News Scrapbook 1984

El Cajon, CA (San Diego Co.) Dally Callfomlan (D. 100,271)

San Diego, CA (San Diego co.) Evening Tribune (0. 127,454)

~~1.!2.~,~:::,..ro,. was back home and taking classes at Grossmont College She red hirted a year and played f r the Cnffins la ·t season Theroux and sophomores Kathy Hamilton and Lauren Mitchell led Grossmont College to a l~I Pacific Coast Conference record and championship and an eventual 22-3 overall slate. It was time to move on again. Theroux had another year of eligibility left at the Fletcher Hills campus. Many who knew her didn·t think she would use it. She didn't. Theroux eventually became a prize catch for either the University of San Diego, a Division I school. or Cal Poly an Luis Obispo, w?llch is on the Division II level Both have good basketball programs and are excellent academic schools "I had gotten a share of living away from home when I went to Chapman:· said Theroux ''In the long run, the closeness of USD to home counted a lot. The basketball program and the academics also didn't hurt my decision. Playing in Division I or Division II had nothing to do with my decision. Here we play a lot of strong Division I and 11 teams. There are some Division II teams which are stronger than some Division I teams. ''What I learned from Chapman and Grossmont College helped me make this decision and will help me make later decisions But when I first came here l didn't know what to expect, either. Now I'm set ~nd don't have to worry about going to a new team next year. I'm basically a happy kid." That 1s evident by her statistics. The Toreras concluded the 1983-84 sea ·on at 14-14 their best effort ever on the Division l scene Theroux was the leading rebounder m 18 games. She grabbed 17 rebounds in one game and 15 on two other occasions Theroux was also the team's top scorer in 11 outings. Her best effort was 22 points The ~foot-9 forward guard led USO with 252 rebounds (100 more than the next teammate l, a 10 9 coring average and 106 lree throws t 54 more than anyone else) . She shot 45 percent from the held and 74 percent from the line USO coach Kathy '.\farpe has 13 player returning next .eason he will add to that Chnstian High's Manbelh Reus~. El Cajon Valley's Amy Hillenbrand and Cathy o·snen, a transfer from :'-iotre Dame Reuss is 1'o.2 on the all-time CIF career rebounding hst and a third team all-ClF pick Hillenbrand was the Grossmont League's player of the year two seasons ago and was a second-team all-CIF selection . 0-Brien was the CIF player of the year in 1982 while at San Marcos High. "Tm looking forward lo next year.·· she said "Not only playing basketball. but also going to school. I've finally settled on a major (psychology). I feel really comfortable here It's nice to be not far away from home. yet still away from home We're building a good program_here. ·ext year will be very interesting with the add1t1ons of Maribeth. Amy and Cathy w·Brien) We have a very young team A lot of the girls are going to stay down here over the summer and play ball ··1 played high post when a team plaved us player- to-player My effectiveness on offense·usually depended on how big the person was I was playmg against It got to be rough sometimes I played inside at Grossmont, which helped I try to play a little bigger than my size. The competition from junior college to four-year was a different level. It was a learning experience for me With Amy and :';tanbeth coming in maybe I won't play as much inside and maybe I'll be able to score more. ··Basketball is doing something for me - like paying for my education. Ifs one of the ma3or factors why I continue to play I have two more vears left and rm enjoying it right now. II I wasn't playing basket.ball I don't think I'd be here. The big reason 1s financ1all} because I don·t have that kind of background. " I've learned a lot about myself and others playing the game. Playing an intercollegiate sport is very demanding . It's not easy to play and keep up your studies - especially here. where it is tough academically.··

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INRN oux's career has topped wandering By Mik Mathison of Tll6 D ly C Morn1an olo album h Orange. Ca following a successful ba:ketball career at the La Me a high

Co"setitino joins Brovelli on USF staff The screening process will begin unmediately to find a TOMORROW - BASEBALL. PADRES vs. San Francisca. 12:05 p.m., replacement for departing USD head basketball coach KFMB-760: Los Angeles vs. Houston, 4:05 p.m., KABC-790. California Jim B_rovelli, who is moving onto the University of San vs Minnesota, 5:30 p.m.• KMPC-710. Franc!SCO and taking his top aide John Cosentino with him. ' '

