OTHER SPORTS : Pierce Tennis Team Faces Tougher Test

After his Pierce College men’s tennis team had mowed down another Western State Conference opponent, this time a 9-0 victory over Moorpark on Tuesday, Coach Paul Xanthos looked forward to stiffer competition.

He won’t have to wait long. Pierce (4-1) plays at UCLA on Monday and plays host to Notre Dame a week later. Also scheduled are two matches at Hawaii.

Pierce, the top-ranked community college tennis team in the state, is not likely to win any of those matches. “We’ll play the latter end of UCLA’s varsity team and their junior varsity,” Xanthos said. “They won’t throw the entire junior varsity at us because they don’t like to lose.”

Losing is something Xanthos probably won’t have to worry about during the WSC season. Moorpark managed to win just 14 games in 18 sets Tuesday, and Xanthos expects much of the same from future conference opponents.

“Over the final two weeks of the season, the best competition we’ll probably get is in practice,” he said.

CLU staffer: Steve Hagen has joined the Kingsmen football staff as an assistant coach. Hagen was an NAIA All-American for CLU in 1982.

Ten more to the top 10: The season is young, but several Northridge track and field athletes have etched their names onto the school’s all-time top 10 lists.

In the team’s first California Collegiate Athletic Assn. meet last week against Cal State Los Angeles and UC Riverside, three Matador men, six women and one women’s relay team registered top 10 efforts.

For the men’s team, Willie Hannon leaped 49-3 in the triple jump, sixth in school history; freshman Tyrone Jeffries clocked 53.09 in the 400 intermediate hurdles and Dan Lange tossed the hammer 174-10, marks that are both ninth on the school list.

For the women’s team, Terri Davidson jumped 39-6 3/4 in the triple jump (third best), Lolita Pile jumped 38-11 1/2 in the triple jump (fifth), Gina Bevic threw the discus 132-3 (seventh), Noreen Flynn leaped 5-6 in the high jump (tied for seventh), Darcy Arreola ran 1,500 meters in 4:31.98 (eighth), Colleen Gainey tossed the javelin 126-10 (ninth), and the 400-meter relay team clocked 47.78 (ninth).

Iron woman: Renee Hambree of Moorpark College finished second in the triple jump on Friday in a tri-meet against Ventura and Cuesta. But she finished first in the long jump, shotput, javelin, 110-meter hurdles, and 100- and 200-meter sprints.

It was the second time this season that Hambree has won six events in a single meet. Moorpark is 4-0.