Northridge Adds Cross-Country Meet

The Cal State Northridge men’s cross-country team has been forced to add the Cal Poly Pomona Invitational on Oct. 21 to its schedule because the Matadors were unable to field a full scoring team at last Saturday’s Stanford Invitational.

In order to fulfill its requirements as an NCAA Division I program, Northridge must field a team of at least five runners in a minimum of six meets each season.

The Stanford meet was supposed to be the third of six meets for Northridge, but only four Matadors competed Saturday because of injuries to freshman Javier Ramirez and junior Dave Hensley, and illness to freshman Mike Wenz.

In addition to the Pomona meet, Northridge will run in the Arizona State Invitational next Friday, the American West Conference championships Oct. 28 and in the NCAA District VIII regional Nov. 11.

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The Thousand Oaks High girls’ cross-country team is ranked ninth in the nation in Harrier magazine’s latest poll.

The Lancers, runners-up in last year’s State Division I championships, were eighth in the preseason poll. The latest poll was the magazine’s first since the season started.

Nordhoff is among five schools whose boys’ and girls’ teams are ranked among the top 25. The Rangers are 17th in the boys’ poll and 21st among girls’ teams.

Basketball

Nikki Black, a junior 5-10 forward with two years’ varsity experience at Hueneme High, has been cleared by the Southern Section to play this season at Oxnard High.

Black is one of four transfers to Oxnard.

Bowling

Tish Johnson of Northridge is top-seeded entering today’s finals of the $100,000 BPAA Women’s U.S. Open at Bloomington, Minn.

Johnson, who won the U.S. Open in 1992, finished Thursday with a total pinfall of 13,229. Cheryl Daniels of Detroit was second at 13,050 and third at 12,859 was Wendy Macpherson-Papanos of Henderson, Nev.

Soccer

Harvard-Westlake High needs a boys’ junior varsity coach.

Information: Athletic Director Gary Thran, 818-762-3301.

Contributing: Steve Henson, John Ortega, Bryan Rodgers.