N’Cita Wins Decision Over Salud

Welcome N’Cita of South Africa retained his International Boxing Federation super-bantamweight title Saturday night in Treviolo, Italy, with a unanimous decision over San Diego’s Jesus Salud.

The champion won 116-112, 115-113 and 116-112 on the three judges’ cards to improve to 31-0 as a pro.

Salud, 28, won the World Boxing Assn. junior featherweight title in December of 1989, but was stripped of it five months later for failing to defend it within six months. He eventually worked his way back up through the IBF rankings and was rated second going into the N’Cita fight.

N’Cita, 26, making a sixth defense of the title he won in 1990, piled up points in the first half of the fight. Salud dominated the three last rounds but could not close the gap.

Salud (41-5), who is managed by San Diego’s Bob DePhilippis, landed some beautiful hooks and uppercuts but was unable to defend against the steady jabbing of N’Cita, who dominated the the in-fighting.

N’Cita, a left-hander, ended the bout with a swollen left eye.

BASEBALL

San Diego State was on its way to sweeping a doubleheader from Western Athletic Conference opponent New Mexico when its stopper, Benji Grigsby, failed to hold a two-run lead in the final inning. Grigsby (8-1) faced five batters--walking three and allowing two hits--and gave up three runs in the Aztecs’ 11-10 loss at New Mexico.

Grigsby took the victory in SDSU’s 4-2 victory in the first game by pitching 2 1/3 innings of one-hit relief with four strikeouts. Second baseman Pat Mummy knocked in three of the four runs, two with a home run in the fourth inning. Center fielder Derek Vinyard had five hits and three RBIs in the two games, right fielder Greg Quam had five hits and an RBI and left fielder Brad Gennaro went three for eight with three RBIs. SDSU is 30-9 and 12-2, New Mexico is 21-20-1 and 8-7.

Eighth-ranked UC San Diego dropped a doubleheader at Biola University, 6-2 and 5-2, in a nonconference game. David Blum was two for three with a two-run homer for UCSD in the first game. Steve Wrenn went three for four, Ernie Isola was three for five with a double and Guy Cataldo was two for five in the second game for the Tritons (19-6-1), who lost two in a row for the first time this season. Biola improved to 15-23.

TRACK

Three UC San Diego men and two UCSD women broke five school records at the Pomona-Pitzer Invitational: Ernest Clark took third in the 400 at 48.06; Jason Anderson, Clark, Jim Moore and Patrick Foy ran a 3:16.68 in the 4 x 400 to finish second; Kevin Baca took third in the javelin with a throw of 188-11; Diane Fritz long jumped 17-11 to finish third; and the 4 x 100 relay team of Yvette Marzulla, Erica Washington; Renee Sprowl and Michelle Milledge won the 4 x 100 relay in 48.31.

All of the school records are NCAA qualifying marks, except for Baca’s javelin throw.

MEN’S TENNIS

Jeff Belloli was San Diego State’s only winner in a 5-1 loss at UC Irvine in a nonconference match. Belloli defeated Neel Grover, 6-4, 6-3, at No. 5 singles for the Aztecs (15-5). UC Irvine, which had lost to SDSU earlier this season, 5-1, improved to 11-10.