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Games this meaningful, games with this much emo- tional attachment, games of such potential for inspira- tion, games performed in such a grand theater, surely are meant to have a more dramatic climax. A three- point shot. Akamikaze dunk. Aquake-kneed freshman at the free-throw line. Double dribble? How rude and rudimentary, indeed, was the conclu- sion of the NCAA basketball tournament and the 1986-87 season for the University of San Diego. With one second left, the whistle was blown on pomt guai'd Paul Leonard and the Toreros, eliminated from the tournament by Auburn last night in the Hoosier Dome, 62-61. Most in the red-clad, first-round record crowd of 29,610 came for blood, knowing full well their beloved Indiana would butcher a sacrificial lamb called Fair- field, yet they were moved to their feet in a warm ovation for USO as the Toreros left the floor. For a long while, too, it had seemed the Toreros would be the Hoo- siers' second-round opponent. Having trailed by nine before scoring their first point, then having led by as many as eight, the Toreros were behind by one when forward Mark Manor came down with a missed free throw by Auburn's Frank Ford. Five seconds remained in the game. Manor dispatched the ball to the Toreros' most sure- handed player, Leonard, who sprinted upcourt. With three Tigers defending against him, Leonard set up his final move to the basket. Leonard said the next thing he knew, Auburn forward Mike Jones got a hand on the ball, but the referee ruled that it had come to rest on Leon- ard's hip. Leonard said he wasn't sure about the rall, one way or the other. USD coach Hank Egan likewise was diplomat- ic when asked if he thought it was a case of double dribble. "No, but I was not objective," Egan said "It was a heck of a call to make at the end of a game. I hope at some point in my life I get one of those." For all the many, many things the Toreros (24-6) did to warrant their first NCAA Tournament victory, though, they also did just enough to lose the game. Most notably, it was more of the same free-throw inaccuracy that had

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P C, 8 I HRX _,,-- Vote on Bridge Closing Everyone's Still Mad By Carl "olte Golden ,ate Bridge directors formally voted yesterday not to do 1• the bridge to auto traHic at midday on its 50th birth- day, but the move satisfied no one and made some new and po~crr 11 <'nemlc<,. One of thrm is B,11 Graham, the Impresario who is putting together a

giant concert at Cris y Field in the Presidio of San Francisco to honor the bridge's birthday. IJP called yesterday's 11-to-O vote by the directors "shameful ..• in en itive . .. deplorable" and ask- ed the public to pressure the direc- tor· to change their minds. Technically, yesterday's board vote did nothing except kill plans to close the bridge to auto traffic from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. The board is now considering whether to clo e the bridge to cars at dawn or to keep it oprn all day on Sunday, May 24. when the big anniversary celebra- tion is supposed to take place. Graham, who offered to stage the free birthday concert with such headliners as Huey Lewis and the Ne\ls, the Grateful Dead and Tony Bennett, now feels he was misled by the bridge directors. "What sticks in my craw is the insensitivity of a suggestion of clos- ing the bridge from 6 to 8 Un the morning), then opening it up again. It will cause gridlock. It is deplor- able, it is throwing the public a bone." Graham said. •·1 am in the public assemblage businc ·s." he said, "not in the traffic busmess, but my experience lead me to believe that the bridge will be closed even with traffic on it." lie figures that with up to one Back ~

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of the span. Sausalito Mayor cafol Peltz told the board she had seen Ito detailed plans by the bridge distril:t. '"!'he current plan is in f!\I ," she said, and the bridge's intent! A Walk on the Bridge Wit No Cars Around SEE PEOPLE, PAGE 12 are so vague as to be "a movfttg target." r "Where's the beef?" she ask,d. Yesterday's board vote yestl'!r- day was a formal public ratificatipn of what the directors had alreatiy agreed to in private durin!t' a tl'lle- phone poll conducted last week b board president Gary Giacomini. S~veral ~ttor!1eys knowledJe- able m Cahforma open-meetipg laws said the phone survey wata violation of the Ralph M. Bro n Act, which prohibits public bod es from reaching decisions in priva e. The Center for Public Inter t Law at the U~Di~o Law School wrote Giacomini to r • g- ister "a vigorous protest" o\ler "what appears to be an illegal e+a- sion ... of California's open-meetihg law." The issue of when to clos he uridge will be considered by tfie br_1dge board's transportation cotn- !Dlttee on March 25. A detailed plJn 1s supposed to be submitted at triat time. -1 ---

