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LOCAL BRIEFS Aztecs{lose in men's tennis San Diego S~t to host Neva- Tsunoda 6-4, 6-4.

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the first inning. The Griffins play Chaffey this morning at 8. In other , Apache Classic games, Southwestern lost to Orange Coast College, 4-2, after leading, 2-0, entering the bot- tom of the ninth. Southwestern outhit San Bernardino at 11 ... SDSU, com- ing off an 8-0 loss to Division II UC game series with Pacific tonight at Smith Field at 5. Tomorrow's game is at 2 p.m. The 15th-ranked Aztecs are 3-2. Pacific is 2-2. SDSU will pitch senior Rob Brown (1-0) tonight and sophomore Erik Plantenberg (O· 0) tomorrow. SDSU's pitching staff has a 1.20 earned-run average

da-Las Vegas yesterday in men's ten- nis, and USO beat visiting Loyola The Aztecs fell, 5-1, in round-robin play at the Rebel Invitational. USO, behind strong singles play, SDSU (1-5) lost five of six singles matches. Bill Kearsley won team's only point, beating Yusa Tsunoda 6-4, 6-2 at the No. 6position. The Aztecs play Texas Tech today. Curtis Dadian of USO (5-1) beat Tom Sampson 6-2, 6-0 at No. 2 sin- gles. USD's No. 1 doubles team of Jose Luis Noriega and David Stewart defeated Craig Brown and Tony Marymount. beat LMU, 7-2. UNLV is 3-1.

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women's team lost all three doubles matches and fell to visiting Pomona Long Beach State this morning at 10:30 ... USO men's coach Ed Collins, will conduct a free clinic today from 1-3 p.m. at the USD west courts. All ages and levels of play are welcome. BaHball - Grossmont capitalized on three L.A. Harbor errors and beat the Seahawks, 7-4, in the first round of the Apache Classic at Southwest- ern. Grossmont scored four runs in

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Pitzer, 6-3. The Tritons (0-1) host Orange Coast, 7-4. The Apaches meet

LMU h on its last four meet- ings with USO. The Lions defeated the Tor ros 115-75 and 141-126 last ason. The Toreros were run off the floor both ames. LMU defeated USD 139-104 when the teams played la t turday night in Los Angeles. That gam was decided during a five-minu e stretch m which the Lions v. en! on a 35-4 sprint. trategy last night was to take the layup when it was there and t up th offense when it wasn't. A controlled attack. It worked in the first half wh n the Toreros played perhaps their best basketball of the season. USO trailed 52-48 at halftime. "The first half is the way we want- ed to play the whole g,me," said Strickland, who scored 13 of his 15 points in the first half. "In the second half, we cam out and walked right into a trap We started playing much f r than wanted to play. We w re down by three, then it went to 18 really quick. It's one of those things where e got caught up doing what they wanted to do." The Toreros were done in by a 5½- minute tr tch early 10 the second half when the Lions increased their lead from 56-53 to 78-56 with 12:37 remaining. "In the first half, we were able to execute our offense and impose our game plan on them," said USO junior forward Craig Cottrell, i!O led the Tor ros with 26 points. "In the sec- ond half, we came out and we were a little too anuous We didn't execute the way we were supposed to and that was it right there. "It's very easy to lose control out there and get caught up in the tempo. That' where more poise and maturi- ty comes in. We just don't have that tblS y ar." Said L U senior fc rward Hank Plea e see TOREROS: 1' 6, Col. 6 uso·s

the assisted by members of his team, Riverside on Tuesday, begins a two-

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Part Ill/Sunday, February 12, 1989 ** I Ferch Gives Pepperdine a Boost Over San Diego Reserve Guard Makes 3 Straight 3-Pointers and Waves Rise Up to Win, 93-73 By Jfr,1 ,fNDGREN, 87-84, in overtime, USO (6-16, tired. I didn't feel like sparking. I they did a good job of taking Spena! to The Times l-'I) is alone in last place in the didn't feel like shooting. control," USO Coach Hank Egan conference. "The first one I was not real said. SAN DIEGO-Some times the Playing before 2,250 fans, USO confident with. The second one I In the first half, Pepperdine took best coaching moves are the ones took a 39-37 lead with 17 minutes thought was a brick. The third one a 7 _0 lead, but USO rallied to tie the that are never made. 30 seconds remaining. I knew was going down." Tom Asbury, the Pepperdine After the Waves' Tom Lewis Ferch, who scored only two score, 9 - 9, Peppe rd ine went on a men's basketball coach, might made a three-point play, Asbury points in the first half, had confi- 7-0 run, but th en USO outscored agree, after his hands-off coaching was ready to pull Ferch, a reserve dence after his three baskets. He the Waves, 10-1. enabled Shann Ferch to give the guard, because the 6-foot-l trans- went on to make six of six free Late in the half, two Wayman lackluster Waves the needed spark fer from Montana State was not throws and finished with 17 points. Strickland three-point baskets against the Univers~Q playing satisfactory defense. "Those were big th rees," Asbury gave USO leads of 28-25 and 35-31. Saturday att1tt!'USDSportsCenter. But, without a break in the said. "I was just getting ready to Craig Davis' l8-foot jumper at the Peppcrdine, trailing at halftime action, Ferch stayed in. On the next take him out• • • b d ·t35 33 USO II h k d "He's a really good open three- uzzer ma e 1 - ' • and still appearing she s oc e three Pepperdine possessions, from Friday's 77-49 loss to St. Ferch made three-point shots to point shooter. He can really get on USD junior forward Craig Cot- Mary's at Moraga, Calif., rallied give the Waves a 49-42 lead with a roll." trcll led all scorers with 25 points, early in the second half to defeat 14:50 left. After Ferch's shots, Pepperdine but he fouled out with 3,16 left: USO, 93-73. Pepperdine never lost its lead as built a commanding lead with scor- Scni r guard Danny Means added With the victory, Pepperdine the Waves made 22 of 25 free ing streaks of five, five, six and 10 2! pomts. (16-9, 8-2) kept pace with St. throws in the second half and 30 of points. For the first 15,00 of the Davis led the Waves with 22 Mary's atop the West Coast Athlet- 36 overall. second half, USO scored on succes- ic Conference standings. With "The only thing I can say," sivepossessionsonlyonce. points. Lewis idded 2 0, Dexter S F · Ferch sa1·d, "i's that I was really "They were pretty seasoned and Howard 16 and Casey Crawford 11. Portland defeating an ranc1sco, / - --~-.:_-_:-:-..:-:-~-----~~~-----~~=="".'~"".':::::":-=-=-=======---rz

