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,au USD's losing streak t:'!~!,~!. tar Writer Woods and center Dondi Bell began :\iarist basketball coach Dave Ma- cutting to the free-throw line for garity said the Unu,ers1t_y_~n open shots. Diego e11tered1ast night's game as "I can't hit a free throw, but I can desperate as a man on a gangplank. hit a Jumper," said Woods, a fresh- But, instead of panicking, the man from Pomona making his first young Toreros played with savvy start. during a 62-56 victory before 740 at Woods' jumpers helped give him a USO. career-high 12 points and helped free The victory ended a three-game teammate Gylan Dottin, who also losing streak and restored some con- had a career-best night with 23 fidence ID USO (5-5), which had lost points. its last two home games narrowly. Woods' two jumpers, and eight Coach Hank Egan admitted thinking points by Dottin keyed a 31-20 run ··Here we go agam," when Marist that gave USO a 56-47 lead with 450 m ea late rush. left. The Toreros may also finally have Although critical of the officials their feet on the ground after win- Pecarski missed 5:40 early in the sec- ning their second game of the year at ond half after his third foul Ma- New Mexico, That victory, Egan garity praised USO. said, partly clouded his players' per- "That (10-4} run they had to open spective of what they must do to win. the second half was the key," Magar- •·we·re a ways from being the kind ity said. "We just really had a mental of ballclub we want to be," Egan lapse there. I think they were a des- \ aid "I wish I could rush it, but I perate team. They did a great job of can't." making the big shot when they had He may pomt to last night's game to." as pivotal.

West Coa t k tb I bas e 8 L...------------ call and what not to cal · awhile, it's not basketball." "The guys wante~ to make up for last night (agam 5t USF), 0 we came out a 11·ttle too anxious," ter • the game 5 on Y scorer and rebounder wit ap~:\ 'just w • n the Gaels had lulled the Broncos into false securi't • 1·n the f1'rst half,. t. Mary's ~corf'd t e ma po of the half for a 26-18 lead and ~cored the first 10 of the second lO S mt h r· I 10 half for a devastatmg. The Gaels used an m-your-face zone e ense to I1m1·t Santa Clara t Shooting which • percen • isn't totally surpnSmg mce entered the week ranked No. 1 10 h NCAA l ·n f1'eld goal defense. t e · • 1 . I z. d f 30 6 to · thev St. Marys con es every shot, fini~hing Wit blocks and forcmg 1S turnovers. It was the fewest points ever for h seven I Af C aid t.• ary s ce • · S M ' nter Dan urry I double figure •• h 200bl t , t ted virtual y

as the Cougars snapped their Six-g~me losing streak, and.ix~ek~~e,~:i~~i~o rival Southern Cal s los1 g Freshman Darrick Martin scored a career- igh paints at Seatfle Satur ay for UCLA, which moved Info secon,d place '" the Pac-to thanks to Arizona s vlctorv over Stanford. 22 ::::,';'s~~:v~~~~'!::4'o~ng leader Hank Gathers had 31 paints to guide Lovola Marvmount over Pepper. 1 h w t coa t dine and into a share o t e es s Athletic Conference lead a S-1 with PeJ>- =rdine and St, Marv's New Mexico St. 74, UCSB 68 At Las Cruces, N.M., Johnnv Roberson had 23 points and 11 rebounds as the Aggies Improved to 13-611nd 6-3 In the Big west, uc Santa Barb ta suf_fered its i,.t1ropp1n11 to 15 2 second loss of esea~ · - th Fullerton St, 19, Pacific 75 OT At Stockton, Cedr~ Ceballos scored 2• po',nts and Mark Hlll added 22 for _cat State Fullerton. Don Lvttle had 20 Points and 10 rebounds for Pacific. s-12 and la Stanton! 75, Oregon St. 64 I t Katv steding scored 22 PO n s an --t,,abbed 10 rebounds saturdav night to lead Stanford past Oregon State 75-64 •n Pac-10 game at. Corvallis. d Sonia Henning scor~ 18 points an Trisha Stevens added 16 for the sixth- ranked cardinal, now 15-2 on the year and 7-0 In the leavue. d UCLA93,W11hln11ton74 ~rto~: and 1,-2. , In the Big We•t. • Women's Basketball

