News Scrapbook 1986

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Jlfleri '• P, c. B t.sr. 1888 Murphy leads ll§Q_in win over M;;otna SAN DIEGO (A phy scored 14 poi t ursday night to lead the University of San Diego to a 77-63 victory over Montana State in a non-conference college basketball game. The Toreros, 8-4, jumped to an 18-2 lead end built their lead to 44-22 by halftime end weren't threatened the rest of the way. Shann Ferch led Montana State with 14 points. San Diego hit 33 of 53 shots from the field, e shooting percent- age of 62.3. ete Mur- grabbed seven rebounds

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Toreros' Egan urges By/e~f. to .. .,., Tribune porlswrlt r the long haul. Every game is im- As USO s annual mtcr: ·ion portant now.'' brea~ conlmu , Montana State Montana State brings in four come calling at the Sports Cen- tarters who average double fig- ter tomorrow m hi at 7;30. ures and two reserves averaging Not that Monday night's victim, a little better than nine points per orthcrn Iowa, or Montana State game. Its 7-foot center, Greg arc pu hovers NIU gave 7-4 USO Walter , will be the biggest man a good t t, and even though the 3. USD's 7-footer, Scott Thompson, 6 Bobcats have six freshmen on ha faced this year. th ir 13 man team, USO coach The Bobcats' strength is at Han Egan i n't looking past guard. where Ray Willis (10.4 th m e1th r pomts per game) and last year's "Th y're pretty good ball• team MVP, Tony Hampton (11.6 club" aid Egan "It hould be an points, 4.3 assists), like to pressure other game like the la tone," the ball and run on offense. But ev n if h 's convinced, his Like Montana State, the players may not be Toreros have found some depth ' Thts is kmd of crui ing time this year, but theirs is more expe- before th I agu tarts," id for- nenced. One mmor problem Egan ward Pete urphy "It hurt us fac now is how to gel that depth last year.'' into the lineup. Forward/center

center Scott Thompson (13 points, 7.2 rebounds per game) and 6•4 swin~- man Pete . turpby (11.5 points), are rn the middle of a four•game home- stand leading up to the start of WCAC basketball play. USO, whose starters are shooting 54.4 percent from the field and 76.5 percent from the free-throw line, has won two straight games. The Bobcats have four starters av- eraging double figures. including their own 7-foot center, Greg Walters (10 1).

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O'Bti~..n~vans Lead USO Women, 71-64 S~fEnO-Former local prep stars Cathy O'Brien and Julie Evans led the University of San Qiego women's basketball team to a 71-64 win over Hamhne (Minn.) Thursday night at the USD Sports Center. . O'Brien, who played at San Marcos High, led the Toreros m scoring with 16 points and also had 8 rebounds. Former Hilltop star Evans scored 15 and Kelli Behrens had 11 points and 10 rebounds. O'Brien was 7 for 9 from the field and Evans hit 6 of 7. Hamline's Pam Summers, a two-time All-American, led all scorers with 21. USD is 5-5, Hamline 1s 5-2.

Then, th oppon nts were Har- dm-S1mmons, John Brown U., Concordia (Neb.) Colleg . North- ern Arizona, Southwest Texas vers1ly. There were some close gam, tn there, but USO went 6-0 and cru1 ed rnto WCAC play where they tarted out 1-4. ''We can't afford to do that this year," said Murphy. "We've got to get artcr people tht!se next three After Montana State, USO hosts St. Ambrose Saturday and USIU Monday before opening its league Jan 17 at Santa Clara and the next night at the Universi- schedul "We've spent the first part of the year seeing who's going to play where and how the offense is run," said Egan. "Now it's time to see some emotional commitment. State and Southw t Baptist Uni- games." ty of San Francisco.

Jim Pelton, a 6-9 transfer who has just become eligible, deserves some time, but that has to be div- vied up among a unit that has played well together for more Pleasant surprises have been the recent development of for- ward Nils Madden, the spot duly by power forward James Knight teady play of freshman "He doesn't look like a fresh- man," said Egan. "He's not in a panic. He knows I am, and one of and the guard Danny Means. One of them, fine, but not the whole bunch of them. The last time the Toreros did that, a year ago, they found themselves going from 6-0 to 1-4 in the space of two "We have good players," said Egan, "but we can't afford to than a month now. us has to stay cool." weeks.

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AN DIEGO-Btg-hme college 1;,asketball kicked into full gear hursday night as teams from such national powerhouse conferences a the B'g East th<' Big Tet and the Pac-10 began conference play. Melir while , Thursday night, ~l'lal time college basketball t ams continued to prepare for <'onfercnce sea~ons which begm in a co:.iple of wee'.ss. The UnivPr i y of S21l Diego 18 4 , wnit:h ;pen. play m the West Coa,t Athletic Conference Jan. 11 at Sama Clara, played Montana State at the USO Sports Center and cruised to an 83-69 victory. The Bobcats ( 3. 7) scored only one basket .n the first SIX minutes of the game and fell be- hind, 16-2, before playing it ever. the rest of the wa) Afterward, USD Coach Hank F. an was pleased with his team's third-straight victory (the other two were over Alaska-Anchorage and l\"orthern Iowa) but did say he wouldn't mind putting a little

P. C. 8 F.11. 1888 .f USD's Toreras /< defeat Hamline "' The University.._of San 6 iego Toreras (5-5) trailea Ram!ine's Pipers at the half, then rallied behind the str~ng shooting of Cathy O'Brien and Juhe Evans for a 71-64 victory at USO.

