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Last week Elliott scored only 13 points in two games, but reserves Steve South- worth and Mark Cherry to- talled 42 and 31 in the same period. And guard Art Leahy was tl:e leading scorer dunng conference games. "Early in the season we felt that the balance would be a big factor for us," says Foster. "People realize how important Barrie is to us and try to stop him. He's unsel- fish enough to get the ball out to somebody else in that situation and other people have been getting very good hots." And as a team the Crusad- ers have placed themselves in position to take a very good shot at the District 3 chamoionshio SMALL COLLEGE NOTES- Son D1'90 (Cunt; plOvtn !eltcttd on the NAIA Al~ D151rlct l basketball teom lnCluded Elliott and guatd Pat HedmOn al Point Loma, UCSO lorw«d I.ff Brocttl1 and fcrmer Crawl«d Hkllt center Rondy Adams. whO now plQ'/S IOr Soutlltm COi Cot"9r The All·Soulhern Division leam includH the ollovt lhtN plQ'fer, PIUS Po,nt l.mlo's Tom " I N .,._, vo..J &N11 r , .>,, • ,. .,1i,sJ game af SoturdOY s 0/vlslcn II ~= 1t111l-ftnol In Tocomo wfll Pit IIOS1 Puget Sound ova nst Col Stole ~orttirld!le Sotur• do, ·s IO$Jng teams ploy aconsalct,on vame tilt follow doY ot 2wllll w!mers meeting lor the Choll'-l!~ip ot I The NAIA Ois- trtcl l sc11t«11e finds Rtdlanm mttl ng Col Stolt Domln;uoz HIiis following the SCC· Blolo POmt Tlt!JrsdOY. The Redlands-Oom- 1n;ue2 HIiis winner meets Westmont In o 6 o'clod< stmlflnol Saturday, the dls!rlc! ChamPions111P oome Ill be played .Yllrdl 7. AU IIClmtS are scheduled for Ocddelltot College SMALL COLLEGE SCORING LEADERS Too scoren For Sall o;,,o·sSmalt Cotll9t Bastietbolt Teoms

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Tennis Fans Get A Choice: Simultaneous Tourneys Set Scanning the tennis scene, national to local: The ladies wtll be in Los Angeles and the men in Rancho Mirage next week as both professional tours alight ~ithin freeway driving distance of San Diego. For the lenrus fan with the Inclination to attend - take your pick. At the Forum in Inglewood, the field for the $150,000 Avon Championship of Los Angeles Is scheduled to include (in order of seedings) Martina Navratilova, Chris Evert, Tracy Austm, Greer Stevens, Ann Kiyomura, Wendy Turnbull, Kerry Reid and Virginia Ruzlci.

