News Scrapbook 1984

SAN DI EGO UNION MAR 7 n84 ~--- THETOREROS

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pitched a complete game in the Toreros' second game, 5-2, wm. San Diego Stattt had a rough w eek m base- ball, losing to USD beating Long Beach State and splittmg a doub . 1eader with Cal Poly-Pomona. 'f'(t p tr. . 3 4 !"~t:: "\,.tn::; .iTC :-till 18-:;, b~t ,.iJ,.-.:~1 Jim Dietz isn't p .,_ ·ed with his team. "We could vel') easily be 22-0," Dietz said. "We're not doing a good Job of advancing and scor- ing runners. That's going to hurt us as we get into the tougher part of our schedule." The Aztecs play UC Irvine at home tonight al 5, Long Beach State on Wednesday on the road , Pep- perdine at home at 7 p.m. on Friday and Pepper- dlne at home on Saturday at I p.m. ext week, the Aztecs are busy. They play Iona on Tuesday, Iona and Army on Wednesday in a day-night doubleheader and Arizona on Thursday , Friday and Saturday. Palomar College, which open s its confer- ence baseball season today, upped its record to 4-3 with a pair of wins against Kmgs River After seven games. Ray Plantier. who opened the season as the starling second baseman, is the lead· Ing hltter among the regulars at .444. Plantier has been replaced at second base by centerfielder Ricky Cortez, but Plantier has moved Into the DH role. Shortstop Opie foran is second on the team in hitting at .407. He's followed by catcher Ian Kelly at .391, fir~t baseman Randy Davila at .345, Cortez at .3~;; and tlu.rn oaseman Ueron Johnson al .321. The lop pitcMr is still fre shman Todd Poelstra. He's 2-0 with an ERA of 0.00 after 19¼ innmgs. He also has 20 strikeouts. Sophomore Scott Ashworth is 1-0 with an 0.82 ERA alter 11 innings. Freshman Steve Kovensky is 0-0 with a 2.34 ERA and nme str ikeouts after 7½ innings. Sophomore Darren Balsley is 1-0 with a 4.29 ERA with 17 strikeouts m 14¾ innings. Junior Dan Lane, who prepped at San Pasqual, 1s on the varsity baseball team at Marym- oupt College in Salina, Kan. Lane ls a shortstop . The Spartans' schedule inc ludes Grambling, Kan• sas Stale. Kansas and Wichita Stale. Liz Mueller, the former Vista High Schoo l and Palomar College softball and track start, is sit- ting out thi track season at San Diego State . Mueller, a top-notch javelin thrower, is in tram- lng for the ' 4 Olympic Games Trials. In the Bud Lite/ Aztec Invitational Track ).1eet on Saturday, she won the javelin·with a throw of 172-9. Jamie Glassford went over the 2.000-pomt career scoring mark midway through the second half for USIU's women' s basketball team Wednes- day night at Palomar r'o\!Pge. Glassford entered the game needing 15 points fo r 2,000 but scored only four m the first half. when she went 1-for-10 from the field. She came out smoking in the second hal f and passed the 2.000 ma rk with 10:08 to play when she sank an 18-foot jumper. The men's teams at USIU didn't do well in the fall seasons. The L'SIU hockey team won its fmat match of the season to finish with a 4·31-2 record. The USIU basketball team finished with a 2-26 record after dropping its final two games to Missis- sippi Valley State. On Thur:,day, USIU was slated lo play Mississip- pi alley at 7:30 p.m. at Poway High School But the award-winning Poway drill team refused to yield the floor anct the Gulls and Delta Dogs didn't tip-of! unll! clo,e to 10 There was a D1v1s1on I basketball tt>am worse than l :1 ·. Th~ t'mv.,r,;1t} of Pac1llc {m1shed 1t s season with , a 3-27 rt!cOnl. live against the nation's better teams. He was absolutely correct. Prior to this season, the Toreros were 38-65 at the Division I level. They never finished higher than fifth in the West Coast Athletic Conference. Twice the Toreros were dead last. San Diego State's Aztecs, with Smokey Gaines now in charge, weren't doing much better in the Western Athletic Conference, but it was obvious that USO was clearly a back-seat program in San Diego. But in the last few weeks, Brovelli has bolted Into the limelight. He has USD's nice-guy overachievers in first place in the WCAC. The team is 17-9 overall and 8-3 in the conference - both five-year highs. The Toreros need only to beat St. Mary's - a team that is 2-10 on the road this season - Thursday night at USD's 2.500-seat Sports Center to gain something that has eluded the slick- talking Gaines and his Aztecs the past five years - an NCAA Tournament bid. Clearly, Brovelli and the Toreros are now in the driver's seat in San Diego. "Some coaches go a lifetime without winning a championship," Brovelli said. "I feel very fortunate and very lucky that my team is one win away from a title." If the Toreros beat St. Mary's on Thursday , they'll join the national powers - schools like Georgetown, Louisville, DePaul and North Carolina - in the NCAA's 52-school post-season field. A victory on Thursday would send USD to post-season play in Dayton or Philadelphia while San Diego State - with the big boys in town - sits home in the driveway with its engine dead. "I don't care who we play or where we play in the Please see Toreros, page C& "I look at this program, and I'm really pleased. I feel very fortunate. We've played with great poise at the end of games. We're an emotional team, but we've kept our heads at the end and it's helped us win five in a row." The emotion figures to be on the side of the Toreros on Thursday. For the first time ever, the media will descend in force on a USO game and the tiny, outdat- ed Sports Center will likely be packed and rocking. "We're going to have a full house," Brovelli said. "Hopefully, we'll play well and the fans will cheer so loud the walls will fall down and the administration w!ll have to build us a new gym." With the money the Toreros would earn from an NCAA bid, they could drive to the bank and make a pretty good down payment on a new place to play.

