News Scrapbook 1984
THE TRIBUNE l,IAR l 1984 Inside sports
S/\N DIEGO UNION MAR 1
USD 11, POINT LOMA The Toreros exploded for eight runs in the fifth inning to walk away from the visiting Crusaders. PLNC pitchers gave up 11 walks in the game, including five in the fifth. Freshman Dan Eche- veste highlighted the inning with a three-run double. Matt Francis picked up his second relief victory in a week to lead USD, which improved its record to 6-7-1. PLNC fell to S-10-1. NAZARENE 5 -
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• SOFTBALL: USO softball players Kathy Whitaker (from I fl), Alleen Kelly and Brldglt McG rry re part or a team that llkes to have fun - and win. College Comer Paga '
l.;:, t.ro\c~ LOCALLY - Brian Fogarty is the only full- time football coach at US~o he and the part-time as· sistants he works wit6 have to try harder when it comes to recruiting. They are going to try to take better advan- tage of that recruiting time in San Diego County. "Last year, we had 75 kids on the roster," Fogarty_ s~id, "and 10 of th(;m were from San Diego. That was nd1c11- lous. We're losing a lot of good kids in this area just because we never approach them. ·Well. my seve11 assistants and myself hav~ been gomg to all the area high schools this year and letting them all know we are interested in having them join our program instead of going somewhere else in the state." Last year, the Toreros were 5-5, but more importantlr in Fogarty's first season at USD, they were 5-1 at their own Division Ill level. "We don't offer scholarships," Fogarty said. "It's ~11 based on financial need here at USD. As far as financial aid goes, our athletes are in the same boat with the rest of the students." The current success of the USD basketball program certainly won't hurt Fogarty's plans. People are starting to notice that other school in to"."n mo.re and more. the boat it is in seems to be floatmg quite well. eluding a local high school gym - this season while waiting for a new, 5,000-seat, on-campus, dom~d facility to be constructed. Shll Brovelli says he's con• cef!led ~oing into tonight's game, which will be played across town from the Pilots' campus at Lewis and Clark College's gym. He's concerned because bis -----------• WCAC Standings 5 5 .. • . (18-9) .. . . . S-5 .. , (14-12) · ·· .. 1 " 8 · · < 10 • 15 ) Loyola-Marymount 5 - 5 · · < 1 2-1 3 ) Portla nd TOPTHREETEAMS'REMANNGGAMES: USD - Tonight at Ptrllond. Sottrdov: at Gonzooa. Next Tlmdoy: ST.MARY'S. ST.MARY'S - TO!'idt. at Gonzooa. Sah.rdav: at Port- GONZAGA - Tonidrt: sr. MARY~ Sah.roov: uso kni. Next Thndav: tit uso. NextTlmdoy:atP By Bill O' ri~ Despite their losing ways the Pilots - with center Darran' Jen- kins (10.4 points per game 4 5 re- bounds), and forwards D;n ·Hunt (6.9 4.9) and Dennis Black (6 3 5.5): up front - have outrebound'. ed the opposition by an average of And Brovelli is concerned be- cause, be says, Portland's dismal record "is very deceivmg." The Pilots have been involved in seven overtime games this winter Jo. ing three of them, but only o~e of those losses was a WCAC game So, while they are no threat wreak havoc on the polls or even the WCAC, the Pilo• are the first of three obstacles between USD and a WCAC title and the auto- matic NCAA tournament berth that would accompany that "For us to win," Brovelli said, "we're going to have work to con- tain the boards. That's their NOTES - Brovelli is expected to go with bis regular starting five: Mike Whitmarsh and Antho- ny Reuss at forward , Scott Thompson at center, and Mark Bostic and Chris Carr at guard. . . . Whitmarsh leads the Toreros in scoring (18.8 per game) and re• bounding (7.4).... USD is 2-7 on the road. crown. strength" · three per game. MAR 1 A3slstant Sports F:ditor , PORTLAND - USD Shoots for NCAA PlayoffBerth Its safe to say tbe_ bas_ketball program at the University of Portland never will be co~fused with those at North Carolma or Houston. There are ~o 7-foot Nigerian centers at this small, Catholic scbool. Nor hav~ the NCAA po~- sters been here _m droves to v1S1t th~ campus, ~h1ch. overlooks the Willamette River m north Port- In fact, if Y?U don t count for- mer Detroit P1Ston P!ayer/coach - or even 1 you o - the most famous Portl~d baske_t- ball alumn~ ~robably JS Dar~IB Cook, now m bIS fourth year with the New Jersey Nets. But as far as th~ USD Toreros ar_e concerned tomgbt, Portland might as well be Chapel Hill or This JS th~ game - an~ 1t sour season. Thats the way we re look- ing at it," said .USO. coach Jim Brovelli, whose team takes on the Pilots tonight in a contest that will go a long way toward deter- mining the Toreros' fate in the West Coast Athletic