Northridge’s Voorhees to Play in First King Jr. Game

Barry Voorhees of Cal State Northridge has been selected to play in the inaugural King All-America Classic football game Jan. 15 at Spartan Stadium in San Jose.

Voorhees, a 6-foot-5, 290-pound offensive guard, will be on a team of 30 Division I-AA, Division II and Division III players who will compete against an all-star squad from Division I schools.

The game, which will be nationally televised, is named in the honor of Martin Luther King Jr. Ronnie Lott, all-pro safety for the San Francisco 49ers, is honorary chairman of the game.

Don Brownlee has been appointed faculty athletic representative at Northridge.

Brownlee, formerly an associate professor in CSUN’s department of speech communication, will represent Northridge at local, regional and national meetings of the National Collegiate Athletic Assn. and the Western Football Conference.

He also will serve as liaison between the administration, faculty and coaches, certify the eligibility of student-athletes and their academic standing and advise student-athletes and their coaches.

Brownlee replaces James Sefton, who will remain a professor of history at CSUN.

Pat Bolden, an All-California Collegiate Athletic Assn. guard for Northridge in 1988, was the final player cut Monday by the Wichita Falls Texans of the Continental Basketball Assn.

The Northridge baseball program, in conjunction with the West Valley School for Severely Handicapped Children, will sponsor a celebrity softball game Sunday at 1:30 p.m. at Matador Field.

Kansas City Royals pitcher Bret Saberhagen, Los Angeles Dodgers catcher Mike Scioscia, Montreal Expos catcher Mike Fitzgerald and former major leaguer Ron Cey will be among the participants.

Chris Burke, co-star of the “Life Goes On” television series, will preside over the event.

Tickets are $5.

Bill Kernen, Northridge baseball Coach, has completed the schedule for 1991, the first year the school will be part of Division I.

The Matadors will play 60 games, 56 of which will be against Division I teams.

“You name ‘em, we play ‘em,” Kernen said.

Twenty of the Matadors’ games will consist of two-to-four game series with each team in the Big West Conference, including Nevada Las Vegas, Fresno State, Cal State Long Beach, UC Santa Barbara, San Jose State, Cal State Fullerton and UC Irvine.

The Matadors also will participate in the Best of the West tournament, which features Washington State, Michigan, Clemson, Arizona State and Fresno.

USC, UCLA, Arizona, Pepperdine, Loyola Marymount and San Diego State also appear on the schedule as well as several other soon-to-be Division I independents such as Cal State Sacramento.

Occidental College placed six players on the All-Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference women’s soccer team.

Hillary Johns, a senior defender, and Jos Bergmann, a junior forward, were first-team selections. Shelly Tibbitts, a sophomore defender, Marti Anderson, a junior midfielder, Suzanne Oppenheimer, a freshman midfielder, and Stacy Roles, a freshman goalkeeper, were second-team picks.

Occidental finished the season 6-7-2 and 6-4 in the SCIAC.

Peter De La Cerda won the 16-19 age group and Karrie King placed sixth in the Women’s Elite Division in the National Biathlon Championships in Phoenix, Ariz., on Sunday.

Competing for Northridge-based Team Vitesse, De La Cerda completed the five-kilometer run, 30-kilometer bike ride, five-kilometer run in 1 hour, 21 minutes, and 17 seconds, while King clocked 1:27:32 on the same course.

The Cal Lutheran Renegades rugby team will play host to a benefit tournament, with proceeds going to the Manna Conejo Valley Food Bank.

Play will begin at 11:30 and the tournament will include teams from Claremont-Mudd and Camp Pendleton.

Admission is $2, $1 for spectators who bring a can of food. All the money will be donated to Manna.