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St. Francis Picks TeamBaseball may be top priority in the mindsof most sport snthnsissts ri^jhtnnu; Hut at stFrancis College thoughts have alreadymoved on to the fall basketball season. CoachBob Valvano has announced that the Terriershave completed their 1986 recruiting with theacquisition of five top players from a varietyof locations.The five players are: Bob Dentel, a 6%u2019 1point guard from McKeesport High School inPennsylvania; John Flanagan, a 5%u2019 11 guardout of St. Francis Prep in Queens; StefanJensen, a 6%u2019 9 postman from Vestal HighSchool in Binghampton, New York; VishnueNaraine, a 6%u2019 5 swingman from ChristchurchHigh School in Virginia; and Chris Palermo,a 6%u2019 2 scoring guard from Morton H.S. inChicago.%u201cWe are pleased to have been able to attract the quality student athlete, both fromNew York as well as outside the area,%u201d saysValvano. %u201cWe think this is a sign of thegrowth and progress of our program and welook forward to adding these fine young mento a solid returning nucleus.%u201dHe also believes that the fact that each ofthese athletes comes from schools withoutstanding coaches will help each player alot, and says %u201c... it is always nice to addthese types of student athletes to our program.%u201dOfficial Nets Tennis HelpThe future of the Parade Grounds JuniorTennis Development Program may no longerbe in doubt following a City decision to insertcontractual protections for the program inany agreement it may sign with a new concessionaire.The program%u2019s continuation was recentlyin jeopardy due to a Department of Parksand Recreation decision to look for a new tenant. Parents of children participating in thetennis classes feared that the new tenantwould not provide free facilities for theirchildren to continue to learn to play thegame.On May 13 following a conference withparents Barry Magidoff and Mark Naison,Park Slope Councilmember Stephen DiBrienza began negotiating with Henry Stem, ParksCommissioner, to insure that the youngsterswere given free court time as well as accessto the clubhouse facilities. An agreement wasreacned three days later, May 16.Some compromises had to be made in thenegotiations, however. DiBrienza and theparents originally sought a requirement of 89free hours of court time for the program. But,Stem refused to agree to this and instead offered to guarantee 60 hours per week, aminimum standard already required by theCity. - R.T.Tennis Clinic PlannedA summer tennis clinic is being held in twosessions at the South Oxford Tennis Club. Thefirst runs from June 19-August 1, and the second from August 8-September 12. The program is for students 6-18 years of age andthere is an eight student group limit.Scholarships are available and registrationis required. The club is at 187 So. Oxford St.,near Atlantic Avenue. For information calldirector Melvin Swanson at 624-5461. TheJunior Tennis Clinic is held year-round and issponsored by CBS Inc. and ManufacturersHanover Trust.School Flips For JudoStudents from Park Slope%u2019s Berkeley Carroll Street School swept the New York City Independent School Judo Championships, incompetition against 14 schools and some 300students on May 14. Berkeley Carroll competitors won two team prizes and 23 individual awards. The school%u2019s boys team tookfirst place for the Boys%u2019 Junior Division; thegirls%u2019 team won second place for the Girls%u2019Junior Division.Individual prizes for girls were in severalcategories. For 7-8 year olds: LightweightDivision, Ariel Borkowsky, 3rd grade, 1stplace; Alyshea Austem, 2nd grade, 2ndplace; Folake Griffith, 2nd grade, 3rd place.Middle Weight Division: Heather Nelson. 