Conference The Pilots are only 1-8 in the WCAC and 10-15 overall this sea- son. And they've had to play at four different "home" sites - in- title race. land. . , Ray Scott f d Houston ., . : . , the Toreros' coach for 10 years. "I said all along it would take five years for us to become contenders." But when USD made the transition into DiVlSion I for the 1979-80 season, winning became a rarity. In fact, USO has not had a winning campaign since its Division II days. The team's success has generated some enthusiasm on campus, too. "People in general don't talk about the teams " said Rosemary Wolf, a USD sophomore from Fullerto~. "but now you hear talk all over. Now people are talking about the basketball team instead of the parties they went to." Wolf admits she's not a big basketball fan but says he did go to one game and does plan to be th~re for the regular season finale against St Marys The same can be said for Stuart Clark, a Junior accounting rna)Or from Portland. "I've been to a few games," Clark said, "but I'll most definitely be al the SL Mary's game. It will be hard to get a seat then." Clark said students would travel only "a reasonable distance" to see the Toreros play If thev qualify for the NCAA tournament Out of state, he hmted, might be too far. Out of state, however, IS exactly where the WCAC winner may find itself. Playmg m the East Regional is a distinct poSSlbility and, for that reason, all of the contending teams in the Big East Conference were among those calling this week to discover more about USO. "The team is generating more interest," Clark said." ot necessarily top interest. but more interest." At USO. even that's a change. san Diego, CA (San Diego Co.) Mira Mesa Journal (Cir. W. 12,000) A P. c. B ._A.lleri's E.<1. 1888 Mira Mesa Athlete Honored Nationally San Diego, CA (San Diego Co.) Evening Tribune (D. 127,454) I Announcement of the 21 San Diego County high school and college students named as scholar-leader- athletes for 1983 by the National Football Founda- tion and Hall of Fame was made recently by the Founda- tion's local chapter. The honorees will be presented with plaques and trophies for thctr perform- ances both on the football field and in the classroom at the chapter's 12th annual awards dinner on March 2 at the San Diego H iiton Hotel at 6:30 p.m. All have rccivcd All-League honors in football and maintained a grade point average of "B" (3.0) or better. Two were cited in the Outstanding Scholar-Leader- Athlete category. They were Robert Coffin, Mira Mesa High offensive tackle named San Diego C.I.F. Offensive Player of the Year, and Barry McKeever, San Pasqual High middle linebacker who won C.l.F. Defensive Player of the Year honors. Other high school scholar- leader-athlete selections were Southwest High School's Michael Gonzales and Anthony Ochoa; Fallbrook High's twins, Erik and Kirk Hanson; Patrick Henry High's Kevin Tahan and Ted McColl; San Marcos High's Michael Goff and Lincoln's Maurice Sowell. Also, Hilltop High's Ken Bennett. Orange Glen's Rod Philhower. San Diego High's Kevin Webb, El Capitan High's Alan Murray, Point Loma High's William Glenn Hastings, Mission Bay's Joe Pollock and Montgomery High's Bernardo Vasquez were chosen for the award. Trent Annichi).rico, who had been cited by the Foundation while an honor .A.llf!ll 1 I I' IHXX ,pollege Corner: p C. B l!~E !.! 1 ~!,.~~~-ready to 'gophe~:~!:. .?i~~iam?,!!~,.~~,.:~~uk V .,T!R~~ited Tribune Sportswriter At the bottom of the hill, the ball team practices on what coac John Cunningham unabashedly calls "the best field in town." But up on top of Alcala Park, next to the tennis courts, where the roosting sea gulls keep the groundskeepers from working on an infield that has a very dangerous, brown-parking-lot look to it and an outfield that slopes drastically from left field to right, is where the women's softball team plays. "Yeah," says Kathy Whitaker, who along with Bridgit McGarry is the designated talker this day, "and you should see the gopher boles out there." "And the lights," says McGarry. "Look at the lights out there. It gets kind of dark out in left." Strange. since this bunch has the bright stuff. Smile , repartee, an understanding of the game. Last year this team had fun and won. It was 22-20 overall, but 15-1 in its own NCAA Division III. One player, though, was found to be below the mini- mum course load requirement, and the team was deemed ineligible to participate in post-season playoffs. Bad break for a good team. "At first, there was some bitternesss, but the girl honestly didn't know what she had done," McGarry said. "She was the most hocked person on the team when the news came out. We