All Torero Games to be Broadcast

USD and KSDO radio announced that the AM station will air all Toreros basketball games during the upcoming season.

The 27 regular-season games will be carried live. The station will also broadcast the West Coast Conference post-season tournament.

Ron Reina, KSDO sports director, will call the action.

INDOOR SOCCER

The Kansas City Comets folded Tuesday, leaving the Major Soccer League with eight clubs for the coming season.

The Comets ownership group set last Saturday as the deadline for finding two new investors but extended it to Monday. On that day, John Wempe, a Kansas City-area business leader, committed $210,000 over three years. But the addition still left the Comets 10% shy of completing the ownership group.

The Comets’ attendance has averaged nearly 12,000 over the last nine years, but last season the average dropped to 7,103.

CREW

Tom Hartley of San Diego for the second consecutive year was named to row for the U.S. national team. Hartley, who last year was a member of the lightweight four crew at the World Championships, was named to the lightweight eight crew for the 1991 World Championships, which will be in Vienna August 18-25.

BASKETBALL

The San Diego Police Athletic League girls’ under-12 team slipped to the losers’ bracket at the National Junior Olympics in Cincinnati by suffering a 47-28 defeat to Potomac Valley of Maryland. Richelle Perkins of Chula Vista 14 points, all in the second half, for San Diego.

HOCKEY

Mike O’Connell, the Gulls’ rookie coach last season, was named by the NHL Boston Bruins as an assistant coach. O’Connell, 35, guided the International Hockey League Gulls to a 30-45-8 record, fifth in the league.

TRACK AND FIELD

Dennis McClanahan, who has guided the boys’ and girls’ track and field programs at Mt. Carmel High School since 1978, has resigned his position as coach of the boys’ team.

McClanahan, also head of the boys’ and girls’ cross country programs, said there were a number of things that went into his decision, including time management.

“You’re a teacher first, a coach second, but a lot of times coaching takes as much time as the teaching,” McClanahan said. “If you can’t keep up, it’s better to do something so that the kids are taken care of.”

Instead of coaching 10 teams in the course of the year, he will instead coach seven: two levels of girls’ cross country and track teams and three boys’ cross country teams.

His girls’ track teams have won back-to-back section titles and also won in 1982. His girls’ cross country teams won section titles in 1977, ‘78, ‘80, ‘82, ’89 and ’90.