Arreola Wins 1,500 at UCSD Meet

Former Grossmont High School standout Darcy Arreola, competing for Nike Coast, won the 1,500 meters Saturday at the UC San Diego Open on the UCSD campus.

Arreola won the invitational 1,500 in 4 minutes, 12.81 seconds, more than five seconds ahead of Nike Coast teammate Polly Plummer.

UCLA’s Dawn Dumble was a double winner, taking the discus (183 feet 7 1/2 inches) and shot put (54-8). Another outstanding mark in the women’s meet was 21- 1/2 long jump by Brigham Young’s Shu-Hwa Wang.

One of the most highly anticipated events was the men’s 800 in which Mazda’s Jose Luiz Barbosa edged teammate Ocky Clark, 1:46.11 to 1:46.93. Barbosa was No. 1 in the world most of last year.

BASEBALL

Host Point Loma Nazarene swept a Golden State Athletic Conference double header against Cal Baptist, 5-4 and 6-2. The Crusaders got one solo home run from Rich Miller in each game, giving him 12 for the year, as they improved to 21-25-1, 7-13. Chris Gunnett (5-5) and Craig Van Hulzen (5-4) picked up victories on the mound. Cal Baptist is 16-27, 8-12.

MEN’S TENNIS

After winning four of six singles matches, San Diego State was confident it would win the Western Athletic Conference Championship in Salt Lake City, Utah, and earn an automatic berth into the NCAA Championships.

However, No. 2 New Mexico (18-7) swept doubles play and scored a 5-4 victory over top-seeded SDSU (17-8), ending the Aztecs’ season.

“I don’t think we’ll get an at-large berth--I think it came down to today’s match,” SDSU Coach Hugh Bream said. “We were not quite consistent enough and didn’t get the wins that we needed (during the season).

“It was a little bit like today. We put ourselves in a position to determine whether or not we went (to the NCAA Championships), but the other team played a little bit better down the stretch and we didn’t close out the opportunties that we had.”

The big opportunity came at No. 2 doubles. Needing one victory in three doubles matches to clinch the title, Joe McDonough and Kerry Safdie won the first set, 6-3, and were up a break in the second and third sets before falling to Garrett Prins and Coulter Wright, 3-6, 7-5, 6-4.

The loss in the finals was the third in a row for SDSU, which fell to Utah, 5-1, in 1990, and to New Mexico, 5-3, in 1991. SDSU defeated New Mexico earlier this season, 5-4.

WOMEN’S TENNIS

Westmont’s Heidi Olding defeated Monica Clancy of Point Loma Nazarene, 6-2, 6-0, to win the NAIA District 3 title at St. Mary’s College. A Westmont entry also won the doubles championship as sisters KristenAbbyand Shea Abby defeated their teammates, Olding and Julie Early, 6-2, 6-1.

SOFTBALL

Kristi Delaplain pitched a no-hitter in the first game and St. Mary’s scored a 4-3 victory in the second to sweep a doubleheader against University of San Diego. Delaplain (9-15) outdueled Tiffany Wasilewski (17-8), who pitched a four-hitter for the visiting Toreras (30-13). It was Delaplain’s fifth shutout of the year. Aimee Reinard drove in two runs the second game for USD, which fell behind 4-0 after three innings. St. Mary’s is 18-26.