. .. 'no-name' guards make them go

Ex-Sundevils sw1 away with co llege wins rm 1HJ h School swimmer W!ll orris. Tim Dobias. Roier Brisbane. Sadri Ozun and S br1 Ozun m d , big splash on the college sc ne 1 t we k. orris. a tr hman al U C, placed seconrl m the 400 individual m di y fourth rn the 200 IM and 11th In th 1. 5 Ir tyl - cormg- pomt for the Tro j n In ll thr •~ ev nt. Norri.' tlm In h1 two I 1 events w re good enough to qualify tum for th Jl,CA Champ1onsh1ps to be held at hive! nd tale Univ rslly on March 22-24 Tr.:: 11 m · •;! ::> '1 Hile him fo:· t:-.~ · .S. Olympic Tri Is to b held In June in Los Angeles. He w s clo k d In l H>.

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fioal shot," he said. "There have been games when Coach has had to take me out near the end for a better shooter or a true ballhandler. ' Carr said he has had a rough transition to the continu- ous pressure of bringing the ball upcourt and playing defense against the smaller point guards. "Sometimes I have felt a step behind and I've always shot more before, but I'm to the point now where an assist feels just as good as a basket," he said. There have been other pressures on Carr and Bostic this season. They were community college students transferring to a university known more for its academ- ics than its basketball. They also are the only blacks on the team. "Everything has made Chris and I very tight, like brothers," Bostic said. "At the start of the season, Prunty and I started, and it helped me ease into the lineup. But since the fifth game it's been Chris and I. It's made us pretty tight. We room together, hang out together ... " "And get into trouble together," Carr added. "The biggest thing,' said Bostic, "is that we've pushed each other. It's tough concentrating on basketball and studies. This year has been the biggest learning experi- ence of my life." ''Part of why we survived is how Coach Brovelli treat- ed us," Carr said. "He told us the jobs were there for whoever took them, but he didn't get on people or make threats about getting beat out. "At first I was nerve.us because I had never handled the ball very much before. Coach told me to take my time and not to try to come upcourt too fast. Usually I'll take a real deep breath. Sometimes it still gets tiresome. About the time I need help, I'll look up and either Mike Whit- marsh will have come back to help out or Coach will have someone at the sidelines waiting to give me a breather." "It's great to be one of the 'No Names,' " said Bostic, brother of pro football player Keith Bostic. "In a way it's been good for us to have someone like Whitmarsh out there. He's taken the pressure off." Bostic is a climax player. He has 44 slam dunks, most off the fast break. "Guys are looking for me on the break, it's great," Bostic said. "It fires a lot of people up. I know that's part of my role." But next year, Carr and Bostic might return to their original positions. Recruiting director John Cosentino thinks the school has an inside track on a point guard. Carr would divide his time between the point and wing, and Bostic would be.come a swingman. "No problem either way," Bostic said. "This season has been a dream for all of us. We proved we could do a lot with what we had because we played well as a team." "Just to get this far is a dream. I guess we're all happiest for Brovelli. Coach has been catching it since he moved to Division I. We're showing people this way works."

