Nogales, Pomona Suspend Players

Fifteen Nogales players and five Pomona players were suspended by their schools for games this week after a second-quarter fight that ended the game between the teams Friday. Nogales plays host to Montclair on Friday, and Pomona plays host to Torrance on Saturday.

Pomona led Nogales, 15-0, and was awarded a forfeit victory after a brawl ensued following a Pomona touchdown.

The trouble began as Pomona kicked off after the score, then kicked off again because of off-setting penalties. Nogales fullback Matthew Matavao was penalized on the consecutive plays for roughing kicker Noe Casillas.

Matavao was ejected, but the teams brawled in front of the Nogales sideline on the next play, a third kickoff. When the fight was broken up, referees called the game.

“We’ve got a couple kids, who as soon as they saw the fight, they took off from the sidelines before we could grab them,” Nogales Coach Tim Silvett said. The suspensions left Nogales with 18 varsity players eligible for this week.

Mike Bresnahan

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Henry Liaw, the Hacienda Heights Los Altos golfer who shot 58 at Alhambra Golf Course as a 12-year old in 1999, has committed to Arizona.

Liaw, 16, was the 2001 U.S. Junior Amateur champion and is a four-time Junior World Champion, three-time junior All-American and two-time Southern California junior player of the year.

Peter Yoon

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Junior Katie Gose of Thousand Oaks La Reina is expected to run in the first Tri-Valley League cross-country meet of the season Thursday after missing the Bell-Jeff Invitational on Saturday with an injured ankle.

Gose, who finished eighth in 3,200 meters in the state track and field championships in June, turned an ankle while running in the Mt. Carmel Invitational in San Diego on Sept. 21.

John Ortega