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lfSIJ:s Leonard has fit piece in team's puzzle One glimpse of Paul Leonard in action was all USO coach Hank Egan needed to convince himseli that Leonard wai1JieJ,umt guard the Toreros lacked during Egan's first season at Alcala Park. !hat glimpse continues to pay dividends. Two seasons ago, without a true pomt guard, the Toreros went 16-11 and finished fourth in the WCAC. By comparison, since Leonard's arrival, USO has gone 34-13. USD (6-1, 15-4) ~urre~~ly hol~ the top spot in the WCAC. The Toreros hope to strengthen their position torught when they meet two-time defending con- ference champion Pepperdine (2-4, 7-12) at 7:30 at the USD Sports Center. The game will mark Leonard's 48th straight start for the Toreros. He will be setting up the plays, passing the ball to the open man, taking his shot when Please see TOREROS, B-8 ByKirk"k~ Tribune Sportswriter J UST one look was all it took.

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people. They've got personalities. The chemistry and all tho e intangi- bles have to be there. In addition to all the physical stuff, his personality is such tliat he really helps the ball- club." In San Diego, 'easy-going" is an• other way of ying ''laid back." That suits Paul Leonard fine, too. This guy's in no rush. C'mon, one of his nicknames is "Molasses." "They call me that because I'm slow and easy-going off the court," said Leonard. "I've always been an easy-going guy. No real rush. Saving all the energy possible." His easy-going attitude helped Leonard acclimate himself to his role with the Toreros. Last season, he was mainly responsible for getting the offense rolling and playing de- fense. Players like center Scott Thompson and forward Nils Madde!l were there to control things inside. Forward Pete Murphy and guard Mark Bostic provided the outside Following the graduation of Mur• phy and Bostic, Leonard was expect- ed to assume some of the outside scoring load in addition to his other duties. His scoring average reflects the new assignment, inflating nearly four points to 10.5 points a game. In fact.. be earned WCAC Player of the Week honors for his performance in the Toreros' victories last week at g USF and Santa Clara. At the same ~; time, Leonard remains a consistent ~1 performer on defense. "I've always been able to fit in be- cause I've usually tned to do what's asked of me," said Leonard. "At the a , point guard spot I had a smaller role. & As long as everybody fits a piece of the puzzle, everything comes togeth• er. That's how it is here. Everybody knows his role. I shoot when I'm open and pass, but I don't have to create many things. "And everything's worked out well." Just one look at the ever-presen~ smile on Paul Leonard's face will tell you that. ! •~- scoring. c c, c.

it presents itself and getting back on defense. In other words, Leonard will be doing all the things Egan expected when he recruited the 6-foot-l senior from Diamond Bar two years ago. U~D ass istant coach Rick Schoenlein discovered Leonard when he was a sophomore at Mt. SAC CC. Schoenlein persuaded Egan to take a look when Mt. SAC visited Palomar College for a tournament. "Rick had already seen him play and felt he was the guy for us," said Egan. "So I went and w tched him play. I just watched him for a hall. At halftime, I told Rick, 'If you can get this guy, he's the one we want."' The feeling was mutual. Leonard, who nearly hung up bis high-tops after high school, was as impressed with the Toreros as they were with him. "He came down and visited the school and watched a game and got to spend some time with the play- ers," said Egan. "He sal , oach. if you want to do this, this is what I want to do, too.' We couldn't sign him then, but he made a verbal commit- ment." Said Leonard: "I always liked San Diego and Santa Barbara and places like that. USO was the first team to recruit me during my second season at Mt. SAC. I pretty much decided during he middle of the season that I'd like to come here and play. "It's funny because right out of high chool I wasn't thinking of play- ing basketball. But I decided to stick with it and play JC and we did well my second year, so I thought I might have a chance." He's made the most of it, which, in itself, should come as no surprise. Leonard needed no tailoring to fit into the USD scheme of things or the San Diego lifestyie. Leonard uses the term "easy- going" to describe himself. Let things unfold as they may and enjoy them. On the basketball court that tran• slates into watching what an oppo- nent gives you and taking advantage of it.

>n, "'ho had 15 of his 23 pomts in th fmt halt to h Ip the Bt>ars take 42-:IO "'1th 1 40 to play in the half.

"Kevi n wou ldn't IN the offense •ttl , coal'h Lou ampanPl h said, "and "'e got out of j nc ..