Bartholomew and USD shine

Success has followed Robert Bartt.olomew more closely than his large 6-foot-7. 22.5-pound shadow. While playing basketball the last four years, Bartholomew's teams have composed a 95-15 record. That's good enough to raise even John Wooden's eyebrows. As a junior at Stephen Watts Kearny, he guided his team to a 30-2 record and the CIF title. While a senior the Komets "slumped" to a 29-2 mark. They were eliminated in the semi- finals of the CIF tournament. After concluding his effective high' school career, Batholomew elected to continue playing the sport at the University of San Diego. His actions ' r et 'th •aried re pon . e Woo fo owed the likeable, mild· mannered giant were happy he stayed at home. This would give them another chance to watch him muscle in two points and intimidate op- ponents whenever they came within his arm's reach of the key. Others wondered why he didn't go to a "BIG" school. Afterall, he was courted quite frequently by the University of Arirona. That's the same University of Arizona that downed UCLA and USC the past week. Ohio State also was in- terested. In all, some 30 institutions of higher learning thought enough of him to correspond by mail. But in the end he picked that Roman Catholic university up on Alcala Park. Now, in the midst of his sophomore season, that choice appears to have been a wise one. He averaged nine points a game last year as a freshman on a team that went 22-7 and ad- vanced to the quarterfinals of the NCAA Division II playoffs. This year he's a veteran as a sophomore. He's the team's leading scorer (almost 15 a game) and also the team's leading rebounder (close to nine). A role change His efforts have helped a very young team race to a 14-4 record. Those last two wins came on the road against Hayward State and St. Mary's. The Toreros have a modest four-game winning streak and Bartholomew is a happy 19- year-old young man. "As a freshman on a veteran team last year I sometimes didn't feel quite right. But now I've been around a year. And everyone else on the team is so young they look up to me to see how to act. I f I little bit.more respo ibilit~ and I like it." Bob is also going through a bit of a metamorphosis this year. All his life he's been a center. Close to the basket, near the backboard and never out where they launch those 20-foot rainbows. That's changed this year. The Toreros acquired 6-foot-10 freshman Joe Evans and now 'Bart' is a forward. On defense he sometimes has to go outside to handle his assignments. Coach Jim Brovelli says he's accepting the mutation well. "We've given Bob more responsibility this year and he's taking it," said the former University of San Francisco guard. "He likes the challenge. Bob is a smart kid. He has the instincts to play the game." Brovelli's team is on the road again. Tomorrow night they'll risk that four-game winning streak against Southwest Louisiana. Saturday they'll play the University of New Orleans.. It· was only last week when the Toreros' coach told a reporter his team had to prove itself on the road. Either the team reads the newspapers or they follow their coach's instructions very well. Immediately after Brovelli's statement the team posted the two wins in Northern California. '79 - A transition year "Any road trip is an experience for a young team," noted Brovelli. "That San Francisco trip was especially difficult for us," said the coach. "We stayed four or five days and played two tough games against two tough opponents. When we came home with two wins I felt pretty confident we could win on the road." This is a transition year for the Toreros. They would like to continue doing well and make the Division II playoffs as an at-large team. But they are also eyeing the future. Next year . they'll vault to Division I and be a member of the West Coast Athletic Conference. The WCAC features such prominent teams as Pepperdine, Santa Clara and the University of San Francisco, home of Bill Cartwright. Clearly, this will be no picnic. Bartholomew may have summed up the players' feelings best. "When I first heard we were making the change I thought we might be in over our heads," he admitted. "But if you look at it realistically we don't plan to go in there and win the conference. But I think we can play .500 ball."

Meanwhile, out near Palm Springs, the assemblage will in- clude Bjorn Borg, Jimmy Co nors and John McEnroe for the $2 ,000 Volvo Tennis Games at the Mi 'ion Hills Country Club. In years past, the women's u ' 1r into . 1th .m allf • nia occured in January wtule the men made their appearance in the desert al this time. This year, howr.ver, barkers of the women's event opted to move their offering from the L.A. Sports Arena to the Forum. Thr. dates that were avail- able turned out to be the same ones as when the men's tour arrived in

