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Toreros thrash Santa Clara, move into second The U~rsity of ~an Diego ba.wJ!J.aH team has been pla_ying sluggish baTI"Ofi:.rte';'but movefi:e!i~ West Coast Athletic Conference contention with a strong performance Thursd~y. ThP. Toreros, who received a game-high 2:3 pomts from center Scott . Thompson, smashed Santa Ciar:a 73-51. Thompson ~!so ~auled m 11 rebounds. The win moves USO mto a second place !1e with S_an Francisco, one-half game behin? Gonzaga. !-J?F v1s1ts the _l SD Sports Center on Saturda):' ut 7 30 p.m. Agam1st th~ Br:on<.:os, the Toreros jumped out to their usual early lead. but this time prevented Santa Clara (10-7 overall, 1·2 in the WCAC) from r

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Fu 1888 Thompson Paces Toreros Over Santa Clara, 73-51 - :;...a~';j . By TO~ FRIEND. Times Staff Writer

lie also made his first three shots. USD led, 7-0. And then, 12-2. And then, 19-6. Anp so on. All the while, Eric Mussel- man-Thompson's teammate, roommate and best friend-kept cheering. Every once m a while, Musselman will write "Rebound!" on one of Thompson's school note- books. They went to eat some burritos together before Thurs- day's game and, in between bites, Musselman was saying "Board!" or "Rebound!" Of course, it was easy for Mus- selman-who's 5-foot-7-to say that, but Thompson apparently got the message. By halftime, he had 16 points and 7 rebounds, and USD led. 35-26. They ended the game early in the second half, but 1t wasn't just Thompson, and that's the key here-he didn't have to do 1t alone. The score was 40-30 when Mark Manor took a beautiful pass from Thompson, scored, was fouled and completed a three-point play. A minute later, Thompson threw a pass over the Santa Clara press, and Manor scored again, was fouled again and completed a three-point play again. Thompson-never Jumping-

upped in a missed shot and made a free throw and the score suddenly was 49-32. The lead went as high as 23 points, as Musselman-coming off the bench-even made two three-pomtjump shots. "I've been practicing on my wastebasket," he said. Santa Clara Coach Carroll Wil- liams, of course, called it was a wasted night. "I didn't recognize my team," he said. Thompson, though, recognized that he doesn't have to try so hard. He'd been worried so much about scoring in the Gonzaga game that he hadn't rebounded. In a team meeting after that game, his team- mates apparently chided him, say- ing they couldn't believe he hadn't grabbed a single rebound. He went in to Egan, and they didn't shout at each other. No, Thompson wouldn't shout at a fly. He's a gentle giant. He just realized he had to have more fun out there, just relax and realize he doesn't have to act like he's 7-foot. 'I'll tell you," Thompson said after Thursday's game. "Zero re- bounds? I'll never let it happen again."

sake-is that Scott Thompson can- not carry his baeketball team by himself. Ile tried recently, and he couldn t do it. Last week, for example, he got exactly zero re- bounds against that powerhouse of the Northwest, Gonzaga Universi- ty. Zero. Fortunately, he and his coach held a heart-to-heart conversation th1S week, and Thompson found out that he's a lot better when he doesn't try so hard to play like a 7-footer. He tr·eJ bemg just one of the boys m Thursday night's game against Santa Clara, and it worked. He scored 23 points and grabbed 1I rebounds in a 73-51 USD victory. The Toreros are 2-1 in the West Coast Athletic Conference play and 11-4 overall (Santa Clara falls to 1-2 and 10-7). Thursday's game was their best of the season, ac- cording to Coach Hank Egan, and it all started with Thompson. He grabbed his first rebound on the first Santa Clara miss of the night. On the second Santa Clara miss, there was Thompson again.

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YOU MIGHT imagine, Egan IS un a y about ucb trends, particularly when his team is preparing to entertain highly regarded conference visitors ~nta Clara (tonight) and San Francisco (Saturday). "l think the worst thing you can do is kid yourself," Egan said. "The truth will out anyway, and the truth i that we're going to have to play a lot better to be a good ba ketball team and a contender." That may come as news to San Diego State, which the Toreros earlier defeated, 83-67, and could have doubled the score on if they chose. USD led, 42-12, with three mmute to play in the first half. The problem is that the Aztecs have improved since and the Toreros have not. "We played the same way at both Portland (a 61-59 overtime victory) and Gonzaga (a 58-46 loss)," Egan said "In neither game did we execute very well, nor did we play very hard. Unless we can r~ach down inside and do something about getting after it a bltle better, we're in trouble." Part of the difficulty with this year, the coach suspects, is lact year. In that season, the Toreros . were an ovei:achievmg 19-9 - their best record ever at the Division I level _ and Egan was voted WCAC co-coach of the year. WITH MANY OF those players returning this year, including Thompson, USD was expected to be good. There is a differenc~. "When you're in a position wh~re you surprise people, it's a lot ea~1er to have a good season," Egan said. "But when you're expected to be good and every gym you go into they're really prepared fo~ you, you've got to be able to raise yourself up to that. . "I'm not so sure we understood it was going to be Ike that. I think we have a lot of people within our . organization, and players, who felt 1t was going to happen very eas~ because of who we had returning. It's not easy. It's never easy." . The Toreros have come to realize that Now they must figure out what to do about it, and quickly. Santa Clara comes to town with a 10-6 record, and USF, which Egan calls "pound-for-pound, the ~-o~t talented team in the conference, ...,, 12-3. Even at their best, the Toreros will be challenged by these two. And they haven't been at their best lately. For one thing, they have to figure out bow to free Thompson from the thicket of defensive bodies he has begun to attract The b~g fella Is a key figure in their passing game as well a an individual offensive force. "IT'S ·o SECRET that everybody's gomg to sit See LOCKW D OD

