College Notebook / Jim Lindgren : Nater Tunes In to Fund Raising to Benefit Christian Heritage

Swen Nater, the former UCLA and San Diego Clippers center, has ventured into the music business, in part to help raise money for Christian Heritage College, where he is athletic director and men’s basketball coach.

“He sings in church or at various banquets,” said Marlene Nater, his wife, “and people kept asking him when he was going to make a tape.”

They will not have to ask anymore. For $5, they can pick up a copy of “I’d Rather Have Jesus,” featuring such songs as “Amazing Grace,” “How Great Thou Art” and “Old Rugged Cross” performed by Nater, the 1979-80 NBA rebounding champion. Pianist Joyce Tepfer accompanies Nater’s deep baritone voice.

“I may be 6-11, but it’s funny, I can’t hit the high notes,” said Nater, who will donate all proceeds from the album to the Christian Heritage athletic department.

Nater has always been musically inclined. At Long Beach Wilson High, he played the violin in the school orchestra.

Marta Andrade, a 5-foot-4 freshman setter for Southwestern College, said she was in a serving rut before Friday’s volleyball match with Scottsdale, Ariz. But in the first game, Andrade served and won all 15 points in a 15-0, 10-15, 15-8, 9-15, 15-7, nonconference victory.

“She’s been saying her serve was off. But it’s back,” Southwestern Coach Karen Day-Cravens said.

Andrade, who was the Metro Conference player of the year at Mar Vista High in 1988, has helped Southwestern (5-0) to a No. 13 ranking in the California Community College poll. Grossmont College is ranked fourth, Mesa College is 15th.

In his first two games at Palomar College, Scott Barrick, the former San Diego State and Fallbrook High quarterback, averaged 56 attempts, 29 completions and 313 yards. But the Comets lost both games by a combined score of 42-23.

Saturday against traditional power Saddleback, a team Palomar hadn’t defeated in 18 years, Barrick had only 21 attempts, 11 completions and 107 yards. And Palomar (1-2) won, 23-12.

Saddleback, which was 8-3 last year, is winless in 1989 with losses to Grossmont (1-2) and Mesa (2-1).

Duffy Daugherty, a former Palomar and Fallbrook quarterback, received his first starting assignment Saturday at Idaho State.

Daugherty responded by leading the Bengals to a 23-21 victory over Montana State, completing 27 of 48 passes for 243 yards and a touchdown. Daugherty, who also attended Fallbrook High, also ran for a touchdown. For the year, he has completed 54% of his passes for 440 yards.

He also is averaging 42 yards as the Bengals’ punter, which places him fourth in the NCAA Division I-AA and second in the Big Sky Conference. Idaho State is 2-2 after a 13-game losing streak was broken this year.

A pair of former Crawford High graduates now running for Point Loma Nazarene’s cross-county team had memorable days in Saturday’s Riverside Invitational.

Goshu Tadese won the men’s 5-mile race with a time of 24 minutes 17 seconds, PLNC finished first in the 10-school college division and third overall, which included 11 Division I programs.

Shannon Anderson finished second in the women’s 3.1-mile race in 20:30. Anderson, a senior, is competing in cross-country for the first time after lettering four years in basketball, two years in tennis and a year in track and field.

Anderson, a 5-foot-9 guard, was an NAIA District III selection the past two years in basketball. In her junior year, she was the Crusaders’ most valuable player, averaging 15.4 points per game.

PLNC, the men’s and women’s defending Golden State Athletic Conference cross-country champions, plays host to the GSAC meet Oct. 14 at Morley Field.

The UC San Diego women’s soccer team, ranked No. 2 in the NCAA Division III, has outscored opponents, 42-0, in eight victories. Goalie Julie Friess has tended 41 career shutouts, a school record.

The men’s team at UCSD has been hit by a string of injuries and tough games of late. After beginning 5-0-1, the Tritons have lost three (to No. 2 UCLA, USD and The Master’s) and tied in another (to UC Irvine).