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As a result, followers of the sport will be scanning attendance figures at both places next week, curious to see which event stirs up greater interest. That question probably won't be answered, But some excellent ennis matches arc a virtual certainty. The women's event includes the three players who are unquestionably the current best m the game. Navratilova has won three of the first five events on the tour, and made the final:; before losing to Austin in another. As Navratilova has pointed out, the biggest rivalry this year could be between hPrsclf and the 16-ycar-old prodigy Austin. Evert has abstamed from playing most events this year and was upset by Stevens in an early round of the Hollywood, Fla. tournament she figured to win for her hometown fans. But on past performance alone it would be folly to underestimate her chances. Navratilova dominated the winter tour in Evert's absence a year ago and defeated her in the Wimbledon fiaal. But the U.S. Open went to Evert and so did a showdown for the l'\o. 1 ranking for 1978 at Rancho Mirage in ovember. Both Evert and Navratilova have to traverse a gauntlet of rac wi'llding MW<'om r-s- lik Austin and veterans cf the cahber of Turnbull and Reid to set up the expected final. But if they succeed the match would, as usual, be well worth watrhing. Afull compliment of San Diego products are also set to challenge the big names, including National City's Marita Redondo, La Jollan Terry Holladay and former La Jolla resident Janet Newberry At the men's event, meanwhile, the deck is stacked with drawing cards. The definition of a secondary tournament on the men's tour recently is one in which either Borg, Connors or McEnroe hasn't taken home the winner's check. Borg with his unshakeable on-court cool and unceasing appl cation or top;,pin. Connors with his two-fisted blasting of anything humanly reachable. McEnroe with the ability to po'A-er or finesse an opponent depending on what the s uation calls for and a court sense seemingly well beyond his 19 years. The fast cement courts at the Mission Hills Country Club would seem to favor either Connors or McEnroe, but any combination of the top three would make for a superb final. Afinal that defending champion Roscoe Tanner and colleagues like Arthur Ashe, Brian Gottfried and Raul Ramirez would enjoy participating in also. It's a fact that nobody can be two places al the same time. It's also a fact that a lot of tennis fans will be wishing ,they could be next week. • • • Feb. 28 Is the date when the pay-for-play issue regarding tennis facilities owned and operated by the City of San Diego will once again be pondered. At last week's special meeting of the Tennis Council a three-member committee was formed to come up with a final proposal for presenta- tion to the Parks and Recreation Board at its meeting that day. The Council at last week's meetmg expressed approval of several Recrea_tion Department ideas concerning ways the sport could generate self-supporting revenue. But it remains opposed to assessing hourly rates for play at major city facilities such as Morley Field. And the Council is, according to president Bill Stack, opposed.to tne concept that the tennis program should pay for itself when other Recreation Department offerings - in which he included baseball and soccer - are not being given similar requirements. The three-member committee will suffice to present the Tennis Council's case at the Feb. 20 meeting, but Stack is in hopes of a large turnout when the proposal is presented to the Public Facilities Commission at its March meeting. • • • Entries close tomorrow for the Heart Fund Tournament which starts Feb. 17 at the Folsum Tennis Center a Rancho Bernardo. Entries are available at Morley Fi and most pro shops. They can be deposited at the Heart Fund offices, 3490 Fifth Avenue, over the weekend ... USD basketball coach Ed Collins will be conducting two-day clinic Sunday and Monday for high school players at the USO tennis center. USD women's coach ScoU McCarthy is assisting. /

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,,. UP AND AWAY - Bob Bartholomew of the USO Toreros get two points over UCSD's Lehman Brockett last night as Toreros won 90-74 on the loser's court. Brockett was high-point man for the game with 32. - Tribune staff photo by Cindy Lubke Brockett gets 32, but Toreros win Lehman Brockett,

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game remaining in the regu- lar season, Saturday against Sonoma State at Alcala Park. Members of the lec- tlon committee for the Divl- slon II West Regional may have already made their de- cision by that time. As de- fending champions with a current 17-6 record, the Toreros' chances look good. And by topping Hawall- Hll o last weekend, the

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mainly on the strength of 17 of 20 first half free throws. The free throws evened out m the second half, how- ever. UCSD comnutted 23 fouls to USD's 21 for the entire contest. ·

IC 'D' 6-6 senior forward, p \ed last mght that one man does not make a win- ning basketball team. On the other hand, the entire starting five for USD's Toreros scored in double figures and the result was USO 90, UCSD 74. The game was played on the loser's court. Brockett not only scored a game high 32 points, but he grabbed 18 rebounds and handed out five assists for the losing Tritons. Meanwhile, Russ Jackson got 20, Joe Evans 18, Bob Bartholomew 16, Earl Pi- erce 14, and Mike Stock- alper 12 for the Toreros, who won their 16th of the season against only five set- backs. The Toreros jumped out to a 20-8 lead right at the onset, but the Tritons closed to within six al the half

hedul for officiating an game aµinst a Dlvls1on II Toreros presented Brovelli offlcmlf team with his 100th coaching vic- U::iD w r a igned. Then came yesterday' day pullout by Alabama-Bir "The overall plans for tory at USD their program are wrapped SMALL COLLEGE up in going Division I and NOTES-- oint Loma Gene was Just unaware o· College's ba !itball regular

the rule change," said USO season seems to peaking for athletic director Thomas a climax Saturday night. Burke. "We were awar Coach Ben Foster's Crusad- there might be a problem ers, now 20-8 on the season last Friday but didn't know and W1nners of 12 of their w had to cancel the game last 14 games, are cWTently untll this ( Ionday) tied for the AIA District 3 morning." Bartow, basket- Southern Division lead with ball fafls will recall, sue- Southern California College. ceeded John Wooden at USO will co-host with San for tht UCI.A and spent two seasons Diego State t_he San Diego · there before opting to shed Inlercolleg1ate Tennis

