Riverside Receiver Lemanski to Play for CSUN

Todd Lemanski, a wide receiver from Riverside City College, has signed a letter of intent to play football for Cal State Northridge, the school announced Thursday.

Lemanski (6-foot-3, 202 pounds) was a standout two-way player at Yucaipa High, for which he made 44 receptions for 802 yards and 13 touchdowns as a senior in 1989. Lemanski also had five interceptions as a free safety.

Pierce College football players Bobby Kyman, Mike Parkes and Randy West have signed letters of intent with four-year schools, Coach Bill Norton said Thursday.

Kyman, a 6-6, 285-pound offensive tackle, signed with Weber State and Parkes, a 6-2, 235-pound inside linebacker, signed with Eastern Michigan.

West, a 6-5, 230-pound defensive lineman, signed with Missouri Western State College, an NCAA Division II school.

Norton said that offensive lineman Mike DiFonzo (6-4, 290) had made an oral commitment to Oregon and was expected to sign with the Ducks on Monday.

Quincy Watts of USC is ranked 10th in the world and sixth in the United States in the men’s 400 meters in Track & Field News magazine’s 1991 rankings.

Watts, winner of three state sprint titles at Taft High, placed second in the NCAA Division I championships as a junior last year and third in The Athletics Congress championships.

He ran a personal best of 44.98 seconds in the TAC meet to qualify for the U. S. team that competed in the World Championships in Tokyo. Although Watts withdrew from the 400 in Tokyo because he was recovering from a case of strep throat, he ran 400-meter legs of 43.9 and 43.4 for the United States’ 1,600-meter relay team in the heats and final, respectively.

The latter time--which helped the United States earn the silver medal behind Great Britain--is the third-fastest ever behind Maurice Peoples’ 43.1 and Ron Freeman’s 43.2.

Dave Stephens of the New York Athletic Club and Ron McKee of Taff’s Track Club, former standouts at Cal State Northridge, were ranked second and 10th in the United States, respectively, in the men’s javelin and shotput.

Stephens threw a personal best of 275 feet 2 inches in the javelin, and McKee had a season best of 60-0 in the shotput.

Hart High has filled its football schedule for next fall but Canyon still needs to schedule two games. The Santa Clarita Valley rivals recently became members of the newly aligned Foothill League, a move that played havoc with each team’s schedule.

Traditionally, the teams had kicked off the season with a nonleague matchup, but that game has been moved to the final week of the regular season next fall as part of the Foothill schedule. In addition, the new league contains only five schools, forcing league members to arrange a nonleague game for a bye week in the second half of the season.

Hart will open with nonleague games against Pasadena, Thousand Oaks, Westlake, Alemany and Quartz Hill. In week seven, during its Foothill bye week, the Indians will play Lompoc.

Canyon has scheduled nonleague games against Crespi, Thousand Oaks, Quartz Hill and Alemany but has yet to find opponents for its opener or week nine. Coach Harry Welch can accept an open date the week before the Hart game but views a second bye week as intolerable.

Welch said he is open to scheduling City Section teams and has extended invitations to San Fernando and Poly.

San Fernando Coach Tom Hernandez has expressed interest, saying that he is willing to work out a deal with Welch even though it means adjusting his schedule. San Fernando has a bye next season in week two.

The newly formed Ventura County Soccer League, comprising more than 1,200 players and 60 teams from Ventura County, will hold its inauguration-day ceremonies at Del Sol park in Oxnard on Sunday.

Two matches, at 9 a.m. and 11 a.m., will kick off the festivities. Ceremonies, including a parade of the teams, will be held at 1 p.m.