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Rick Doane had three hits to help USD beat Chapman College of Orange, 9-6, in non-conference base- , ball yesterday at USD's Cunningham Stadium. Andy Roberts had a run-scoring double in USD's two-run first inning. The Toreros (3-3) added three runs in the second and three in the fifth. USD's Chuck Graham extended his hitting streak to 18 games, dating to last season. Pat Fitzsimons (2-0) gave up eight hits and one earned run in seven innings; Louis Skerticb earned his first save. Mike Grahovac had three hits and two RBI for Chapman (4-7). USO hosts Cal State Los Angeles in a double-header Saturday at noon.

kids." Gaels coach Lynn Nance doesn't consider USD's record indicative of its potential. "I think it would be a fatal mistake to take USO lightly,'' he said. "They've been in every game they've played. This team is going to be very good, maybe as early as the (WCAC) tournament (March 4-6)." That won't be soon enough to help the Toreros at 7:30 tonight in McKean (pronounced Mac-KUNE) Pavilion, or at 7:30 Saturday in th~ USO Sports Center. / _,.J

The Gaels are considered NCAA Tournament materW!l. The Toreros are in last pla e at 1-9 in the WCAC, 6-16 overall. They've lost 11 of their last 12. They're fast becoming doormat material. "To say we're in a struggle would be understating it a little," said USO coach Hank Egan. "I'm very con- cerned about the people that are a part of our program, because they're out playing hard and trying, and we're just not quite getting it done. I'm disappointed ... but not in the

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The Univ ity of San Diego's four- game losing streak has a good chance of growing to six. The Tor r ' next two games are against t Mary's, beginning with one to- ght in Moraga. Th Gaels (20-3, 8-2) ar tied for first in the West Coast Athletic Con- ference with Pepperdin (16-9, 8-2) fter big wm against the Waves (77- 9) and Loyola Marymount (95-81).

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/baels' defense puts clamps on USD Tr1buM ta/1 Report -Jq~ th nf · , __. :,,, . e co erence, taking a half-game lead over second- The St. Marys defense rests. Until Saturday. place Pepperdine. The Gaels' 21 wins this season are the Th Gallopmg Gaels are ranked third 1_n the_ nation 10 most since the 1937-38 team won a school-record 24 cormg defense (58.2 pomts a game), scoring differential games. (20.1) and field-goal per~ntage, defense (39.7). The teams were tied 10-10 with 11:56 remaining in the St Mary's No. 1 1n__1!SD s book after dealing the first half before the Gaels scored the game's next eight

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T~r ros a 70-45 W t AWetlc Conference loss last cKeon Pavilion mMo~aga. The qaels may be ranked No. 1 In the three defensive categones when the teams play at the USO Sports Center at 7:30 Saturday Tbcy just ez.ploded on us. Tbey are a very good Md well-coached team.' -Hank Egan night. St. ~ry• li:riproved m each category in limiting USO to 45 pomts, wmnmg by 25 points and holding the Toreros to 39.1 percent (18-for-46) shooting from the field . The 45 points "!ere the fewest scored by USD this season. The Torero previous low came in a f>7-54 loss to Portland. "They ju l exploded on us," said USO coach Hank Egan. "Th y are a very good and well-coached team. A ~elluva ballclub They're a good as advertised We're Just a young team and can't sustain things and we didn't compete very well tonight." By 1 beatmg USO (1-10 In the WCAC, 6-17 overall), St. Mary (9-2, 21-3) assumed sole possession of first place in night al

points for an 18-10 lead. St. Mary's reserve guard Mike Vontoure, who scored a career-high 17 points, hit a pair of three-pointers during the run. A 10-0 run later in the half helped the Gaels to a 32-16 halftime lead. The Toreros made an attempt to get back in the game early in. the second ha~. USD freshman guard Gylan Dottin hit one three-pomter and senior guard Danny Means hit two more to cut the Gaels' lead to 38-27 with 15:15 remaining. St. Mary's decided the game with an 11-0 run that turned a 42-30 lead into a 53-30 advantage with 8:51 to play. Vontoure led the Gaels in scoring with 17 points, fol- low_ed by 13 from junior forward James Dailey, 11 from senior forward Robert Haugen and 10 from senior guard Al Lewis. Means was the only USO player to reach dou- ble figures (11 points), when he made a three-pointer with 19 seconds remainmg. "St. Mary's does so many different things," said Egan. ''They make it difficult mentally and physically on you. They change defenses and play a tough zone. This is a (postseason) tournament-bound team. We need to go back

USD's Dadian stuns top-seeded Pearl Cu~is Dadian c_ ment, ~a-sponsored by USD and The and partner Dan Mattera are seeded play mth~ Nos, 1-2 smgles division of San Diego Union, continues today at second in No 2 doubles

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Three oth~r USD pl~yers made it to the Nos. 1-2 singles quarterfinals Jose Luis Noriega the No 2 d. beat UC Riverside's Richard Beijer 6-3, 6-2; fourth-seeded David Ste\vart stopped San Diego State's Joe McDo- nough 6-2, 1-6, 6-2; and Mark Farren , • see , Other local quarterfinalists are third-seeded Yoram Baron of USIU who beat Rice's Don Freeman 2-6 6~ 1, 6-3, and SDSU's Tole Marinko;ic who swept Texas-El Paso's Emek~ outlasted UC I 3-6, 6-4, 6-4. · , M"k R be rvme s I e o rts