It wa Ort>gon' eighth straight victory at hom1• Cal, which got 30 1111 Crom Leonard Taylor the last Im the two teams played . got four on two-ror-15 shootms,: from h ·erst• wh1I r placements, Jon 'Wheeler and Hartmut Ortmann. ME"an\\hile, at Corvall is, center Ortiz ored 2'2 point and got 14 r •bound to pace Oregon 'tale 17-3, 1441 past 'tanford , 71 59. The v1·tory, Oregon State's sixth in its last s ven games, moved the Bea- ve pa ·t U LA Into first m the con• fcrenC'e rac . UCLA had a nine• am winning treak snapp d when JI I tat home to\\ a hmgton, 95-87. 'tanford' Todd Lichti sank a pair or free thro"' s "'ith 4 30 to play to r ut the Beaver.· 1 ad to 5.1-49 but Or tiz ored from the ba eline and n c Kno added a pair of free h rn to boost the lead to 57-49, and the Cardinal (5-5, lHIJnever got c os r than 1x after that. In the other Pac-IOgames: t Westwood: Phil Zevenber- n ored 24 points and Christian Welp added 20 as Washington 15-4, 11 9> conVl·rted a 57-point second- half as. ault mto its second victory n 36 gam against the Brums at auley Pavilion. Reggie Miller had 35 for UCLA (6-3, 12-4). At LOli Angel s: Derrick Dowell cor d 24 pomts and Brad Winslow ;:idded 15 to lead U C to a 66-37 rout >f \\uhlngton State. The Trojans 13-6, S.101 led, 31-6, "'ith 4:07 left in the fir t half. The Cougars, who lo t their fifth strai.':ht game by an aver• g · of 27 pomts, shot only 26 per- cent and no"' are 2-7, 6-11 M Temp : Sean Elliott cored 2:l points and Anthony Cook added 18 a: rlzona (6-3, 11-7) snapped it~

Tribune phow by Howard Lipin PAUL LEONARD

8Y ASSOC/MEO f>llESS Oregon State center Jose Ortiz grabbed a rebound away from Stanford's Eric Reveno (55) Thursday night at Corvallis

"I think some of the people in the stands don't know why he's out there sometimes because all he does is run the show," said Egan. "Give him the ball and he decides where it goes and who gets it. If the shot's there, he shoots it. His intelligence on the floor is his main asset, and you combine that with the fact that he can really handle the ball. Tho~e two in combi- nation make him awfully tough." So was Leonard the last piece needed to complete a championship puzzle for the Toreros? "I felt that he was going to contrib- ute when we recruited him," said Egan. "It isn't exa J pieces; it's

two-game losmg streak with an 82· 67 wm over archrival Arizona Stat e. Steve Beck had 26 fo r ASU. The WCAC At Spokane: USF lost it fifth traight game and worst or the sea- son, 85-57, to Gonzaga. It was also the first time the Dons 12-5, 12-8) have lost by more than nine points. USF. which got only 12 minutes and no points or rebound from Mark \ lcCathrion, who had a strep throat, fell behind, 12-2, and didn't get another hoop until the 11-min• ute mark or the first half. Gonzaga, on the other hand, won its 11th in 12 game to stay a half-game behind San Die o m t he race. Portland 13-3, 11-8) broke fast, led by 10, 43-33. at half and cruised home with a 79-08 win over visiting Santa Clara. Greg Ant hony led the way with 2'2, and Greg Atta"'ay, a Fremont High (Oakland>product, 19 for the Pllots. At San Diego: Nils Madden reg- istered 17 points to lift San D~o (6-1, 15-4) to a surprisingly easy -48 win over Loyola larymount. The Toreros, a half-game ahead of Gon- zaga, jumped to a 6-0 lead and were

Mexico State, 72-43. The Spartans 15-4. 9 91 shot 24 percent for the game and never got closer than mne points in the second half. Kenny Travib led the Aggies (~. 9-ll)with 25 points, while Ricky Berry, who missed 11 of h is first 12 shots, led Sparta with 14. At Irvine: Armon Gilliam got 36 points and pulled down 14 rebounds to power No. 2 Nevada-La Vegas to a 114-103 win over UC Irvine. Freddie Banks added 27 points and Mark Wade collected 14 assists for Vegas 19-0, 20.ll, while Scott Brooks scored '1:1 pomts to lead the Anteat- ers (6-5, 11-9). At Fullerton· Richard Morton scored 15 points and sank two free throws in the final minute to lift Fullerton State to its first win in seven games, a 59-56 decision over UOP. At Long Beach: Guard Tony Ronzone, a Bishop O'Oowd product, scored nine points in the first five minutes of the second half to break open a tie game and lead Long Beach State to a 93-00 win over Utah State. The 49ers (6-3, 11-10) moved into second place behind Ve- gas. At Santa Barbara: Fresno State (2-7. 7-13) dropped into last place by losing, 54-46. to UC Santa Barbara. Brian Johnson scored 13 points for the winners (44, 9-8), who shot only 37 percent.

