Dale Takes His Soccer Acumen to Pepperdine as Women’s Coach

Ken Dale, who coached the Simi Valley High boys’ soccer team for the past two seasons as well as the Moorpark College women’s varsity in 1994-95, has begun work as the women’s varsity coach at Pepperdine.

The 30-year old Dale, who played at Kennesaw College in Marietta, Ga., and professionally with the Tucson Amigos of the U.S. Inter-regional Soccer League, will coach the Waves in their third season as a varsity program.

“I was an assistant here in 1993 so I know a lot of the players and the processes involved in college coaching,” said Dale, who guided Simi Valley to a 14-2-4 record and Moorpark to a 11-4-3 mark last season.

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Newbury Park High track athlete and soccer player Dawn Anderson has signed a letter of intent with Cal State Sacramento.

Anderson, an All-Marmonte League goalie, also was runner-up in the shotput and discus in last year’s league track and field finals. She has personal bests of 40 feet 3 3/4 inches in the shotput and 121-10 in the discus.

Anderson will receive a full-tuition scholarship from the Hornet track program but also plans to play soccer. She picked Sacramento over Hawaii Pacific and American International College in Springfield, Mass.

Baseball

Hart High’s Bobby Graves, who figured to be one of the area’s best pitchers this season, will make his first appearance on the mound today in a doubleheader against Crespi, Indian Coach Bud Murray said.

Graves, a sophomore left-hander who had a 2.03 earned-run average with 47 strikeouts in 41 1/3 innings last season, was sidelined because of a broken bone in his pitching arm.

Murray said Graves’ work on the mound today will be limited.

Volleyball

Kevin Barnett, a 6-foot-6 middle blocker at Pierce College, has signed a letter of intent with Pepperdine, Pierce Coach Ken Stanley said Friday.

Tennis

Taft High’s Jason Weiss has orally committed to play tennis at Wisconsin. As a freshman, Weiss reached the final of the City Section individual tournament. He has not played high school tennis since, in part because of injuries.

Weiss, 17, and doubles partner Kevin Kim of Fullerton twice won the Southern California Tennis Assn. doubles championship and finished fourth in the nation in 1993. But Weiss only recently has started playing again--in men’s open tournaments--because he was sidelined for almost a year with a back injury.

“I wanted to stay in California but Wisconsin is a good school,” he said. “Their program has been down but will be in the top 40 next year. And I want to be a part of something new.”

Miscellany

Santa Paula High is trying to fill several coaching vacancies for the 1995-96 school year.

Head coaches are needed for wrestling and girls’ varsity basketball. A girls’ varsity basketball assistant’s position also is open.

Information: 805-525-4406.

Clipper center Stanley Roberts will present a check to Camp Chesed, a summer camp for Jewish handicapped children, at a ceremony Monday afternoon at the West Valley Hebrew Academy in Woodland Hills.

Camp Chesed was co-founded by Jalena Hay, an 11-year-old Academy student, and her father, Jacques. John Flowers, a disabled former Cal State Northridge basketball recruit, is volunteering his services as sports director for the camp.

* Contributing: Fernando Dominguez, Dana Haddad, Mike Hiserman, Tris Wykes.