USD Men’s Soccer Breaks Into Top 20

The USD men’s soccer team (6-0-4) has broken into Soccer America’s top 20 for the first time this season, at No. 17.

USD has tied three teams that were among the top 20 at the time: UCLA, Nevada-Las Vegas and Washington.

The Toreros are led by a core of former San Diego high school players, notably Paul Gelvezon (Mira Mesa), who has scored seven goals and assisted on three others, and Tom Tate (USDHS), a freshman goalie who has recorded five shutouts.

Santa Clara, a West Coast Conference rival of USD’s, is ranked No. 1.

SAILING

Beach Boys USA, a Newport, R.I., syndicate that is among the America’s Cup defender fleet, has added John Roncz, an aeronautical engineer, to its design team.

Roncz was a member of the Stars & Stripes team that designed the 1988 America’s Cup catamaran. More recently, he designed the airfoils and propellers on the round-the-world aircraft Voyager.

John Bertrand is to be the skipper of Beach Boys USA.