High school football

St. Bonaventure, Oaks Christian No. 1 in section rankings

St. Bonaventure and Oaks Christian were ranked No. 1 in their divisions in preseason football polls announced by the CIF-Southern Section.

Frontier League schools Bishop Diego and Santa Clara are No. 1 and No. 2 in the Mid-Valley Division.

Six Ventura County schools made the Northern Division's Top 10.

Besides St. Bonaventure, the No. 1-ranked team in the state by CalHiSports.com, other county schools making the Northern Division's preseason list are: Westlake, fourth; Moorpark, fifth; Rio Mesa, sixth; Thousand Oaks, eighth; and Newbury Park, 10th.

Other Top 10 schools are: Hart, second; Canyon, third; Atascadero, seventh; and Saugus, ninth.

Also receiving honorable-mention recognition were Agoura, Oxnard and Ventura.

Right behind defending champion Oaks Christian in the Northwest Division poll is Oak Park, a section finalist three of the last four years.

Carpinteria was an honorable-mention selection.

Joining Bishop Diego and Santa Clara in the Mid-Valley Top 10 is Fillmore, which is ranked No. 9.

Site for Villanova opener moved

The time and date for Villanova Prep's season opener against Western Christian have been changed. The two teams will meet Friday at 7 p.m. at Maranatha.

College football

Strubeck on Groza preseason list

Kicker Jared Strubeck of San Jose State is one of 29 players listed on the 2007 Lou Groza Collegiate Place-kicker Award preseason watch list.

Strubeck, a junior from Camarillo who went to Rio Mesa High, was a second-team All-Western Athletic Conference selection in 2006. He was 9 of 12 on field-goal attempts and had a personal-best 48-yarder in a win over New Mexico State win.

BASEBALL

Smith earns All-Area Code recognition

Thousand Oaks High's Chad Smith, who has verbally committed to USC, was named to the All-Area Code Team by Student Sports Baseball.

Representing the Milwaukee Brewers Gray team, he threw four innings, allowing only two hits and earned the save in his final appearance against the White Sox Area Code team.

CANOE AND KAYAKING

Ventura County athletes earn medals

Ventura's Bob Hahn earned seven gold medals and one silver in the United States National Masters Championships at Green Lake in Seattle.

Hahn, a 66-year-old counselor at St. Bonaventure High, along with retired teachers Bill Bragg, 70, and Nancy Bragg, 67, from Oak View; Ventura's Andrew Story, 43; and Casitas Springs residents Victoria Larson, 54, and Merv Larson, 66, captured medals.

Hahn won three individual golds, plus gold in doubles with Larson and Story. Hahn and Larson won a silver.

Bill Bragg, Merv Larson, Victoria Larson and Nancy Bragg won mixed gold in kayaking. Hahan, Victoria Larson and the Braggs won canoeing foursome gold. Bill Bragg won four golds and a silver. Nancy Bragg won three golds overall.

Merv Larson won two golds and Victoria Larson earned four golds and a silver. Story had two bronzes and two golds.