still hang around with her. And, anyway, we can take league this year and make the playoffs." This year, with hotshot freshmen pitch- ers Sally Christman and Lisa. Ures, USD hould be at least as good as it was last SD base- er. "Collisions make the game fun." "It's part of the game." d ow you ve one your 10 w en you shde and the baseman can t throw the • b h .ou "Y kn , "Nab," said McGarry. "They were afraid of what me might have done to them, too." And so it goes with the Toreras. Aileen Kelly, a sophomore from Carmel, was the league in all of Northern California. Last year she sat out softball - "I wanted to get playing shortstop. One of her first moves was to take an enonnous chunk out of her third," she started to explain. "But it ended up being a knee-first slide," chimed in McGarry, the second baseman. Sliding badly is one thing, but they say they like to take people out with hard f t . 1 t 1 o p ay m a . bo l3- Id 1rs grr ys year-o a grip on school" - left knee against Michigan. Mary Stanb~a (last year's Torera o~ the Year) and Michele Dykstra (last years co- most valuable player) come out for softball again, it could be even better. . couple of basketball players come back for another long season - this is Division III women's softball at its best. No scholar- ships, no year-round workout routine, no practice uniforms, no truckload of equip- ment. E~~rybody holds down a job as well as a pos1hon a~d a good grade av~rage at a tough_ acade~uc school. ~nd theres_ a lot of laughmg gomg on. ThIS group 1s wbat "We're going to beat San Diego State, and you can write that down," Whitaker says She is reminded that USD basketball player Mike \Vhitmarsb went out on a simi- lar limb prior to tl:is season's game against State and bad his worst game of the season on a night when bis team was doing the same thing. The thought of winning the Whitmarsh Memorial Bronzed Tongue Award doesn't phase this bunch. "We almost beat 'em last year," says McGarry, who at 5-13/4 carries around the I nickname Low, as in Low Bridge. "We al- ways give 'em tough games. We have a I reputation to uphold." Their chance comes next Thursday at State. This optimism - hubris? - is based on this year's first double-header against Michigan last Saturday. "We played as well then as we have at the ends of seasons in the past," Whitaker said. The Toreras lost 10-0 and 5-1. "But they're a good Division I team," Whitaker says. Added McGarry, "Should we mention we didn't face any of their reg- ' Gopher boles lonely light poles if a . . . . . . ballplayers call "loose." ROBERT COfHN of Mira Mesa High School has been selected as one of tw outstanding scholar-leader athletes by the San Oleg chapter of the Nationa Football Foundation and Hall of fame. student and footbal' star a1 Ramona High, v,as named a college scholar-leader-athlete for his accomplishment, at San Diego Mesa College. Also selected as college scholar-leader-athletes were Michael Rish of the Uoivecsity of San Die&..o and Michael Anderson of San Die20 State universit} Carlsbad High School's Ct1au Ly was presented the "Most Inspirational" Award among the county football players. The late Captain Arthur Emerson (USN-Ret.), a dedicated worker in the field of amateur athletics who served for many years as director of the Hall of Champions in Balboa Park, will be honored with the Distinguished American Award at the banquet. Mrs. Emerson will accept the posthumous award. Musical entertainment will be provided by Mira Mesa High School's Ke,in Flournoy and His Jaa Ensemble. Tickets for the event may be reserved by calling Allen Brown at 440-1000. They arc $L5 for th.:: gerter~! pubHi: ~lid $10 for parents of the honorees and school official/ , -..... w;.•, ball " ..,c_,_,..... ~-,,~. .,,,..,., • . · It should be m~ntioned that the t~am is but this year she's m~nag~ by Kevm McGarry, who is Low Bnd~e s brot~er and .the USD football teams defensive coordmator. So, let's see. The USD softball team is a "I was making a bead-first slide into Division III power that plays on what looks like a used minefield, practices in its own "holey" sweats, is managed by an assistant football coach, and wishes its batters were as good as its banterers. That should do it. "Put down that people should come and ..,_ __,,.., ..__............., Tribune photo by Barry Fitzsimmons USD TRIO, FROM LEFT: KATHY WHITAKER, AILEEN KELLY, BRIDGIT MCGARRY slides. This from a school full of girls given watch us," Bridgit McGarry says. "We're good and the parties after the games are to wearing the pink and green and the great." jewel!)'. of the preppie? -..--....•• - ,_- -
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