By Bill Center' Staff Writer One word sums up Chris Carr and Mark Bostic: ath- letes. . For all the improvements that have advanced the Uni- versity of San Diego's basketball fortunes this season, the biggest has been at guard. "We've never had the quick, athletic guards before who could force things to happen on the court," said Coach Jim Brovelli whose Toreros have clinched a share of the West Coast Athletic Conference title and could win it outright by beating second-place St. Mary's here tomor- row night. "The play of Carr and Bostic is one of the major reasons we've climbed to the top of the league." Carr and Bostic do not carry the guard load alone. Off the bench are sharpshooters Al Moscatel and John Prun- ty. But the burden rests on the two 6-foot-4 juniors who came to USD from community colleges last fall and are new to their positions. . On the point is the 170-pound Carr, out of Santa Mom~a City College. Always a wing guard or small forward m the past, Carr has given up positioning himself for the 'Just to get this far is a dream. I guess we're all happiest for ( Jim) Brove/li. Coach has n eatc · · vince he moved to Division I. We're showing people this way works.' - Mark Bostic open shot and concentrates on bringing :he ball u~ourt and running the offense. He is averagmg 5.8 pomts a game and shooting 45 percent. . . On the wing is the muscular Bostic, averagmg 10:5 points and shooting 46 percent. A forward and center m high school and al Central Arizona, Bostic now plays off- guard and swingman. Their biggest impact probably has been on defense, however. Opponents no longer can post a guard low and take advantage of the Toreros. . "Having a pair of athletes at guard has been a b1gg~r boost than I expected," Brovelli said. "Our defense is much better, and quick guards just get us up and down ~be court better. It also opens the game up when we do bring a Moscatel or Prunty in. The other team is just not as fresh after opening against Bostic and carr." Carr and Bostic are prime examples of the "role ~lay- ers" Brovelli and his opponents have applauded. Ne1~her is the perfect man at his position. Neither was recr111ted by any other school to play the position he is filling at USD. Bostic, for example, admits he is not an exce~tional ballhandler or shooter. "I don't see myself ever taking the

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Torero Chris Carr (10) takes a jumper against Pedderdine, and USD's Mark Bos- tic shoots against Santa Clara.

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THE TRIBUNE MAR 7 '1984 USF next stop for Brovelli?

·so slides into driver's seat as it nears NCAA tourney

It is known that Brovelli's resume arriv~d at USF late last week, and even Sunderland adrruts t!te 42- year-old Torero coach would have to be conside_red one of the favorites among the stack of 107 applica- tions on his desk. After all USF is Brovelli territory. He grew up within walking distance of the Dons' campus. ~e played basketball there as early as the fourth grade in a Catholic Youth Organization league. He l~ter ~as San Francisco's player of the year at St. Ignatius High, located just next door to USF. Fittingly, Brovelli became a Don and helped lead them to two West Coast Athletic Conference titles as a high-scoring guard. Even his coaching career beg3:n there as a graduate assistant for two years. And his Please see BROVELLI, D-6

Tribune Staff Report To go or not to go. That looms as the big q?~tion confronting USD basketball coach Jim Brovelli in the weeks ahead. • ·t f According to one published report, the Umvers1 Y _o San Francisco - which is scheduled to start up its dormant program in time for the 1985-86 season - already has decided to offer Brovelli the job as its new head coach at the end of USD's current season. "For the life of me, I don't know where this thi?g got started" said the Rev. Robert Sunderland, USF s ath- letic dkector and a good friend of Brovelli's. "Nobody is going to be offered anything until we go ~hro~gh the application process. We're still taking_apphcatio~ for the job, and we'll continue to do so until our deadline of March 15."

