Goossen Headlines at Country Club

Middleweight P.J. Goossen of Van Nuys, a former IBO champion, headlines six bouts tonight at Reseda Country Club when he takes on Stacy Goodson in a 10-round match.

Goossen enters the bout 18-1 with 13 knockouts. Goodson, of Paris, Ark., is 18-18-2 with five knockouts.

There will be three heavyweight bouts on the undercard, including Jimmy “The Stump” Buffo fighting Gerald Pono. The other two heavyweight bouts are Ahmed El Sayed vs. Terry Vernors and John Rizzo vs. Reuben Alvarez.

The other two fights--Eddie Gutierrez vs. Tomas Alaniz and Richard Gonzalez vs. Charles Lucas--are four-round bouts between 160-pounders.

The card starts at 7:30 p.m.

FOOTBALL

Kevin Howard, one of Westlake High’s top receiver-defensive backs last season, has returned to football after earlier telling coaches he would drop the sport to concentrate on baseball.

“He came out [last Saturday] and said he missed [football],” Coach Jim Benkert said.

Howard is considered among the region’s top baseball prospects. His athletic ability strengthens a team that is already deep at the receiver and secondary positions.

Cal State Northridge learned Tuesday that center Beau Cherry is out six to eight weeks with a sprained medial collateral ligament in his left knee suffered in the Matadors’ 26-13 loss at Boise State on Saturday.

The Matadors will learn later this week the extent of defensive tackle Erik Gardner’s knee injury suffered against the Broncos. Gardner sprained his right knee and is out at least three weeks.

Quarterback Justin Mobley and receiver Joe Manning, who led Antelope Valley to the Southern Section Division II semifinals last season, are planning to redshirt at New Mexico, a school spokeswoman said.

The two, who were All-Southern Section selections at Antelope Valley, sat out New Mexico’s 38-9 nonconference victory over Idaho State in the opener on Saturday.

BASEBALL

Former Pepperdine infielder Ryan Radmanovich and former Hart High pitcher Andrew Lorraine were promoted to the Seattle Mariners on Tuesday.

Both had played at triple-A Tacoma, which completed its season Monday.

Former Taft High and Moorpark College outfielder Gabe Kapler finished the minor league season Monday with four Southern League records.

Kapler had a minor league-high 146 runs batted in, 81 extra-base hits, 319 total bases and 47 doubles for Jacksonville, the Detroit Tigers’ double-A affiliate.

Teammate Robert Fick, formerly of Newbury Park and Cal State Northridge, tied Kapler for the league doubles mark.

TRACK AND FIELD

Frances Santin of Cal State Northridge, the 1996 and 1998 City Section champion in the girls’ 300-meter low hurdles for Taft High, is academically ineligible and can’t compete for the Matadors during the 1999 season.

Santin, The Times’ 1998 Valley-Ventura County region girls’ track and field athlete of the year, signed with Northridge in April. She didn’t score high enough on the SAT to be eligible for competition at the NCAA Division I level.

Ika Eliashvili, the 1997 City champion in the girls’ triple jump for Birminghan, is attending Moorpark College and will compete for the Raiders in the spring.

Eliashvili, a native of Georgia in the former Soviet Union, set a school record of 37 feet 10 inches as a junior.

VOLLEYBALL

Northridge outside hitters Laura Szymanski and Kristen Siegel were selected to the Loyola Invitational all-tournament team after leading the Matadors to the tournament title last weekend at Loyola University in Chicago.

Northridge lost to Loyola, 16-14, 15-6, 15-13, in its last match on Sunday, but the Matadors won the five-team, round-robin tournament with a 3-1 record. Bowling Green finished 3-1, but Northridge swept the Falcons, 15-8, 15-7, 15-10.

AUTO RACING

Cory Kruseman of Ventura won the Sprint Car Racing Assn. main event Saturday at Ventura Raceway.

Troy Rutherford of Ojai finished in fourth place. Kruseman is fourth in the SCRA series points standings with 1,302 points. He trails Richard Griffin (1,626 points), Mike Kirby (1,574) and Rip Williams (1,436).

At Mesa Marin Raceway in Bakersfield, Arleta’s Brian Kelley won the NASCAR Winston Racing Series Modified Stock Division main event on Saturday.

Kelley ranks second in the division standings. He has 388 points and trails leader Danny Collins of Bakersfield, who has 412.

Tim Huddleston of Agoura Hills placed fifth and Craig Rayburn of Simi Valley was ninth in the Late Model Division feature race.

Doug McComb of Thousand Oaks won the Super Street Stock Division main event. Dana Moore of Canyon Country finished second and Tim Harris of Sunland was third. Kevin Wood of Valencia finished fourth and Thomas Wilson of San Fernando was fifth.

Wood leads the Super Stock standings with 396 points. Second-place John Cappi of Reseda has 358 points; Moore, 339; Ken Cissne of Arleta, 334 and Harris, 319.

MISCELLANY

Bob Hiegert, Darcy Arreola and Sherdrick Bonner will be inducted into the Cal State Northridge athletic hall of fame on Oct. 2 in a ceremony at The Odyssey restaurant in Granada Hills.

Hiegert was a four-year letterman in baseball at Northridge, then known as San Fernando Valley State College.

He coached the Matadors from 1967-85, guiding them to NCAA Division II titles in 1970 and 1984. Hiegert was the school’s athletic director from 1977-95.

Arreola won the 1,500 meters in the 1991 NCAA Division I track and field championships and placed 12th in the 1990 NCAA cross-country championships.

Bonner earned seven letters in four sports at Northridge. He is the starting quarterback for the Arizona Rattlers of the Arena Football League.

He was a four-year letterman in football, helping Northridge to the Western Football Conference co-championship in 1990. He also lettered in basketball, volleyball and track.