·chool Her junior season the Highlanders went 28--0 and won the San Diego Section Cir' crown A year later Theroux and Co. lost to K1r ten Cummings and the Patrick Henry Patriots m the title conte t. Th roux averaged 21.0 points overall and 21.1 in h r. enior session in Cro ·smont League play as she was elected the league· player of the year Sh •later garnerd all-CH honors. Theroux stand 'o 9on the all-time Cff h t for most point scored in a sea:on Scholar ·hip offers from four-year schools did not pour 1n. though , when her high choolcareerended ..l wa n't. ure 1f I was going anywhere with my ba ketball," said Theroux "I wa n't disappointed when I didn't get any cholar hip offer after high ·chool Brian &>rger (the Chapman coach) recruited m late . lf I hadn't heard from Chapman l would have been t Grossmont College for two years.' ' D Th roux 4B

The Rev. Patrick Cahill, USO athletic director said he wished Cosentino had appli~eplace Brovem' as head coac~ beca~, "He would have been one of our leading candidates. Cahill now will begin the screening of some 50 applicants. USO,_according to Cahill, is looking for a coach who can ma~tam the type of program that has put the Toreros on top m the W~t ~oast Athletic Conference and "one who will not use this Job as a stepping stone to another job." C~ntino, announcing his dec1S1on yesterday, said he · 11:3vmg because of the challenge presented in San Fran- CISCO, where the team will have to be built from scratch. However, the Diego native said he would Jove to return to San Diego al a later date if the right opportunity presented itself. !OPSY-TURV~ - Jolted on the weekend by Mount Miguel,_ the MadlSOD Warhawks came back to throw the AAA D1v1S1on Group A pool into a scramble yesterday when they beat Montgomery 9-2 in the Lions Baseball Tournament at Madison. Group A is now in a four-way tie as play was scheduled to continue today on various fronts.

San Diego, CA (San Diego Co.) Union (D. 217,324) (S. 339,788)

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Jlllen '• u, 1888 LOCAL NOTE - The UniversitY. of San will hold a football clime o~~y5, at the Manches- ter <:amp~s ConferenPe'e~ni"nd the USD football field Reg1:tratio~ begms at 8 a.m. and the clinic begins at 8·30· Adm1 ion is $5, payable at the door The clinic includes t~ass~oom lectures m the morning and field mstruction in ea ternoon, with lunch and door prizes. For more infor- at1on, contact Dan Henson at 291-6480, ext. 4740 or 4272. P. c. B. 15fe;

THE~TRIBUNE San Diego, Thursday, April 19, 1984 DeVoe is asking for a 'raise' (2)

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Post - "Sometimes now, I get a little bored with myself. I might watch a game on TV, and I worry about it a little. I worry about the game getting out of hand. I do. I really do. "The money involved. The overcommercialization of it. · Even average football players are making as much as $700,000 a year. Seven-hundred thousand dollars a year to play football! Do we even know what is happening? Do we really?" (Bill Pinella's College Notepad appears every Thursday in The Tribune).

