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• He's found backboard to be backbone of ~uccess as senior <;c;' . f 0 ERT Clli\PM N, a Coronado tenrus pro es- R sional is an admitted backboard nut. . He 'has confes ed to winn~ng_ a considerable Chapman likes the backboard approach because, as he puts it: "You can groove your strokes after a lesson. ~ou can concentrate with no distractions. You can practice court Championships at La Jolla Beach and Tennis Club over the weekend. • • • AN ALL-TORERO FINAL - A couple of Ed Collin~' best _ Scott Patridge and David Stewart - fought their

Once a star at Cal, Saputo had put ~ennis o_n the b~ck burner for 20 years while he established h1S medical practice. Halfway into that retirement, however, Saputo, at age 35, began bis pre~aration f?r the day when he would be able to compete ID the seruors ~ve~t. . Although he had never been a champion ID hlS youth, Saputo became a big wi~er in the 35-and-over category, rising to No. 7 in the nation. . "I didn't really learn to hit a tennis ball properly until about five years ago," Saputo said. In this, his first year in the 45s, Saputo has_ w?n the national indoors and now the bardcourts. He did it con- vincingly over Larry Dodge 6-3, 6-1. On the women's side, Barbara Mueller, ?f Oco~o- mowoc, Wis., was a double winner. In womens 40s SID- gles she defeated Judy Louie of Sunnyvale. Then Bueller tea~ed with Suella Bowden of La Jolla to defeat favored Sally Huss of Irvine and Sinclair Wooten of Santa Barba- ra in the doubles.

way to the finals in the San Diego All-College To_urna- ment a~ver the weekend with Stewart fmally . But Patridge did not go down easily, forcmg a tie- breaker in the second set before finally bowing 6-4, 7-6. "It was all seriousness out there," Patridge said, even though be was laughing on the inside at the way he managed to come back in the second set. "He should . Oddly enough, Stewart is only a freshman, _the first first-year student ever to win this event. Patridge_ was forced to play a different kind of game after pullmg a muscle in bis chest (on bis right side) and yet ~ana~ed to fight back from two breaks, saving match po1Dts~m the ninth, 10th and 11th games. (Elson Irwin's Tennis column appe,3rs every other Tuesday in The Tribune.) prevailing. . have won 6-4, 6-1."

amount of games again t the unthmkmg, unflappable "opponent" over the years. But, if listening to one's own advice is on trial here, Chapman gets the verdict for practicing what he preaches. . . Chapman, author of "One Hour a Day to Wmmng Ten- m Practicing Alone," bas been a coach, teacher a~d moti~. tor of young players for the past 32 years, both m tenn· and basketball. . . . Since putting into practice the drills and strategies outlined in bis book, Chapman has become one of the top senior tennis players in the country. In the last couple of years, Chapman has wo_n 20 sanc- tioned tournaments, including the U.S. Profess1o~al T~n- nis iation enior singles and doubles championships in 1984 . · t· 'th an He plans to promote his book m conJunc ion w1 Australian firm which plans to market portable back- boards.

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whenever you want." . . "One Hour a Day to Winning Tennis ... Pracbci_ng Alone" is on sale for $10.95 at Dalton Book Stores. Copies can be obtained by writing Chapman at Box 1325, Coro- nado, CA. 92118. • • • AFTERMATH OF SENIOR HARDCOURTS - Len Saputo showed what 10 years of dedication to an idea can mean when he won the men's 45s National Senior Hard-

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/ Haynes impressive as Aztecs women defeat USD By T.R. Reinma~q~ Tribune Sportswriter

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ly and watched the Aztecs run off a 12-2 spurt for their biggest lead of the night, 17 points. And in one final minute of the game, poor shot selec- tion by the Toreras turned State's four-point lead into an Aztecs parade to the foul line and lights out. "We just spazzed out," is how Mar- pie explained her team's snuffing of its own rally. "And of course, we don't have a Jessica Haynes to match theirs." Haynes, the brilliant Aztecs fresh- man State coach Earnest Riggins calls "Miss Intensity," had 15 re- bounds, 13 points, three steals and two blocked shots. leaps and bounds," said Riggins. "That's what we're going to need down the stretch. We didn't figure she'd come this far this fast." It's apparently no surprise to "She's improving by

