CSUN Takes Call; Anderson on Hold

Cal State Northridge football recruiting coordinator Jeff Kearin put down the phone Thursday in the Matador coaches’ locker room.

“Anyone heard of a guy named Akil Anderson?” he said.

Area sports fans will remember Anderson as a standout football and basketball player for Montclair Prep the last four years.

Anderson helped the Mountie basketball team win the 1995 State Division V title and the Southern Section Division V-AA title in 1996. In football he rushed for 3,140 yards and 46 touchdowns from 1993 to 1995.

Anderson, 5 feet 10 and 215 pounds, is a freshman football player at Trinity College in Deerfield, Ill., an NAIA Division II school of about 900 students.

The Trojans, coached by former Chicago Bear cornerback Leslie Frazier, are 2-3 this season. Anderson has started three games, carrying 52 times for 271 yards and two touchdowns.

Anderson said he plans to leave after this school year and was calling Kearin to inquire about a transfer to Northridge.

“It’s not that I’m unhappy with Trinity,” Anderson said. “It’s that I come from a very close family and not seeing them every day has been hard.”

Judy Brame, senior associate athletic director, said Anderson, the second youngest of seven children, would not have to sit out a season if he is released from his Trinity scholarship and meets eligibility requirements.

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Benchmark: Zoltan Nagy, the prize 1995 recruit for the Northridge men’s soccer team, suited up for the Matadors’ game against Cal State Fullerton on Thursday night.

But Nagy was on the Fullerton bench.

Nagy, who struggled at Northridge, was 9-8-2 with a 2.05 goals against average and transferred after the season. He has played in one match for Fullerton.

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Goal-oriented: Heather Rolland, a graduate of Newbury Park High and Moorpark College, is the leading scorer on the Cal State Dominguez Hills women’s soccer team.

Rolland’s 14 goals and six assists make her the leading scorer in the California Collegiate Athletic Assn., which the Toros (10-4, 5-1 in conference) lead.