Tarkanian to Coach South All-Star Team That Includes 4 Area Players

Four area junior college basketball players have been chosen to play for the South against the North in an all-star game Saturday at 5 p.m. at the UC Irvine Bren Events Center.

The South squad will be coached by former Nevada Las Vegas Coach Jerry Tarkanian.

Ventura forward Brandon Jessie and point guard Joey Ramirez, Antelope Valley guard Danny Prince and College of the Canyons guard Randy Eason were selected. Jessie and Ramirez will participate only if Ventura is not involved in that night’s state championship final.

Ventura (34-2), ranked No. 1 in the state, will face Consumnes River (22-9) in a first-round game Thursday at 8 p.m. The semifinals are Friday and the championship game will follow the all-star game.

Tarkanian coached Riverside City College to junior college state titles in 1964, ’65 and ‘66, and guided Pasadena City to the state championship in 1967. No other coach has won more than two consecutive state titles.

College Football

Pete Silvey of Mission Viejo and Mark Venturine of Woodland Hills are the newest recruits to commit to play football at Cal State Northridge.

Silvey, a 6-foot-4, 225-pound senior at Mater Dei High, is an outside linebacker. Venturine, a 5-11, 180-pound defensive back, is a senior transfer from Oregon State and currently enrolled at Northridge.

College Baseball

Cal State Northridge utility player Brian Vasey has been suspended from the team for one week for missing last Sunday’s game with UC Santa Barbara.

Vasey, a part-time starter who is batting .282 with three runs batted in, missed the team bus to Santa Barbara because he overslept, Coach Bill Kernen said.

Soccer

Moorpark High boys’ soccer Coach Mike Scanlon has resigned after ending his four years as coach with a Southern Section Division V co-championship.

In Scanlon’s four seasons, the Musketeers went 72-14-11, won two Frontier League championships and were this year’s section co-champions, along with Calabasas. Moorpark was 26-2-2.

Boxing

Fernando Vargas of Oxnard won a 47-37 decision over Fred Neal of Cleveland in the 132-pound preliminaries Tuesday at the U.S. Amateur Boxing Championships at the U. S. Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs, Colo.

College Track and Field

Jason Stein of Cal State Northridge has been selected as the California/Nevada Track and Field Assn. athlete of the week.

Stein, a senior from Oak Park High, ran a personal best of 48.14 seconds to win the 400 meters in Saturday’s meet against Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, UC Irvine and host USC. He also ran legs on the Matador 400 and 1,600 relay teams which finished second with respective times of 41.43 and 3 minutes 12.33 seconds.