2ndgrade, 1st place. For 9-10 year olds: LightWeight Division: Adriana Shyster, 3rd grade,3rd place. Heavy Weight Division: StephanieHill, 5th grade, 2nd place. In the 11-12 year oldLong Island University so ccer coach Arnold Ram ires, Jr., says goodbye to five of hisstarting players at the recent LIU Brooklyn Center graduation. Pictured, from left, are:Lester Franco, Elcias Izajar, M ickey Kydes, Javier Marquez and Sam uel Izajar. Thequintet paced the B lackbirds to two N C A A tournam ents. (Mueller Photo)group, Middle Weight Division, ColleenBehan, 7th grade, won 1st place.Individual prizes for boys included in the 6year old division, Paul Mysliwiec, 1st grade,1st place. For 7-8 year olds, Light WeightDivision, Billy Borden, 3rd grade, won 1stplace; Jamil Ellis, 3rd grade, won 2nd place;Earnest Jacobs, 2nd grade, won 3rd place. Inthe Heavy Weight Division, Jeff Sandgrund,3rd grade, won 2nd place. In the Open Division, David Schnurman, 3rd grade, won 3rdplace. In the 9-10 year old category, LightWeight Division, Bram Noonan, 4th grade,won 1st place; Middle Weight Division, JebEngel, 5th grade, won 1st place.In the Heavy Weight Division, JensenRodney, 4th grade, 1st place; Ethan Clary,6th grade, 2nd place; Daniel Goldfarb, 7thgrade, 3rd place. In the Open Division, DavidRubin, 5th grade, 2nd place; Dimitry Louis,3rd grade, 3rd place; Kenji Edmonds, 4thgrade, 4th place. For the 13-14 year old boys%u2019group, Light Weight Division, 1st place waswon by Ruark Behan. In addition, ColleenBehan, 7th grade, was one of the youngestgirls ever to qualify for the judo championships in the Empire State Games. She willrepresent New York City there, in Buffalo,this August.Locals Win Sports PrizeLong Island University Athletic Awardswent to two Brooklyn residents at the recentL.I.U. Varsity Banquet. Senior Philip Vasquez received both the Arthur YatesMemorial Award and the Dean%u2019s AcademicAward, and Winsome Dennis was presentedwith the Dean of Students Award.Vasques%u2019s first award is given in thememory of a former L.I.U. professor to a student who has earned distinction bothacademically and athletically. The Dean%u2019sBrooklyn College Soccer Coach Named AsAssistant Coach Of The National Open TeamThe head coach of the Brooklyn CollegeSoccer Team has been named assistantcoach of the National Open Team, the UnitedStates team that will compete in the 1967 PanAmerican Games and in qualifying matchesfor the 1988 Olympics and the 1990 World Cup.Leonard Roitman, who has compiled a74-48-15 record at Brooklyn College, was appointed to the post by the President of theUnited States Soccer Federation, WernerFricker. Roitman will assist Head CoachLothar Osiander. The assistant coach of theNational Open team is the second-highestcoaching position within the United StatesSoccer Federation.Roitman was selected after attending aSoccer Federation competition for head andassistant coaches of the National Open Team,two youth teams, a college team and awomen%u2019s national team. Roitman, who is 32years old, was the youngest candidate. %u201cI ama bit flabbergasted that I was selected,%u201d saidRoitman. %u201cIt is quite an honor to be chosenfor such a challenging and exciting position.%u201dRoitman received national and internationalattention in April 1985 when the Brooklyn College soccer team, the Kingsmen, won the AllNepal Cup. Before a crowd of 30,000, the teamscored two goals in overtime against the national team of the People%u2019s Republic of Chinato win the title. The Kingsmen advanced tothe final by beating the national teams of India and Nepal. The win capped a 13-2-3regular season. This year%u2019s 9-7-3 seasonmarked Roitman%u2019s sixth winning season ineight years with the Kingsmen.Bom in the Soviet Union, Roitman playedfor the Bukovina Chemovtsky team in Russiabefore emigrating to the United States. Heplayed for two years at Tilden High School inBrooklyn, where he was a high-school AllAmerican. In 1972 he enrolled at BrooklynCollege where he majored in physical education and played as a midfielder on theKingsmen soccer team. He was the team%u2019sleading scorer and Most Valuable Player andwas named to the Metropolitan Conference,All-New York State, and All-Star teams.After graduation, Roitman started for theLeonard Roitman has been named a s s is %u00adtant coach of the National Open team.New York Apollos ir 1977, the year the teamwon the American Soccer League Championship. Since then he has played for the UnitedStates team four times in the MaccabiahGames in Israel, including in 1981 when theteam won a silver medal. He was a playercoach in the 1983 Pan-American MaccabiahGames when the United States team also wona silver.In addition to his coaching duties atBrooklyn College Roitman has coachedseveral high school ieajna; ihe Club GJGAteam; and three New York City teams in theEmpire State Games, winning two goldmedals and one silver medal.Academic Award