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Reagan Nomi ates Siegan for U.S. Circuit Court Seat [).fi_s-C--- By JAN"lY ::;~OTT, Times Staff H'nter

San Jose State put together its worst offensive performance of the season in Las Cruces, losing to New

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Uni er'slt} law prole· or llernm ct ~I •garr.-knoy,r, for h1 strong defrnse of ecororr C' freedom and ·1bcrlar1an views 01 propertv rights, w nomi ateCJ Friday by President Re gan fo a seat on the US. 9th C'1rruit Court of Appeal& The 62 year old con • tut1on, ehola"' 1f ot fu vould ~erve on he West s fC'd ral appeals b<'nch wh ch ras Juri die• on ove ap, ate rr ttn~ m Ca1iforma eight other state~ Gt. m nd tn,., NorthC'rn Mariana !~lands. He would succe d Warr<'n r ergusor ho recently became a ser '>r Judge on the 9th Cir uil Liberal critics of Reagan hav<' !Jlred1cted hat S1egan's long-ex p eeled nomination "' lJ he con'"'O· vers1al, m part becau. e or S1egan' trongly held op nlon that eco otnH' fre ctorrs de rve the same protection the freedoms f peech, rc.hg1on and the prcsc Reached at his home m L.. Jolla la te l<'nday, Siegan said he had not offJcia ly been informed of ¾1 nommat1on. but 1t d -l not come a Jrpn e " C n VIPWS ar of San Otego

supposed to carry out the pohe1cs dedared by th<' Supreme Court," h<> ad "My primary obligation is to do what the Suprene C(lurt th nks about C'onomzc libcrti s not what Bernard Siegan thmks." ga 1 added."This is a great honor for someone who's b en in he w. Th, is something hat I gue s a lot of lawyers w nt to do-the c ppmg of a car<'er · .A f rm r Chicago land u law- yer who ha taught at USD smce 197;:i, S1egan has described l;iimself ,;tnct construct1on1..~t on C'onsti. t tlonal 1ssu~ He 1s the son of Russian-Polish n1m1grants grew up on he West Sid of Chicago and spoke only Yzdoish until he was five. He later attended junior cullcgc in Chicago, s(!rved m the Army and studied law at •he r111vers1ty of Chicago. It Wal there that he came under I he influence of the university's renuwric

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Lo;'lia ary1110Unl University will be seeking ut -tO more points-tonight in West Coast Athletic Conference basketball game t l Mary's in Moraga The Lion , 10 9 overall and tied for last place at 2- -t m the WCAC, art\ coming off their worst loss in oThursday. The Lions were w 1tho t I ading rebounder Mark Arm tro nd ck cent r Darryl Cart.er, who w r ndcd for th g me for breaking curfew, ut it's doubtful they would have turned the San Di o gam round. The Lions. averaging nearly 90 points gomg mlo lh game, shot only 31 %. Guards nn Vogel and Chna Nikchevich were a combined 3 for 22. "'Wh n we're not hitting from outsid for the whole g e it's a disaster," Coach P ul W th d d. Armstrong and Car r ..-111 be in uruform tonight. Loyola will be trymg to pull Into a tie with St. Mary's, 12-9 and 3--t Mike Y t pac Loyola with a 21.5-point aver Sophomore gu rd Enoch Simmons, a red mplion- and a twoy ,82- .al n

recent addition to the starting lineup, has been the team's hottest shooter and has his average up lo 9.4 points after getting 17 against San Diego.. He has scored 39 points in two starts. Like San Diego, the Gaels are a defense-minded club that is allowing less than 60 points a game. Forward Robert Haugen and guard Paul Robert- son, both averaging about 13 points, are St. Mary's top players. -ALANDROOZ • Pepperdine will play conference leade~r- 8it,Y of Sao ~o tonight at 7:30 at San Diego, where the Toreros are unbeaten this season. USO {15--t overall, 6-1 in conference) is led by its two big men, Scott Thompson and Nils Madden. Thompson, a 7-foot center, and Madden, a 6-8 forward, lead a 'forero defense that allows less than 60 points a game. Pepperdine (7-12, 2--t) is coming off a 67-63 loss to St. Mary's Thursday night.

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