NOTEBOOK : Pasadena City, Area Tennis Teams at Ojai

The Pasadena City College men’s tennis team, which won a share of its first conference title in Myron Tarkanian’s 16th season as coach, is competing in the 93rd annual Ojai tennis tournament this week.

The Lancers, who tied Cerritos for the South Coast Conference championship with an 8-2 record, are 13-3 overall.

Seedings for the Southern California regional playoffs that begin Monday will be announced in Ojai.

Cal Poly Pomona, Mt. San Antonio and Citrus are also participating in the Ojai tournament, which will begin today with 750 matches.

The Ojai tournament features traditions such as free cups of Ojai Valley orange juice and ladies serving tea and butter cookies under a canopy. This year, 550 volunteers will participate in activities related to the tournament.

Stan Smith, Jimmy Connors, Helen Wills Moody and Billie Jean King are among the players who have competed at Ojai.

Fast track--Angel Martinez of San Gabriel High won the invitational 1,500 meters Sunday at the Mt. San Antonio College Relays in a national-best time of 3 minutes 50.47 seconds.

A day earlier, San Gabriel came up short in its bid to improve its national-leading mark of 10:18.18 in the boys’ distance medley despite a personal-best 4:11.6 by Martinez in his 1,600-meter leg. The Matadors finished third in 10:24.57. San Pasqual won in 10.19.73 and Palos Verdes Peninsula was second in 10:20.96.

“I was disappointed that we lost and didn’t run faster in the distance medley, but I am happy with the my time,� Martinez said. “I just wanted to go out and have fun (on Sunday).�

In the swing--Citrus College and the Glendora Country Club will play host to the state community college golf championships May 11.

The 36-hole tournament will include 60 of the state’s top community college players. Four teams from the northern region and four from the southern region will compete. There will also be 12 individual qualifiers from each region.

Moving up--The Cal Poly Pomona baseball team entered the week 3 1/2 games out of first place in the California Collegiate Athletic Assn.

The Broncos took two of three games from conference leader UC Riverside last weekend to improve to 16-24 overall and 9-8 in the CCAA. Pomona travels to Cal Poly San Luis Obispo on Friday for the start of a three-game series.

Junior centerfielder Brian Mena is batting .390 for the Broncos.

The Cal State Los Angeles baseball team improved to 12-9 in the CCAA and 19-21 overall Saturday by defeating Cal State San Bernardino, 8-4.

On the road--Don Winters, who has qualified for the NCAA Division II championships with a mark of 172 feet 11 inches in the discus, will be among 12 Cal Poly Pomona athletes who will compete this weekend in the Drake Relays at Des Moines, Iowa.

Winters qualified for the NCAA championships at the UC San Diego Invitational on April 11.