UCSD Scores 3 Late to Split with Cal State Dominguez Hills

UC San Diego scored three the hard way in a 3-0, eight-inning softball victory at Cal State Dominguez Hills on Wednesday.

The victory gave UCSD (6-4) a split of their nonconference doubleheader. Dominguez Hills (5-6) won the first game, 4-3.

UCSD’s Diana Moreno (3-2) scattered eight hits to earn the victory. Moreno didn’t strike out a batter, but her teammates rewarded her with flawless fielding after committing five errors in the first game.

In the decisive eighth, Lisa Mora singled and scored after three successive fielder’s choices, each time the CSDH defense trying to force her out as she advanced to the next base.

Melissa Mazanent squeezed home Kerri Carter, and Lisa Gill’s fielder’s choice scored Faith Frank.

UCSD was outhit in the game, 8-4.

In the first game, Teri Zuniga went three for three and Sara Vaplon had two hits.

BASEBALL

San Diego Cable Sports Network announced its 50-game Padres pay-per-view package, which begins with the Padres home opener April 9 against the Dodgers.

This package is available to customers of Cox Cable (Channel 22), Southwestern Cable (Channel 1), Dimension Cable Services (Channel 35), Daniels Cablevision (Channel 99), Jones Intercable (Channel 25) and American Cablevision of Coronado (Channel 46).

Total cost of the package is $187.50, or $3.75 a game. Individual games may be purchased for $7.95.

In the bottom of the 10th inning, UC San Diego came up with a game-saving defensive play at third, but eventually had to settle for the 2-2 tie against host Southern Cal College in a nonconference game that went 12 innings.

Brent Hansen struck out nine, walked four and gave up one hit through eight innings for UCSD (6-0-1). Marcos Magdaleno gathered three hits, including a double, and scored a run for the Tritons. Teammate Steve Wrenn was two for four. David Valdez drove in the tying run in the ninth.

Southern Cal College dropped to 2-4-1.

Craig Van Hulzen surrendered only four hits over eight innings, and Dave Swearingen homered to lift Point Loma Nazarene College to a 5-2 NAIA District 3 victory over Biola.

Van Hulzen (1-3) struck out six. Justin Knox pitched the ninth for his first save.

Swearingen’s homer came in the fourth inning, but it was a three-run uprising in the first inning that did the most damage. Miguel Abascal and Jack Campbell delivered key doubles in the rally.

FOOTBALL

Former Charger Mark May, a Plan B free agent, has signed with the Phoenix Cardinals. May was an offensive lineman in nine games with the Chargers last year and played for the Washington Redskins for 10 years.

May, 32, rejoins Cardinals Coach Joe Bugel, who coached Washington’s offense from 1981 to 1989. He was a member of three Super Bowl teams and made the Pro Bowl in 1988.

Poway’s Richard Howard, vice president of Sanwa Bank of California and a member of the Holiday Bowl Committee since 1981, has been named president of this year’s Holiday Bowl. Howard, who has served the bowl’s treasurer, succeeds O. Morris Sievert.

Other bowl officers are: Steve Horrell, president-elect; Bob Myers and Richard Circuit, vice presidents; Vince Benstead, treasurer; and Jim Sterrett, secretary.

The 1991 bowl drew 60,646, its fourth-largest showing. Sievert announced the 1992 bowl game will be Dec. 30.

THOROUGHBRED RACING

Rollin W. Baugh of Rancho Santa Fe has been named to the Del Mar Thoroughbred Club Board of Directors. Baugh, a bloodstock specialist, is the 10th member of the club. He is a USC graduate, and on the California Thoroughbred Breeders’ Assn.