Marriott Out For the Count

The Warner Center Marriott will not host monthly boxing in 1997, a hotel spokesman said Wednesday.

The Marriott was scheduled to resume staging fight cards in February before promoter Roy Englebrecht decided this week to pull out of an agreement to present monthly shows in the hotel’s Grand Ballroom.

Spokesman Brian Nadley said the Marriott’s one-year contract with Englebrecht has been terminated. Moreover, the hotel has no plans to bring back boxing, a monthly event at Warner Center from November 1994 until last June.

“We would entertain the idea [of hosting boxing] in the future,” Nadley said. “But right now, we won’t have it.”

Englebrecht, promoter of a successful monthly boxing program at the Irvine Marriott, said competition from boxing shows at the Reseda Country Club would prevent him from making a profit at Warner Center.

High points: Ventura College’s Sam Turks and Canyons’ Curtis Wills were named men’s basketball players of the week in the Western State Conference Northern and Southern divisions, respectively.

Turks, a point guard transfer from Utah State, scored 33 points in two games. Wills, a sophomore forward from Poly High, scored 41 points in two games.

Canyons’ guard LaCresha Clark was named women’s player of the week in the WSC after scoring 97 points in three games.

College bound: Hart High linebacker Todd Hourigan, a Times All-Valley selection, has committed to play football at Utah.

Nick Yerton of Crescenta Valley High, a Times’ All-Valley offensive lineman, has committed to Northern Arizona.

“I like the area, the closeness to home and the program,” Yerton said.