Means would wind up USD's leading scorer with 18, followed by Thomp- son's 14, although the latter didn't re- turn to the lineup or score his first basket until the second half. Through sheer athleticism, which was Egan's greatest fear about Au- burn, the Tigers climbed back into the game. Most of the time, they'd held themselves back and played USD's more deliberate pace, but their most \ important baskets came off their trap defense and resultant break. In a key sequence, the Tigers were protecting a 60-57 lead inside the final four minutes. Manor had a shot reject- ed by Chris Morris, then Jones lunged to bat what might've become a USD assist out of bounds. Soon after, Jones stole the ball and scored. But a double dribble? None of the Toreros dwelled on it. In fact, Egan was adamant about only one thing in his postgame press con- ference. "I don't want to get picky, but I'd like to say this to The Indianapolis Star," he said. "Smokey Gaines does not coach this team. (The newspaper had referred to USD as "the Aztecs.") I'm really proud of these kids. When you write the story, I'd appreciate it if you'd put in there that I was their . ( '°"'" (

Auburn coach Sonny Smith said. USD caught Auburn at 19-19 on Leonard's jumper and passed the Tigers on a comer shot by Steve Krallman, who replaced Thompson in- side and actually seemed to provide the needed lift. Another three-pointer by guard Eric Musselman ended the run, making the score 27-19.

million people trying to get into the city for the show, there will be grid- lock anyway, and traffic will be backed up to San Rafael. If that happens, said Bob Brown, manager of Huey Lewis and the News, "We know how it will turn out, and It really could be quite miserable." . Graham feels that the bridge will be the star attraction in the party and says that people should have an opportunity to walk across its roadway, just as they did on opening day, May Tl, 1937. "The bridge is the steak, and we are the vegetables and the parsley," he said. Party organizer Charlotte Mail- liard, in fact, is worried that Gra- ham might pull out of the celebra- tion, but Graham said yesterday that he will stay, although he sound- ed reluctant. "If there ls a consensus among the artists, then let's do the concert, let's do the best we can." "But," he said, "It's no way to treat a lover " Graham also said he hopes the public will try to get the bridge di- rectors to restore the midday clo- sure. "If this were an election year I'd say let's put it on the ballot, and then they'd have the wlll of the people to deal with," Graham said. Yesterday's board vote did nothing to mollify the city of Sausa- lito, which has opposed any closure

started hitting from everywhere. Manor dropped in a three-pointer, Means two, all in succession. In one stretch that had all those Hoosiers looking up from their programs, the Toreros outscored Auburn 12-0. "To be honest, I'd rather have had Thompson in the1e because they wouldn't attempt as many threes,"

less than four minutes into the game and departed. ''They were pretty ticky-tacky calls on the boards," Thompson said. "I thought they played that way in the East. I guess not." You'd have guessed USD was about to dig a deeper grave without Thomp- son, but instead, the smaller Toreros

Auburn s lead was cut to 62-60 ;vhen forward Nils Madden hit the first of two free throws with 12 seconds re- maining, but he missed the second. After a Leonard steai fellow guard Danny Means went to the line and also missed the second of two. "I threw up a brick," Means said. "I should've hit the shot." How ironic that the Toreros again I were undone by the standing 15-footer. Means, Leonard and Manor had been sinking jumpers from 18, 19, 20 feet most of the night, which does a lot to explain how USD went from a nine- point deficit with 7-foot center Scott Thompson on the floor to a 27-19 lead with him on the bench. Before Egan could make a time-out sign with his hands, Jones had four of his 24 points and the Tigers led, 9-0. This was exactly what the Toreros had said they couldn't do against a quicker team such as Auburn (18-12). But, according to Thompson, "We anticipated that. Everybody had to get the ants out of their pants. It's not every day we get 40,000 people in the USD Sports Center. It isn't every 25 years." They got the ants out all right, but Thompson also got himself taken out of the game. He drew his second foul

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