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Jlll~n • P c . B 1888 / Menlo nears playoffs :1955 Oaks beat San Diego, await word from NCAA By Richard Weiner Times Tribune staff SAN DIEGO - John Covarru• bias, Frank Morones and Joe Tor- - slello all commented about the feeling. The feeling a team gets when breaks are going Its way, when a once-fearsome opponents suddenly looks ordinary, when not even the otj:er team's momentum can take away a victory. The Menlo College football team rode that feeling to perhaps the most Important victory in the his- tory of the tiny Atherton colleg~ Saturday. Combining a bulldozing. time-consuming offense with a re- lentless defense and that ever-pres- ent feeling of destiny, the Oaks probably clinched their first post. season berth with a 17-15 victory over University ot San Diego. Menlo ended Its regular season with a 7-2 record and improved its chances ot receiving an invitation to the NCAA Division Ill playoffs by finishing undefeated against Di- vision III teams. Menlo coach Ray Solari, whose team is ranked No. 16 In the nation and fourth in the Western Region, said an NCAA otrlclal had "practl• cally assured me a playoff spot if we won." Four teams from the Western Region qualify for the playoffs, which begin next week. It will be difficult tor the selec- tion committee to ignore Menlo atter the Oaks handed No. 20 San Diego (6-3-1) its first loss to a Divi- sion m opponent. Pairings for the playoffs, which lead to the Alonzo Stagg Bowl OD Dec. 12 in Phenix City, Ala., will be announced today. Menlo, spoiling a festive day for a partisan, standing-room-only crowd of 4,000 at Torero Stadium, held the ball almost 20 minutes more than San Diego and made 20 first downs to the Toreros' IO. The Menlo offense, disguising to near perfection .a repertoire o# only eight offensive plays, fmlshed with 325 yards. The defe e held n I oto 15 e lu t ad a eel abou today," sold tight end Covarrub , ho had four key receptions for 72 yards, helping Menlo quarterback Jerold Montano to a 18-of-27, 216- yard performance. "It didn't mat- ter if they scored. We just felt like we would do It." Defensive lineman Morones said that, "for some reason, the guy in front ot me, who was really tough last year, Just didn't seem as strong." Every Menlo defensive starter made an outstanding play. The Oaks started the game with the first of five sacks and continued to harrass San Diego by substituting Its roverback throughout. l .<1

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layoff bid catches, three touchdowns) lead the offense. Cbn Par , a S-foot-8, 200- pound Junior linebacker, is the team's leading tackler with 50. 'I thmk San Diego does a lot of great thing , but talentwl!e Menlo is a better football team," said Zmda, who e team has lost to both. They have a lot of experience (18 seruors), and they are a very physical ball- club '' USO' trength i defense. The team i ranked seventh nationally m scoring defense (9 2-pomt average) and mnth m total defense (205 S.yard average) Junior free safety Bryan Day lead the team with five mter- cept10ns and 78 tackles (29 ulldSS1st- ed).

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fan Diego Sports Etcetera UCSD Volleyball Team Wins the Regional Final .&,.q_:>- By RICK HAZELTINE Kim Ensley led San Bernardino with 10 kills. SAN DIEGO-There are five

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banners hanging in UC San Diego's Triton Pav1hon marking the three NCAA Div1s10n III national cham- pwnships and two second-place finishes of the women's volleyball team. "Repeating," said Janet Hughes, UCSD's All Amencan middle blocker, pointing to the rows of banners. "It's all we've been shoot- ing for this season." Top.ranked UCSD is trying to become the first team to win consecutive Division III volleyball championships. The Tritons (29-4) moved a step closer to their goal by sweeping eighth-ranked Cai State San Bernardino, 15-7, 15-11, 15-11, m the final of the West Regional Saturday night at Triton Pavilion. The victory advances the Tritons to the semifinals of the national championship tournament where they will meet fourth- ranked llli- no1s- Benedictine (42-2). Second- ranked Juaniata (53-3) of Hun- tingdon, Pa., plays third-ranked Elmhurst (38-8) of lllmois m tne other temifinal. The championship round site will be announced today. Cal tate San Bernardino (37-8) reached the regional final with a five-game upset of fifth-ranked Coloraao College Friday night. But the Coyotes could not muster enough offense, losing for the fourth time this season to the Tnton. Cal State San Bernardino's only challenge came in the second game With UCSD leading, 7-6. The Coyo- tes scored four straight points to take a 10-7 lead. San Bernardino led 11-9 after a kill by Lissa McDonald. Bull then UCSD turned to its leadet -Hughes and outside hitter Lori Luhnow.

