UCLA to Get Twice as Much Kick Out of Sailer

Notre Dame High kicker Chris Sailer, a USA Today All-American, said Tuesday night he will sign a letter of intent to play football at UCLA. He will also play soccer for the Bruins.

The NCAA football signing period begins Feb. 1.

Sailer also visited California and Colorado State and canceled a trip to Stanford. He said he chose the Bruins because football Coach Terry Donahue and soccer Coach Sigi Schmid worked out an arrangement for Sailer to play the two sports, even though both are in the same season.

Sailer, 5 feet 10, 180 pounds, was the Southern Section Division III co-player of the year. His 22 field goals set a state single-season record and helped the Knights to the Division III title. He tied the state career field goal record with 33.

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The Newbury Park High football team has received approval from the Southern Section and the Conejo Valley Unified School District to open its 1995 season with a game in Waimea, Hawaii, on Sept. 9.

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Saugus High strengthened an already tough nonleague schedule by announcing Tuesday that it will open the 1995 football season against Los Alamitos.

Saugus Coach Jack Bowman said he expects Los Alamitos, which finished 12-1 and captured the Division I Sunset League championship, to be ranked No. 1 in the nation by several high-school publications before the 1995 season. The game will be played Sept. 8 at Cerritos College.

Meanwhile, Foothill League opponent Hart has added Loyola for Week 5.

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Westlake High receiver Billy Miller, The Times’ player of the year in Ventura County, has been selected to the Parade magazine All-American team, Warrior Coach Jim Benkert said.

Miller, who caught 67 passes for 1,057 yards, will sign next Wednesday with UCLA, USC, Colorado or Washington.

Basketball

The Burroughs High girls’ team has lost forward Janelle Simon because of a neck sprain.

Simon, the area’s No. 2 rebounder among Southern Section schools with a 12.2 average, injured her neck and suffered a concussion during a defensive drill at prac-tice last week.

Apoua Peters, a starting forward for the Channel Islands High girls’ team who averaged four points and four rebounds for the defending Marmonte League champions, has transferred to Temple City.

Baseball

Cal State Northridge has added two more junior college players to its roster.

Outfielder Brian Basowski and right-handed pitcher Zeke Barrios joined the team at the semester break.

Basowski previously played at Pierce College and Cleveland High. Barrios is a transfer from Fullerton College. Both players are juniors.

Track and Field

Jim Benkert, the boys’ and girls’ coach at Westlake High from 1992-94, has been replaced by Rob Paules.

Benkert, the school’s head football coach since 1989, might continue as an track assistant this season, but said he no longer had the “time and energy to be a head coach in both sports anymore.”

Paules is the Westlake cross-country coach.

Contributing: Dave Desmond, Steve Elling, Jeff Fletcher, John Ortega and Dana Haddad.