Ex-Grant Star Delahoya Claimed by Marlins

The Florida Marlins on Wednesday claimed right-handed pitcher Javier Delahoya, who had been waived by the Dodgers.

Delahoya pitched for San Antonio of the Texas League in 1993, posting an 8-10 record and 107 strikeouts in 125 1/3 innings.

Delahoya, a Grant High graduate and former Times’ All-Valley pitcher, was placed on the 40-man roster but won’t report to the club this season, the Marlins said.

Basketball

Ruben Oronoz, a Cal State Northridge recruit, will undergo surgery on a herniated disk in his back and is expected to miss the season, Matador coaches said Wednesday.

Oronoz, a 6-foot-7 junior, has experienced stiffness in his back since playing for Rancho Santiago College last season. Doctors at first believed he was suffering from a strained muscle, but a magnetic resonance imaging test this summer divulged a more serious problem.

Mike Johnson, a Northridge assistant, said Oronoz will have surgery once an insurance company agrees to accept the claim.

Golf

Andrea Gaston of Canoga Park advanced to the semifinal round of match play last week in the U.S. Women’s Mid-Amateur Championship at Rochester Country Club in Rochester, Minn.

Gaston, 35, who played at Granada Hills High and San Jose State and later graduated from Cal State Northridge, lost in the semifinals of match play to Mary Burkhardt of St. Augustine, Fla. Burkhardt won in sudden death on the 20th hole.

Soccer

Rick Commons will take over as boys’ soccer coach for Harvard-Westlake High this season.

Commons was the coach of the Wolverines’ freshman team the past two seasons.

Former coach Barclay MacKinnon left to pursue a postgraduate degree.