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Beats USD In 2 Overtimes II~ 1111.1, CE TER Slaff Wn~r, The Son Ooego Un,on I 10 rebounds) to task In al!, Bateman and Heppell tos ed in ~5 of 21 shots. The only hitch was the liming.

Heppell hot from 25 feet instead of 20 - and with three econds to play instead of at the gun. The ball ·ailed 1x inches wide to the left "It was there and Tcouldo"t put it do\\ n ' Heppell aid "It \\a n't all that t>asy a shot' aid Brovellt who again came so clo,e to coaching h1 · first victory over his alma mater Dave couldn't see the clock (1' wa above his head and behind him). He could have taken another dnbble, pulled up from about 18. From 18 feet he buries that shot' (Continued oo II-ti, Col.3)

Although spotting Bryant seven inche . Bateman continually drove the middle on him and out battled him for an)1hing within hi. reach. lleppell, meantime, bombed over Bryant from out. ide That i• what USn had over USF with five econd to go Bryant plays defense like a cheating hide and- eek player. He never wanders far from home. USO quickly put the ball into Heppell The plan was for him to pot- hot a 20-footer from the top of the key It would be un<'ontested Tt al- mo l worked

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USF Needs 2 Overtimes To Escape Toreros (Continued from H-1) nd he would have buried U F In tcad the Dons ·un1ved - like they ha v o often th1 21-4 sea. on. This played a great game. Maybe the best game I've seen. None of those kids could have done anymore than they did"

wheeled inside over Bateman. They were ahead 69-65 when Heppel: hit a 20-footer (' now 1f I make that earher . '') 11·Jth 2:19 to play But when USO fouled to get the ball back l'l the final 45 seconds. the Don downed six tra1ghl free throw.. ·\\e ·hould have won" Brovelli ' .aid 'ThP way \IC played, we should have won." l • Dfell behind by 10 at 43-33 with 15 minutes to go. l'SD 1s 9-12 overall and 2-i m WCAC play You re not over the rd! )OU clear It." Brovelli said

As he left the court. Barry caught Brovelli from behmd and said, "Nice job Jim; out. tanding Job." In the first overtime, IJSF quickly raced to a four-point lead at 65-61. But Bateman single-handedly brought USO back with two free throws, a defensive play at the other end. a rebound and a lavin basket with IO seconds to go to· force the econd overtime The Dons agam scored off the tip to ·tart the ·econd half as Bryant

\\a the third time mWest Coa. t Ath- letic Conferen e play that USF has gone mto overtime, the s cond time mto double overtime. USF was sup- posed to run a\\ ay with th1 title. In- t d 1t 1s two game behind Pepper- dine \\ ith five to play "'! hi would have sealed 1t for u " said l'SF oach P ter Barr whose team I playing more a though it's avo1dmg lo es than gorng after v1c- tor1e Got to gi\•e lfSD credit They

Don Capener of USO falls while fighting for rebound with Lions' Leonarc;i Agee. Jones Helps USD alt Skid 80-6 By BILL CENTER Stoff Writer, The ~n Diego Union Forward Gerald Jones scored a season-high 24 points and pulled down 11 rebounds last night as the University of San Diego snapped a four-game losing streak with a wire-to-wire, 80-68 victory over Loyola-Marymount Um- vers1ty at the (/SD Sports Center. After back-to-back, last-minute losses to West Coast Athletic Conference front-runners San Francisco and Pepperdine in their last two outings, the Toreros showed no signs of a possihle letdown as they jumped out to leads of 27-10 after 15 minutes and 39-21 at the half. The hapless Lions fought back to within 11 at 63-52 with seven minutes to play. But USO returned starters Jim Bateman and Rusty Whitmarsh to the lineup, regrouped. ran off 11 straight points and pulled away to its 10th victory in 23 decisions. The Toreros' WCAC record improved to 3-8 with their second traight victory over Loyola-Marymount. The Lions fell to 1-10 and 3-21 despite a 25-point effort by 6-11 sophomore center Leonard Agee. Jones was not alone in hurting Loyola-Marymount in- side. Center Jim Bateman scored 16 points and pulled down five rebounds while forward Dave Heppell scrored 14 points and had six boards. Guards Rich Davis and Rusty Whitmarsh chipped in 13 and 10, respectively. "The last three games were the first in a !or:· time that this club has played like it can," Heppell said a r · .otn- er round of bombing away from the corner. "I'm on target, Jimmy's playing well and Gerald has been going to work with his quickness inside. We've been helping each other out and everyone's been the better for it." "I got a lot of help," said Jones, who scored 10 of his points from the foul line after getting hammered en route to the basket. "We had a lot of movement and they were always jumping in on top of us. That's what movement will do." Movement is one quality the Toreros might have been concerned with last night. Teams experiencing a letdown tend to stand around and wait for things to happen. That was not the Toreros' case. "I didn't expect a letdown," said Torero Coach Jim Brovelli. '-We talked about the possibility at practice Fri- day after losing the lead and the game to Pepperdine. "We've played hard all year. And we came out tonigbt and played hard again." Only during Loyola-Marymount's second-half surge did USO seem threatened. "We lost a little concentration,'' said Brovelli. "We took a couple of poor shots, got a little lax on defense al/: the other end ... the game is over only once." ' So he took a timeout, raised his voice on the bench - "I just wanted everyone's attention focused m the same di- rection" - and sent his starting five back to work. In the span of 91 seconds, USO scored 11 points. Davi& canned a baseline jumper. Ditto Heppell. Davis stole the ball at midcourt and raced in for a layin plus a free throw. Jones stole a pass and went the distance fOr a slam. And Whitmarsh closed the rush with a layin. Earlier, the Toreros had broken the game open in the first half by forcing the tempo on both ends of the floor. "We really played well in the first half," s'a1d Brovelli. We got the ball inside for some easy baskets and forced some fouls. Defensively we shut them down."

