JetHawks Nickname Flies in Lancaster, but How Will the Mascot Walk?

You wonder how they came up with the name JetHawks for the Class-A baseball team that will begin play in Lancaster next spring?

It’s actually quite simple.

“They liked the concept of the hawk and concept of the jet,” said Daniel Simon, who designed the logo. “But if it’s a jet, that’s just a jet, and if it’s a hawk, that’s just a hawk. If you have the combination, that’s unique.”

The logo is a flying jet with a hawk’s head and beak. Looks neat, but how do you make it into a real-life, dance-on-the-dugout-roof mascot?

“The problem we have now is making this guy walk,” said Matt Ellis, JetHawk general manager.

Masterful mix-up: The Cal State Northridge football team might have figured out the perfect way to prevent opponents from preparing for the Matadors’ weaknesses. The scouting tape Northridge sent to this week’s opponent, Western New Mexico, was blank.

When Mustang coaches realized Northridge had sent the wrong tape, they called and had the Matadors send them a new tape. But a Northridge secretary accidentally sent the correct tape to Southwest Texas State, Northridge’s opponent last week.

Western New Mexico finally got the right tape on Tuesday.

Quite a catch: Raymond Berry, NFL Hall of Fame receiver and former coach of the New England Patriots, will address the Royal High football team today. Berry, 62, is the spokesman for an insurance business launched by Stan Quina, Dan Ward and Barney Hellenbrand, who played at Royal in the early 1970s.

“He’ll give the kids a life speech,” said Quina, the Simi Valley coach several years ago.

Quotebook

“There will be retribution.”

--Cal State Northridge sports information director Bob Cloud, who read in The Times that he had been the victim of a practical joke played by football Coach Dave Baldwin.

Baldwin had Cloud leave a press pass for a fictitious sportswriter.

Stats

Bryant Eubanks, a freshman cornerback at Cal State Northridge, was named American West Conference defensive player of the week for his 12-tackle, two-interception game Saturday against Southwest Texas State.

Valley College (5-0) remains second behind El Camino (4-0) in the state junior college football poll.

El Camino received 208 points and nine first-place votes, and the Monarchs received 204 points and four first-place votes. Moorpark (4-1) improved two places to 18th.

Things to Do

The undefeated Glendale College men’s cross-country team will meet unbeaten Rancho Santiago on Saturday in the Santa Barbara Invitational at Shoreline Park at 12:45 p.m.

Glendale, paced by sophomore Ramon Serratos, has won four invitationals and the first of three Western State Conference meets this season.

Contributing: Fernando Dominguez, Jeff Fletcher, Steve Henson, Paige A. Leech, John Ortega.