Northridge Suspends McCain

Guard Marco McCain of Cal State Northridge has been suspended by Coach Bobby Braswell for violating “team academic standards” and will not travel with the Matadors for Thursday’s Big Sky Conference game at Northern Arizona.

Braswell declined to elaborate, except to say that McCain is not academically ineligible.

“He is indefinitely suspended until I feel he has corrected what he needs to correct,” Braswell said.

McCain, 6-foot-3 senior from Long Beach Jordan High, ranks fourth among the Matadors at seven points a game.

FOOTBALL

* Ron Wilford has been hired on Coach Tim Lins’ staff at Moorpark High as defensive coordinator.

Wilford, coached the Musketeers to a Division X championship in 1997. He spent the last two seasons coaching at Pierce College.

GOLF

* The Los Angeles Recreation and Parks Golf Advisory Committee will meet today at Sepulveda Golf Complex in Encino to discuss the future of the facility.

Family Golf Centers, which operates the pro shop and driving range at Sepulveda where the city’s Encino and Balboa courses are located, has been found in default of a promised $1.67 million renovation project.

The committee is expected to make recommendations for solutions to the L.A. Board of Recreation and Parks Commissioners, which will meet next Wednesday.

BASEBALL

* Tickets go on sale at 9 a.m. Jan. 27 for an exhibition game April 2 between the Arizona Diamondbacks and its California League affiliate Lancaster JetHawks.

The JetHawks host the Diamondbacks at 3:05 p.m.

Tickets are $15 for dugout box, $13 for box, $11 for reserved and $8 for grass.

Information: (661) 726-5400.