Moorpark Hall of Fame to induct nine new members Page 1 of 2 Moorpark Hall of Fame to induct nine new members By Joe Curley Friday, January 25, 2008 Moorpark College will induct the fourth class into its athletic Hall of Fame on Sunday night at Moorpark Country Club. The nine inductees represent the biggest class to date. Headlining the class are baseball player Gabe Kapler, who earned a World Series ring with the 2004 Boston Red Sox and recently came out of retirement with the Milwaukee Brewers, and 28-year men's basketball coach Al Nordquist, who won more than 513 games with the Raiders. Fran Fredette is the only Moorpark student-athlete to earn All-America honors in two sports, football and wrestling. Yet his coaching career may be even more incredible. Fredette was an assistant during the most successful period in Moorpark football history, when the Raiders won eight or nine games every year for a seven-year period in the 1980s. He coached Moorpark High to five Frontier League wrestling titles. He was the defensive coordinator for the Moorpark High CIF championship football team of 1997 and he revived the Santa Clara High program, coaching it to a CIF title at Griffin Stadium in December. Clint Strozier went from playing for a young coach named Jim Bittner at Oxnard High to earning honorable mention All-America honors at Moorpark College and starring for No. 2 USC in the 1977 Rose Bowl. Frank Jackson, who led the basketball team to two WSC titles, had a 14-year professional career in South America. Two-sport star Steve Parrott, who still holds Moorpark's career record for field-goal percentage, was drafted in the second round by the Minnesota Twins and earned team MVP honors for the UC Santa Barbara men's basketball team. Colleen Gainey won a state title for Moorpark and NCAA Division II title for Cal State Northridge in the javelin throw. Malia (Ouzts) Krogstad, a two-time All-State softball player and 1987 All-American, still holds five Moorpark records, including career batting average (.415). Manny Trevino coached cross country and track and field at Moorpark for 26 years, winning five Southern California titles and the 1996 men's cross-country state championship. WSC showdown: Both teams, the powerful defending champion and the talented upstart under the first- year coach, are an unbeaten 4-0 in Western State Conference play. Yet when the Ventura College men's basketball team visits county-rival Oxnard College on Saturday night at the Condor Center, it won't just be billed as the battle of the unbeatens. http://www.venturacountystar.com/news/2008/jan/25/moorpark-hall-of-fame-to-induct-nin... 1/28/2008 Moorpark Hall of Fame to induct nine new members Page 2 of 2 "The battle of the investigations," said Ventura coach Greg Winslow. Ventura has ruled four players, including two starters, ineligible because of incorrect information on their applications. But Oxnard probably misses its two ineligible players, forward Regan Andersen and guard Jeff Battle, more, considering the Condors are down to six eligible and healthy players. Oxnard is 2-0 since the school declared Andersen and Battle ineligible last week. Four players — John Johnson, Ryan McLucas, Jonathan Malloy and Josh Crawford — have played 120 consecutive minutes over the past three games. "It makes my (substitution) rotations easy," said Oxnard coach Jeff Theiler, jokingly. "The people at the scorers table don't ask for my starters. They ask who aren't my starters." Theiler said the situation is a double-edged sword for his players. "Everybody wants to play maximum minutes, but with that comes a lot of responsibility," said Theiler. "You have to be able to run up and down during the period and still be able to think." Play ball? To local coaches, the beginning of the community college baseball season means one thing — rain. "This happens every year at the start of the year," said Moorpark coach Mario Porto. This season, of course, is no different. The annual "Bash at the Beach" tournament, in which Oxnard College and Ventura College were scheduled to begin their seasons this weekend, has been canceled because of this week's winter storm. "The whole thing is washed out," said VC coach Don Adams. "We'll make those three games up somewhere down the line." Moorpark, however, is still scheduled to open play today in Bakersfield, despite the snow-clogged closure of Interstate 5 at the Grapevine. The Raiders will take the long way via routes 14 and 58. "It's cold up there, but they haven't had a drop of rain all day," said Porto on Thursday. The Moorpark coach was more concerned about the three games the Raiders host in next weekend's WSC Tournament. "With all this rain, I don't know if we can get the field ready," said Porto. © 2008 Ventura County Star http://www.venturacountystar.com/news/2008/jan/25/moorpark-hall-of-fame-to-induct-nin... 1/28/2008.