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C14 SUNDAY, OCTOBER 13, 1996 LOS ANGELES TIMES C3 Li THE HIGH SCHOOLSSTEVE HENSON Trade Secrets Take Back Seat on Long Drive ran I III i I I i ft. 1 4 I I 1 'f St. I I T) I i 1 -1 i' umm imwmm i 1. TET Baa I it I i "ZZTn mwii. Vvd JTTr; i Mike Anger and John Gonzalez will meet this morning for their long drive to UC Irvine, but conversation will be curtailed.

No secrets will be shared. Anger, Camarillo's top receiver, and Gonzalez, Simi Valley's best all-around player, are longtime club soccer teammates. They play for the Cerritos Brigade on weekends in the fall, and car pool to practice and games. Their motors will be running this Friday night as well when Camarillo faces Simi Valley in a Marmonte League football game. Gonzalez, a cornerback-wide receiver-punter-kicker-kick returner, will cover Anger, who leads the league with 43 receptions for 601 yards and seven touchdowns.

"It takes more than an hour to get to Irvine and we usually just talk about football," Anger said. "Last week, we had played Newbury Park and Simi was about to play them, so we exchanged everything we knew about them." Gonzalez's first instinct is to take it easy on Anger. But, on second thought. "He's my soccer teammate and I don't want him to get hurt," he said. "Of course, I can't let him beat me for a touchdown.

Then I'd be angry." Anger frequently angers defenders. After not playing football as a sophomore, he was convinced to play by quarterback Joe Borchard last season and soon developed into a consistent threat. In Camarillo's 41-35 victory over Agoura on Friday night, in which the Scorpions overcame a 35-7 third-quarter deficit, Anger had three touchdowns among his nine catches for 136 yards. A week earlier, he had 11 catches for 138 yards in a 27-20 upset of Newbury Park. Bragging rights were Gonzalez's for the first few weeks of the season when Simi Valley opened 2-1 and Camarillo was 1-2.

Lately, however, he has been frustrated. In the Pioneers' 40-21 loss to Newbury Park on Friday, Gonzalez dashed 54 yards for a touchdown on a counter play in the first quarter. He also caught a 20-yard touchdown pass later on, but he was puzzled that his coaches never called the counter again. "We ran the play that's supposed to set it up three times and I kept waiting for the counter, but it never came," he said. Gonzalez is Simi Valley's leading scorer with 41 points on four touchdowns, two field goals and 11 extra points.

Anger is Camarillo's leading scorer with 42 points. So who scores the most in soccer? Neither. Anger plays fullback, a defensive position, and Gonzalez, as he does in football, is a utility player. Safety Doug Varner of Cal State Northridge throws down Roger Cook of Weber State for a sack on a blitz dunng the second half of Matadors' 35-28 upset victory, Pie in Big Sky for Northridge second half. He was instrumental in three toucH(dwn drives in excess of 75 yards.

"The O-line, what can you say about them," Clarke said. "We've got big guys up front and they blewJioles open. They just stepped it up and did their job. Witligyt the line, the back couldn't do nothing." Said left guard Toma Popescus "We weren't picking up their stunts in the first half. They were stunting everyone.

In the second half, we said 'We can pick this up. It's not that hard. All we got to do is get back to Northridge's comeback began with 5 minutes 43 seconds left in the third quarter when Bennie Herron returned his fourth interception of the season 27 yards for his second touchdown in as many weeks. The score pulled Northridge to within 21-14. On the Matadors' next possession, Clarke carried the ball three times for 39 yards and David Romines caught a 28-yard floater from quarterback 'Aaron Flowers for a touchdown, tying the score.

Please see CSUNi CIS doubled last season's victory total and won in the conference for the first "These guys started to believe three weeks ago when we beat New Mexico State," Coach Dave Baldwin said, hoarse from celebrating. "At halftime trailing, 21-7 I said we still believe. These guys are not intimated by anybody on the road. "We're here. You can no longer say Northridge isn't a team." The Matadors fell behind by two touchdowns on two turnovers that led directly to points for the Wildcats Weber State went with a three-man front to stop Northridge's passing game, which led Division I-AA, and were still able to shut down the Matadors' run with stunts and trick defenses.

But the Matadors, who wore "I believe" T-shirts under their uniforms, made a key adjustment on the offensive line switching from zone to man-to-man blocking. That keyed Clarke to 111 yards rushing in the Football: Matadors rally from 14-point deficit at halftime to upset Weber State, 35-28. By JEFF FLETCHER TIMES STAFF WRITER OGDEN, Utah Cal State Northridge players and coaches ran around like children, whooping and hollering as if they had just won the biggest game in the program's history. Oh yeah, they had. Northridge scored 28 consecutive second-half points and Norman Clarke, who began his college career at Weber State, took his anger out on his former teammates with 171 yards rushing, leading Northridge to a 35-28 upset of the 21st-ranked Wildcats on Saturday before 10,503 fans at Wildcat Stadium.

Northridge (4-2, 1-1 in the Big Sky Conference), Loyola Suffers From Hart-Burn in 24-10 Setback M-- Ik i iKlLPi "izur By DANA HADDAD TIMES STAFF WRITER Howard's an end: Jim Benkert's words must have been music to Larry Howard's ears: "We're going to bring Kevin along slowly." Larry, Kevin Howard's father and a jazz musician, voiced concern during the summer that his multitalented son was being pulled in too many directions. Kevin's schoolwork suffered last year when he played varsity basketball at Crespi, and it improved only marginally when he transferred to Westlake and played varsity baseball. As a freshman. Now, fresh off helping the Thousand Oaks Little League 15-year-old team win the national championship in August, Howard is playing junior varsity football. He is dominant, having scored 11 touchdowns as a wide receiver and kick returner.

