News Scrapbook 1986

San Diego, CA {San Diego Co.) San Diego Union (Cir. D. 217,089) (Cir. S. 341,840)

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San Diego, CA {San Diego Co.) Evening Tribune (Cir. D. 127,454)

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Gathy O'Brien , 1ade ty;o free throws with even sec- ond left to give the Umvers1ty or Sao Diego a 60-56 wm over Utah State in thecon olat10 . bracket of the orth- rn Light lnv1tational basketball tournament at Ancho- rage Ala ka bbl Theroux led USO with 18 points. The Toreras will me t Iona (7 22) today for fourth place overall m the tournament

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's P. c. e ·s I an co-Coach of Year -?' Tribune 518 ~ po.'.;l took over the USD program when It h n't taken Hank Egan long to Jim Brovelh departed for USF. The as . b USD et- Toreros finished 16-11 last season oast Athlet- and, with the ~985-86 schedul~b~llmt ~i . f completed, still have a poss1 11 Y 1c Con erence. · an NIT berth. . . • the securing w 1 h e game remammg m I ,, 1

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In addition to Egan's award, Scott Thompson and Pete Murphy were se- lected to the 10-man All-WCAC tean:i- Thompson. a 7-fO?t jumor center, 1s averaging 14.3 points a game to lea_d the team. Murphy, a senior guard, 1s averaging 12.6. For Thompson, it mar~ the third straight year he has received post- season honors by the conference. He was an All-WCAC choice last year with Anthony Reuss and was selected the conference's Freshman of the Year for 1983-84.

regular se on, the Toreros are 18-9 overall a d 8-5 in conference play. A victory in tomorrow's finale aga~t St. ary's in Moraga wo~ld give USD most victories e~er m NCAA ivts;cn I play. But whatever the outcome, Egan's peers already have honored. him for a job well-done. The Toreros second- ear roac has been selecte~ WCAC co-Cl•ach of the Year along with Pep- perdine's Jim Harrick. Egan, who came to Alcala Park prior to last season following a 13- year stay at the Air Force Academy,

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AZTE San Diego State's Vicki Bence lo ta pcrf;)Ct g me opportumty aaain t UC-Rivende m th s com! game of a daub\ -h ader but picked up th hut ut anyway, 4-0 Bene had ·etircd 20 batters In a row fore g1v ng a mgle. Riverside won the first game 2-1 after the Az'ecs (5-5) committed four errors. TORF..RO B EBALL The USD men's baseball t am looked good for five innings, m the fir. t game of a doubl header against UC-R1vers1de, then the Higblan- de (9-6) scored five runs in the sixth on two hits, four w lkS and a hit batsman to wm the first game 7-6. The Tor ros (8-4-1) came back to wm the second game, 9-5 behmd five-hit pitching from Jim Westlund (2--0), Sean Baron' two-run home run. CRU ADER PLIT - Mark Bilger pitched a seven- ,hitter to gave Pomt Loma Nazarene an 8-3 wm m ti: fi t game of a double-header against Southern Utah. The Crusaders (4-5 1 dropped the second game 9-4 when Southern Utah o four runs m the first inning and added three more in the third. David Tenney hit a solo horn run in the fifth for th Crusaders. ZTE VOLLEYBALL - Tbe San Diego State mens vollevball t am beat v1 iting Cal State-Northridge, 15 5 15 3 and 15 13. in California Intercolleigate Volleybal A ociation action. John Eddo led the 10th-ranked Aztecs (6-5, 5-5) \\ith 26 kills. RFI 'G - Top-seeded Doug Silva of Solana Beach, and second-seeded Dave Eggers of Ocean Beach eas!ly won heats yesterday at Carlsbad State Beach as more than 80 surfers tried to qualify for today's California mateur Grand Prix of Surfing. La Jolla's Peter King, the No. 7 seed, also made the quarterfinals, which beg/m today at 9 a.m. with finals at 1 p.m. SOFTH. LL

The Gulls' Kefi Binyamini smacks a backhand during her match against the Aztecs' Cinny MacGregor. SDSU wo en defeat USIU tennis team, 6-3 San ·Diego State·s !0th-ranked women's tennis team, recently

l~oeal Briefs ence game. The Eagles (5·2) tted the game in the eighth with two out, when an infield fly dropped untouched. MESA WI!'iS OPEJ:liER - Host Mesa College (7-2, 1-0) used 13 hits lo cru.. h Imperial Valley, 17-2, in the teams' Pacific Coast Confer- ence baseball opener Mike Thom- as was 4-for-5 with two doubles and a three-run home run for the Olympians. Shorts•op Larry Simms added a doulile and a homer for Mesa to bac-k the p1tc·h- ing of Jeff Oswalt ''i-0). TRITON TENNIS - The UCSl) men's tennis team (2-3) swept Point Loma Nazarene, 9-0. TOYA DECREED TOPS - Toya DeCree, a senior forward on the U.S. International University women·s basketball team, has been named the West Coast Ath- letic Conference player of the month for February. DeCree aver- aged 22.9 points in leading the Gulls to a perfect 8-0 record and the conference championship. Senior Steve Kenilvort of Santa Clara won the WCAC award for men.

