DIGEST : Salado Returns After Hiatus to Coach Track at Channel Islands

After retiring three times from coaching basketball and once from track, Don Salado will return for his second tenure as boys’ track coach at Channel Islands High.

Salado, 58, replaces Ken Martinez, who resigned this summer to accept a coaching position in Oregon. Salado coached the boys’ track team at Channel Islands from 1986-88.

He coached the boys’ basketball team at Channel Islands for 17 seasons. The Raiders won 67% of their games from 1971-85 and won Southern Section 2-A Division titles in 1977 and ’78. Salado returned to coach basketball for the 1988-89 season and retired again after the Raiders won the co-championship of the Marmonte League in 1990-91. However, he returned to guide the freshman girls’ basketball team to a 22-0 record last season.

Mike Andonian of Camarillo was eliminated by Archie Dadian of South Milwaukee, Wis., 5 and 4, in a third-round match of the 38th U.S. Senior Amateur golf championship Thursday in Jupiter, Fla.

Andonian had defeated Charles Weil of Pebble Beach, 2 and 1, earlier in the day and Robert Wise of Birmingham, Ala., 2 up, in a first-round match Wednesday.

L.A. Baptist High has made a change in its boys’ basketball schedule. On Oct. 31, the Knights will play Burbank at Monroe High at 6 p.m. L. A. Baptist originally was scheduled to play Hamilton.

Several activities are scheduled Saturday at Cal State Northridge to celebrate homecoming.

The Northridge women’s volleyball team will play St. Mary’s at 2 p.m. in Matador Gymnasium. Also at 2 p.m., the alumni will meet the current Northridge teams in a softball game and swim meet at Matador Diamond and Matador pool, respectively. The homecoming parade, featuring grand marshal Bob Samuelson, a 1992 U.S. Olympic volleyball player, will begin at 4 p.m., followed by a tailgate party and pep rally at the football practice field.

At 7 p.m., the Matadors will play Cal Poly San Luis Obispo in their Western Football Conference opener.