s track and field program will be reinstated if it can raise an additional $50,000 by Aug. 10, Athletic Director Fred Miller said at a news conference at SDSU.

Jim Cerveny, SDSU track and field coach, had originally established an Aug. 1 deadline to raise the $150,000 necessary to run the program for the 1989-90 season. So far, about $100,000 has been raised to help save the 68-year-old program, which has produced 17 Olympians and 27 All-Americans.

Walter Turner, a sprinter for the Aztecs in 1950s, is heading the fund-raising effort through a group called Friends of SDSU Track. The number to call is 594-5536.

“If we get close, if we get up to an area where we’re close, we have commitments from others who will underwrite the balance to help us reach that $150,000,” Turner said. “I wouldn’t have called this press conference if I didn’t feel we were going to reach our goal.”

Under the proposed $150,000 budget, adjusted from the $215,000 that was to have been budgeted by the athletic department, scholarships will be reduced from 10 (five each for men and women) to four--a savings estimated at $30,000.

Miller reaffirmed that existing grants-in-aid will be honored next year by the university regardless of the fate of the program, which was indefinitely suspended six weeks ago because of athletic department budget problems.

He also said that further efforts will be made to try to ensure the program’s existence beyond 1989-90. Miller is giving the track program 4,000 football tickets to sell, with 75% of the money going to track.

“My heart tells me we will work as hard as we can to reinstate and put the program on solid ground,” Miller said.