Report on Cover-Up Given to CSUN President

Ron Kopita, Cal State Northridge vice president in charge of student affairs, has completed his investigation into the cover-up of running back Shayne Blakey’s gunshot wounds and forwarded his recommendations to Blenda J. Wilson, the school president.

Kopita would not say if he has suggested further discipline against Athletic Director Paul Bubb, football Coach Dave Baldwin or Blakey. He said Wilson will see the report today and decide on any further discipline and whether the report will be released.

Baldwin told reporters that Blakey underwent an appendectomy, when he had actually been shot at a party. Baldwin and Bubb have since apologized.

Golf

Chris Zambri of Camarillo is tied for fourth place after shooting a five-under-par 67 in the second round of the California State Open, a tournament for non-teaching, non-touring professionals at Indian Wells Country Club.

Zambri, a 1988 Westlake High graduate, has a two-day total of 137 and is five strokes behind leader Dennis Trixler of Foster City with two rounds to play.

Dan Tanner of Sun Valley (70-69--139) is tied for 11th.

Soccer

Top recruit Stacie Carlini has quit the Cal State Northridge women’s team, Coach Brian Wiesner said.

Carlini, a freshman goalkeeper from Hemet High, suffered a hip injury and was expected to miss the first three to four weeks of the season.

Danny Nishiyama has quit the Northridge men’s team, Coach Marwan Ass’ad said.

Nishiyama, a defender, started for the Matadors as a freshman last season. He was Golden League player of the year as a senior at Quartz Hill High.

Casey Larson, a sophomore sweeper who last season started 11 games for Northridge, has been declared academically ineligible and will sit out the season, Ass’ad said.

Basketball

Taft High center Vanessa Dunn, an All-City selection who averaged 15.2 points and 10.7 rebounds last season and was selected to The Times’ All-Valley team, is one of three Toreador starters who have transferred to Kennedy, said her father, Thomas Dunn.

Dunn along with forwards Monia Calhoun, who averaged 15.2 points, and Rosa Ortiz, led Taft to a 20-1 record and to the City Section 4-A quarterfinals.

The Toreador boys’ team also lost two starters. Junior Harold Shevlin transferred to Chatsworth and junior Tyrone Purnell has checked out of Taft, Athletic Director Jim Woodard said.

Cross-Country

T.W. Burchmore, the 1996 Southern Section Division III champion in the 1,600 meters for Morro Bay High, will run for Moorpark College this season.

Burchmore has a career best of 4 minutes 16.85 seconds in the 1,600.

Moorpark also has picked up Uzziel Gray, who finished third in the 1995 City Section cross-country championships for Poly.

Sheryl Snyder and John Hattrup will be co-coaches at Westlake High this season.

Snyder, an assistant last season, and Hattrup, who will also coach the girls’ basketball team, replace Rob Paules.

Paules was a walk-on coach the past two years. He stepped down because of a scheduling conflict with his full-time job.

Volleyball

Tina Milburn, a June graduate of Moorpark High, has accepted a scholarship from Cal State Los Angeles.

Baseball

The St. Louis Cardinals recalled Dmitri Young, who played at Rio Mesa High in Oxnard, from Louisville of the American Assn.

Young, a first baseman, has never played in the major leagues.

Miscellany

Carroll Holly, a longtime high school administrator in Ventura County, was named athletic director at Thousand Oaks High.

Holly, 57, will replace Jim Martin, who was hired recently as principal at Conejo Valley Continuation School in Newbury Park.

It will be Holly’s third stint at Thousand Oaks. He taught there during the 1972-73 school year, was the dean of students in 1991-92 and the athletic director in 1992-93.

Holly was assistant principal at Los Cerritos Middle School in Thousand Oaks the past three years.

Contributing: Jeff Fletcher, Vince Kowalick, Michael Lazarus, John Ortega, Bryan Rodgers, Tris Wykes, Peter Yoon.