Sports : FIT TO BE TIED

His signature turned out to be worth more than Doug DuChateau thought at the Queen Mary Open golf tournament at Lakewood Country Club Saturday.

About $5,650 to be exact.

DuChateau shot a final-round 66 to finish with a four-round total of 276. DuChateau, however, mistakenly signed his score card which indicated he had shot a 67.

The blunder dropped the Eugene, Ore., resident from a three-way tie for second into a tie for third. Brent Geiberger of Palm Springs and Kevin Sutherland of Sacramento, who tied for second at 275, won $9,500 each.

DuChateau received $3,850.

Nick Klassen won the $100,000 tournament, shooting a four-round total 271. Jeff Manson of Long Beach shot a six-under par 66 Saturday to finish in a tie for fifth.

TITLE WAVE

The Lakewood High baseball team will play top-seeded Fountain Valley for the Southern Section Division I title Friday at 7 p.m. at Blair Field.

The second-seeded Lancers, seeking their first title since 1987, defeated Notre Dame of Sherman Oaks, 6-3, in the semifinals Tuesday at Blair Field to win their 13th consecutive game.

Lakewood (24-6) had nine hits, including doubles by Andre Camou and Matt Dempsey and a triple by Casey Martin. The Lancers, who defeated Mater Dei, 8-5, in a quarterfinal game Tuesday, have outscored their opponents, 36-9, in the playoffs.

Gahr will try for its first Southern Section title in 11 years against J.W. North of Riverside in the Division II championship at 7:30 Saturday night at Blair Field.

Gahr (22-8-1) beat Temecula Valley, 5-4, in the semifinals Tuesday and knocked off top-seeded Redondo, 8-0, Friday with the help of George Castillo, who gave up only one hit in five innings.

The Valley Christian softball team rolled to its 20th consecutive victory, defeating La Reina, 3-0, on a one-hitter by Susie Shoales to earn a berth in the Division IV final against Paraclete at 5:30 p.m. Friday at Mayfair Park.

EARLY RETURN

The Long Beach State baseball team came up short in its bid for a fourth College World Series berth in six years in the Midwest II regional at Wichita, Kan.

Long Beach (41-19) suffered two losses to Washington, the Pacific 10 Conference Northern Division runner-up, in the six-team double-elimination bracket.

Second-seeded Long Beach suffered a 10-4 defeat to the No. 5 Huskies in the opener Friday, but rebounded with a 16-hit attack in a 16-9 victory over Connecticut on Saturday. The 49ers beat Santa Clara, 6-3, on Sunday but were eliminated later in the day to Washington, 6-2.

ON TRACK

The Long Beach Poly High girls’ track team will try for its third consecutive state title Friday and Saturday at Cerritos College.

The Jackrabbits’ 1,600-meter relay team of Aisha Washington, Myeshia Williams, Andrea Anderson and Aminah Haddad ran 3 minutes, 42.89 seconds in the Masters Meet Friday night at Cerritos College.

The top five finishers in the Masters Meet advance to the state meet.

The mark ranks as the second-fastest time in the state this decade. Poly also ran the fastest time of 3:42.75 to win at last year’s state meet.

Haddad and Anderson finished first and second in the 100 in 11.69 and 11.81, respectively. Haddad also edged LaKeisha Backus of Long Beach Wilson, 23.45 to 23.65, to win the 200.

Backus also combined with Michelle Nelson, Mary Harris and Kinshasa Davis to win the 400-meter relay in 46.16, the top qualifying mark of the state’s 10 sectional championship meets.

Michael Granville of Bell Gardens was not at his best but was still the class of the boys’ 800 meters, racing to victory in 1:50.76, despite fighting a cold that limited his training to jogging during the week.

Granville didn’t match his performance at the Southern Section finals May 21, where he set a national sophomore record of 1:48.98. Granville and Telly Moss of Temple, Tex., who has run 1:50.87, are the only athletes to crack 1:51.

“I just wanted to qualify for the state and thought it would take a time in the low 1:50s,” Granville said. “My tonsils and throat were hurting, but I didn’t use the stigma of using the cold as a setback.”

Akinyela Taylor of Dominguez finished fifth in the boys’ 100 meters in 10.92 and ran on the Dons’ 400-meter relay team that finished third in 41.56.

Other qualifiers included Boryla Orloff of St. John Bosco (pole vault), Ty Anderson and Carl Hampton of Poly (triple jump), Pam Simpson of Poly (400) and Meisha McKelvy of Gahr (100 hurdles).

NAMES IN THE NEWS

* Susie Park of Cerritos High and Rachel Borcherts of Millikan qualified for the Southern California Golf Assn. tournament at Redlands Golf Course June 6. Park shot a seven-over par 80 and Borcherts finished at 81 in the Southern Section individual tournament at Apple Valley Country Club.

* Long Beach State basketball player James Cotton has been selected to play in next month’s U.S. Olympic Festival in St. Louis. Cotton, a freshman from St. John Bosco High, was the Big West Conference freshman of the year, averaging 11.4 points.

* Retired Cerritos College track Coach Dave Kamanski has been inducted into the California Community College Coaches Assn. Hall of Fame. Kamanski, who coached at Cerritos for 30 years, was named the state’s coach of the year in 1983.

* Rene Bustamante of Azusa Pacific, the 1989 Southern Section 3-A Division runner-up in the shotput for Schurr High, won the shotput (57-6 1/4) and was third in the discus (160-9) in the National Assn. of Intercollegiate Athletics championships to help the host Cougars to their 10th team title in 12 years.

Lupe Ambriz of Bell Gardens, competing for Point Loma, was second in the 3,000 meters (9:50.49).

* Marisa Avendano, the 1992 Southern Section 4-A champion at Paramount High, was third in the 3,000 meters in 9:44.07 for Cal State Los Angeles in the NCAA Division II championships at Raleigh, N.C. Marisol Pedraza, a product of Schurr High, finished fourth in the 1,500 meters (4:33.40) to help Cal State L.A to third in the team standings.

Dan Tapia of El Rancho High was eighth in the pole vault (16-0 3/4) for the Cal State L.A. men, who finished 10th.