Hill Declared Ineligible to Wrestle for Titans

T.J. Hill, fourth in the NCAA wrestling championships last season at 125 pounds as a freshman at Cal State Fullerton, is academically ineligible to compete for the Titans this season, Coach Ardeshir Asgari said Wednesday.

Asgari said Hill has enrolled at Missouri Valley College in Marshall, Mo., and will need to pass 24 units with a 2.0 grade-point average this year to regain his eligibility.

Asgari said senior Brian Gilliland will take over at 125 pounds.

FOOTBALL

Bernard Fano, the top returning football player at Fountain Valley and a two-way starter, might be out for the season, Coach Eric Johnson said Wednesday.

Fano (6-3, 255) has a bulging disk in his neck that will prevent him from playing tight end and defensive end for the Barons, Johnson said.

“I just don’t know,” Johnson said of a possible return by Fano, who suffered the injury in the Barons’ 24-18 victory over Dana Hills. “I’m looking at it as though the glass is half-empty.”

* Servite’s game at Mountain View St. Francis at 7:30 p.m. Friday can be heard on the Internet by logging onto www.kbzs.com. The Web site is simulcasting a local radio station’s broadcast.

Mater Dei’s game against Loara at 7:30 p.m. Friday will be broadcast by KPLS 830 AM. The radio station will also broadcast the Monarchs’ games against Edison on Sept. 29, Santa Fe Springs St. Paul on Oct. 13, Los Angeles Loyola on Oct. 21, Santa Margarita on Nov. 3 and Bellflower St. John Bosco on Nov. 10.

WATER POLO

UC Irvine, which stunned UCLA, 9-7, in overtime Saturday, moved up three places to No. 2 in this week’s men’s water polo top 20 poll.

California tops the poll, while UCLA fell from No. 1 to No. 5. No. 3 Stanford and No. 4 USC round out the top five, Pepperdine is No. 6 and Long Beach State is tied for seventh with Pacific.

The top 12 teams in the nation compete in the Southern California tournament Saturday and Sunday at Corona del Mar High. In Saturday’s pool play UCI plays No. 9 Navy at 11:20 a.m. and USC at 3:40 p.m.