WBC Bantamweight Title On Line Monday at Forum

Victor Rabanales and Yonghoon Lee will fight for the vacant World Boxing Council bantamweight title Monday night at the Forum.

Rabanales (29-10-2, 17 knockouts) is the WBC’s No. 1 contender. Lee, ranked No. 2, is 20-0 with 17 KOs.

It will be Rabanales’ first fight at the Forum since he lost a 12-round split decision to then-WBC 118-pound title-holder Greg Richardson on May 20.

In a co-feature, Armando Castro and Esteban Ayala will fight for $65,000 in the final of the Budweiser super flyweight tournament.

Castro is 33-10-1 with 27 KOs and Ayala is 15-4-1 with 13 KOs. The loser earns $10,000.

The card begins at 7 p.m.

The Cal State Dominguez Hills baseball team will meet The Master’s College in a home-and-home nonconference series today and Saturday.

The teams will play at 2:30 p.m. today in Newhall and at 1 p.m. Saturday in Carson.

Dominguez Hills, which has won three consecutive games, is 12-11-1 overall and ranked 11th in NCAA Division II. The Master’s is 8-14 after finishing second in the National Assn. of Intercollegiate Athletics District 3 playoffs last season.

The Toros, who have a team batting average of .273, have been led by senior outfielder Ernie Soto. His is batting .375 with 13 runs batted in. The team’s RBI leader is junior catcher Shawn Wickoff, who has 16. Wickoff is batting .316.

Junior starter Tom Ball is 5-2 with a 2.06 earned-run average and sophomore reliever Juan Soriano is 0-1 with a save and an 0.96 ERA.

The Toros, who are in second place in the California Collegiate Athletic Assn. at 5-3, will play host to Cal Poly Pomona at 2:30 p.m. Tuesday in a league game. Dominguez Hills also opens an important three-game series with CCAA leader UC Riverside at 3 p.m. April 2 in Carson.

Many of the top graduating high school seniors will compete in the 1992 South Bay All-Star Soccer Classic on Saturday night at South Torrance High.

The format will match players from the Ocean and Pioneer leagues against the Bay League and Bishop Montgomery and Chadwick highs. The girls’ game is at 6 p.m. and the boys play at 8.

Pioneer League rivals South Torrance and Torrance each placed four players on the Ocean and Pioneer boys’ squad, which will be coached by South’s Jeff Tuttle. South placed defenders Tommy Girvin and Corey King, midfielder Bryan Kakimoto and forward Ben Thacker on the team, and Torrance has goalkeeper Sean MacMaster, defenders Armando Guana and Garrick Miyake and forward Chris Laurens on the squad.

The Bay League and Bishop Montgomery and Chadwick high team will be coached by Chadwick’s Johnny Marmelstein. Four players from Peninsula are on that team: goalkeeper Nick Capozzola, defender Luther Lundy and forwards Keith Marcus and Dave Kaemmerer.

The Ocean and Pioneer girls’ all-stars include four players from two-time defending Southern Section 3-A Division champion Torrance, including midfielder Jessica Reifer. The team will be coached by Torrance’s John Jackson, who guided the Tartars to a 3-2 victory over Arcadia in the 3-A final in early March.

The Bay League and Bishop Montgomery and Chadwick high team has five players from Bay League champion Peninsula, including goalkeeper Michelle Garland. The team will be coached by Ann Vasey, a former Palos Verdes High and UC Berkeley player.

The Loyola Marymount women’s tennis team, which has won three of its past four matches, will compete in the first Cal State Fullerton classic today through Sunday in Fullerton.

The Lions (4-9) play Drake at 1 p.m. today in their tournament opener. The winner of the match will play the winner of today’s Colorado-Cal State Northridge match in the semifinals at 1 p.m. Saturday. The title match is at 1 p.m. Sunday.

The eight-team tournament also includes Sacramento State, Oregon, Texas-El Paso and Fullerton.

Loyola Marymount will also play at Cal State Long Beach in a nonconference match at 1:30 p.m. Tuesday.

The Loyola Marymount men’s volleyball team will play host to UC Santa Barbara in a Western Intercollegiate Volleyball Assn. match at 7:30 tonight at Gersten Pavilion.

Loyola Marymount (3-21, 0-13 in the WIVA) is ranked 18th in the NCAA. Santa Barbara (8-10, 5-5) is ranked seventh.

Youth basketball teams from Harbor City and Wilmington will compete in the annual Harbor Area Basketball Tournament that starts today at the Wilmington Boys and Girls Club.

Games will be played from 5-9 p.m. today and April 3 and from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday and April 4.

Information: Sharon Nixon or Janice Garcia at (310) 326-2119.

Baseball, football, basketball and hockey cards and other sports memorabilia will be featured at a sports collectors’ show from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. April 4 at the Community Center Gymnasium in Hermosa Beach.

Admission is $1. Exhibit and dealer spaces are available.

Information: Warren Carter at (310) 318-0280.

Registration is under way for a three-on-three basketball tournament for athletes 18 and older May 9 in Hermosa Beach.

The double-elimination tournament will have A and B level men’s and women’s divisions.

The cost is $30. The deadline is April 30.

Information: Warren Carter at (310) 318-0280.