Monte Vista Runner to Compete for CSUN

Karla Sanford, a middle-distance runner from Monte Vista High in Spring Valley, signed a national letter of intent Thursday to compete for Cal State Northridge’s women’s track and field team, Northridge Coach Don Strametz said.

Sanford, who has a best of 2 minutes 17.84 seconds in the 800 meters, qualified for the state high school meet in that event in June.

John McEnroe, a three-time Wimbledon and four-time U. S. Open tennis champion, will serve as host for the Love Match Celebrity tennis tournament at 9 a.m. Saturday at North Ranch Country Club in Westlake Village.

The tournament will also feature actors Jan-Michael Vincent, Christopher Atkins, Adrian Zmed, rock guitarist Alex Lifeson from the group “Rush” and Luc Robitaille and Steve Duchesne from the Los Angeles Kings.

Celebrities will team or play against 48 local players in the round-robin tournament. Proceeds from the tournament will benefit the United Cerebral Palsy/Spastic Children’s Foundation and its Westlake Village facility.

Information: (805) 527-7917.

The 14th Corinthian Classic Yacht Race will be held Aug. 3 at noon at Channel Islands Harbor.

The race, the last in a series of four major wooden-boat races on the West Coast this year, will feature nearly 40 sailboats designed before 1952.

Entries include: Los Amigos, a century-old schooner, owned by Gerry Burch of Ventura; Cheerio II, a 46-foot ketch, owned at one time by Errol Flynn; Volunteer, a 70-foot schooner owned by Steve Block of Oxnard and used in the television series “Quincy”; and Vignette II, a 1938 cutter skippered by Walter Rustakoff of Oxnard.

The boats will be on display for the public at the Pacific Corinthian Yacht Club in Oxnard the day of the race.

Information: (805) 985-7292.