News Scrapbook 1972-1973

IRte 12/~ / 7 USD downs champions, faces Oxy

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Break for USD 's Smith turns pain on opponents

Tonight the Toreri>1< \\111 en- gage Occidental for the champ ons!up. Oxy was a 62- 61 ½inner over hot Sta- nislaus late. SD \11th tood a 37-point per ormance by i\l:ke Franza to come out o. top Pinky Smith and Stan W hmgton each ·ored 17 point for U D. In winning on the road for the first time in the n w sea- ~on, the Toreros hit 50 rom the field and led all the way.

With a special arc·h :upport ht• has given USO the use of Snuth for the remamder of the 1972-73 hoop cason And that comes at a pcrJect tirnc The Toreros, 4-3 on thr season. host the Titans of Cal St.ate Fullerton tonight then Journey northward to th!' lour-team Turln<·k Tournament ~'mJay and Saturday The Torl'ros will be out to boo t their p rfect 4 D home mark at 8 and th...n improve on their 0-3 road act. Friday the Toreros 111 open against Western Washington while Stani. Jaus State tangles with Oc('1dmtal m the nightc·ap. While Smith I the leadmg srorer averaiimg 22 7 points per game. Stan Wa hmgton I d the cluL with 32 as 1st and 1 s ('()nd m the .'<'ormg bra<·ket with a 15 I aveiage 1111th I , I d t Torer ~1th 86 rebound . follow •d b1 Bl'n Tho pson , 64 and Kenny Snuth s 41i

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- • I~ Revenge mot,va---"'·... tr king Tor. ros A : le evenge can be a all fy ng thing and that is rxactly \\hat Unive sit; of an O1ego's basketball team ba.s m mrnd this wf'Ck. Frid night the Toreros 11 p o. t to NorlhPrn lead the Toreros to lhe · filth straight triumph while Joe Smith added 12 and B<>n Thompson 11. Bob W· lter

paced UC-Riverside with 17. After jumping off to a 42-32 lead in the first half, the To- reros had some amduus mo- ments when the Highlanders came back to take the lead briefly at 64-63. "They had a capacity crowd there but our kids kept their poise,'' praised Bickt>r- sta!f. "rt was really a greii .,.. in for us." Following Friday n "'ht's rematch with Northern Ari- zona, the Toreros w.J- tra, el across town to UCSD Satur- day night for a game with the Tritons at 8. The Tritons captured their sixth straight victory at home Saturday night with a 77-63 nod over Pacific Christian di' spite lielding a team reduced to only eight men because of the flu. Gie Simpson' netted 17 point, and Pete Ht•rKJcr~on 16 to lead the Tritons while Gary D nr!cret srored 20, all •n the second half. to pace Pacific Christian.

'Shooting is now' y Bickerstaff

rizona here , a team that epresents om. of the losses on USD s fine 8-3 slate to dat "Northern Anzona beat us 79-73 o:iring our trip to Ari- zl:ma earlJer this season." re- called ad coach Bernie Bickerstaff yesterday. · ' Reali , it was the one la'lle on that u•ip we should mve won. I'm sure we can te{ them here and I know the tids will be up for it." 'fhe Toreros demonstratt>d hat can happen when they 1et up Saturday night during visit CC Riverside. Underdogs to a Highlander ea!T' that came into the neeting with a 10-0 record, e Toreros hit a tornd 61% ; om the field and came iway with a 77-70 victnry. "We didn't take a lot of hots ( 49) but the ones we ok were good· ones," said Bkkerslalf. "They used the same press UCLA does. Once we broke it we had the advantage and were getting t h L bank shots." Stan washington·and Pinky

I/ Cl/ 7 For all practicable pur- poses, the name of the game is not basketball, but scoring Thal ·s accomplished through the art of hooting Therefor!' the Umversny of Sa Diego basketbail team . houlJ be a bunch of feasible young men Al least on coach Bernie Bickerstalf's belief "I tell them," Bickerstaff explained to Monday's meeting of the Sports- wnters/ port casters Assn , •· at 11 you get your shot. take 11 " And 1f they hit like they dul again. t UC Riverside Saturday night. look for a pair of Torero wins thIS Friday Saturday when Bicker al! s five ho~t Nor hern Arizona and then Jump over to l]C ·o Both gam ~inat8pm .

.. I don ·1 care if thev come down the urt one on three - if they get their shot I want them to take it. · said Bickerstaff. Saturday the Toreros took 49 of "their shots" and hit 30 m a 77-70 upset wm o,·er previously undefeated UC Riverside. The · parlayed their attack with 1-2-2 zone defense that · D had not seen since Bick s ]If came to Alcala Park in 1W9 An early season loss to Northern Airzona, coupled by the fact UCSD starts a pair of cagers that USO once recruited, has the Toreros emotionally charged for this weekend "Tb kids are fired up... said Bicker aff 'It s an ematipnal week and I'm r ad\ Co go." ay, for a fe\\ hots.

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wmner five traight games, will attempt make 1t six tonight when it acific Christian After drop ing their first three starts, the Tritons have roared oock with five con- secutive vt ries. Three of them were uts. Pacific Christian is a Long Beach sc ol which lost to U.S. Inte ational University Thursday night, 73-55. Chris- lian committed 25 turnovers when co ronted with a full- court pre s and UCSD is ex- pected to employ similar tac- tics this evening. The top Triton pointmaker co11tinues to be 6-ft. 7-in. sophomore center Paul Trainer He is averaging 22 points a game. · U.S. International Univer-

against Cal Lutheran m Gold- en Grm. Game time is 8 for the Westerners'. who are led by the sctJring of Jim Sullivan, a junior averaging 12. 7 paints a game, and senior forward Ken Brush, who has a 12.3 scoring average. Cal Lutheran's top scorer is Steve Jasper, last week', NAIA District 3 player of th week. Jasper averages 2 points a game. University .or San Diego !he toughest job of ar~a leges tonight. The To travel to Riverside f game with UC-Rive winner of lO games w· loss this season. USD has won its la t f u games behind the scoring o Pinky Smith and Stan Wash ington. mith has a 20.4 sctJr mg average while Washin ton's mark is 16.

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