Doing a Number on Year

0

Appendectomies underwent by Cal State Northridge running back Shayne Blakey. One fewer than Coach Dave Baldwin said.

1

Parents who allegedly pushed Harvard-Westlake water polo Coach Rich Corso into a pool, resulting in criminal charges being filed.

1.62

Earned-run average for Kennedy High right-hander Derek Morse, who had a 15-0 record and was on the Dodger Stadium mound when the Golden Cougars won the City Section 4-A Division title for the second consecutive season.

2

LPGA Tour events won by Emilee Klein, a 1992 graduate of Notre Dame High, in only her second year as a professional.

3

Teams at Van Nuys High--girls’ volleyball, boys’ soccer and football--found guilty of City Section rules violations, resulting in the school’s entire athletic program being placed on probation for one year.

4

Football teams picked ahead of Camarillo High by Marmonte League coaches before the Scorpions went 13-1 and won the Southern Section Division III championship behind quarterback Joe Borchard.

8

Games forfeited by Oxnard High’s football team for using an ineligible player. The Yellowjackets were 8-0-2 on the field but officially 2-8.

10

National junior tennis championships for twins Mike and Bob Bryan of Camarillo, who captured two national events in 1996.

10.4

Yards per carry for Notre Dame junior running back Justin Fargas, who ran for 2,945 yards and 34 touchdowns in 14 games.

13

Home runs hit by Northridge in a baseball game against Fresno State, setting an NCAA Division I record.

18

Consecutive losses by the Pierce College football team, a streak that started in 1995.

20

Consecutive Mission League victories in the past four years by Notre Dame High’s football team.

27

Years Darryl Stroh coached baseball at Granada Hills High before resigning.

42

Consecutive victories for the Ventura College women’s basketball team, which won the state title with a 35-0 record in 1995-96, before the streak was snapped in December at a tournament.

46

Career home runs hit by Northridge softball player Scia Maumausolo, third on the NCAA’s all-time list.

50

Consecutive victories for the La Canada boys’ soccer team after winning its second consecutive Southern Section Division IV title in March.

51

Stolen bases in one season by Nicole Giordano, who scored from second base on a ground out in Saugus High’s 1-0 victory over Woodbridge for the Southern Section Division II softball title.

56

Percent increase in women’s scholarships at Northridge from 1995-96 to 1996-97, necessary to maintain gender equity in a program that had added 20 football scholarships.

111

Receptions by St. Bonaventure receiver Pepe Villasenor, a Southern Section record.

121

Hits by Northridge shortstop Adam Kennedy, a total that led the nation.

6,618

Fans who showed up to The Hangar in Lancaster expecting to see Seattle Mariner ace Randy Johnson make a rehabilitation start for the JetHawks. Johnson’s start was scratched by doctors earlier that afternoon.

9,840

Yards passing in three seasons for Newbury Park quarterback Chris Czernek, who became the nation’s first high school quarterback to have two 4,000-yard seasons.

$415,000

Dollars the Atlanta Braves gave Cleveland High shortstop Junior Brignac to sign, making him the highest-paid, third-round pick in the draft.

$4 million

Estimated dollars in the contract Oxnard boxer Fernando Vargas signed with Main Events Productions in August.