noted for beating highly ranked teams such as USC and Miami but losmg to weaker ones, downed 14th-ranked U.S. International University yesterday. 6-3, at USIU. No. 1 singles player Cinny MacGregor needed three sets to top the Gulls' Kaffi Binyamini 6-1, 3-6, 6-2. Monique Javer, Kathy Berry, Dana Bleicher and Sondra Mitchell also won singles matches for the Aztecs. The Gulls won two of the three doubles sets. UCSD BASEBALL - UCSO gave up seven runs in the first three innings and fell to visiting Cal State-Domingu('z Hills, 10-6, in a non-conference game Scott Murray was 2-,or-3 with two RBI for the Taros (11·3). Dan DiMascio (2-for-4, two RBI) and Brian Rude (2-for-3) led the Tri- tons (5-9-1). UCSD's leading hitter, Bob Natal, was injured before the game and will miss at least a week. Natal has five home runs and 20 RBI for UCSD. USD BASEBALL - USD (9-4-1) got ~aoiie-out RBI single from Sean Baron in the ninth to edge 1siting Biola, 3-2, in a non-confer-

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si ts, all career high , and 7-foot Scott Thompson and 6-4 Pete Murphy added 14 points each. The dec1s1ve stretch was a 67-sec- ond span in the final three minutes. · USO had just cut the GU lead to 56-!>3 on the Leonard free throws and was doing a good job of containing the Bulldogs. But USD's Mark Bostic was called for a foul on Jim McPhee and the Bulldog ' freshman hit tw~· free throws. Then with Leonard bringing the ball upcourt, Zag Dwan Hurt stole the ball. Bostic stole it back, but be- fore the Toreros could get another point, the Bulldogs got two free throw by Dale Halland on a Jim Knight foul "We dtd a good job taking care of the ball all night (only nine turn• overs) and bit our free throws down the s~retch (18 of 20)," Fitzgerald d. 'Those are things you have to do to beat a good club like San Diego."

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pr ure defens . Egan said, "1t worked m their favor. The la t time when th y went to the pre , It wor d n our favor." 'W ve them a httle zone and a lit, t' man (d fen c) and switched thing around a littl btl," Fitzgerald aid. But wh n we got down by five (With 6:16 to play), we said we can't I t It get ny more." That' wh n the Bulldogs went to a pr ure defense. It didn't er ate many turnover , but it did create enough havoc that the Toreros would go the next 3½ minutes without scar• rng while th Bulldo got 10 points, 1x on fr throws. . lly th time Junior guard Paul Leonard converted two free throws with 246 to go, Gonzaga led by 56-51 and the Tor ros would get no closer than three points th r t of th way Leon rd led th oreros with 16 po nts, eight rebound and ven as-

By Chuck Stewart Special to The Union SPOKANE, Wash. - Universi- ty of San Diego men's baskeilialr'saw its goal of a 20-victory season ruined last night in Gonzaga University's Athletic Centre. Capitalizing on 11 USO fouls in the final six minutes and its pressure man-to-man defense, Gonzaga surged from a five-point deficit to a 68-61 West Coast Athletic Conference victory. The Bulldogs scored their last 12 points, and 18 of their last 22, on free throws to charge from a 51-46 deficit with 6:16 left. The victory avenged Gonzaga's worst loss of tbe season, 74-50, Jan. 23 in San Diego. Besides ending San Diego's win- ning streak at four, it also may have ruined the Toreros' (18-9) hope for a National Invitation Tournament bid. USO coach Hank Egan said be didn't know. Bulldog coach Dan Fitzgerald said he hoped not. "They're a quality team; quality enough to make it" into the NIT, the Bulldogs' coach said.

Aztecs lose regular- season finale to New Mexico in OT- Page H-3 Though 20 victories are impossi- ble, there still remains Wednesday night's regular-season finale at St. Mary's. "I don't think we played with the intensity we have," Egan said. "We certainly didn't play as well as we did against Portland (Thursday night's 61-40 triumph)." Nor as well as they had in that first meeting with Gonzaga roughly five weeks ago. But the difference last night likely was that Gonzaga's play - primarily a combination of shooting and strate- gy - was improved. The Bulldogs, who shot 34.9 per- cent against USO in that first one, hit 51.2 (22 of 43) last night. The Toreros, who average 51.5 percent, cooled off to 47.2 (25 of 53). And when Gon ga went to its See USD on age H-3

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Reaching out: Oklahoma's David Johnson cannot quite pick off a rebound from North Carolina State's Chris Washburn, but the 14th-ranked Sooners topped the 18th- ranked Wolfpack, 72-69. Top Twenty roundup, Page H-2.