By John Mattei he Time AJvocat

SA DIEGO - For 10 years, Jim Brovelli and his University of San Diego basketball team has taken a back seat to the big boys on Monlezuma's Mesa, San Diego State University. In Brovelli's early years, the Toreros played good, but unspectacular ball on the Division 11 level. When Brovelii strung 20-7, 22-7 and 19-7 seasons together from 1976 through 1979, few noticed.

'We've been iniury free and suddenly we're the team winning games at the buzzer.' - Jim Brovelli

*Brovelli------------------1 Continued From Page D-1 first head-coaching job was at Lick-Wilmerding High, another school near USF. . perdine assistant Tom Asbury and University of Oregon assistant Jim Krause. . 1981-82 season. The disclosure of major viola- tions of NCAA rules led to that decision by the Rev. John LoSchiavo, the university's president. Last June, however, he had a change of heart and announced the sport would come back starting with the 1985-86 season.

At this point, only two things seem certain: 1) the position will be filled by May l; and 2) the new coach will be facing a major challenge. . "He (the new coach) might have to take hlS 'I've got a lot of friends up there (USF) and we've talked, but no job has been offered to me' - Jim Brovelli lumps for a while," said Sunderland. "H_e'll probably have an all-freshman team the first season." . . 1 d' USF basketball has great tradition, me u mg the Bill Russell-K.C. Jones teams that won con- secutive national titles in the 1950s. Problems eventually sent the program into limbo. . Basketball was dropped at USF following the

Toss in the fact Brovelli was installed m~ the USF Hall of Fame just last fall, and that his amazing, longshot Toreros are just ?~e. win away from the WCAC title and a D1v1s10n I NCAA playoff berth, and you ca~ understand why all the Brovelli-USF talk pers1Sts. "I've got a lot of friends up there (USF) and we've talked," conceded Brovelli, "but no job has been offered to me. There has been nothin~ concrete ... nothing specific, so I have no posi- tion on the matter. The only thing I'm con- cerned about now is our next game against St. Mary's. After the season, then I'll sit down and deal with anything else." According to San Francisco sources, ~un~er- land has been receiving about 10 applications per day for the US~ basketball job. Al~ng with Brovelli, other top candidates are said to _be Paul Westhead a former NBA head coach with the Los Angeies Lakers and Chicago Bulls, Notre Dame assistant coach Gary Brokaw, Pep--

"I think these two seasons without basketball have really hurt," said Sunde_rland. "Basketball was always a unifying experience around her~. It was the major social event on campus an~ 1~ had a ripple effect which helped other activ~- ties. 1 think everyone is anxious to have it back" B~l who w'll be the new coach entrusted with the challenge of leading it back? "I don't think I'll be looking for a coach who's real young," said Sunderland. "I'd like to have a man who's been around and put together teams, has shown he can work with young peopl~ and understands we're not going to have a win-at- all-costs program." . In other words, a quality coach who both wm~ and abides by the rules. Coincidentally, Brovelh has long fit that description.

Tim Vezie's Aztecs were grabbing the headlines by winning the Pacific Coast Athletic Association title two of those years and advancing to the NCAA Cham- pionships. Ultimately, NCAA Championships became Brovel- Ji's goal. When USO decided lo abandon the Division II level In 1979 and challenge the big guys In Division I, l::lrovelll welcomed the change. But he warned that It would take five years for the team lo be competi- • oreros Continued from page C1 CAA Tournament as long as we play," Brovelli said. ''In the pa t, we've had a lot of frustrations at USO. W lost games at the buzzer and we had key players Injured. This season, all that's changed. "We've been Injury free and suddenly we're the team wInning g mes at the buzzer. All of our last five games have been must-win games. We won them all, but we were behind In every one of them. "I ke p telling my team that each game is the blgge t we've played. Now they just laugh at me and gooul nrl play. This team won't give In. The charac- ter Is unbelievable. We play with a lot of chemistry.

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CIFIC 4 - Greg Bertrand raised his as had two two-run singles to 9 _::1~ !!~r the visiting Tigers (11-13-1). ed his hometown school three Bertrand, _of ::k::~ki~go:ut seven through six inni;Dgs. runs on six '. . third save. Jacas was eJect- Ca~y Mo~ales p1c~~::Sinning after a bench-clearing ed m the five-run h d three hits including two dou- brawl. Gary Thomas a ' bles, for Pacific. USD 10, U. OF PA record to 4-0 and An( pace the Toreros 11