Montreal Chooses Former Aztec Santos

Montreal on Monday chose former San Diego State quarterback Todd Santos in the third round of the World League of American Football quarterback draft.

The new league, which opens its season March 23, is conducting position-by-position drafts in preparation for training camps.

Santos, the 22nd quarterback chosen, played at SDSU from 1984 to 1987 and holds the record for NCAA career passing yardage with 11,425 yards.

Monty Gilbreath, who played for the Aztecs from 1986 to 1989, was chosen by New York in the fourth round for wide receivers.

HOCKEY

In a busy day for the Gulls, the International Hockey League club picked up former Albany Choppers Soren True, Bob Bodak and Joe Stefan. They also traded Taylor Hall to Kansas City for the rights to defenseman Mark Vichorek.

Left wing True and right wing Bodak are property of the New York Rangers and Stefan was a free agent. They became available when the Albany franchise folded Thursday and should be in uniform Wednesday when the Gulls host the Indianapolis Ice.

Vichorek, now playing for Nashville of the East Coast Hockey League, started the season with Kansas City. Last season, he played 29 games for Phoenix and 31 for Flint (Mich.)

Hall, one of the 11 Gulls originally signed in the fall, was released to make room for the new forwards. He scored 13 goals and had 16 assists in 44 games.

BASEBALL

Chad Boyd hit the game winning RBI with two out in the bottom of the ninth to give University of San Diego a 7-6 nonconference victory over San Jose State. Ed Scofield hit the only double for USD (5-5-1). San Jose State dropped to 4-6.

Greg Quam hit a two-run, two-out double in the second inning en route to San Diego State’s 6-4 victory over San Francisco State. Steve Boucher went two for two, scoring two runs and walking twice for SDSU (8-3). Aztec Rob Callaway struck out seven in his five innings on the mound. San Francisco State fell to 5-5.

WOMEN’S BASKETBALL

Cari Young scored 21 points and had 16 rebounds in UC San Diego’s 35-23 victory over visiting Claremont.

UCSD, which led, 35-23, at halftime, also got double-figure scoring from Bernadette Diepenbrock (13) and Kathleen Alvarez (11). Lisa Beaver was the second leading rebounder for UCSD (20-4) with 10.

Claremont (17-8) was led by Karen Marinco with 13 points and Carol Jung with 12.

WOMEN’S TENNIS

San Diego State broke a four-match losing streak to collect its first victory by defeating New Mexico, 8-1, in a Western Athletic Conference match at SDSU. At No. 1 singles, SDSU’s Dorey Brandt defeated Dina Birch, 6-2, 6-1. No. 3 Nichole Storto defeated Megan Pye, 6-0, 6-2 for SDSU (1-4, 1-0).

GYMNASTICS

Tierrasanta’s Wendy Ick of Aztec Gymnastics won the 11-under individual all-around of the International Junior Invitational in Reno, Nev., in which 36 teams from the United States and Canada competed.

Ick scored a 36.10 in the optional competition, and took a second on uneven bars and a third out of 55 gymnasts on floor exercise. Tori Denlinger of Alpine scored a 9.3 on the balance beam for first and was 10th all-around.

Aztec Gymnastics took fifth in team competition in the 14-under session.