SDSU’s Fuller Adds McKinnie as an Assistant

San Diego State basketball Coach Tony Fuller has completed his staff by naming Silas McKinnie as an assistant coach.

McKinnie, 46, was a assistant at Minnesota the past four seasons. He previously coached at Rice, Alabama, South Alabama and Kentucky State.

“I’m excited to have Silas with us and know he will become an important part of our program here at San Diego State,” Fuller said in a statement. “I’ve known him for many years--ever since he recruited me to play at Iowa in 1976. He’s an excellent basketball coach and teacher.”

McKinnie, an all-Big Ten football player at Iowa, also played professionally as a running back/wide receiver with the Kansas City Chiefs and St. Louis Cardinals and with Saskatchewan in the Canadian Football League.

FOOTBALL

SDSU has signed contracts to continue or develop football series with several schools, Athletic Director Fred Miller announced.

The Aztecs will play Cal (1995, 1996), Nevada (1995), Idaho State (1997), Houston (1997, 1998, 2001, 2002), Arizona (2004, 2005) and Oklahoma (2004, 2005).

The Aztecs already had existing agreements with Cal (1993, 1994), Arizona (1998, 1999, 2000, 2001) and Oklahoma (1995, 1996). SDSU have never played Idaho State or Arizona in football.

The Mighty 690/Pepsi Classic, a 2-A vs. 3-A high school all-star game, will be played Saturday, July 11, at 7 p.m., at Southwestern College’s Devore Stadium.

Herb Meyer of three-time defending champion El Camino will coach the 2-A squad, which features Abdul McCullough and Noel Prefontaine of El Camino and E.J. Watson of 2-A runner-up La Jolla.

Bennie Edens of 3-A champion Point Loma will guide the 3-A team, which also includes Rashaan Salaam and Eric Abrams of 1-A La Jolla Country Day. Chad Davis of Mira Mesa, Gary Taylor of Morse and La’Roi Glover of Point Loma head the list of 3-A players.

Proceeds from the game will go to the San Diego High School Sports Assn. and the Hall of Champions. Tickets are $6 for adults and $4 for children. For more information, call 234-2544.

GOLF

La Jolla’s Harry Rudolph was the low qualifier for today’s third-round match play in the California Golf Assn. Amateur Championship.

Rudolph’s three-under 69 at Pebble Beach, combined with Monday’s 74 at Spyglass Hill, gave Rudolph a two-round total of 143, one better than Casey Boyns of Pacific Grove.

Pat Duncan, a five-time San Diego City Amateur champion from Rancho Santa Fe, qualified fourth at 146. San Diego State’s Kevin Riley (150) and Todd Demsey (a graduate of Torrey Pines) were also among the 32 advancing.

Rudolph, who attended La Jolla High, led Arizona to an NCAA team title this spring and finished second to individual champ Phil Mickelson.

GIRLS’ BASKETBALL

For the second year in a row, the San Diego Police Athletic League 16-and-under team lost to Massachusetts, 86-68, in the second round of the AAU/USA Junior Olympic national tournament in Clovis, N.M.

Vanessa Nygaard (Carlsbad High) and Lorraine Watson (Monte Vista) each scored 16 points and Jamie Shadian (Poway) added 11 points, five assists and four steals, but it was not enough to offset the 30-point effort by Massachusetts’ Kara Wolters.

In a first-round game played earlier, Shondell Robinson (Lincoln) scored 13 points and DeAngela Minter (Vista) 12 to lead PAL to an 81-75 victory over Oregon.

PAL faces Oklahoma this morning in the loser’s bracket of the double-elimination tournament.

HONORS

SDSU athletes Eva Olivarez and Marla Runyon have been honored as NCAA Post Graduate Scholars.

Olivarez, a native of Manila who is a two-time Western Athletic Conference tennis player of the year, is one of 125 students from around the country to have earned the $5,000 post-graduate scholarship.

Runyan, a track and cross-country athlete who placed second in the heptathlon and third in the high jump at the 1991 WAC championships, was selected as the fourth alternate. If four other recipients decide not to continue their studies at the graduate level, she will receive the $5,000 award.