News Scrapbook 1984

DAILY CALIFORNIAN APR 6 1

Tllv'IES-ADVOCATE

THE TRIBUNE

SAN DIEGO UNION APR 7 1984

USD players saddened by Brovelli's decision

Former San Pasqual High School and Palo- mar College pitcher Russ Applegate Is having a rough time at USD this season. The right-hander Is 2-7 with a ,.ao ERA - a de- cent mark in college where aluminum bats put the accent on hitting. He's appeared in u games, hurled 69 Innings, walked 21 and struck out 38. Last week, he went Into the eighth with a one-run lead against Fullerton State - the nation's Uth- ranked team. But he was touched for five in the eighth and lost. The Toreros are lli-22·2 overall and 2-8-1 In the tough Southern California Baseball Association - a conference that numbers Fullerton, eighth-rated Pepperdine and 18th-rated UC Santa Barbara among its members·-----~~~-~---~

Bill Pine/la COLLEGES NOTEPAD

USO outlines timetable for naming coach It will probably be mid-May be- fore the University of San Diego names a new basketball coach, Torero athletic director Father Pa- trick Cahill said yesterday. Applications will be taken until April 27, after which a committee will be formed to pick the top candi• dates "We hope to bring in the top three or four for interviews," said Cahill. Cahill said the key date in USD's time format is April 11. That is the national letter-of-intent signing date for basketball recruits. "As soon as we saw it would be impossible to select our next coach before the signing date, it became much less important how quickly we moved," said Cahill. Coming off an 18-10 record and its first visit to the NCAA playoffs, USO has four scholarships open. One play- er, Steve Moser, signed last fall. Of the other three who have verbally committed to the Toreros, two are now said to be wavering since Jim Brovelli resigned to accept the head coaching position at his alma mater, the University of San Francisco. "We have had approximately 15 coaches already contact us," said Cahill. "A couple of those are recog- nizable names."

Francisco Athletic Club. Word I Brovelh air ady has a verbal commitment from the top high school player in Sun Francisco to attend USF The athlete will have to redshirt hi freshman year beca e the Dons won't enter mto NCAA and WCAC play until the 1985-86 . eason . Brovelli has one year to start his program from ground level probably the hardest decision he's ev r had to make in hi life," Whitmarsh 'W (the player ) were in the dark the tim . We had a team meeting two or weeks ago and alter it he told me he w sin a tough pot He aid when he made up hi mmd we would be the fir t to know And we were:• Brovelh told the club of h s dec1 ·ion to leav Tuesday afternoon . 'The players took it hard," Whitmarsh 111d '•The heads dropj)f'd and the eyes watered . They were sad , which is the only way 1 can put 1t " This d c1 ion wa a long lime m coming. Reports of Brovelh gomg to USF surfaced durin the season, hut he and his player r fu sed to talk about It because it had nothing to do with trying to win a championship. "Everyone thought It was 50-50 that he might go,' " Whitmarsh said " All the talk dido·t bother me. He had to keep it out or his mmd JU t like us . II 1t did have an effect on u . it was a good effect. " I don 't know if nyone will transfer up thcr . But this program will urvive " With who a a coach i anybody's guess John Co e.ntino, an a s1stant to Brovelli for ix ye rs, h been recommended by Brovelh to tak hi place at the head of the bench. But Brov lh has also offered Cosentino an assis- tant s Job In San Franc1 co. Reports also say c o ntmo has been offered a Job at another n four-year college. " It' aid whol thr

By Mik Mathison ol Tile Da.Jy C111//ornu,n

YOU GOTTA LOVE 'EM-Things like . . . . Smokey Gaines' enthusiasm ... ESPN telev1Smg .~ol- lege baseball games ... scanni~gls"fut~ ~::::vem college football teams ••• batgir .. · .. success story at USO . .. Jim Dieti's coaching ability.••• ENOUGH ALREADY - Haven't you had it up to here with . . . ti. ? "We're aluminum bats? . . spring football prac ce. . . . . ? No I" salutes to the cameras? ... talk_of Aztec potential? ...·players who skip their se!lior year school to go pro· ... coaches who carry security towels... . • APR 1 l 1984 Toreros blank L.B. R~ Applegate (3:7) struck out seven and allowed only four hits as the University of San Diego blanked Long Beach State 4-0 in a Southern California Baseball Associ- ation game at Alcala Park. USO collected five hits off four 49er pitchers. Robbie ~ogers' _two hits included a two-run double. Bill Ismay smgled m a run and Eric Bennett drew a bases-loaded walk for the Toreros (3-8-1 and 16-22-2 overall). SAN DIEGO UNION 1 .J.

Pacific Beach, CA (San Diego Co.) North City Edition (2xM. 18,500)

SENTINEL APR 11 1984

Erratum

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In Sunday's Sentinel we reported that Madison 'High soccer_ star Ron Alvarado has i~~tted attemµng USD all. This was incorrect ~arado, the Eastern Leagu~

player of the year last season 1s considering USD as well several other schools but has not yet made a final decision The Sentinel regrets th~ error.

