Fischer, Casillas Each Settle for 2nd

Jeremy Fischer of Camarillo High and Margarito Casillas of Hoover placed second in the boys’ high jump and two-mile run, respectively, at the National Scholastic Indoor track and field championships Monday in Syracuse, N. Y.

Fischer, a junior, cleared 6 feet 10 3/4 inches in the high jump, the same height as winner Chris Nelson of Klamath Falls (Ore.) High. However, Fischer placed second because of more total misses.

Casillas, a senior, timed 9 minutes 20.64 seconds in the two mile. Kevin Jermyn of Staten Island Tottenville High won in 9:19.43.

Fischer and Casillas were originally scheduled to compete Sunday, but the meet was postponed a day because of the severe storm that hit the East Coast over the weekend.

Basketball

Dave Fennell, who set the Village Christian all-time scoring record this season, was named the Alpha League most valuable player. Fennell, a 6-foot-4 senior forward, averaged 20.3 points and 7.6 rebounds for the Crusaders (20-5, 8-0 in league play). Fennell finished his career with 1,123 points.

Senior point guard C.J. Thompkins of Campbell Hall and sophomore forward Tony Hoggatts of Faith Baptist were named to the All-Delphic League first team.

Hoggatts was one of only two nonseniors to make the first team. Senior center Austin Croshere of Crossroads was named the player of the year.

Senior Julie Kawamoto of Taft and junior Georgia Roy of Chatsworth have been selected the North Valley League co-most valuable players by a panel of league girls’ coaches. Also on the first team were junior Jocelyn Correll of Taft, senior Konya Hubbard of San Fernando and senior April Fleming of Cleveland.

Tennis

Ilie Nastase is scheduled to play Roscoe Tanner in an exhibition at Sherwood Country Club in Thousand Oaks on April 17.

Nastase was among the sport’s superstars during the 1970s and at one time was ranked No. 1 in the world. He won the U.S. Open (1972), the French Open (1973), the Italian Open (1970 and ‘73) and twice made it to the final at Wimbledon (1972 and ‘76).

Tanner was ranked among the world’s top 10 for a decade and holds 31 Grand Prix titles.

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Gymnastics

Sean Patterson of Le Club Gymnastics, who has been competing for the past year despite a cracked vertebra, edged teammate Matt Redman by one-tenth of a point to win the Class 1 competition at the recent Southern California Boys Gymnastics Assn. All-Star Meet in Northridge. Patterson, 17, was first in the pommels, rings and parallel bars and finished with 49.30 all-around points. Redman, 17, who tied Patterson for first in the rings, finished with 49.2 points. Paul Mendoza, 17, also of Le Club, finished fourth with 46.90 points.

Two other members of Le Club, based in Northridge, won their divisions. In Class 2, Adam Klein, 16, a member of the junior national team, placed first in pommels, rings, vault, parallel bars and the high bar to dominate with 48.20 all-around points.

Mac Skinner, 16, who had been training for only three months after taking a two-year hiatus, won all six events in Class 4 to win with 39.45 all-around points.