E,.VENlNG TRIBUNE FEB l 9 198Z USD heroics go for naught in loss to Waves As Al McGuire, the renowned TV college basketball analyst, is wont to say, close only counts in horseshoes and hand grenades. It certainly doesn't matter in basketball. The result is the same whether you get beat by one point or get blown out by 30. It's just another big fat loss oo a team's record.I Still, University of San Diego Coach Jim Brovelli has to feel proud of the way his team has played in its past two games, though both turned out to be losing efforts. The Toreros dropped a double overtime game Saturday against nationally ranked Umversity of Sao Francisco and last night they took Pepperdine, the leader of the West Coast Athletic Conference, right down to the wire before losing on a shot at the buzzer. Reserve guard Mark Wilson swished an off-balance jumper from the top of the key as time ran out to give the Waves a 63-61 victory over the Toreros at the USD Sports Center. Afterward Brovelli could only shake his head and won- der when his club is going to catch a break. It outplayed Pepperdine much of the night and certainly deserved a better fate. "It's frustrating," said Brovelli. "We had opportunities to win both our last two games. I told the kids it's going to be our tum sooner or later. It just can't happen this way all the time. "Our kids play as hard as they can. They've been play- ing well lately and, darn it, we deserve to win a couple of 'I told the kids it's going to be our turn sooner or later. It just can't happen this way all the time' - Jim Brovelli these close ones. We're just not getting them, but our tum will come." Six-foot-five center Jim Bateman, who scored 14 points, and guard Rusty Whitmarsh (13) and forward David Hep- pell (10) have to be feeling just as frustrated as their coach. They, along with Don Capener, who supplied eight points off the bench, were the key contributors as the Toreros wiped out a 35-31 halftime deficit and appeared headed for a big victory. They led 61-54 with a little over five minutes to play. But a traveling call, two turnovers and a missed free throw allowed Pepperdioe to knot things at 61-all on a jumper by Wilson with 2:50 left. USO still appeared to be in control of things when it had possession of the ball with 2:30 to go and the score the same. But a five-second call on Torero guard John Prunty gave the ball to the Waves. "I don't think the call was right for for two reasons," said Brovelli. "First, Pepperdine was not in defensive position to force a five-second call and, second, he did not have the ball five seconds when it was called." The Waves held the ball for the remainder of the game before Wilson, who scored his team's last seven points, fired up his game-winning shot to keep his club unbeaten (10-0) in WCAC play. . "We were supposed to take the shot with six seconds left in the game," said Wilson. "I just took it. I knew once it left my hand that it was going in. I felt pretty good about it because earlier in the year I had the same situa- tion and the shot didn't fall. Fortunately, this time it did." It was, indeed, fortunate for the Waves, who seemed ripe for an upset. Several of their players had cold shoot- ing nights, including standout guard Boot Bond, who scored 12 points - six below his season average. "I'm fully convinced to win the league you've got win games like this, " said Jim Barrick, whose club is 17-6 overall. ''When the ball won't go in, you can't get a call and nothing will happen right for you and you still win ... well, sometimes I would rather be lucky than good," However, the Waves' problems were not all self-im- posed. The Toreros outfought them for many loose balls, played them tough on the boards and generally played excellent basketball until the end. "I don't think we could have played much better" said Brovelli, who, nevertheless, saw his club drop to 2-s' in the WACA and 9-13 overall By Jerry Froide Tribuoe Sportswriter

HANDS UP - Orlando Phillips of Pepperdine seems to have the upper band on USD's Jim Bate- man as they battle for a rebound during action in last night's 63-61 Waves' victory at the USD Sports Center. - Photo by John Gibbins

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