Pacific Beach, CA (San Diego Co.) 1---.aUl(lrn City Edition SENTINEL

APR 1 2 1984

Thursday,

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'Wait and see," Thompson suggested. "People are accusing us of having cancer when we only have the meas! We11 be all right." Indeed. By tournament time, Georgetown had 10 or 11 athletes ready to play - a necessity to maintain the Hoyas' relentless pressure defense. By now, others openly envied Thompson's depth. "Every coach has depth if he's willing to play the players he recruited in the first place," John responded. I promise not to remind Smokey Gaines of that quote more than five or six times a season. It is not necessary to gaze as far away as Washington, D.C., however, to discover a coach with the dual knack of assembling worthwhile players and molding them into something even more worthwhile. We are fortunate enough to have at least two such models in our community. Well, maybe "had" is a ,etter word, since one of them is leaving us. Jim Brovelli will follow his heart back to the University of San Francisco, having nurtured the Diversity of San Diego basketball program from Division II status to a WCAC championship and NCAA tournament berth in his final season. At the very least, the man deserves a farewell round of applause. HIS WAS ACLASS ACT. Brovelli not only developed a winning program but did it within the confines of a strict academic atmosphere. Patrick Ewing could not have attended USO, for example, even in the unlikely circumstance he might have considered it. Ewing's high school coach once dispatched a letter to a number of colleges outlining the circumstances under which Patrick would consider gracing their institutions. These included special classroom considerations and unlimited time in which to take exams. I do not know if Georgetown granted such concessions, but I do know USO would have dismissed them out of hand. Students at Alcala Park, even 7-foot students, are still students. That Brovelli could find enough students with sufficient basketball skills to perform in the same tournament as Georgetown is a tribute to both him and them. Academics is not a problem for Ron Newman, which is just as well. The poor man has enough problems already. in a wave of casualties reminiscent of Pickett's charge. His league may soon suffer the same fate. His players, a contentious bunch at best, are even less at peace than usual. One had to be dismissed from the ranks for insubordination. But the Sockers go right on winning. This is partly due to replacements Newman has recruited, players such as Brian Quinn and Gerry O'Kane. It is partly due to players he has nurtured, players such as Jim Gorsek and Kevin Crow. It is ultimately due to the man responsible for assembling this diverse band of individualists and directing them to continued success. It always is. The San Diego Sockers coach is attempting to win his third straight championship, which is challenge enough. His team is disappearing around him daily

All-American to join Aztecs By Bill Center, Staff Writer San Diego State will have one woman basketball player at the Olympic training camp. The Aztecs yesterday signed 5-foot-8 All-American Penny Toler from St. Anthony's High in Washington, D.C., who is among nine high school players selected to attend the Olympic training camp. "Penny's the best ball-handling guard I've ever seen," said SDSU head coach Earnest Riggins. "She will add a needed dimension to our program. She's quick and con- s1Stent." Toler was ranked fourth in one list of the nation's top 25 women recruits. She averaged 28.2 points, 7.5 steals, 5.6 assists and 6.5 rebounds a game this season, shooting 58 percent from the floor and 78 percent from the foul line. She averaged 14 points a game for the East at last year's Sports Festival. Meanwhile, the unusual recruiting seasons at the Uni- versity of San Diego and San Diego State began to bear fruit. USD signed two players while San Diego State coach Smokey Gaines drew close to signing the player he wanted with the one scholarship his probation-troubled program has. Jim Brovelli, who last week took the head coaching position at his alma mater, the University of San Francis- co, returned to Alcala Park to assist USD's recruiting season and helped the Toreros land two of the four play- ers they were after. Signed were point guard Brian Jackson of Mesa (Ariz.) Junior College and Steve Moser, a &-foot-6 forward from Ocean View High in Huntington Beach. No. 1 on USD's list, Jackson is a guard who will allow Chris Carr to move to wing guard and Mark Bostic to small forward, their natural positions. The 6-1 Jackson was a second-team all-Arizona pick this year while aver- aging 14.2 points and six assists a game for a 21-8 team that led the nation's junior colleges in team defense. Jack- son shot 52.1 percent from the floor and 72.7 percent from the foul line. "He's a very good ball handler," said Brovel- li. "He's quick and an accurate passer." Moser was a first-team all-Sunset League and second- team all-Orange County selection who averaged 16.8 points and five rebounds a game. He shot 49.5 percent from the floor and 69.1 percent from the line. "He's a good shooter and an active, intelligent floor player in the Mike Whitmarsh mold,'' said Brovelli. Two other players who were verbally committed to USO have apparently changed their minds since Brovelli accepted the USF job last week. USO has not named a new coach and will probably not fill the vacancy until mid-May. Gaines was in Detroit meeting last night with the par- ents of a junior college player who is No. 1 on the Aztecs' list. Reggie Owens, Oceanside High's 6-7 first-team all-CIF forward, signed with San Jose State. Five Morse High players signed. Third-team all-CIF forward Shawn Bell (6-7) and Norman Nunn (6-3) signed with Chicago State while 6-9 Richard Stokes, 6-8 Edwin Bethune and fi-9 Bobby Sumler signed with North Carolina A&T. Sweetwa- ter's David Harris, a 6-4 first-team all-leaguer with 11.2 points and 13.9 rebounds a game, signed to go to the U.S. Military Academy at West Point. Loyola Marymount Uni- versity signed rapidly improving 7-2 center Larry Irwin from Southwestern College (and Bonita Vista High). Brooke Davis, the first-team All-CIF center who led Patrick Henry High's girls' team to the CIF finals, signed with the University of Wyoming. Arizona State signed 6-7 Long Beach Poly forward Chris Sandie, Arizona got 6-6 forward Craig McMillan of Cloverdale High, and Stanford got 6-11 center Greg Butler of Rolling Hills High. USC signed 6-6 forward Brad Wins- low from Santa Monica High while UCLA signed 6-5 for- ward Jerald Jones of Vallejo High and 6-8 forward Craig Jackson of Montbello High in Denver.

