COLLEGE NOTEBOOK: CSUN RUNS TO EARLY LEAD.Byline: SCOTT FRENCH Staff Writer Cal State Northridge heads into this weekend's Big West Conference track and field championships, on the Matadors' track, with an early lead in the women's competition. La'Shana Verdon and Brittany Ricketts finished 1-2 in the heptathlon heptathlon: see under decathlon. heptathlon Women's athletics competition. Contestants take part in seven different track-and-field events: 100-m hurdles, shot put, high jump, long jump, javelin throw, and 200- and 800-m runs. to give CSUN CSUN California State University Northridge 17points. In the decathlon, Justin Johnson finished second as the Matadors claimed eight points in the first weekend. Action begins at 9 a.m. Friday at CSUN for field events and 2:30 p.m. on the track, and Saturday at noon and 3 p.m. Home regionals: The area's four ranked college tennis teams are home for NCAA NCAA abbr. National Collegiate Athletic Association Division I regional play this weekend, with Pepperdine staging men's and women's regionals at Ralph-Straus Tennis Center in Malibu. The women's quartet, with UCLA UCLA University of California at Los Angeles UCLA University Center for Learning Assistance (Illinois State University) UCLA University of Carrollton, TX and Lower Addison, TX , San Diego State and Wichita State, is slated for Friday and Saturday, with the men (playing host to San Diego, Montana State and TCU (Transmission Control Unit) A communications control unit controlled by the computer that does not execute internally stored programs. Contrast with front end processor, which executes its own instructions. ) playing Saturday and Sunday. USC's third-ranked women will play host to Army, Long Beach State and New Mexico at Marks Stadium, and UCLA's 10th-ranked men welcome Stony Brook, Arizona and Colorado to L.A. Tennis Center. Regional winners head to Stanford for the May 18-23 championships, with the individual tournament slated for May 23-29. The JCs: Pierce College's Alexandra Rogers won the 50-and 100-meter backstrokes at the state swimming championships, and Jessica Chen finished second in the 100 freestyle. ... College of the Canyons College of the Canyons is one of the fastest-growing community colleges in the state. According to the National Junior College Research Association, College of the Canyons consistently ranks in the top 50 community colleges in the nation. won its fourth state men's golf title Monday. Damian Yi finished second, Joe Greiner fourth and Alex Paek sixth to claim all-state honors. ... Eighth-seeded Pierce plays host Saturday and Sunday to Santa Ana in a best-of-three first-round series in the state baseball playoffs. ... Moorpark College qualified 40 for the SoCal Regional track and field finals Friday and Mt.San Antonio College, 30 in throwing events. Top qualifying marks were posted by Tai Battle in the women's discus and hammer throw, Aubrey Baxter in the women's shot put, Robert Hogan in the men's hammer throw, Nick Bawden in the men's javelin and Rex Bridgeforth in the men's triple jump. Antelope Valley's Krystal Quinn had the top mark in the women's 400. ... The three-day state tennis championships begin today at Glendale College. ... Antelope Valley opens Friday against West Valley, Northern California's top seed, at the state softball championships in Redding. Also: The Master's won the NAIA NAIA abbr. National Association of Intercollegiate Athletes Region II men's golf title for the third time in fouryears, outdistancing the competition by 18 strokes behind medalist Andrew Lawson. The Mustangs compete next week at the national championships in Olathe, Kan. ... UCLA is seeded second and USC An abbreviation for U.S. Code. sixth for the NCAA Division I men's golf East Regional next week in Orlando, Fla. Pepperdine and Loyola Marymount will compete in the West Regional at Tucson, Ariz. ... Occidental reached the Collegiate III women's water polo title game for the fourth time in nine years, falling 10-6 to SCIAC SCIAC SIGINT Correlation Integration & Analysis Capability rival Redlands, which captured its third title in five seasons. ... Cal Lutheran hired Kellee Roesel as women's volleyball coach. Roessel, who has been an assistant at Moorpark College, replaces Greg Gibbons, who departed to become an assistant coach at UC Santa Barbara. scott.french(at)dailynews.com (818) 713-3627 |
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