But Benkert, Westlake's coach, has resisted promoting Howard to his top-ranked Warrior varsity. "He could play varsity, anybody can see that," Benkert said. "But there are other considerations. From the standpoint of developing our program, and from the standpoint of him learning the game without undue pressure, he is fine where he is." Westlake has strong receivers in Joey Cuppari and Elliot Kane. And Howard is establishing a bond with junior varsity quarterback Michael Field, whose father, Bobby Field, is assistant head coach at UCLA.

The Warrior program is strong from top to bottom: The varsity is 5-0, the junior varsity is 4-1 and the freshmen are 5-0. Photoe by TYRONE TURNER For The Times Glendale has Moorpark's Lawrence Lovett surrounded after he caught a pass in Raiders' 24-0 victory. i Moorpark Steams Past Glendale, 24-0 Sidelined: Nordhof running back Russell Farrar will miss one to three weeks after suffering a sprained ankle Friday night against Bishop Diego. GLENDALE Hart High wide receiver Cody Joyce was jumping up and down and yelling so loudly bis voice was splitting. "Yea, baby.

Go Hart. Yea!" Go Hart, indeed. Thanks to some big plays by Joyce, Hart Tipset Loyola, 24-10, Saturday night at Glendale High. Loyola was No. 3 in the state, having beaten tour opponents by an average score of 39-8.

The Indians (3-2), defending Southern Section Division II champions, felt thty had something jo prove after splitting their first four games. "I wanted to beat these guys bad," said Joyce, who had seven receptions for 136 yards. "This takes away our two losses as far as I'm concerned. "That was a new, young team working through the kinks. And this proves it." The Indians put together two impressive drives, committed only one penalty for one yard and twice stopped the Cubs on fourth down in a 14-3 first If Loyola didn't know trouble had arrived by then, there was no question after the third quarter, "When the Cubs committed three of four turnovers two fumbles and an interception.

The Indians stuffed John Hilvert on a fake punt early in the game and needed only four plays tQ.n)ake it 7-0. Travis Carroll hit Joyce on a slant pass that went 40 yards for a touchdown. Loyola moved to the Hart 11 in the second quarter but settled for Mike MacGillivray's 28-yard field goat! When Hart got the ball back, Joyce was The 6-foot-2, 185-pound senior leaped for a 17-yard reception, then caught a Carroll bomb on the next play to give Hart first and goal at the five. Carroll ran it in from there. Loyola managed 162 yards of offense in the half, but the Indians got tough inside the 20.

With Todd Hourigan, Nate McAfee and Toby Coe making stops on successive plays, Hart turned back Loyola on fourth down at the four with 2:27 left in the half. In the third quarter, a fumble by Stephen Faulk led to an 11-yard, Carroll-to-Scott Collins touchddwn pass and a 21-3 lead. After a fumble by Hilvert, Greg Collalejo kicked a 22-yard field goal early in the fourth quarter to putlhe game out of reach. By FERNANDO DOMINGUEZ TIMES STAFF WRITER GLENDALE That steamroller at one end of the Glendale High football stadium sure proved a bad omen for Glendale College. Moorpark, behind its trademark strong defense, flattened the Vaqueros, 24-0, Saturday in a Western State Conference interdivisional game.

The Raiders (4-1) controlled the line of scrimmage, particularly on defense, and penetrated at will to repeatedly keep Glendale (2-3) in poor field position. "We are just very quick on defense," said Jim Bittner, Moorpark coach. "It's a different speed level when you play against us." Moorpark outgained the Vaqueros, 386 yards to 153, and forced four turnovers, all interceptions. Dewayne Mathis had his third and fourth interceptions, and Kerry Miller and Terrance Petty each had one. The Raiders sacked Aryn Hart four times and allowed Glendale to cross midfield only three times.

"This was the first time our offense was slowed down," said John Cicuto, Glendale coach. Glendale was averaging 397.8 yards and 30.5 points but Moorpark limited Hart to 10-of-22 passing for 79 yards and three interceptions, and kept running backs Ramone Archie, who had 31 yards, and Rahsaan Harrison, who had 71, in check. Archie, who entered the game with 516 yards rushing, second-best in the WSC, was hampered by a Easy money: "Lancerpalooza," the comedy and musical performance headlined by Drew Carey and Bruce Baum last Sunday at the Thousand Oaks Civic Arts Plaza, raised about $13,000 for Thousand Oaks High's athletic programs, according to organizer Lenny Ciufo. The football program alone made about $6,600. About half of the 1,800 seats were filled, so even more funds could have been raised.

Next year, they'll try again, perhaps with comedian Michael Richards of "Seinfeld" on the bill. Richards is a Thousand Oaks High graduate. "Some of the sports programs got behind it more than others," Ciufo said. "This has the potential to make $30,000 or so." Around Thousand Oaks, anybody who failed to support "Lancerpalooza" should refrain from complaining about the rigors of fund-raising or the cost of playing a sport. Scott Boldvich of Glendale leaps above Galus Mathis of Moorpark but can't hold onto a pass.

groin injury he suffered several weeks ago and aggravated in a loss to Valley on Oct. 5. "The passing game loosens up the running game," Cicuto said. "A team like Moorpark is just going to load up against the run." Moorpark used one of the interceptions to set up its first touchdown, a five-yard run by Ivan McCrae with 7:28 left in the first quarter. Please see MOORPARK, C15.