SPORTSCOPE : UCLA Crews in Final Meet

The UCLA men’s and women’s crews will make their last appearances in varsity sports at the National Collegiate Rowing Championships on Friday and Saturday at East Fork Lake in Cincinnati.

The women will compete in a qualifying heat on Friday, with a final on Saturday, and the men will row only in a final on Saturday.

UCLA eliminated crew as an intercollegiate sport this spring because of a $3-million deficit in the athletic department budget.

The Bruin women, who have won the past two Pacific Coast championships under Coach Kelly Salonites, are among the favorites in this year’s nationals. UCLA has lost once this year, in the San Diego regatta to Boston University, and won the Potomac International Regatta in April.

Last year the Bruins were fourth at the nationals. The UCLA men, making their fifth consecutive appearance in the nationals under Coach Zenon Babraj, are coming off a second-place finish to Washington in the Pacific Coast championship. The Bruins, who won three consecutive Pacific Coast titles from 1987-89, finished third at last year’s nationals.

The seventh annual Pacific Rim Invitational Table Tennis Tournament, featuring world-ranked players from several nations, will be held Friday through Sunday at the Santa Monica College Pavilion.

About 500 players from Taiwan, the People’s Republic of China, Japan, the Philippines, Europe and the United States are expected to compete. Among the top U.S. players are Wang Way of Pasadena, Artila Malek of Orange County and Julie On and Khoa Nguyen of San Francisco.

Youths include sisters Jeanie and Wan-Ling Cheng of Rancho Palos Verdes. Jeanie, 8, is ranked eighth in the nation among players younger than 14, and Wan-Ling, 14, is No. 3 for those 16 and younger.

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The UCLA men’s golf team is competing through Saturday in the NCAA championships at Poppy Hills Golf Course in Pebble Beach, Calif.

At last week’s NCAA regional in Albuquerque, N.M., the Bruins finished in a three-way tie for third with Stanford and Nevada Las Vegas.

Induction ceremonies for the Culver City High Athletic Hall of Fame will be held at 6 p.m. Friday at the school’s Robert Frost Auditorium. A dinner will follow at 7:30. Dinner is $15.

UCLA players named to the All-NCAA Softball Tournament team were pitcher Heather Compton, third baseman Lisa Fernandez, catcher Kerry Dienelt and outfielders Yvonne Gutierrez and Lorraine Maynez.

The Bruins, who had won three consecutive NCAA titles under Coach Sharron Backus, lost in this year’s final to Arizona, 5-1.

Pepperdine sophomore second baseman Steve Rodriguez was named a first-team All-American by Baseball America.

Wave sophomore pitcher Steve Montgomery was selected to Collegiate Baseball’s All-American second team and Rodriguez was a third-team selection.

The All-District VIII first team, selected by the American Baseball Coaches Assn., included Rodriguez, Montgomery and Pepperdine junior pitcher Patrick Ahearne. Wave sophomore pitcher Steve Duda made the second team.

UCLA outfielder Joel Wolfe was named to the All-Pacific 10 Conference first team. He batted .345 with six home runs and 47 runs batted in and led the conference with 35 stolen bases.

Scott Bull was appointed co-coach with Valorie Kondos of the UCLA women’s gymnastics team.

Bull, 33, was an assistant in 1990-91 to Kondos, who was in her first season as coach.

A team from Mar Vista that represented South America won the 19th annual Mayor’s Cup soccer tournament sponsored by the Los Angeles City Recreation and Parks Department.