CSUN Recruiting Class Earns No. 19 Ranking

The recruiting class for the Cal State Northridge women’s basketball team is ranked 19th in the nation by Blue Star Report.

The monthly newsletter, which is a nationwide publication, ranked Connecticut’s class No. 1.

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LaCresha Clark, from Hart High, has transferred from Evansville University in Indiana and has enrolled at College of the Canyons.

Clark, a 5-foot-4 guard, was a first-team, All-Valley selection by The Times in 1995.

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Buckley High has selected Dan Haasch, a former assistant at Damien High, as boys’ coach.

Cross-Country

The season-opening Seaside Invitational on Sept. 14 has been moved due to financial considerations to Ventura County Fairgrounds on Sept. 14 from San Buenaventura State Beach.

Steve Blum, meet director and Buena High girls’ coach, said budget cuts to the state park system have led to increased fees for use of the park and to decreased service because of reductions in park personnel.

The meet, which annually attracts some of the top runners from Ventura, Santa Barbara and Los Angeles counties, had been run at San Buenaventura State Beach for the past seven years.

The new course is expected to be comparable to previous ones--5,000 meters long, flat and fast.

A fifth division has been added to the State championships, which will be run Nov. 30 at Woodward Park in Fresno.

The meet, which began in 1987, consisted of three boys’ and girls’ divisions based on student body enrollment from 1987-89 before expanding to four in 1990.

The new format defines Division I schools as those with enrollments of 1,563 or more.

Division II schools will range between 1,250-1,562 students, followed by Division III at 969-1,249, Division IV at 525-968 and Division V at 524 and below.

The realignment is not expected to affect the status of any of the area’s traditionally strong teams.

Thousand Oaks, Hoover, Buena and Hart are expected to remain in Division I, with defending state champion Nordhoff staying in Division III and state champion Louisville remaining in Division IV.

Golf

Linda and Dave Pearson of Flintridge Country Club teamed to shoot a gross total of 72 on Tuesday at Yorba Linda Country Club to win flight A of the Women’s Southern California Golf Assn.’s husband and wife tournament.

Jill and Nick Blurton-Jones of Braemar Country Club tied for the flight B net championship with a score of 61. Betty and Jerry Harmon of North Ranch Country Club finished second in flight C with a gross total of 84.

Soccer

Steve Hoffman has been hired as coach at Ventura College, which is starting a women’s program.

Hoffman was previously the boys’ coach at Agoura High and an assistant with the Cal Lutheran women’s team.

Tennis

Twins Mike and Bob Bryan of Camarillo upset 1993 French Open champions Luke and Murphy Jensen, 6-4, 6-3, in an exhibition match on the eve of the National Junior Clay Court Championships in Louisville, Ky.

The Bryans are ranked No. 1 in the United States in the boys’ 18-and-under division.

Volleyball

Cal State Northridge is 1-1 through two games of an international men’s tournament in Indonesia.

Northridge, which is representing the city of Los Angeles during the weeklong event, lost a five-game match to Seoul on Monday and defeated Eindhoven, the Netherlands on Tuesday.

Baseball

The Seattle Mariners will hold an open tryout camp at the Hangar in Lancaster today at 9 a.m.

Players aged 16-22 are eligible.

Information: 805-726-5400.

Football

Buckley High has selected Jeff Hutzler as head coach. The Griffins will be playing 11-man football this season for the first time in school history.

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Contributing: Dana Haddad, John Ortega, Bryan Rodgers, Peter Yoon.