Football

Jerome Casey, a former All-City running back at Sylmar High, will play at Glendale College this season.

Casey, 5 feet 10 and 190 pounds, will join Pathon Rucker in the Vaquero backfield. Rucker, an All-Western State Conference tailback, rushed for 1,040 yards and 17 touchdowns during the 1992 regular season.

Casey was recruited by USC out of high school but failed to score the NCAA-required 700 on the Scholastic Aptitude Test. Casey sat out one year and then played one season at Western New Mexico, an NAIA Division I school. He attended classes at Glendale last year but did not play football.

Casey carried 181 times for 1,447 yards and scored 26 touchdowns in 1989, his senior season at Sylmar.

The son of former Ventura High football coach Harvey Kochel, who is serving a two-year prison sentence for six felony counts of having sex with a minor, will not play football for the Cougars this season.

Jake Kochel, whose status as a student at Ventura is unclear, informed Ventura Coach Phil McCune he will forgo his senior season. Kochel (5-11, 190 pounds) was selected first-team All-Channel League as a defensive back last season. He also rushed for 172 yards and two touchdowns in 42 carries.

“It’s obviously been a very difficult time for him,” said McCune, whose team begins practice Monday. “My main concern is that Jake finishes school and graduates.”

Golf

David Berganio of Sylmar was beaten in singles for the second day in a row, but the United States retained possession of the Walker Cup by defeating Britain and Ireland, 19-5, at Edina, Minn.

Raymond Burns defeated Berganio, 1-up. The match was tied after 17 holes, but Burns parred the 18th and Berganio missed a five-footer to take a bogey.

Berganio teamed with Todd Demsey of Rancho Santa Fe to defeat Matt Stanford of England and Padraig Harrington of Ireland, 3 and 2, in one of the four-ball matches during the morning round. The Americans took control of the match with an eagle three on the ninth hole when Berganio hit a 300-yard drive, Demsey hit a 220-yard one-iron to within three feet of the pin and Berganio made the putt.

The United States, which leads the series, 30-3-1, scored its most decisive victory since 1961.

Fencing

Wes Waldron, a 1993 graduate of Chaminade High, won gold medals in two fencing events at the California State Games this week in Ontario. Waldron captured top honors in the under-19 foil and adult foil events while going 20-0 in the tournament. Waldron will attend Penn State in the fall.

Tennis

Tickets are on sale for the Infiniti Champions tournament, Sept. 29-Oct. 3. The event will feature Jimmy Connors, Bjorn Borg, Vitas Gerulaitis and Roscoe Tanner, teaching pro at Sherwood Country Club in Thousand Oaks--site of the tournament.

Also scheduled to play on the second stop of the new Champions tour are Dick Stockton, John Lloyd, Jose-Luis Clerc, Marty Riessen, Harold Solomon, Guillermo Vilas and Johan Kriek.

For ticket information: 805-373-5202.