SPORTSCOPE : Infielder to Compete in Olympic Festival

Nicole Odom, a senior at South Torrance High, has been selected as one of 30 Junior Olympic athletes to represent the Amateur Softball Assn. in the women’s softball competition at the U.S. Olympic Festival, July 23-28 in San Antonio, Tex.

Odom, an infielder who will play for UCLA in the fall, is one of 60 players who will be assigned to one of four Olympic Festival teams: North, South, East and West. The Junior Olympic athletes will be joined by 30 players who were second- and third-team All-Americans at the 1992 ASA Women’s Major Fast Pitch National tournament.

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Loyola Marymount athletes have been named to the 1993 academic all-district teams in baseball and softball selected by the Collegiate Sports Information Directors of America.

Sophomore outfielder Judey Petix earned the honor in softball and junior first baseman Anthony Napolitano in baseball. It is the first time that two Loyola athletes have received the honor in the same season.

Petix, with a .391 average, led the Lions in batting for the second consecutive season and also had a team-high 27 hits and eight stolen bases. Petix, a humanities major who has a .360 career average, has a 3.72 grade-point average.

Napolitano, who batted .315, was also named to the All-West Coast Conference first team for the second year in a row. Napolitano, who has a double major of economics and business administration, has a 3.58 GPA. He was recently named Loyola’s male student-athlete of the year for the second consecutive year.

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Two Cal State Dominguez Hills baseball players were named to the All-California Collegiate Athletic Assn. team.

Senior designated hitter Ariel Martin, who batted .344 with eight home runs and 58 runs batted in, was a first-team selection. Junior outfielder Eric Martin, who is not related to Ariel, made the second team after batting .342 with six home runs and 43 RBIs.

Junior first baseman Greg Bergeron, the CCAA’s leading batter with a .403 average, was named to the honorable mention team.

Senior pitcher Tom Ball, shortstop Jason Gill and junior third baseman Alfredo Rodriguez were also named to the honorable mention team.