Catcher Enea Makes an Early Commitment to Oklahoma

Catcher Christina Enea of El Camino Real High made a commitment to play softball for Oklahoma.

Enea chose the defending national champion Sooners over Brigham Young and Boston College.

“It’s not that different from California, they just don’t have the beach,” Enea said. “I knew this was the right choice for me.”

Enea, a three-time Times’ All-Valley selection, was co-most valuable player of the West Valley League last season, batting .547 with 52 hits and 37 runs batted in.

Enea will sign a letter of intent during the early national signing period in November.

TENNIS

* Jenny Munroe of Hart High has committed to play at Colorado.

Munroe, ranked 88th in the nation in girls’ 18-and-under, also considered Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, Michigan, Loyola Marymount and Boston College.

MOTOR SPORTS

* Eric Bostrom, former Granada Hills resident, was nudged out of the American Motorcycle Assn. 600 Supersport championship Sunday on the final lap at Willow Springs International Raceway.

Bostrom, who came into the race with an eight-point lead over Kurtis Roberts, led Roberts and Jamie Hacking coming into turn eight of the nine-turn course when Hacking made contact with Bostrom while attempting an inside pass.

Hacking and Bostrom both went wide after the contact, and Roberts sneaked through on the inside. Roberts won, with Hacking second and Bostrom third.

Bostrom and Roberts finished tied for the championship with 276 points, but Roberts was awarded the title with three victories to Bostrom’s two.

Roberts and his father, road-racing legend Kenny Roberts, are the second father and son to win AMA road-racing championships. Jason and Reg Pridmore of Ventura were the first to accomplish the feat when Jason won the 750 Supersport title in 1997.

* Belinda Endress of Newbury Park, Cindi Lux of Aloha, Ore., and British native Divina Galica of Sebring, Fla., finished sixth in the GT class and 20th overall in the third annual Petit Le Mans 1,000-mile endurance race Saturday at Road Atlanta in Braselton, Ga.

They completed 326 laps of the 2.54-mile circuit for a total of 828 miles.

Endress finished second to Sonja Bayer of Germany in the Women’s Global GT Series 45-minute sports car race Friday at Road Atlanta.

* Sean Woodside of Saugus finished seventh in the Snap-On 100 NASCAR Featherlite Southwest Series race Saturday at Altamont Raceway Park in Tracy, and remained in fourth place in the points standings with three races remaining.

Woodside, Frank Maronski Jr. of Quartz Hill, Keith Spangler of Chatsworth, Bob Lyon of Agua Dulce and M.K. Kanke of Frazier Park are entered in the Food 4 Less 150 Featherlite Southwest on Saturday at Irwindale Speedway. Kanke is third in the standings following his second-place finish Saturday.

* Kevin Kierce of Reseda will have his United States Auto Club sprint car on display today at Cruiser’s Car Wash on Tampa Blvd. between Nordhoff and Parthenia from 6-8 p.m.

Kierce’s car is one of two he will drive at Irwindale Speedway Oct. 14, when the one-half mile asphalt oval holds races for USAC Silver Crown cars and USAC sprint cars.

FIELD HOCKEY

* Rinku Bhamber, a Camarillo High graduate and Cal State Northridge student, is one of several players from the region on the U.S. team that will play in the Pan American Junior Championships at Santiago, Chile, on Oct. 11-21.

The team trains in Moorpark with Coach Shiv Jagday.