Santa Clara University

Servite High School made an improbable run through the 1990 boys' basketball playoffs. After finishing the regular season 13-10, the Friars won eight of nine games in the Southern Section and state playoffs, including a 67-51 victory over Hayward Mt. Eden to win the State Division III championship at the Oakland Coliseum Arena. Their reward? Well, to the victors go the bills. The two-week spree in the state playoffs left the school with a debt of $5,583.56.

James Eidam, a senior center fielder for Edison High School's baseball team, has signed a letter of intent to attend Santa Clara. Eidam, who attended Mater Dei for three years, is batting .387 for Edison.

When Loyola Marymount's bats are singing, Coach Chris Smith feels like dancing. Smith had happy feet Saturday afternoon as the Lions thumped out 29 hits in 10-2 and 15-4 victories over visiting Santa Clara University. "We haven't been in tune much lately," Smith said, after watching his team cap a three-game weekend series sweep. "But we were \o7 very\f7 much in tune today."

In the harshest action it has ever taken against a fraternity, Santa Clara University withdrew recognition of the 100-member California Lambda chapter of Sigma Phi Epsilon for at least four years for slurring minority groups in a newsletter circulated on campus. James Briggs, vice president of student services, described the newsletter as "repugnant, obscene and wantonly degrading to women, racial minorities and homosexuals."

Andy Karich, a 6-foot-5 guard on the Mater Dei High School basketball team, has made an oral commitment to attend the University of Santa Clara, Mater Dei Coach Gary McKnight said Thursday. Karich, who started all 28 of Mater Dei's games last season, averaged 8.9 points and 6.5 rebounds a game. Karich, who has a 4.2 grade-point average and scored more than 1,200 on his Scholastic Aptitude Test, also visited San Jose State and Baylor.

Two hundred students at Santa Clara University have made history at the 138-year-old Jesuit school with a rally supporting legal abortion. The demonstration was the first of its kind at the university, where students cannot receive birth control at the student health center. Other Catholic universities have banned similar rallies. The university's president, the Rev. Paul Locatelli, wrote in a letter to the university newspaper that school should support the expression of different viewpoints.

A number of local high school basketball players signed national letters of intent Wednesday, the first day of the week-long fall signing period. La Quinta basketball player Amy Jalewalia, the leading scorer in the state with a 31-point average, will sign today to attend UCLA, according to her coach, Kevin Kiernan. Jalewalia is 6-1 and 135 pounds and plays both guard and forward.

Jim Harrick begins his second season as UCLA basketball coach tonight against an old friend and a familiar foe, but not necessarily against a friendly foe. Santa Clara Coach Carroll Williams, Harrick's West Coast Athletic Conference nemesis when Harrick coached at Pepperdine, will provide the opposition at Pauley Pavilion. What can be expected from the Broncos, who were 20-11 last season and reached the final game of the WCAC tournament for the third consecutive year?