Holiday Bowl Payoffs Top $1 Million

Penn State and Brigham Young each received a record $1,009,038 for participating in the 1989 Sea World Holiday Bowl, game officials announced Wednesday.

The previous high had been $907,613 for the 1988 game between Oklahoma State and Wyoming.

Penn State defeated BYU, 55-39, as 15 game records were set.

HALL OF FAME

Two Point Loma Nazarene College coaches have been selected for induction into NAIA halls of fame for their sports.

Selected were Jim Crakes, in his 30th year of coaching track and field and his 17th at PLNC, and Carroll Land, who also has coached 30 years, all for the Crusaders.

Crakes, currently on sabbatical in Europe, has had both a men’s and women’s NAIA District III team champion plus seven runners-up in each while at PLNC, coaching 42 All-Americans.

Land is one of only 17 active NAIA coaches who has won more than 500 games. He pitched for Pasadena College (PLNC’s predecessor) in the mid-1950s, became coach of the Crusaders in his senior year and has remained ever since. He was named District III coach of the year in 1982 and 1986. In ‘86, he took PLNC to the NAIA regional finals, where it fell just a game short of the NAIA World Series.

BASEBALL

Chris Gunnett, a freshman left-hander from Ramona High, threw a four-hit shutout in his college debut as Point Loma Nazarene defeated UC San Diego, 4-0, in Point Loma. Gunnett struck out two and walked three.

Designated hitter Mark Ratekin hit a two-run homer and a single, and catcher Dave Swearingin was three for four for the Crusaders (5-4-1). UCSD fell to 4-6.

U.S. International rallied for seven runs in the fifth inning to down Azusa Pacific, 15-7, in Azusa. Geoff Martinez was four for five with a home run and three runs batted in for the Gulls (5-9-1).

Jeff Matranga (2-1) went the distance for the victory allowing three earned runs and striking out eight. Azusa Pacific fell to 5-7.

MEN’S VOLLEYBALL

UC San Diego served for the match 11 times in the fourth game against UC Irvine but could not score the final point and went on to lose 10-15, 13-15, 15-2, 17-15, 15-13 in a nonconference match at La Jolla.

The Tritons (0-11) led, 14-2, in the fourth game but could not put the game and match away, losing 17-15.

Steve Florentine had 19 kills for No. 18 UC Irvine (3-8). Bryan Palmer had 25 kills and Nate Brown added 20 for UCSD.

San Diego State overcame 35 kills by Penn State’s Guillo Silva and defeated the visiting Nittany Lions, 15-11, 11-15, 17-15, 16-14 in a nonconference match.

Douglas Potter had 22 kills and Mike Mattarocci added 29 for the eighth-ranked Aztecs (10-7).

SOFTBALL

Nevada Las Vegas swept a Big West Conference doubleheader from San Diego State, 3-0 and 2-1, at SDSU. The Aztecs fell to 0-6, 0-2.