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the pressure inherant in the Championships starting school's athletic director, position and take charge at Thursday at both schools. complied with the 75 perccn Alabama-Birmingh31m. . ational powerhouses USC, rul In scheduling for Tonglht wou d hav UCLA, Pep~dine and UC- ason but also lnclud marked Barto"w's coaching Irvine plus Aruona, Arizqna som D1visfo II affllla return to Southern California. State, Brigham Young and inclu USD. The strange turn of events the hosts schooJS are includ- omr But during the of leaves USO with only one ed in the fleld. (

Z/JJ/71, L.A.'fi,.<'>: USO Is Winner SAN DIEGO-Russell Jack54ln scored a three-point play with four seconds remaining Friday night to provide the Unfversity of ~n Diego with a 59-57 win over Hawan-Hilo. -It was the 100th coaching win in six years at USO for Jim Broveili. This year's Toreros are 17-6 and Hawau- Hilo is 22-4.

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HINKLE SECOND IN L.A. OPEN • Wadkin Fires 66, Leads By Stroke (C tlnued from P • D-1) If there will be many good scores thls afternoon." most of the He was correct in that assumption.

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--r---.,, --•- .......-......... Jim BroveW's USD Toreros are 15-5 (not in· eluding last night's game with UCSD) and once again the NCAA Division II playoffs appear to be a distinct possibility. "I really believe we · have a chance to determine our own outcome," said Brovelli. "I don't think we've given the selection committee any reason not to select us." But since the Toreros are an independent every game is crucial'and the club can ill afford a letdown. "What we have to do is determine our destiny ourselves and not let it come down to a vote," said Gentleman Jim. USD will try to secure its fate Saturday night when it hosts crosstown rival Point Loma College. THE SENTI NEL Wednnday, February 7, 1879 ~.

Crusaders (16-8), Toreros ( 16-5) ·Battle _For Small College Supremacy The Point Loma College and University of San Diego basketb~ ,teams square off tonight with bragging rights as the city s preeminent small college squad for the 1978- 79 season going to the winner. Game time is 8 o'clock at USD's. Alcala Park gymnasi- wn. In other games for San Diego teams, usru is at B~e~f1eld in a non-league test while UCSD travels to Rivei:51de to challenge California Baptist in an NAIA District 3 Southern Divis.ion matchup. Both are scheduled for 8 o'clock starts. O~ the Junior college front, Grossmont hosts league- leading Orange in a South Coast Conference clash while Mesa vls1f:s Mt. San Antonio College in another South Coast test. M n Conference action mids San Diego City battling South~estern at the latter's gym, and Saddlebaek at Palomar. Mu-aCQ$ hosts Imperial Valley J The junior college games are all 7:30 scheduled start-I I ers.

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Hinkle and Irwin were just about the only late partici- pants who offered any resistance to the elements. although Fuzzy Zoeller, this year's leading money winner and a playing companion of Hinkle's, birdied two of the final three holes to head an eight-man delegation at 70. Hinkle hardly started like a fellow who has collected over $69,000 while winning once and playing well on other occasions this year. He three-putted the first hole for a par and birdied the second after a 3-lron left a 6-footer. He won't forget the third hole, a 441-yard task, for some time His second shot landed just short, a routme CQlp and a putt away from a par. Four shots later, including a three-Jab from 10 feet, and h was forced to accept a six. "After that start, I was thinking that I was glad my parents hadn't driven up to watch," said Hinkle, whose father Jim, an a&;;ocl,1te professor of English Litera- at nDiego State "I ought it was going to be one of tho days " And it was lie parred the next two holes and started a mo t r markable succession of fine play at the sixth, wher he canned an 8-footrr. He followed with a 10-footer for a blrdl at the venth before missm1.: a 4-footer at th

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