T ~EJO G th "I kne at ny time we could br k the game wide open We got a little tired and lackadaisical and gave up ome easy baskets, but we thought w could break it op n at ny time Gath ho ed what kind of .ath· 1 t the To er wer up again t w th 4·30 r mammg in the game. USO guard Kelvin Means had a bre away layup. Gathers had ot er idea , running down Means and blocking h1 hot Gathers was back on offense in an Instant, looking to score off the break he created. Tb t's LMU basketball. On the surface, it appears patience virtue not practiced by the Lions. They 1 ad the nation in scoring with 114 points a game Everybody wants a hot. ow. "We need more than one ball," d Loyola Marymount coach Paul West- h d ''We need three or four balls." LMU can't wait to shoot. That's a given. It can wait all day when it comes to taking control of a game, however. Like Gathers said, the Lions can break it open anytime. So what's the rush' In that re pect, the Lions have the patience of Job Of course, L m opponents are the es who do all the suffering. The Lions pr ure the ·nbounds p . Then they double-team the ball to the half-court lme. If a team beats th pr , a layup usually is ,ts reward USO mad 35 shots from the floor and layups accounted for 27 of the b kets. The press takes its toll, however. USO had 26 turnovers, 17 in th second half. If LMU's pressure doesn't get you, th Lions' thr pointers do. LMU'set conference record with 14 three- po10t r 1 t week against the Tor ros. The Lion had 13 more la t night, outscormg the Toreros 39-9 from long rang . Junior guard Jeff Fryer led the bomb squad, scoring 21 of hi 26 poln from three-point range. Junior guard Bo Kimble came off the bench to ore nin of bis 22 points on thr point rs Startmg forward Per tum ·r and backup guard Terrell Low ry also add d thr -pointers. W hav a r putat1on with Hank Gathers a bein a great inside team, and ar , but tonight the other guy played,' said We thead. The outs1d shooting made G th rs a s ctator much of the n ght Gath 1 ads the nation with averag of 33.5 points and 14.3 re- bound a game. H had only25 points "find 1ght rebound la t night. "It doesn't upset me," said Gath rs. "Wh n th y're no hooting, th n it up ts m . Giv the ball up. But tonight they w re casting it up. I m an, shots wer coming from every angle outside the three-point hne. They were NBA three-pointers. I en- courage them to shoot it. I hope they ml , though, be au e I'll get t " "t!- bound. I have tog t my poi

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of 36 overall. "Last night (Friday) we were not even close at the free-throw line" Asbury said. "That's just basketbail. How do you explain it? How do you explain us beating Loyola by 25 and then losing by 16? How do you ex- plain us beating St. Mary's and then losing by 28 to them?" One explanation for the Waves' sec~nd-half roil, which left five play- ers_ m double figures for scoring, was fatigue, Asbury said. . "Anytime you play Loyola the ru~ht before you play us, it's going to g:md you down," said Asbury, refer- ring to USD's 104-88 loss to Loyola Friday. USO can also take heart from an- other strong performance by junior Craig Cottrell. Cottrell scored 25. The 6-5 forward from Tempe, Ariz., has hit 36-of-44 the last three games and 74 percent from the field in conference games. For Pepperdine, junior forward Tom Lewis scored 20, 16 in the sec- MQ l ter ffn,..,.,..., h ,.

Ferch, who was 3-of-10 Friday, had 17. Did he feelit, as they say? ''The only thing I can say I was really tired," said Ferch, brother of former Montana State star Kral Ferch. "I. didn't feel like sparking, hke shooting. It was just nice - we needed this thing - USO is tough on us."

"I was just about to pull him out be.fore be hit that first three- pomter," Asbury said. That shot - which Ferch didn't think would go - made it 43-39 Pep- perdine with 16:22 left. Next time down, Ferch hit another three-pointer - "I thought it was a brick' - and followed it with another - this time he knew it 38 in _ and Pepperdine led, 49-42. Asbury called that flurry the key. USO coach Hank Egan concurred. . "He made a couple of those spin- nmg around," said Egan, shaking his head. The three three's and Asbury's halftime yelling also got Craig Davis goin.g. The junior forward hit four straight shots in the second half fin- ishi~~ _with a team-high 22. After Davis Jumper made it 65-55 with 10 min~tes remaining, USO got in a fouling mode. Wrong night for that. Pepperdine, which hit l 7-of-28 from the field in the second half made its final 19 free throw '

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