Hornaday Seeking to Wrap Up Southwest Tour Championship

The NASCAR Southwest Tour and Winston West Series will be holding season-ending main events this weekend at Phoenix International Raceway.

The Southwest Tour will run a 186-lap race on the track’s one-mile paved oval today at 1:15 p.m. The Winston West will follow with a 312-lap race Sunday at noon.

Points leader Ron Hornaday Jr. of Palmdale, in pursuit of his first Southwest Tour championship in five tries, holds a 57-point advantage over Doug George of Atwater, Calif. Rick Carelli of Denver, the tour’s defending champion, is third, 77 points behind Hornaday.

Bill Sedgwick of Granada Hills trails leader Bill Schmitt of Redding, Calif., by four points in his bid to repeat as Winston West champion. Schmitt is trying to become the series’ first five-time champion.

The Antelope Valley Fairgrounds board of directors will vote Dec. 10 on whether to approve a project to build a track that will bring stock-car racing to the fairgrounds next spring. A final public hearing on the matter was held Wednesday evening at the fairgrounds.

Joe Santellano, a former assistant football coach at Chatsworth High and the school’s boys’ tennis coach, has transferred to Cleveland High where he will serve in both capacities.

Santellano, 42, will share football coaching duties with Everett Macy, the Cavaliers’ head coach the past two years.

Santellano served as a football assistant to Chatsworth Coach Myron Gibford from 1982 to 1987. He was the Chancellors’ boys’ tennis coach for his entire nine-year tenure at Chatsworth.

Santellano led Chatsworth to the City Section 4-A Division championship in tennis in 1991 after guiding the Chancellors to the final a year earlier.

Santellano will teach physical education at Cleveland.