Carder Will Seek Probe of Canyons

Brent Carder, football coach at Antelope Valley College, said Tuesday he plans to file a request with the state commissioner’s office for an investigation into alleged illegal recruiting violations by College of the Canyons.

Carder said three of his assistants told him they saw Coach Chuck Lyon of Canyons and assistant Leon Criner talking to players on the field after an all-star high school football game at Antelope Valley College on June 12.

Canyons, which fielded a football team for the first time in 17 years last season, is not allowed to recruit players in the Antelope Valley recruiting area unless players from high schools in that area make contact with coaches first. Even if that occurs, coaches cannot speak to potential recruits within another school’s recruiting boundaries.

Sue Bozman, a spokesperson for Canyons, said Dr. Dianne Van Hook, school president, began an internal investigation into the alleged violations after they were brought to her attention earlier this month, but said, “It would be inappropriate to comment on the details or facts at this time.”

Lyon, who guided Canyons to a 7-4 record and a postseason bowl berth last year, said he wasn’t at the all-star game because he was fishing at a lake in the Sierra Nevada the night of the game.

TENNIS

* Gene Malin of Woodland Hills and Anand Amritraj of Calabasas won the doubles championship of the U.S. Tennis Assn.’s Men’s 45 Hardcourt National Championships on Sunday at Westlake Tennis and Swim Club.

Malin and Amritraj, seeded second, defeated fifth-seeded Larry Belinsky of Rancho Santa Fe and Bob Wright of Temecula, 6-3, 7-6 (7-3), in the final. They beat third-seeded Wesley Jackson of Albuquerque, N.M., and Wendell Pierce of Oakland, 7-6 (9-7), 6-4, in the semifinals Saturday. Jackson and Pierce went on to finish third.

Malin, defending singles champion, wound up fifth after falling to Pete Kelly of Palm Springs, 4-6, 6-0, 7-6 (8-6), in the quarterfinals.

GOLF

* Anthony Kim of Studio City was medalist in U.S. Junior Amateur qualifying Monday at Woodland Hills Country Club.

Kim, 14, a Campbell Hall student, shot 72-70--142, two over par.

Kim and Greg Wells of Glendora, who finished at 143, advanced to the U.S. Junior Amateur Championship at Country Club of York in York, Pa., on July 27-31.

ICE SKATING

* Andrey Chua, 12, of Sun Valley won the North American Challenge Skate Series title last weekend in Dallas, Texas.

Chua, who skates for the North Hills Figure Skating Club at the Burbank Iceoplex, finished second in the short program and won the long-program competition to beat out Louann Donovan of Medford, Mass., for the overall title.

HOCKEY

* The Luc Robitaille Celebrity Hockey Game will be played Monday at 7 p.m. at the Iceoplex in North Hills.

The event will include a blood drive in honor of Troy Mikolyski, a 19-year-old with leukemia.

Anyone who donates a pint of blood between 11 a.m. and 5 p.m. Monday will be admitted free.

Expected to play are Robitaille and Rob Blake of the Kings and actors Scott Bakula, Mark Paul Gosselaar and Cuba Gooding Jr.

BASKETBALL

* Alemany, Crespi, Notre Dame, Valencia and Crescenta Valley are among 16 boys’ teams in the San Fernando Valley Referees’ Assn. tournament today through Saturday at Crespi High.

Games will be played from 11 a.m.-8 p.m.

MISCELLANY

* Oxnard High has hired Tom Parizo as its athletic director.