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, Th~ believe that a needless Cesarean (Feb. 12) will produce a premmm baby should consult the American Journal of Public Health October 1988 issue A reliable tudy indicates that babies born without labor are 30 percent more likely to suffer low Apgar scores (i.e., be in pqor c?nd~hon m the first minute after birth) than those born vaginally. Their distress 1s almost always due to respiratory problems as a result ?f bei~g born w1tbo~t the sti.mulallon of labor. The resulting stay in m ens1ve-care nurseries costs msurance companies, parents and taxpay- ers millions annually. · Who will tell mothers that a normal birth is safer for mother and child tlian .. needless, routine Cesarean? The obstetrician, who stands to lose thtime e;tra $500, and add the mconvemence of getting up at night one more e. The ho pita!, who will see the bill halved if the mother delivers nor- mally? Who, then, will tell the parents what current research shows: bat repeat Cesareans are needless, hazardous and costly? Prior_Cesarean mothers would do well to contact the local chapter of the national Cesarean Prevention Movement. Nine out of ten prior Cesarean mothers who participate in the CPM program deliver their next child as nature intended Compare this with local hospital Cesarean rates of 20 percent, 30 percent or more. THERFSA RAHE SIDROW, M.Ph. Cardiff The solution to _unnecessary Cesarean sections is simply to give child- birth attendance m normal pregnancy to the certified registered-nurse midwife. IRENE S. PALMER, Ph.D., FAAN Professor and Dean Emeritus University of San Diego

So Nance took an offer from Boyd Grant to be an assistant at Fresno State. The St Mary's job became available a year later, but Nance was war8 of a program that appeared to be Division I in name only. "I had a lot of people tell me that going to St. Mary's - to put it kindly - would be a huge gamble,'' he said. It .nas paid off. The Gaels were 3-11 in the WCAC under Bill Oates the year before Nance arrived. They were 17-13 (7-7 WCAC) his first year and 19-9 (9-5 WCAC) last year. Dan Curry, the Gaels' 6-9 senior center, sees a reflection of Nance's travels and travails in his coaching. "There was a loose ball in practice one day that we watched go out of bounds," Curry recalled, "and he re- lated it to a job opportunity. The idea was you can't let something like that get away, whetber it's a loose ball or a job." No, what you do is what Nance has done at St. Mary's. You pounce, then make the most of it.

He took his first head-coaching job two years later at Iowa State. He had not lost much fervor since the hot, humid summers he worked for the Missouri highway department, trying to shovel more asphalt than anyone. He was coaching in his first Big Eight Tournament game when a tan- trum resulted in a series of techni- cals that would amount to 11 points for the opponent. . "I must've set a world record,'' he says now. His behavior never stopped his teams from winning - just him from staying in one place too long. Mid-· way through his fourth year at Iowa State, he quit and headed home to coach Division II Central Missouri. In five years he went 115-32 and won the 1984 NCAA Division II title, but Division I athletic directors weren't impressed enough to offer him a job. "We played in a 10,000-seat arena, Gene Bartow and Phog Allen had coached there, the school had a great basketball tradition, but Division I schools just don't recognize what someone does on the Division II

Whether 1t was shoveling asphalt, running down fugitives or hounding basketball players and officials, Lynn Nance's competitive zeal was more than evident. Sometimes, it was costly. "I don't think I'm the volatile per- son I once was," he said in a decep- tively easygoing drawl. "In my younger days, I was more likely to react when things went wrong. I think when you're younger, you're more threatened by things that don't go your way. I realize now that there are things that are going to happen in a game that I'm not particularly going to like." Though the days of Jrawing 11- point technicals may be over, Nance still radiates intensity the way a fur- nace does heat. Stand back if St. Mary's (21-3, 9-2 West Coast Athletic Conference) shows any sign of taking U.fil? too lightly to!light at 7:30 in the USD Sparts Center. It doesn't matter to Nance that his team demolished the Toreros (6-17, 1- 10) in St. Mary's McKean Pavilion, 70-45, three nights ago. "We'd better not (let down)," he said. "We've got too much to play for." By that he means an NCAA Tour- nament berth, which would be St. Mary's first since 1959. The Gaels'· first 20-victory season in 47 years seemingly has whetted, rather than sated, his appetite for achievement. "It was hard to get used to him, and I'm still not used to him, and it's been three years," senior forward Robert Haugen told the San Francis- co Chronicle. "He's a nice guy, but I don't think he wants to be your friend or get real personal . . . He wants your respect, which he has." That Nance would find it on a pri- vate school's campus in Moraga, an exclusive neighborhood east of the San Francisco Bay, seems incongru- ous with his background. Granted, few of Moraga's residents and

Associated Press Lynn Nance's tearr has been hearing applause this sea- son; St. Mary's is 21-3. none of St. Mary's 2,201 students - can boast a background as varied as that of their basketball coach. The journey that has taken him to the cow-studded rolling hills of Moraga Valley began in Granby, Mo., a lead-mining town without street signs that stands in the shadows of the Ozark Mountains. He left his childhood home at 18 and spent the next nine years at the University of Washington, four as a &-foot-6 high- scoring forward, five as an assistant to Coach Tex Winter. When his en- thusiasm waned for "teaching a guy to throw the brown thing through the round thing," be began a career with the Federal Bureau of Investigation He chased members of the coun- try's most-wanted clique for three years. When it became clear he might never be an FBI director - remember that competitive zeal. - he turned back to college sports. Nance spent one year as an NCAA assistant director in charge of en- forcement and rules interpretation before then-Kentucky coach Joe B.

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AZTE - The San Diego State ba ketball team will play Wyommg tonight (6.30, Chi. 51, KFMB 760) m Laramie. Thi game represents a