1he last time the ~roncos ~cored fewer points was m 1960- 61 when they edfed San Jose G els relinquished fewer pomts wa , m 1975-76, when evada- Rrno won 19-17. But the Broncos al o played well defensively. St Mary's made 17 turnovers, 11 in the first half. 9 1'h t t me the 1 tate 30-2 . e as . c... n1.... n •9 San Francisco 64 wa~lh'1and scored 11 Points and the Tc.•eros made 24 of 29 free throws to snap a seven.game losing S1reak and surprise Unlversitv of San Francisco In a WCAC 9ame et San Diego. . The Torero', who had been shOot,ng 59 tine, made 83 percen • Thev made 22 of 26 In the second half Strickland, a f eshman from San Fran- ctsco, established hi career high scoring forSanDiego,6'12andl•S, Kevin Mouton finished w,th IS for USF. 10-9 and 2-4, which was coming.off a Frt• dav n·1ght vlctorv over St. Marv 5· Utah st. 68, San Jose St. 54 , d Reid Darrel White scored IB POin sen Newev 11 for the Aggies In ~an, Utah. Utah state lmpr.oved to 7-1 nd 5-S, while s•n Jose state d,.,,...,,,,_.~:'3 and 1-8 u th • t percent from th . Washington st. 12, use 65 At Pullman, wash., on Sundav, senior --•~~~-------- 7 • Other Games Johnny Johnson le 16 PQin's. e Spartans WI

MORAGA - which St. Mary's suffocaung defensewasitsbest(!ffense,_bas- packed McKeon Pav1hon for the Gaell!' rematch with Santa Clara. By holding the baffled Bron.cos scoreless for an astonishing l3:22, St. Mary's vigorously rebounded from a Friday upset In a game. rn um at Jam kets were at a prem_1 .' - by U Clara 53 -34 Saturday night. The method '··ac different, ut b the result was the same for the G aels, who last week turned a 20- an overw w 2 start into a 76-4 Santa Clara. This time St. Mary's ttered at t he outset before In fact, St. Mary's m_ustered runaway a pu erupting with a fury. onlv one field goa and trailed 18-16 :With 2: remaining in the opening half. ''We used up so much adre- nall·ne before we calmed own, d al.d coach Lynn Nance, whose Gaels improved to 17-2 overall an d 5-1 in the West Coast Ath- letl·c Conference. "It was a difficult game t9 ofh- c;:iate," Nance added, refem!lg to that resulted m 30 fouls. "You don't know what to e ,rs ; ,, . h · I J P ysica Pay SF d helmed Santa 8 t 1 th f t 9 36

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Marist (3-5), despite being taller, was outrebounded, 26-22. The Red Foxes, in addition to Pecarski's 16 points and seven rebounds, got 12 points from John Kijonek. USO senior guard Danny Means had 13 points, and Bell had a team- high six rebounds and two blocked shots. Dottin, after a cold-shooting start, hit 8 of 14 shots from the field.

For much of the first half, USO seemed unsure against Marist's spread zone defense. centered by 6- foot-ll Miroslav Pecarski. Marist never trailed en route to a 27-25 half- time lead that could have been big- ger. Although quicker, USO failed to produce a fastbreak basket in the half or penetrate often. Instead, they launched 10 three-pointers, making

