SPORTSCOPE : UCLA Women’s Volleyball Team to Compete in Hawaii

The top-ranked UCLA women’s volleyball team, 3-0 after opening the season by winning the Volleyball Monthly Invitational Tournament in Wisconsin, will compete this weekend in the American Airlines Tournament in Hawaii. The Bruins will face No. 2 Nebraska today on Maui and meet No. 7 Ohio State on Friday and No. 3 Hawaii on Saturday on Oahu.

In last week’s tournament, UCLA defeated Duke in four games, No. 19 Pittsburgh in five and No. 20 Wisconsin in four. Bruin sophomore hitter Natalie Williams was named the tournament’s most valuable player and UCLA junior hitter Jenny Evans was named to the all-tournament team.

The second-ranked UCLA men’s soccer team, which raised its record to 3-0 by winning the Nevada Las Vegas tournament last weekend, will play host to Cal State Dominguez Hills on Sunday at 2 p.m. at the North Soccer Field on campus. On Wednesday, it will play Westmont at 8 p.m. at El Camino College.

At Las Vegas, the Bruins defeated No. 7 Indiana and Old Dominion by 3-0 scores. UCLA sophomore Chris Henderson was named the tournament’s outstanding offensive player, and freshman goalkeeper Brad Friedel had two shutouts.

The Pepperdine water polo team will open its season by playing host to the Wasko Tournament this weekend at Raleigh Runnels Memorial Pool on campus. Other teams in the field are UCLA, UC Santa Barbara and the Harvard and Tiger clubs. Matches will be on Friday from noon to 6 p.m. and on Saturday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

The only returning Wave starters are All-American two-meter man Geoffrey Clark, a junior who led the team in scoring last year with 90 goals, and junior goalkeeper Wells Guthrie. Other veterans include seniors Chris Hakim and Erik Wood and juniors Blair Bishop. Newcomers include community college transfers Steve Long and Henry Rabello and freshmen Devin Hurst and Zachary Holder.

Last year the Waves finished 24-8 and a No. 4 ranking after losing, 10-9, to California in the semifinals of the NCAA tournament. Pepperdine tied Cal State Long Beach and UC Irvine for the championship of the Big West Conference.

Brian Rofer has been hired as an assistant men’s volleyball coach at UCLA and Jim McMillan as an assistant water polo coach at Pepperdine.

Rofer, a former Bruin player, has been coach at Edison High of Huntington Beach. McMillan, who played water polo for the Waves, has been the coach at Loyola Marymount for the past four years.

Debbie Furman, who worked as an athletic trainer at Harvard and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, has been hired as an assistant trainer at Pepperdine.

The Rancho Park Junior Golf Club, led by Andy Huang’s final-round 74, won its second consecutive city title. Team scores were Rancho, 1,721; Griffith Park, 1,755; Hansen Dam, 1,762, and Sepulveda, 1,973.

Bernie Heddon shot a 38 for nine holes to win the A flight in the August Penmar Men’s Golf Club tournament. Other flight winners and gross scores: Fred Rassey, B, 37; Bert Gold, C, 37; Bob Koller, D, 42 and Bill Perkiss, temporary handicaps, 39.

Holes in one were scored at Penmar Golf Course by George Boulanger Baker of Culver City, Al Monk of Pacific Palisades and Norman Kramer of Woodland Hills.