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/ 1 ,. 1888 1 USD finds • encouraging sigMin loss By 'fif. ~einman TribUDe Sportswriter FULLERTON - In the preseason, .,.ll$D coach Hank Egan talked about the addition of quickness to his bas- ketball team, saying a couple of new players gave the Toreros a dimen- sion they never had before. True enough, but after last night's game at Cal State Fullerton, Egan and bis team were left shaking their heads. "We've never seen quickness like this," Egan said. "I think it disrupted us, especially on offense in the first half." That's when USD shot 39 percent from the floor to the Titans' 51 per- cent, and got itself in a hole it never quite managed to escape. Ahead by II at the half, the Titans finally won 78-66. Given the Titans' sizable advan- tage in quickness, this would have been a good game for USD to win, although it wasn't a bad one to lose. Especially the way the Toreros lost last night. • Only three Toreros scored a total of only 20 points in the first half, when USO had just 10 rebounds and committed 10 turnovers (after 51 in its first four games). "That was definitely a pressure man-to-man," said center Scott Thompson. • The guards - Paul Leonard, Danny Means and Pete Murphy - combined to make one of three field goal attempts. "Very interesting," said Egan, whose team slipped to 3-2. The day before, senior guard Kiki Jackson ap- parently quit the team. His experi- ence and bis shooting, although streaky at times, were missed. • USD's top scorer, Mark Bostic, missed his wakeup call. His first half line was 0-for-6 from the field, 0-for-2 from the line, one rebound, two turo- vers. 14 minutes. He ended up with d t_h re ds.

"Coach just told us to chip away and hang in," said Thompson, who turned in his best performance of the year - 19 points, nine rebounds and six assists over 40 hard minutes. "We could have rolled over and died. I think we learned tonight that we're not a team that's going to give up." The Titans led by 15 with 13 min• utes to play, but Thompson scored 10 points over the next six minutes and the lead was down to five. It was still at five with 4:30 left, but a couple of USD turnovers and a couple of Ti- tans steals boosted it back to 13 and lights out. "We made some new-guy kinds of errors," said Egan. Mark Manor and Leonard, both JC transfers, and Means, a freshman, combined for 12 of USD's 19 turnovers. "WC:re going to have to throw those mistakes away and try hard- er," said Means. "We hadn't played a team that got up and down the floor like this one. I got caught standing around sometimes." They all did, but there were some encouraging signs, too. Manor, a 6- foot-6 swingman who was his confer- ence MVP at Mesa (Ariz.) Communi- ty College last year, matched Thompson for game-high honors with 19 points and hit 9-of-11 from the field. "It's taken awhile to get adjusted," be said, "but I'm feeling more com- fortable all the time now." Without Jackson, said Manor, who played against him in high school and with him at Mesa, "the scoring will have to be spread around a little more. But we'll adapt." Said Egan, "The most positive thing was we could have gone hand in hand off the edge of the cliff and we didn't." Which was true, except the Toreros' main problem was that they found themselves in a hole and couldn't quite get out of it.

,us champ1onsh1p game last night in Orange Murray had 16 points. Daisy Mend z led USIU (3-1) with 19, Toya DeCrcc had 14 and Amanda Spry 11. USD's Ocb.bie Theroux scored 20 po1Dl~. snared 13 rebounds and was named most valuable player In the tournament. Kelii Behrens had 16 pomts, Julie .Evans 14 and Debbie S1mopoh 13 for USD (2-2), which shot 56 percent from the floor. on, USD part company

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U D's fir t four games this season and. arter playing only 10 minutes in the Toreros 63-54 win over Nevada- R no Friday night, he and Egan had a postgame discussion outside the locker room. Ja k on, who averaged 6.0 points per game playing behind junior tran fer Paul Leonard, didn't appear for a h t around Saturday mornmg or for th game against Southwest Te.xa State that night. Egan aid he till hadn't talked to Jae~ on ye terday but that Jackson had poken with USD's athletic di- rect r, the Rev. Patrick Cahill. Jae: sons absence leaves only fr hman Danny Mean behind Leon• ard at pomt guard Fullerton, a member of the Pacific Coast thlet1 A oc1ation. is 2-3, in- cluding a , 71 WUl over West Coast Athletic· c onf rcnce member Loyola 1arymount a t weekend m Utah. The Titan are led by 6-foot-8 wing forward Kerry Boagni (19.0 points, 5.6 rebound.). 6-4 guard Kevin Hen- derson (18.2 points) and 6-3 guard Richard Morton (10.6). D (3-1) is paced by swingmen Mark Bo tic 12.8 points, 4.8 re- bound ) and Peter Murphy (11 3 1101nt ) and 7 foot center Scott Thompson (10 5 point , 6.5 rebounds).