~e anDiego Jdnion . larday, April 7, I984 Ci)

5 Jocals to play soccer at USD

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Wayne Lockwood T h re are two keys to being a succe ful coach. The first is having good players. The second doesn't matter. That is an overstatement, of course. There is a ond qualification, the ability to mold those good players into a whole better than the individual parts. But it is no exaggeration to say you cannot proceed too far with B if you are deficient in A. Ask Jim Lynam. Truly ucce ful coaches are those able to both round up raw material and fashion it. The rest have to scuffle. Coaches proficient in assembling talent inv ri bly enjoy an advantage over their less- fortunate brethren, no matter what their skill with X's and O's. You may have noticed that Joe B. Hall of Kentucky and Guy V. Lewis of Houston appear in the NCAA basketball championships with some regularity even though their strategies remind no one of Clausewitz. People still are waiting for Hall to call a timeout in th face of a second-half Georgetown blitz that buried his favorites in their semifinal match. Lewis mysteriously refused to force Virginia to abandon its zone defense and play Akeem Olajuwan man-to- man wh n he had the opportunity, a lapse that very nearly co t Phi Slama Jama a premature dunking in the •em1s. Still, both Kentucky and Houston won more than 30 gam this season and reached the Final Four of college basketball before losing. Talent can take you a long way. EVEN WHEN KENTUCKY and Houston lost, they I t l gitimately - to a team that had both player and coaching. Georgetown's John Thompson does a good job of rounding up talent and an equally good job of haping it up. Thompson did not win the national collegiate championship in April; he won it in November by playing 10 or 11 players each game. Several were fr hmen, and their inexperience caused the Hoyas to perform erratically, at best. Some felt this wasn't a very good team, Patrick Ewing or no Patrick

Five local soccer players, in- cluding 1983-84 All-CIF 2A player of the y'ear Damon Werner. have decided to take their talents to USD. The five were able to com- mit themselves to attend USD ahead of the April 11 date for signing letters of intent because the Toreros don't of- fer athletic scholarships in soccer. The program is on the NCAA Division I level, however. Werner, a fullback, was the leading member of the Univer- sity City High defense, which allowed just one-hall goal per match this past season. He will be joined at USD by Scott Huckleberry, also of UC; Ron Alvarado, of Madison; Frank Steffen, of University, and Art Faro, of Clairemont. Huckleberry was an All- Western League goalkeeper his first two seasons at UC. However, a knee injury sidelined him for almost the entire league season last winter. Alvarado, a forward, was the Eastern League player of the year and a CIF 3A first- team selection. Steffen, a fullback, was tabbed for All- Western and 2A first-team honors. Faro, an all-leaguer when he was at Clairemont, played for Mesa last winter.

SAN DIEGO UNION APR 4. IS84 Irvine beats Toreros, 9-4 UC-Irvine collected two- run homers in the first and third innings and continued to a 9-4 victory over the University of San Diego in their Southern California Baseball Association meet- ing at Irvine yesterday. Brothers David and Andre Jockas each had two singles in four trips for the Torerc>S, but the losers man- aged only two other safeties m suffering their fifth con- ference loss agaitp1t two v:· ctorie:I. UCI a t,W league leader at 4-1.

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TIMES-ADVOCATE APR 1 o 1984

THE TRIBUNE

APR 7

USD, which loet a fine basketball coach • last week when Jim Brovelll announced he was leaving to accept the job of rebuilding USF's pro- gram, is taking applications for the job through .- April 71.

TORER - April 27 is the application d adhne for th . m n's. basketball coaching position at USO. A committee will be formed to pick the new coach on th applications have been received. Ac- cording to the Rev, Patrick Cablll, athletic director, approximately 15 coach already have contacted USO, which lost coach Jim BroveJll to the University of San FranCJSCO earli r this week