Championship Games to Be Broadcast on TV

The Southern Section has agreed in principle to have next month’s Division I football championship game on live television and the Division II final shown live on cable.

Channel 9 will carry the Division I final at 7 p.m. on Dec. 12. Fox Sports Net will carry the Division II championship game at 7:30 p.m. Dec. 13. Both games will be played at the Home Depot Center in Carson.

Although contracts have not been signed, a section official said that the total value of the deals is believed to be about $20,000 but could go higher.

The official said Fox Sports, which is in the second year of a three-year agreement with the section, had first rights on the Division I game but passed.

The KCAL deal marks the first live broadcast of a section championship football contest since the 1986 Division I game at the Coliseum was carried by Channel 13.

In a prepared statement, Commissioner Jim Staunton said that the deals were “a great situation for all involved” and that he was happy that the section would be able to share the games with those unable to see them in person.

Paul McLeod

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Gail Goodrich, inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame in 1996, will have his uniform number retired during ceremonies Friday night at Sun Valley Poly High.

Goodrich, 60, who led Poly to the 1961 City championship, is flying in from his home in Greenwich, Conn., for the ceremony that will begin at 6:30 p.m. before an alumni game.

Goodrich played on two NCAA championship teams at UCLA and led the Lakers in scoring during their 1971-72 championship season when they won 33 consecutive games.

Admission is $2 and free for those who bring a can of food.

Jabari Samuel, a 6-foot-7 senior center, and Maurice Walters, a 6-4 senior forward, both former basketball players at Tarzana Stoneridge Prep, were given hardship waivers by the City Section Rules Committee, clearing the way for them to play this season at Woodland Hills Taft.

Santa Fe Springs St. Paul leading rusher Dwight Tardy is probably out for the season because of a broken ankle suffered during a 28-7 victory over La Canada St. Francis on Nov. 13.

Tardy has rushed for 599 yards and eight touchdowns for St. Paul, seeded No. 2 in the Southern Section Division III playoffs.

Eric Sondheimer

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Four Southern Section first-round playoff games have been moved to Thursday night from Friday.

Walnut will play Orange at Orange El Modena High at 7 p.m. in a Division VIII game. In Division IX, Santa Ana Century plays Irvine Northwood at Irvine High at 7 p.m. Acton Vasquez plays Mammoth at Bishop High at 7:30 p.m. in Division XII. In Division XIII, Riverside California School for the Deaf plays Capistrano Valley Christian at a site to be determined.