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"On different nights different peo- ple are gomg to have to contribute " _·d Egan. "In the second half he kind of parked his offense and we got some pretty good defense out of him." But the team offense finally got in g~r. In the final 20 minutes, USO missed only four of its 22 shots and rebounded evenly.

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urnivers, Fullerto 's quickness too much for USD By Bill Ce t r, . t Writer and as 1sts (six). Playing against Thompson in his first FULLERTON Twelve-point losses usually are not colleg1ate start was former San Diego High and Mesa the cornerston of optimism. College center Herman Webster. The 6-6½ junior had six Bu k all coach Hank Egan was in a ur- points and no rebounds in 25 minutes. pr1 ingly good mood last mght after his Toreros dropped "I had no idea Thompson was that good," said Fuller- a 78-66 d ris1on at Fullerton State. ton coach George McQuarn. 'This wa by far t~e quickest team we have played 'Tomght Scott did everything," said Egan, ''but we th1 year, and that qu1ck_ne got to us In l~e flrS t half think Scott's the type of player who is going to be there nd eventually w the difference Egan said. . . every mght for us. 'To ay th I ast, though, we were not bad tomght. We ttl d doY.n in th cond half and play d ome pretty good ba tball We're going to b better because of this gam ' The improvement wa evident last night as the ''The difference for us is going to be in the other players around Scott." do a lot better. This was a learning experience." Fullerton was paced forward Kerry Boagni's 18 points and guard Kevin Henderson's 14. The Titans ran nine players in and out of the game. "We couldn't settle into any type of a pattern in the first half," said Egan. The Toreros shot only 39 percent before intermission - guard Mark Bostic going 0-for-6 - and had only 18 attempts from the floor compared to Fullerton's 27. The visitors also turned the ball over 10 times. With Kiki Jackson gone from the team, the Toreros are down to two point guards, both new to the team. Danny Means, who turned the ball over twice on bad passes after USD had pulled to within five, is a freshman who didn't see much action until last weekend. Paul Leonard, who had four turnovers, is a junior college transfer. "It hurt that Bostic had a horrible offensive game tonight," said Egan. "In the second half, though, he played excellent defense and that was one of the things that helped us get going. Boagni leading both teams with 12) but the biggest thing was the turnovers."

But USO hit 82 percent of its 22 second-half shots. The only problem was that while Fullerton was taking 31 shots (and making 17) the Toreros were getting only 22. "It's very hard to win games when the other team gets 18 more shots than you," said Egan. ''I think we can rebound better (Fullerton out-rebounded USD 29-21, with

Both Manor and Madden hit for season highs last mght. Those efforts, however, were offset by the backcourt. which scored only 12 points and hit but two of 11 shots from the field. USO also turned the ball over 19 times against the Fullerton pressure defense. ''We struggled early against their pressure," said Egan. "Their quickness was a bit unsettling for us. No one we had played even came close to Fullerton's quick- ness "The next time out agamst a quick team I expect we'd

Torero rallied from a 46-31 def1c1t to pull to withm five at 61-56 b hmd the m 1de play of 7-foot center Scott Thomp on and forward Nils Madden and Mark Manor. But the quicker Titan (3·3) forced U D (3-2) to turn the ball over five of its next six trip downcourt Among them, Thomp on Manor and Madden scored 52 of the Torero ' pomts and were a combtned 23-of-28 from the floor Thomp on also paced the v1 1tors in rebounds (mne)

"We had the inside game working pretty good for us. The play of Manor and Madden was surely encourag• ing."

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