Report: JC football player Villafuerte commits to
UCLA Santa Ana College offensive lineman Marc
Villafuerte orally committed to UCLA on Monday according
to BruinReportOnline.com. Villafuerte, at 6-foot-4-inches and 300
pounds, was an all-CIF performer while at Canyon High (Anaheim) and
made the preseason JC Gridwire All-American “One to
Watch” list. “He committed last night to UCLA,”
Santa Ana College coach Geoff Jones told BruinReportOnline.com.
Junior college football players have rarely been recruited by UCLA
in the past.
WOMEN’S GOLF: The UCLA women’s golf
team is tied for second, only one shot behind leader California
after two rounds at the Edean Ihlanfeldt Invitational in Seattle,
Wash. The Bruins have a two-day total of 592 (16-over par) and are
tied with Arizona State. Individually, Bruin Susie
Mathews is second overall with a 2-over par 144. The final
round is today. The Bruins tee off at 10:25 a.m.
ALUMNI: The U.S. House of Representatives
recognized UCLA alumnus Jackie Robinson on Tuesday
as an athlete, civil rights activist and businessman, approving by
voice vote legislation to award a Congressional Gold Medal to the
late baseball star who broke the major league’s color
barrier. “As a kid Jackie Robinson to me was just
baseball,” said Rep. Peter King, R-N.Y., who saw him play
with the Brooklyn Dodgers. “As you get older you realize the
incredible pressure he was under.” A four-sport letterman at
UCLA, Robinson became the major league’s first black player
since the 19th century when he played for the Dodgers on April 15,
1947. He retired after 10 years, winning one World Series with the
Dodgers.
MEN’S BASKETBALL: The 3-point line in
college basketball is about to be moved 9 inches farther from the
basket beginning in the 2004-2005 season. Barring unexpected
dissent by the NCAA’s two smallest divisions, the new line
will be set at 20 feet, 6 inches. The championships committees of
all three divisions decided to keep the rectangular free throw
lane, rejecting a switch to the trapezoidal lane used
internationally.
WOMEN’S SOCCER: UCLA’s
Sarah-Gayle Swanson was named the Pac-10 Player of
the Week on Tuesday. Swanson scored the game-winning goal with :03
left in a 1-0 win over UNLV on Oct. 3.
With reports by The Associated Press