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Toreros try to shake free from 'albatross' with win over Marist By Barry Blooi 55 C.I St,t, F,U,rtoo, Moot,.., ·~•d••R,no "' '"""'Y ""••· thci, way"' bWldmg' ,.,.,,.,.,,,t 1 ..,. run, "'m• mom"" 1,t,, ..., ... blocked San Diego, Saturday, December 31, 1988 1HESTRIBUNE D-3 Tribune Sportswriter and North Texas brought the Toreros down Marist, a tiny college from upstate New "That was a big, big break," Egan said. a Pecarski shot that seemed to have reached With two games remaining before the start to earth with a sickening thud. York, gave the Toreros fits in the first half That break came on the heels of the its apex. So much for the next Benoit Benja- f the West Coast Athletic Conference sea- In a way, Egan is glad ii happened. with a collapsing 3-2 zone built around Toreros making a major adjustment in their min. n SD coach Hank Egan seems a little ''We had to believe we had a lot of things Miroslav Pecarski - a 6-11 senior center offense to counter the tough Marist zone. "Yeah, that one was close (to goaltend- ry. to learn and to do," he said. from Yugoslavia who is said to have NBA Egan moved freshman forward Kelvin ing)," Bell said with a gleam in his eye. "We're a ways a way yet, we are," he said. His message seems to have finally bored potential. Pecarski, with 16 points and seven Woods to the weakside high post where he The Toreros reached their apex at 56-47 And I think we kind of know it " through the craniums of some of his young --------------- began hitting key jumpers. That opened Dot- with 5:19 to go. From there, it was a wreck of It didn't help very much last night that the players. tin to strike from three-point range where he flailing arms and free visits to the foul line. rroretos had to play to fhe max Just tow rd "The reason we didn't excel as much as we 'We'.re a long way away from buried three of eight bombs. Despite themselves, perhaps, the Toreros off 1 t 10 g Marist Coll ge 62-56 in their own thought we would was because a lot of guys being the kind of club we want "We just created another outlet," Egan prevailed. gym What will happen when Loyola, St. got big head ," said sopomore center Dondi to be. I wish J could rush it, but said. Afterward, Egan seemed pleased with the Mary's and Pepperdme visit the Sports Cen Bell from Crawford High. "That was a big J can't.' Interestingly enough, Egan credited effort from a team that seemingly could er, Egan must be wondenng? problem. We figured if we do this and that, _ Hank Egan Woods, who made his first start, with smok- have decomposed at almost any juncture. ''Back about thr or four weeks ago when that's all 1t will take to win. But we forgot ing out the seam in the zone. Woods had "For once, we just hung with the game," w beat New Mexico, thi all got out of about our heart." _______________ seven of his 13 points in the final 20 minutes. Egan said. "Some games are gonna bust and hand,'' Egan said after his team broke a Ditto freshman forward Gylan Dottin, who "I want to give credit where credit is due," some games are not gonna bust. And this one thr game losmg streak. scored a career-high 23 points last night - 17 rebounds, has potential, all right - to warm Egan said. "The kids made the adjustment didn't bust." in the second half the bench for the Orlando Magic. late in the first half on that hole. The guy Although it was at least a start, Egan "We're a long way away from be1Dg the "After the New Mexico game we felt we Ten of Pecarski's 16 points came as the who came up high the first time was Kelvin. would not hazard a guess about how USO ind of club we want to be. I wish I could could beat anybody," Dottin said. "You win Red Foxes clung to a 27-25 lead at the end of Then the guy who continued hitting them might fare in the upcoming WCAC season. "' h • 1 , OOt I""'· I thmk that 00 • "P"ta• m th, Pit"' yoo, ,.,, "'" swclt to ,..,t the lint hall. Comp,re U,,,. 27 "'''" to th• was Dotti,. That', '""hm"' "' """'""'· "Pm ,ot t,yi,g to ''°" ,, h,t I ,.,Uy ""' ''"' iwnpot too q,,oUy ,a,ty lo the "''·Now o"' ,,., ,,., """ o,...,, to '""· 54 big °"" Mui,t ""ed a..,;,g th, ""' P,etty imp,_,. " thiok , eoaoh that g1,., th, pre,, , predic• ' ' That may ha,o blow, thi,g, o,t of ty w, k,ow thiog, ,re,'t gm,,a rom, "'Y half •P i, L.A. Ia,t Wed,... ,y oight when E,.., with Pec.,mi haok io th, g,m,, it tioo Oo,t ol ho miod," Ega, ,aid. "That', ,p perspective for us.' to us." Loyola blew out the Red Foxes 131-107. was Bell who ultimately took control. Bell to you to do." Egan I talking about USD's stunning win With road games next week in Utah and In truth, the game turned last night when broke through for a jarring jam - the only Well, figure last year that USO finished rn the Lobo Cla 1c Beating New Mexico on Western Kentucky preceding the conference Pecarski drew his third foul with 17:25 re- one of the game - with 11:15 to play. Thirty- seventh in the WCAC with a 3-11 conference Nov 27 in the famed Pit at Albuquerque was opener here against Gonzaga on Jan. 13, that maining, giving USO just enough of a win- eight seconds later, his follow tip gave USO a record. But the Toreros didn't own the "alba- on thing. But Ince then, it's been a huge realization probably didn't come a moment dow to even its record at 5-5. Pecarski sat on 47-40 lead. tross" of beating New Mexico in the Pit, ei- hce of reahty. ~es to UC Santa Barbara, too soon. Last night's game might have acted the bench for 5:40 while the Toreros were on Perhaps, the punctuation point on the eve- ther.