is given to the athlete withthe best scholastic record. A Speech Therapymajor, Vasquez attended the school on a full,four-year grant, and has a current GradePoint Index of 3.29. A member of the school%u2019s*i v u ui.A wxuii, ut. .wiuu iCuT records, two mcross county as well as the 5,000-meter and10,000 meter outdoor events.Dennis, a member of the women%u2019s trackteam, placed first in the 55-meter dash in tliisyear%u2019s Colgate Women%u2019s Games in MadisonSquare Garden. She also finished first in the100-meter dash and 200-meter dash at theC.W. Post Relays. The junior sprinter additionally captured second-place trophies atthe West Point Invitation in the 55-meter dashand in the C.T.C. Championship in the100-meter dash.A total of 25 athletes from L.I.U%u2019s 15-sportprogram were singled out for special honorsat the dinner, hosted by the L.I.U. BrookynCampus Department of Athletics. TomThompson, women%u2019s softball coach andassociate director of athletics, was honoredby his L.I.U. confreres as %u201cCoach of theYear%u201d for winning the Cosmopolitan SoftballConference, for making the ECAC Division ITournament and for posting the best winningrecord, 25-12.Hernandez Makes TeamJunior left fielder Louis Hernandez, of theLong Island University Brooklyn Campus%u2019smen%u2019s varsity baseball team has been namedto the ECAC New York-New Jersey All-StarTeam in a poll of the area%u2019s head coaches. Heended the season with a .442 batting average,set a school RBI record of 47 in his 29th gameof the season.The record he broke was his own, set in1965, of 46 RBIs. Hernandez led the team thisyear with 11 home runs, 5 triples, and 11doubles, for a .962 %u201cslugging percentage.%u201dHis batting average had him finish 14th nationally in the NCAA batting statisticalsurvey; he was ranked eighth in the ECAC,and placed third in the Met Conference. Healso holds LIU%u2019s season home run record: 13,set in 1965. He was presented with the DavidLowe Memorial Award for making %u201csignificant contributions to the LIU baseball program,%u201d at the recent LIU Varsity AthleticBanquet.Going into the next-to-last week of regularseason play, LIU had an 18-13 record, a sixgame winning streak, and a good shot atreceiving an at-large bid to the ECACPlayoffs. But in the last two games of theregular year, the Blackbirds lost toPrinceton, 9-0, and to Pace, 4-1.LIU%u2019s baseball strength this past seasonwas hitting, a review of the season%u2019s recordshows. The team average was .325, andaveraged ten hits and six runs per game. SixLIU players had batting averages over .300:senior John Eberlein, first base, .356; juniorVinny DeMaria, third baseman, .354; juniorSteve Werner, rightfield, .333; senior FrankV. Vasquez, shortstop, .330; junior GeorgeSchultheis, catcher, .304; and sophomoreJuan Berrios, catcher/designated hitter, .301.Coach Frank Giannone has already beenrecruiting for next year. Two players whohave already signed letters of intent to attendLIU in the fall and play in the baseball program are: Ciro Ambrosio of Massapequa,L.I., a shortstop who %u201ccan play any infieldposition,%u201d and Manny Jimenez, of New YorkCity, a catcher/outfielder. LIU opens its exhibition training camp on August 25, andstarts its 30-game season on Wednesday,September 3, against St. Francis College.In the post-season major league draft,junior right-handed pitcher Richard Lackowas a sixth-round draft choice of the DetroitTigers. Lacko, 1965 %u201cPlayer of the Year%u201d inthe ECAC New York-New Jersey Region andtop pitcher in the Metropolitan Conferencefor three consecutive years, headed thisyear%u2019s Met Conference with a 1.35 ERA. Hisoverall varsity record is 18 wins and fivelosses.Mickey Kydes of Norwalk, Conn., a twotime All-American senior midfielder, was afirst-round, eighth-pick draft choice of theDallas Sidekicks of the Major Indoor SoccerLeague, and junior righthanded pitcherRichard Lacko of Brentwood, L.I., became asixth-round selection of the Detroit Tigers.Kydes, who played in the 1985 Senior Bowllast December and was a member of theDivision I East All-Star Team in the first annual Budweiser Soccer Classic on June 1, isLIU%u2019s seventh leading all-time scorer with 35goals, despite playing the midfield m fouryears of collegiate action.Ju ne 26, 1986, TH E PHO EN IX, Page 23