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While a team like Montana State doesn't resemble a national power on the court, USD doesn't resemble a big- time college program off it. Only 836 fans (right around the season average) showed up to see the Toreros play the Bobcats. But the Toreros are playing quite well. USO shot 60% from the field in the first half against the Bobcats to open a 20-point lead. Pete Murphy led a balance USD attack with 14 points. Shann Ferch paced Montana Slate with 14.

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"We're playing the best possible schedule we can," Egan said. "To pl::ty the national powers you have to :1ave a lot of money to bring them in here, unless you want to go back (East) and play them in their places. I wouldn't mind having a couple of them on our schedule, but right know there's not enough interest in our program to play teams like that."

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jumor varsity team at Kansas. He had sprained an ankle in a varsity preseason exhibition game and sat out six weeks, losing his spot on the big team. The KU junior varsity often loaned some of its players to its calch-as- catch•can opposition, and he only played six games. And the year before, as a freshman, he had redshirted. So even if the Bobcats were kind of at loose ends them- elves. this was significant for Pellon, who had become eligible at USD earlier this week. But after intermission last night, the threat of a blow• out kept blowing over. "I thought we were in complete control of the game," said Pellon, who ended up playing four minutes and 54 seconds. "We let down a little, but it's hard to take a 20- point lead at the half and then go out and try to beat them by 20 again." Said Egan, ·'If you have a 20-point lead and it goes down to 18, 16, 14 points, that's not a blowout. I want to get him in when it's not a struggle, when there's no pre sure on him." Pelton understands that, but there is always pressure commg off the bench, let alone coming off for the first significant game in 21•2 years. "I was hoping for a blowout so I'd get in," said Pelton, ''but I didn't want to get all worked up thinking about it." But sitting in front of the corer's table waitmg for 41 sec·onds as his man, center Scott Thompson, missed a

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shot then fouled to stop the clock, it happened anyway. Pelton got all worked up. '•First there's the adrenaline rush," said Pelton, de- scribing what any bench jockey worth bis warmups has fell every time out. "You go in and you're Just thinking so hard about not making a mistake." Pelton committed one foul, grabbed one rebound, hit a short baseline jumper and made a free throw for a three- point play. "I couldn't believe I made that free throw." he said. ··r was sure I was going to brick it, I was so nervous. With all that nervous energy you just want to run up and down the court. Then you get over that and you're left with a little case of the shakes. But all that goes away with a little experience." Getting more than a little experience may be a little while in coming for Pelton, who figures to spell Thomp- son or forward Nils Madden Thompson had 13 points last mght, equaling his team-leadmg average. and Madden is emergir:g as enough of a threat to merit serious cover- age. Wh~n the Bobcats tried to take away Thompson and Madden last night, things opened up outside for swing- man Pete Murphy, who led USO with 14 points, and forward Mark.Manor, who had 12 on 6-for-7 shooting. In two games this week, the USD starters shot 57 percent, and the team is hitting 53 percent for the season. "We re getting the ball in a lot of good places," said

Egan. ''Nothing's forced. We're shooting out of the offense and with rhythm." So the beat goes on, without Pelton. "In eligibility," he said, "I'm a sophomore. You look around and there's not a whole lot of sophomores commg into Division I programs at the halfway point of the season and making a big impact. Anyway, what we've got is working." Egan is happy with the offense and the people running it - eight players have been in all 12 games and a ninth, Steve Krallman, has missed only two because of injury but returned last night. The USD defense, though, is an- other matter. "I think our defense needs a lot of work," said Egan. "I think we give up too many easy baskets." That could be a plus for Pelton, who sees his role primarily as a rebounder and defender. But just as there is no fooling a bench jockey's adrenaline pump, there is no fooling Pelton about his current status. "What I really want to do," said Pelton, who found USD with the help of Kansas coach Larry Brown, "is work as hard as I can and see what happens. I love to see the team winning and I like watching Nils and Mark and Scott playing well. My time will come. "Gee, that sounds like a lot of cliches, doesn't it? But it's true. Playing basketball is fun again. And part of the fun is gettmg nervous."

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Hank i-:gan said Wednesday that he was mg or a way to get transfer Jim Pelton some play• mg time Pelton, a 6-9 ct•nter forward from Palos Verdes by way of Kans,1s, would have to be Y.Orked in during "a blowout or omething," said Egan, who didn't want to d1 rupl whatever chemistry his regulars had built through the week. La t mght at home against Mon ana Stale USD got off to leads of 10·0, 18-2 and w1lh 10 '10 left in the first half, 24•6 This was a game with Pelton name wntten all ov r 11 After the fir I ,;O minute , when USO shot 60.7 percent to Montana State', 33 percent, outrebounded the Bobcats 18-8 and hc1d a 42-22 lead. it wa only a matter of time until Pelton played 1n his first ignificant game m 2 1 2 var Il turned out to he s1gntf1tant for the Torero because th y Y.on 77-6. It improved lhetr record to 8·4, and m rked the ftr t time since J inuary last year that they won at lea t thre • C'0nsecuttv • garnes. The1r chance for four tra1ghl come tomorro mght at 7 30 in the Sports Center agam t St Amb o. e C'ollegl' of Davenport. Iowa. Ayear ,1go, whl'n l n wa JUsl halfway through a six- game wm treak, Pelton wa JU t tarting out with the

~RERAS BASKETB~ - The USO women's basketball team, !~~thy O'Brien and Julie Evans, defeated HantlfneXMinn.) 71-64 yesterday in the Sports Center after trailing by one point at the half. • • •