Pepperdine Plays Hungarian Squad
Pepperdine will play its final exhibition basketball game at 7 tonight against the Hungarian Select team at Firestone Fieldhouse in Malibu.
The Waves, who open the season Tuesday night at UC Irvine, beat Silute of Lithuania, 88-66, in its first exhibition last week.
Coach Lorenzo Romar said he will start junior Tommie Prince at forward tonight, replacing junior Marc McDowell.
Fit for a tie: An NAIA independent for most of its 35-year existence, Cal Lutheran can clinch a tie for its first conference football title with a victory over visiting Claremont-Mudd in a Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference finale Saturday.
The Kingsmen (4-4, 3-1) have not won a SCIAC title since joining the conference in 1992 and never won while in the Western Football Conference from 1985-1988. Cal Lutheran is tied for first with Redlands and Whittier.
Cropping up: Former La Canada High standout Jason Cropley has helped the Maryland men’s soccer team into this week’s Atlantic Coast Conference postseason tournament in Orlando, Fla.
The fourth-seeded Terrapins (13-4-1, 3-2-1 in conference) play fifth-seeded Clemson today.
Cropley, who helped La Canada win section titles in 1995 and 1996, is tied for second on the team in scoring with 14 points and in goals with five.