CSUN Seeks Extra Year for DeVaughn

For weeks Cal State Northridge football coaches have been under the impression they were losing their top three tailbacks--seniors Albert Fann, Victor DeVaughn and Oscar Pittman.

According to DeVaughn, they were wrong. He says he was a member of the Eastern Utah football team in 1986, but that he didn’t play. After sitting out a season, he spent the 1988 and ’89 seasons at Grossmont College before transferring to CSUN.

Northridge will need to document DeVaughn’s claim before granting him another season of eligibility. Larry Severied, a former assistant coach at Eastern Utah, says he remembers DeVaughn playing some, but perhaps not enough for it to count as anything but a redshirt year. Eastern Utah dropped football after the 1987 season.

As Fann’s understudy, DeVaughn (6-foot, 210 pounds) carried 34 times for 246 yards and two touchdowns.

The West Valley Eagles bantam (9- and 10-year-old) girls’ team won its division at The Athletics Congress National Junior Olympics cross-country championships at Tranquility Park in Omaha, Neb., on Saturday.

The Eagles totaled 40 points, 20 ahead of the runner-up team from Reno. West Valley was led by Brandi Plasschaert, who finished second with a time of 12 minutes 33 seconds over the two-mile course.

The Burbank Bandits will play the West Los Angeles Falcons on Sunday for the championship of the High Desert Football League.

The game is scheduled for 1 p.m. at Caltech in Pasadena.

The Bandits advanced to the championship game last Sunday with a 30-14 victory over the Antelope Valley Crusaders.

The Falcons have won the league title three of the past four years.