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Friday, 2/28/97

Sports Briefs

Outdoor track season opens

The UCLA men's and women's track and field teams will host a quadrangular meet this Saturday at Drake Stadium.

Visiting Drake will be teams from UC Santa Barbara, Long Beach State and Cal State Los Angeles. The meet kicks off at 11:30 a.m.

Seven Bruins will not participate in the home meet because they will be competing elsewhere. Freshman thrower Seilala Sua, sophomore sprinters Joanna Hayes and Andrea Anderson and juniors Bisa Grant and Jocelyn Chase will compete in Atlanta at the U.S. Indoor Nationals. Joining the women in Atlanta will be junior pole vaulter Scott Slover. Meanwhile, thrower Wade Tift will compete in an indoor meet tonight in Laramie, Wyoming.

Doubles teams in action for UCLA

Evidently, the spoils really do go to the winners.

The UCLA men's tennis team, which is likely to assume the number one ranking in the nation by virtue of their victory last weekend at the Team Indoors in Louisville, has taken the better part of the week off and will continue to bask in their glory over the weekend.

The only action for the team over the weekend will be a pair of doubles teams heading to La Jolla for the Pacific Coast Doubles tournament. Alex Decret and Jason Cook will form one team, while Jason Thompson will pair up with former Bruin Heath Montgomery.

The team will resume dual match action next week.

Minnesota hosts baseball tourney

UCLA baseball will travel to Minnesota this weekend to partcipate in the Hormel Foods Classic. There the second-ranked Bruins (17-2-1) will take on three non-conference teams.

Winning all three games is very important to the Bruins, as head coach Gary Adams needs just three wins to become UCLA's all-time winningest baseball coach.

In his 23 years at UCLA Adams has raked in 745 wins so far and is looking to eclipse the record held by Art Richie who won 747 games in 30 years of coaching the team.

Bruin Classic to be held Sunday

The eighth-ranked UCLA women's gymnastics team will host ninth-ranked Washington, Boise State, and Cal State Fullerton in the Bruin Classic this Sunday at 2 p.m. in Pauley Pavilion. The Bruins are fired up and rearing to go after last week's huge victory over three ranked teams at the Magical Classic in Florida.

Junior All-American Stella Umeh is back in top form and is expected to compete. She placed second on both beam and floor last week, after sitting out a month with a shoulder injury.

Freshman Heidi Moneymaker's status is still uncertain, as she suffers from a nagging ankle injury and did not compete in last week's Magical Classic.

Compiled from Daily Bruin Staff reports.

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