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USD's Siegan may get judgeship oJ U.S. Cir~uit By Bill Ott «. C-1 I':! < Slatr,Writer d \ "J

Commission on the Bicentennial of the United States Constitution by President Reagan some time ago. The son of Russian-Polish immi- grants, he was born in Chicago and grew up in the city's West Side and spoke only Yiddish until he was 5. He attended junior college in Chicago and served in the Army from 1943 through 1945. He studied law at the University of Chicago and taught at Harvard University in 1968-69. Thompson said Siegan's appoint- ment will result in three judges of the 9th Circuit sitting in San Diego. The 9th Circuit covers California and eight other western states, Guam and the Mariana Islands, and has a com- plement of 25 active judges and 10 senior judges, who determine their own caseload. Thompson, citing the increase in bankruptcy filings, also said a fourth judge should be appointed to the bankruptcy bench here this year. He noted there were a record high 8,361 bankruptcy filings here last year,

predicting that filings this year "are expected to exceed 10,000 " "Presently, we are in the process of acquiring the old federal court- house at 325 West F St. for the pur- pose of moving the bankruptcy court to that building," he said. "A cost analysis is being conducted." The old courthouse, also known as the old customs house, earlier had been earmarked to house offices of the Immigration and Naturalization Service. Thompson said, however that it appeared assured that Bank- ruptcy Court and its administrative offices would occupy the building in about 1990. Thompson went on to say that criminal cases dropped from 1,117 cases in 1985 to 1,085 in 1986, noting that the cases filed last year involved more multi-defendant cases. The U.S. attorney's office, he said, is now up to a complement of 50 at- torneys, but will be expanded by 13 more and support-staff members.

Thompson predicted that the new immigration bill, with sanctions pos- sible against emplo~rs who know- ingly hire undocumented aliens, would increase the caseload for the U.S. attorney's office. The legalization program, which grants amnesty and eventual citizen- ship to aliens who resided here prior to Jan. 1, 1982, could boost the num- ber of fraud cases handled by federal prosecutors, as attempts are made to legalize some aliens who are not eli- gible, he added. The luncheon also was highlighted by installation of attorney Jay W. Hurst as president of the San Diego Chapter of the Federal Bar Associa- tion. He succeeds Michael Y. MacK- inoon. Other new officers are J. Ed- ward Harris, vice pres1den~ James Carletti, secretary; and Assistant U.S. Attorney Pat Swan, treasurer. Guests included Stanley Fisher of Cleveland, national president of the Federal Bar Association. ___.

Bernard Siegan, a professor of constitutional law at the IlSO....Lil w School, likely will be appointed as a judge on the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals here, a top federal judge said yesterday. Chief U.S. District Judge Gordon Thompson Jr. predicted Siegan's ap- pointment yesterday, addressing more than 70 people at a luncheon meeting of the San Diego Chapter of the Federal Bar Association. 1 The luncheon at the Executive Hotel was in honor of Thompson, who gave a glimpse of future develop- ments in the federal courts here. Questioned after the luncheon, Thompson said Siegan probably had cleared screening by the American Bar Association, one of the steps leading to appointment. "This appointment should be forth- coming soon," he said. Siegan, 62, a Republican, was in Washington, D.C., yesterday and

The San Diego Union/Don K?hlbauer Gordon Thompson Jr. could not be reached for comment. He bas been a professor of constitu- tional law at the University of San -Diego since August 1973. Described by colleagues as a soft. spoken, scholarly man devoted to writing, Siegan was appointed to the

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last five games. A year ago, when USD hosted USF, the Toreros pulled away from a 21-14 halftime lead to win, 72-39. USF, m its first year back after suspending its basketball program for three years, finished last in the conference. However, this season, the Dons, coached by former USD coach Jim Brovelli, are much improved. USF was 10-3 in nonconference games, then won its first two conference games last weekend. The Dons' first conference loss came Thurs- day night at St. Mary's.

Rodney Tention, a 6-foot 2-inch guard who formerly played at Grossmont College and for USD Coach Hank Egan at Air Force, is among the Dons' top scorers. Soph- omore center Mark McCathrion (6-8) and junior forward Pat Giusti (6-9) lead USFupfront. The Toreros, meanwhile, can't be too sure on what to expect from their starters up front. Scott Thompson, USD's 7-foot center, had 23 points and 11 rebounds against Santa Clara, but he failed to get a rebound the game before, a loss to Gonzaga.

San Diego bas etbaltteam, u11beat- errat home.take on the l~D.!_YSe~ or San Francisco.at the D por s Center tonight at 7,30. The Toreros (2-1 in the West Coast Athletic Conference, 11-4 overall) are commg off a 73-51 win over Santa Clara Thursday night here. USD and USF are in a four-way tiefor first in WCAC with Gonzaga and Loyola Marymount. After holdmg off Boise State by two points in its home opener. USD's average margin of victory at home has been 17 pomts over the