Nomads Must Win Tonight to Have Chance of Making Playoffs

The San Diego Nomads (8-11, 66 points) go into their final regular-season game tonight at 7:30 against Real Santa Barbara (9-9, 75 points) with faint hopes of making the Western Soccer League playoffs.

To enter the postseason, the Nomads, in fourth place in the South Division, must win tonight’s game by shutout and score three goals, or they must win by a score other than a shutout and hope the Los Angeles Heat (9-9, 70 points) loses to the New Mexico Chiles.

The top three teams in each division make the playoffs.

The first 2,000 people through the gates at Southwestern College’s Devore Stadium will receive a team photo.

Rod Castro signed a one-year contract with the Sockers, becoming the fifth player under contract from last season’s championship team.

Castro, the Sockers’ fourth-leading scorer with 22 goals and nine assists in 1989-90, joins Branko Segota, Victor Nogueira, Paul Wright and Kevin Crow returning next season. The Tacoma Stars had made Castro an offer, but the Sockers chose to match it under the terms of the MSL’s new collective bargaining agreement.

GOLF

Todd Demsey of Rancho Santa Fe finished second in the Ben Hogan Junior Boys Championship, sponsored by the American Junior Golf Assn. at the Las Colinas Sports Club in Irving, Tex.

Demsey, who shot a final-round 72, finished with a four-round 285, one stroke behind winner Lee McEntee of Doylestown, Pa.