Northridge’s Nargi Ineligible for Season

Cal State Northridge recruit Joe Nargi is an academic non-qualifier and will sit out the men’s volleyball season.

Nargi, the Times’ regional player of the year at Taft High, did not receive an eligible SAT score.

The 6-foot-7 opposite hitter, a key member of Northridge’s recruiting class, will be a full-time student at Northridge and likely have only three years of eligibility.

Former Royal assistant coach Mike Bisutti was selected to coach the La Canada High boys’ volleyball team. Bisutti had spent the last three seasons at Royal.

SOFTBALL

At the request of a spokesman for a group of supporters that want Al Weil reinstated as the Hart High coach, the William S. Hart Union School District board delayed discussion on the matter until the Sept. 9 board meeting.

Weil, who did not attend the Wednesday meeting, resigned in July after 13 seasons but has since asked the school’s principal for his job back. Tom Fortune, who has a daughter on the varsity team, had asked the board to have a public discussion regarding the situation.

“The district is considering information in this matter, and it would be inappropriate to address it at this time,” said Stephen Lueke, who has a daughter in the Hart program and addressed the board.

SOCCER

Brothers Lucas and Marcos Bongarra scored goals to lead The Master’s College to a 4-1 season-opening victory over Cal State Dominguez Hills on Wednesday.

The Bongarras’ goals gave Master’s a 2-0 halftime lead. Curtis Lewis and Anthon Brueggeman scored in the second half.

CROSS-COUNTRY

Sam Harvey, an assistant cross-country and track and field coach at Occidental College and a former principal at Glendale High, died of an apparent heart attack at his La Crescenta home over the weekend. He was 75.

Harvey was the principal at Glendale High from 1970-91 and the school’s baseball field was named in his honor after he retired.

A memorial service will be held at the Occidental track stadium on Aug. 31 at 5 p.m.

GOLF

Mitch Voges of Simi Valley, who led the U.S. Amateur Championship Monday after a first-round 68, shot a 78 Tuesday in the second round and missed the cut by one shot after the rain-delayed round was completed Wednesday at Oak Hill Country Club in Rochester, N.Y.

Jason Semelsberger of Newhall (75-72), Craig Steinberg of Van Nuys (77-73) and Oliver Rheinfurth of Northridge (78-77) also missed the cut.

Linda-Chen Olsen of Granada Hills and Linda Pearson of La Canada Flintridge advanced to the semifinals of the Southern Championship with match-play victories at The Victoria Club in Riverside.

Olsen defeated Jody Duclos of Moorpark, 2 and 1, and will play Candace Meyers of Glendora in one semifinal. Pearson, a 3 and 2 winner over Karen Mabli of Palos Verdes, will play Joan Higgins of Glendora.