Haynes, the Parade All-American from Omaha, Neb., who was the MVP of the Dial Classic last week at SDSU. 'Tm not doing anything different- ly," said Haynes, who played for the North team in this year's National Sports Festival. "I'm playing just like I've always played. But I'm get- ting used to everything." At 6-for-21 from the field, she wasn't too used to USD's rims. Then

again, with a 46-29 rebound advan- tage, the Aztecs could afford to shoot 40 percent, a fraction worse than the Toreras, and still win. State made only five more shots from the field, but took 23 more than USD. Four Aztecs, led by Shelda Ar- ceneaux and her 17 points, scored 13 or more. Debbie Theroux, who led USD's second-half comeback, scored 12 of her 16 points after the intermis- sion. /

It was Monday, and USD women's basketball coach ffathy -Marpie wasn't just a-whistlin' Dixie. "We're not a slow-down team by any means," she said two days before her team played San Diego State, "but we have to work real hard on defense and be patient on offense. When we've played our game, we've won. When we've played the other team's game, we've lost." Last night, after USD lost 67-54 at home to State, Marple was singing the blues. "We played 35 minutes of good basketball," she said after her team dropped to 4-3 and the 3-2 Aztecs won their third straight. The five bad minutes came at two points. In the last 4:24 of the first half, USD didn't play well defensive-

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"I can't say I'm looking forward o the game as I have in the past" said Aztecs coach Smokey Gaines. "It should be a good game, provided we can hang in." That last line is the tune the Toreros have been hum- ming lately. Three years ago, State benefited from a bad call in the final seconds - an offensive foul on USD instead of a blocking foul on State - to save a 47-45 win. And that call, by a WAC official, came right in front of the USD bench. Fuel for the fire? "Yeah, I guess I heard about that one," said Scott Thompson, vaguely. Thompson is the Toreros' 7-foot cen- ter, the current team leader who arrived a year after that debacle. Two years ago, when USD eventually went to the NCAA tournament, some players talked tough about the Aztecs, then shot 29 percent for the game and got blown out. "I'll never forget that game," said USD's Mark Bostic, a junior transfer at the time. "Smokey was doing all that talking on the television before that game." There's the smoke. ls there fire? "But their players are always talk- ing at us," added Bostic. Last year, when both teams went into the early-season game undefeated, USD led at the half but missed four one-and-one chances down the stretch and lost by four points. This year, with so may new players on each team, there's little rivalry talk at USD. "I don't talk about it much," said Egan, "but I don't talk about most games. I'm one of those very dull 'gotta do it in every practice and every game' kind of guys." This is a road game for USD, as it is every year. Back in the late '60s the series was played home and home in alternating years. But after USD's win in '76, State coach Tim Vezie dropped the Toreros from the Aztecs schedule for two years. USD has been back on since the 1979-80 season when Gaines arrived and State put on a new public relations face for the community. But there was a price, and that was making it an Aztecs home game. This year, for the first in at least the last two, that price is going up for USD students. Their half-price dis- count has been eliminated. It will cost them $7 for a seat at the Sports Arena, a facility within sight of their own campus. "I think it's a rivalry because they always get to play at the Sports Arena," said Bostic. "They don't want to come here (to USD's 2,500-seat Sports Center) to play." Besides fair ticket prices, another thing that would help a budding rivalry, if that's what State and USD have or want, would be scheduling a double-header for the men's and women's teams. Gaines suggested that to USD women's coach Kathy Marple earlier this week. The women's teams played at USD Wednesday night.

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It's not exactly Yorks vs. Lancasters, or even 'Nova vs. St. Joe's. But it's the only game in town. It will have to do.

''We're both struggling a little now," said Egan. "We've both been playing on the road against some better com-

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SCOIT THOMPSON - IN THE MIDDLE FOR USD But the business at hand is tomorrow's game. "We really haven't put it all together yet," said Egan. "The only way to get over the inconsistency is to play and play hard." As a team, USD is shooting 50.7 percent from the field. Its regular starters are averaging 56 percent. That seems like playing hard. "Yeah," said Egan, "well, we throw it in to Scott, and he throws it in the basket." Thompson's 62 percent shooting and 14-point scoring average help, but he's the first to say it's all part of the game. "Everyone's more comfortable with their roles now," he said, offering the USD party line. Bostic, for one, isn't comfortable with his role as a perennial loser to State. After that '82 loss he'll never forget, he sat out last year with an injury. This is his last shot at the Aztecs, although he's had his chances with State's Anthony Watson over the last two summers, when they played against each other in a sum- mer league in Ann Arbor, Mich. Bostic's team won both times. In the summer. Back home. "It's my last chance at those guys," he said, "and I'm