D Lori Rodman had nine kills and eight digs to lead Loyola Mary mount to a 15-11, 15-11, 15-5 West Coast Athletic Conference victory over the University of San Diego at the USD Sports Center. Judy Conners and Kris Mitchell each had seven kills for USO (5-18, 3-8). Loyola Marymount is 14-15 and8-4. BASKETBALL Steve Smith scored 25 points and Rus He1cke added 22 to lead United States International University to a 90-88 victory in an exhibition game against Australia's Brisbane Bul- lets at Grossmont College. USIU's Josh Buell hit a IO-footer with 2,48 remaining in the game, giving the Gulls their first lead, 85-84. This was Brisbane's first loss on its 12-game North American tour. The Bullets are 7 -1. D Zach Jones scored 19 points to lead the Athletes in Action basket- ball team to a 78-74 victory over Marquette in Milwaukee. AIA is 11-0. TENNIS Dan Mattera, who alternated be- tween fifth and sixth singles last year for the Universjty of San Diego, wjll play USC freshman Byron Black' of Zimbabwe in at 10,30 a.m. today in the final of the RoleX/ITCA Southern California regional tournament at UC Irvine. Mattera defeated No. 5-seeded Bob Bierens of UCLA, 6-4, 6-3, in the quarterfinals, and followed with a 6-4, 6-2 semifinal victory over No. 4 Trevor Kronemann of UC Irvine. Bierens is ranked No. 42. Kronemann is 33rd. Dave Stewart and Scott Patridge of the University of San Diego meet Arizona State's Brian Gyetko and Mike Holten in a doubles semifinal today.

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Wide receiver Torsiello caught six passes for 65 yards, but his sta- llstlcs hide how crucial those catches were. Especially one. Menlo, which was tied 7-7 at halftime, had a 17-7 lead before San Diego scored on a three-play drive with 3:51 left in the fourth quarter. With the Oaks nursing a two-point lead and less than two minutes to play, Torsiello caught a third-and-15 pass from Montano for a crucial first down that iced the game. Torsiello could barely speak after the emotional celebration that took place as time expired. It looked as though Menlo had won a world championship, with players Jumping on top of each other and whooping ii up with the thought that the victory probably assured the school's first senior class one more game. "Yeah, this was The Game... we had that feeling," said Torsiello, who recovered a blocked punt in the end zone quarter that put Menlo a head, 14-7, in the third quarter. There really were no stars tor Menlo, Just a collective team effort. Montano, who scored the first Menlo touchdown In the second quarter, made Just one poor pass, While Tyrone Gates, Doug Patter- son and James Urick ran well be- hind an Inspired offensive line. Kicker Eric Sweet, who had his first field goal attempt blocked, punched In a 23-yarder from an odd angle In the final quarter in what proved to be the game-win- ning score. And the defense seemed to hit harder as the game progressed, With Eddy Madsen, Tyrious Gates, Dan McHone, Chris Parks, Lou Schroeder and Rick and Pedro Ri- ·,era (no relation) leading the way.

Hughes and Luhnow combined to score all of the Tr1tons' next six points to give UCSD the game, 15-11 ~and a commanding 2-0 lead mgart1es. Wit}I the Coyotes leading 11-9, Luhnow scored a side out on a cross court ill. UCSD then scored on a dink lty Luhnow and a block by Hugh s to tie the game. Jennifer Wellnaan gave San Diego the lead with all ace and the Tritons closed game on a kill by Hughes, who t en teamed with Luhnow to e final point on a block. tate San Bernardino did not in the final game as UCSD rolled o a 13-4 lead. The Coyotes pulle to within 14-11, but kills by Diana hntworth gave the Tritons a side ut and match point. Hughes led all players with 14 kills. She also had three service aces and five blocks. Luhnow add- ed fur service aces and four blocks. out t

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Menlo def nders wrap up USD's Virgil Enriquez on way to securing a playoff berth. sid lin Fr hman cornerback Chris King turned pht-second late, and Torsiello mad the catch for the first down at th 3. Thre play later, on third-and-14, roommate came down with a couple great catches."

special-teams breakdown. That real- ly hurt us." Menlo increased its lead with a 62- yard, 17-play scoring drive that used nine minutes and 39 seconds of the fourth quarter. Sweet's 23-yard field goal made it 17-7 with 4:32 to play. USO, which had driven 65 yards in 1:41 just before the half to tie the game on Murphy's I-yard run, need- ed 44 seconds to move two points be- hind. Mansukhani returned Sweet's kickoff •39 yards to midfield, then caught two consecutive long passes from Murphy - the second for a touchdown.

CROSS-COUNTRY UC San Diego's Tom Zois quali- fied for the NCAA national meet with his time of 26:57 over a five-mile course at the NCAA Division III Western Regionals at the College of Norte Dame in Belmont, Calif. UCSD's Denise McFayden cov- ered the 5,000-meter women 's course m 18,04 to qualify for the national meet. Also qualifying, was UCSD's Sabrina Jensen with an 18:44.

The :;core was tied at 7 unlll mid- way through the third quarter, when Menlo'~ Pedro Rivera blocked John Gillis' punt after Gillis bobbled the snap Torsiello picked up the loose ball and ran 23 yards for a touch- down. Eric Sweet's extra point made it 14-7, Menlo, with 6:41 left in the third quarter. '"When you're in a close ball game, all aspects are going to be the differ- ence," said USO coach Brian Fogar- ty, who finished with his best record in five sea ons. "We just had a darn

To Jello made a leaping 17-yard catch m front of Gutsm1edl to give Menlo a first down at L'SD's 44 with I 25 remalnmg Time ran out two plays lat r 'We were afraid, because the two ouchdown.s U D had scored were r I fa t, a d ,Montano, who com- pl t II of 16 p es for 1 l yards with on Interception, "We knew we ne ·d d to get those two first downs to k p th b 11 away from them, My