14 Area Wrestling Champions Will Compete in Masters Meet Saturday

Fourteen Southern Section wrestling champions from San Gabriel Valley-area schools will participate in the Masters meet Saturday at Fountain Valley High.

Carlos Castellanos of Mountain View (140 pounds), Mike Kawamura of Rosemead (103) and Daniel Maes of Arroyo (135) won 4-A division titles.

Jeremiah Miller of South Hills (171), Art Suarez of Covina (189) and Alex Badillo of Northview (130) won 3-A championships.

Gene Riestra (125) and Mark Moreno (152) of Baldwin Park, Bob Bellamy of Damien (112) and Troy Gideon of Bishop Amat (171) won 2-A titles.

Tam Nihei of San Dimas (103), Eddie Rodriguez of Sierra Vista (125), Linwood Wells of Ganesha (160) and Phouthsony Laungkhot of Garey (140) won 1-A championships.

Setting the pace: Three Cal State Los Angeles athletes qualified for the NCAA Track and Field Indoor Championships in March with their performances at last weekend’s Skydome Invitational at Northern Arizona.

Bryan Bridgewater qualified in the 400 meters with a time of 47.44 seconds.

Christy Opara qualified by winning the women’s 55-meter event in a meet-record 6.73 seconds, the fastest Division II time this year.

Brandi Gail, who graduated from Rowland High, qualified in the shotput with a distance of 48 feet 7 1/4 inches.

Barcelona bound: David Kiley of San Dimas and Curtis Bell of La Puente have been selected to play for the United States men’s wheelchair basketball team at the 1992 Summer Paralympic Games in Barcelona, Spain.

Kiley, who played for the U.S. team in 1976, 1980 and 1988, is considered one of the best wheelchair basketball players in the world. Bell will be making his second Paralympic appearance.

Back on the job: Jim Brownfield, who guided the Muir High football team to seven league championships and nine playoff appearances between 1977-86, has returned to his position as coach after a five-year hiatus.

Brownfield, 63, will replace Mike Morris, who coached only one season. Morris, the Mustangs’ fifth coach since 1986, resigned in January after Muir finished 8-5 and reached the semifinals of the Division II playoffs.

Brownfield also is the school’s girls’ track coach and has led the Mustangs to two state titles.

Tournament time: The Cal Poly Pomona women’s basketball team will play host to Chapman tonight in the first round of the four-team California Collegiate Athletic Assn. postseason tournament.

Pomona, ranked 15th in NCAA Division II, concluded the regular season with a record of 21-5 overall. The Broncos won their 11th consecutive conference championship by finishing 12-0.

Top-seeded Pomona meets fourth-seeded Chapman (12-14, 6-6) at 8:05 p.m., following the game between No. 2 Cal State Dominguez Hills (17-10, 9-3) and No. 3 Cal Poly San Luis Obispo (15-11, 6-6).

The championship game will be played Friday night with the winner receiving the conference’s automatic bid to the playoffs.

Point of contention: The Cal Poly Pomona men’s team is still on the bubble in terms of postseason play.

The Broncos fell to 14-12 overall and 6-7 in the CCAA last weekend with an 85-74 loss at San Luis Obispo and a 78-59 loss at Cal State Bakersfield.

UC Riverside, Bakersfield and Dominguez Hills have clinched spots in the four-team CCAA postseason tournament. Pomona is tied with Cal State San Bernardino and San Luis Obispo for fourth place.

Pomona plays Cal State Los Angeles in the conference finale Saturday night. A Bronco victory, combined with a Chapman victory over Dominguez Hills, would propel Pomona into third place and drop Dominguez Hills to fourth.

The Broncos can also gain a bid to the tournament if San Bernardino loses to Riverside and San Luis Obispo loses to Bakersfield. Pomona will advance based on its record in head-to-head competition.

Pomona will advance for the same reason if the Broncos, San Bernardino and San Luis Obispo all win.

If Pomona and San Luis Obispo win, a coin toss will determine the fourth seed.

Conference opener: The Cal Poly Pomona baseball team opens defense of its CCAA championship Friday when the Broncos play host to San Bernardino Friday at Scolinos Field.

The Broncos, under first-year Coach Chuck Belk, entered the week with a 3-7 record and were ranked 28th in Division II by Collegiate Baseball magazine.

Steve Keelin is batting .444 for the Broncos.

Cal State Los Angeles (6-8) opens CCAA play today by playing host to Dominguez Hills.

Keeping tabs: Kevin Kloek, a Cal State Northridge pitcher who played at Citrus College last season, was named Mizuno National co-player of the week for his performances in victories over USC and San Jose State.

Kloek, a junior, earned a 9-2 complete-game win against USC and pitched a 3-0 shutout against San Jose State in his first two starts. Kloek had 23 strikeouts, gave up 11 hits and issued only one walk in 18 innings.

Armando Delsi, a pitcher for UC Santa Barbara who played at Wilson High and Citrus, is 3-0 with a 2.78 earned-run average.

Scholarly search: The California Interscholastic Federation and Reebok will award $2,000 scholarships to the girl and boy who are selected scholar athletes of the year.

Applications for the awards are available at high school counseling offices. Each school can nominate two athletes.

The application deadline is April 3, and judging will be completed May 11. The awards will be presented June 6 at the state track meet in Cerritos.

Information: (714) 521-5711.

Tennis Lesson: Nicole Hummel missed class at San Marino High Monday but still had a learning experience.

The Southern Section singles champion lost a first-round match in the $350,000 Matrix Essentials Evert Cup to Alexia Dechaume of France, 6-3, 6-1.

“It’s a lot different style of play (than the juniors),” Hummel said. “Even watching, you learn.”

The Indian Wells tournament was Hummel’s second professional event in as many weeks. She lost to Maureen Drake of Canada in a first-round match of the Virginia Slims of Oklahoma City last week.

Hummel, 17, is uncertain about her immediate and long-term plans. She wants to play in more professional tournaments and is leaning toward taking a year after graduating in June to play the professional circuit as an amateur.

Staff Writer Steven Herbert contributed to this notebook.