CSUN Signs Cuesta Forward

The Cal State Northridge men’s basketball team signed one recruit and lost another on Monday.

Matt Andrews, a 6-foot-7, 240-pound power forward from Cuesta College, said he accepted a scholarship to play for the Matadors. Andrews averaged only six points and six rebounds last season, but was instrumental down the stretch as Cuesta won two playoff games by upset.

“He probably averaged 12 points and 10 rebounds in our last 10, 12 games,” Cuesta Coach Rusty Blair said. “He was really a force inside.”

Cuesta was the only team to defeat state junior college champion Ventura College. Andrews, an Arroyo Grande High graduate, was a first-team All-Western State Conference selection.

Gain a forward, lose a guard.

Kevin Deal, a 6-foot point guard from College of the Sequoias, will be forced to decline a scholarship from Northridge, Sequoias Coach John Bragano said.

Deal, a two-time All-Central Valley Conference selection, is 11 units short of attaining the associate in arts degree the NCAA requires of junior college transfers enrolling at Division I schools. Deal had accepted a scholarship offer from Northridge in November.

Boys’ Tennis

Birmingham High swept all nine sets in doubles en route to a 22-7 1/2 victory over Marshall in the City Section semifinals. The Braves (12-4), who had not reached the semis in eight seasons, will face top-seeded Eagle Rock for the championship Thursday at 2 p.m. at the Racquet Centre in Studio City. Eagle Rock defeated Kennedy, 28-1 1/2.

Swimming

Crespi High senior Mike Scarcelli has committed to play water polo and swim at University of the Pacific. Scarcelli also considered UC Irvine.

Scarcelli was a first-team All-Southern Section Division I pick in water polo, and he has qualified for the Southern Section swimming championships Saturday at Belmont Plaza in Long Beach.

Soccer

Ten Valley-area players have been named first-team All-City Section in girls’ soccer.

Selections from 4-A champion Grant were striker Nicole Bucciarelli, goalie Kristin Kiley-Boynton, midfielder Jamie Mond and sweeper Marrica Pichaikul, all seniors.

Chatsworth, the 4-A runner-up, was represented by freshman defender Corinne Briers, junior midfielder Michelle George and junior sweeper Kimberly Pickup.

Senior midfielders Vanissa Smith and Donna Gayton of Granada Hills and senior midfielder Courtney Henderson of El Camino Real were also selected.

Baseball

Pierce College has been seeded No. 5 and Moorpark No. 14 in the first round of the junior college Southern California baseball regional.

The 16-team regional will have eight best-of-three series. The first game in each series will be Friday at 2 p.m. and the second game Saturday at 11 a.m. A third game, where necessary, will follow the first game Saturday.

Pierce (25-16) will play host to No. 12 Mt. San Antonio (31-11), and Moorpark (27-13) will travel to No. 3 Cypress (30-13-1). Pierce won the Western State Conference South Division and Moorpark finished second in the North Division.

The series winners will advance to the second round May 19-21. The state championships will be May 27-29 at Fresno City.

Softball

Cal Lutheran was selected for the NCAA Division III West regional playoffs, beginning Friday in Storm Lake, Iowa.

The Regals (28-10) are seeded third in the four-team, double-elimination regional. Cal Lutheran will face second-seeded Buena Vista College, the host school, Friday at 11 a.m. PDT. Top-seeded Chapman will face Simpson College in the other first-round game.

If Cal Lutheran wins the regional, the Regals will return to Storm Lake the following weekend for the Division III championships.

Antelope Valley, Pierce and Moorpark have been seeded in the junior college Southern California softball regionals.

There are four regionals of four teams each. The teams will play a double-elimination format Friday and Saturday. The four survivors will advance to the state championships May 19-20 at Riverside.

Antelope Valley (30-12) will face Mt. San Antonio (16-11) Friday at 2 p.m. at Rancho Santiago. Pierce (21-15) will play Palomar (30-5) Friday at noon at Palomar, followed by Moorpark (19-13) against Chaffey (28-10) at 2 p.m.

Men’s Tennis

Cal Lutheran, which upset Redlands in the Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference championship Saturday, has qualified for its first trip to the NCAA Division III championships, which begin May 15 in Kalamazoo, Mich.

The Kingsmen will face DePauw University in the first round of the 12-team, single-elimination tournament.

Golf

Buena and Westlake high schools qualified for the Southern Section Team Finals to be held at the Sandpiper Golf Course in Goleta on Monday.

Westlake scored 369 and Buena 377 in the preliminary round to finish second and third. San Marcos won with a 359.

Other local teams that scored but failed to qualify for the finals were Hart 379, Agoura 385, Royal 393 and Calabasas 400.

Contributing: Fernando Dominguez, Jeff Fletcher, Dana Haddad, Mike Hiserman, Michael Lazarus, Bryan Rodgers, Tris Wykes.