It was 93 years ago when Dr. James aismith, looking f~r an indoor winter sport to satisfy his physical educa- tion classes at the International YMCA Training School, walked into a Springfield, Mass., gym and summoned the janitor. He gave him two peach baskets to affix to the balcony at each end of the floor. The balcony just happened to be 10 feet from the floor Thus are dimensions in sport set as Naismith developed the game that eventually would alter the outside of many garages in America. But once again, as we are prone to find every few ye~rs. another major college basketball coach is pro- cla1mrng that we desperately need an architectural al- teration in the game. This year, it's Tennessee's Don DeVoe doing lhe complaining, and he doesn't seem to be willing to let his suggestion die without at least a fight. "We just have to move the height of the goal to 12 feet," Voe said earlier this week from his basketball office in Knoxville, Tenn. "The big men are dominating the game more tha~ ever_, _and they are doing it on jumping ability nd dunking ability alone. Most of them have no idea how shoot a basketball. "When Dr. Naismith invented the game, the 10-foot ihe1ght was an arbitrary one. The average height of a player then was under six feet. But times have changed. It certainly isn't that way anymore. "Prior _to the 1974 Final Four in Los Angeles, we tried n experimental game using an all-star squad and a 12- foot basket. The shooting percentages were almost identi· cal for the players as if they were using a 10-foot basket. So I don't see that much of an adjustment problem. ·:The other thing is that it would be a big help to the fflc1a~. Over the past five years I've seen almost every ame include a call or two on goaltending that was con- troversial._ I don't think the officials can possibly do an adequate Job on the goaltending call as it exists today with a 10-foot basket." DeVoe, who spent five years at Virginia Tech and two I WyoIDing, has just completed his sixth season with the Volun~rs. Since making hlS feelings known a week ago, e clauns he has received some positive feedback. ''I'm going to put all my proposals into writing, see what kind of reaction I get, and then we would have to present them to the National Association of Basketball Coaches. They would survey the coaches and then put the proposal to a vote of the membership." DeVoe is also in favor of eliminating any type of shot clock. "We already have a lack of action rule," he said. "I'm against anything that would make us look like the pros or he women's game." .A_n~ he's for opening up the tournament field to every D1v1S1on I team. "That would be 281 teams, and it would add maybe seven days to the tournament. Offer the seed· ed teams one, maybe two, byes, and look at the interest you would create. You'd give all teams something to look forward to and you would spread the wealth around. "High schools have allowed all teams to have a chance Jal tournament time, and it. hasn't hurt the regular season any at that level for years and years," DeVoe said At the least, DeVoe's ideas will spawn thought. and that will be good for the game. It all comes down to whether ou enjoy watching Patrick Ewing stuff the ball from two nches out, which requires little or no skill, or seeing him ke a six-foot jump shot over a defeniler from the base- line, which would require quite a bit of dexterity. Elevate the hoop and you'd elevate the level of skill in the game. IN THE RUNNING - One of DeVoe's former assist- ants at Wyoming is an applicant for the USD head coach- mg job. Tom Asbury, who coached at Wyoming in 1976 nd 1978, has been at Pepperdine as an assistant for the past five years. Now he is one of 50 candidates for the USO position. The Rev. Patrick Cahill, USO athletic director said earlier this week that there are 50 candidates for the job. Deadline for applying is Friday, April 27, and a new bead ;coach is expected to be named in mid-May. Bill Pine/la COLLEGES NOTEPAD

LEMON GROVE REVIEW APR Z 6 198 USD Grid Clinic Set fo r May 5 The U. of San Diego football staff, under the direction or Head Coach Brian Fogarty, will have its First Annual USD Football Clinic on Satur· day, May 5th at USD's new Manchester Campus Confer• ence Center (on main campus) and on the USD football field. Registration begins at 8:00 a.m. at the Manchester Center wlth the clinic starting at ap- proximately 8:30 a.m. The format will include classroom lectures in the morning and on field instruc• tion in the afternoon. Admission is $5, payable in advance or at the door. The clinic includes lunch, door prizes, coffee & donuts, clinic notebook and speakers. For an application contact Dan Henson, Football Clinic Coordinator at: USD Football Office, Alcala Park, San Di- ego 92110. Phone (619) 291· 6-.180, Ext. 4740 or '1272.

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Naismith invented the game the 10-foot height was llll arbitrary one. The average height of a player then was under six feet. But times have cbllllged' -DonDeVoe

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USD coaches to hold football clinic May 5 The USD football staff,

the clinic starting at approx- imately 8:30 a.m. The format will include classroom lectures in the mor- ning and on-field instruction in the afternoon. Admission is only $5. For an application or further infonna· tion, call Dan Henson at 291-6480, Ext. 4740 or 4272.

under the direction of head coach Brian Fogarty, will hold it first football clinic next month. It will take place May 5 at UCSD's new Manchester Cam· pus Conference Center and on the school's football field. Registration begins at 8 a.m. at the Manchester Center with

THE TRIBUNE

SAN DIEGO UN ION APR 2 6 1984

APR:: 6 193+ In other area college baseball_ games yes- terday: UCSO rallied for a 6-3 w1:11 over USD as John Rosness went 3:for-4 with ?ne RBI for the Tritons; and Pmnt Loma Nazarene dropped a 14-6 decision to Redlands.

UQiD 6, U, D 3 _: Steve Saggiani will remember Andre Jacas 'f!' Triton freshman was working on a no-hitter against USO at UCSO when Jacas singled with one out in th venth. Saggiani, a lcft-h_ander, had to be relieved m the eighth when th Tor ros tied the game 3-3 Rehever Dan DiMas- c10 got the victory as the Tntons ralhed to win. USD managed Just three hits in the game against UCSD, now 24-27-1 John Rosness went 3-for-4 with an RBI for the Tr1tons. and Don Petersen was 2-for-4.