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LOS ANGELES TIMES JAN 2 4 1984

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San Diego, Thursday, January 26, 1984

College Corner:

USD Expects Bostic to Play Saturday SAN DIEGO-University of San Diego guard Mark h rained an ankle In a 65-63 victory over ~titin~e':.t'fy of Portland lut Saturday night, Is d Jay when USD (10-7, 1-1) hostJ Santa ~=~n !° Jest Coast Athletic Conference game on Saturday. t d Bostic, who averages 11.l points per g'tTcedi ~Two~k to participate in a full pracll:~_!-OdaY·~d.half collision out Monday. Bostic was lnjun,u m a aeco

JAN 2 G 1984

Toreras' path to the penthouse strewed with stones

USO Ba•ketball, USD meets S,mta Cl,1r.i , arurday, Janu~ry 2B, 7.3 p m.. IJSD port Center, Linda V, ta R,,.,d, Alcala Park. 2~1-648 x427:.;2.,______

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By T.R. Reinman Tribune Sportswriter

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THE TRIBUNE JAN2 7 1984 DEBBIE ON THE DIME -

Take a look at the national map of women's college basketball. The former NCAA cha~pionship capi!3ls were at Old Dominion in Norfolk, Va.; m Cleveland, Miss., home of Delta State; and Ruston, La., where the Lady Tecbsters of Louisiana Tech suit up. Now the road to the top has stretched to Los Angeles - USC to be exact - with Cheryl Miller and the Women of Troy in the governor's mansion. Other city-states apply· ing for admission to the union are Long Beach State and San Diego State, a couple of red-hot up-and-comings Elsewhere on the map there are lines drawn to the edge ending in "To UC-Irvine" or "To USD.'' In 'the latter case, at least, what the map doesn't say is that ''To USO" is a far piece. The Toreras are in the same Division I galaxy, but . . . "All programs take awhile to develop," said Debbie Theroux, who leads the Toreras in scoring (10.4), rebound· ing (9.5), free throw percentage, steals and bloc~. . "I'm happy where I am," she says. "The hope IS that 10 'It's fun because each day we learn something new and we're growing. We're getting to be a better team' - Debbie Theroux a couple of years we'll have a reputation _as a sound, competitive program that could ... well, give some of those teams a good game, at least." "We held San Diego State 25 points under their average the first time we played tbr,11," Theroux said, even though State won 74-51. "And (Cal Poly) Pomona (a 15-point winner) was the Division II champ last year. We came out and stung them, but in the end some other factors came into play." Like? "They were taller, a little quicker." That'll do it most of the time. "But we're improving," Theroux says, "We're getting the bigger players we need. Well, 6-foot-1 ... 6-2. ~very little bit helps. Right now when we go out agamst a couple of girls 6-3 ... 6-4, we just flip a coin to see who'll take who." Earlier this month there was some question about who the Toreras had taken to the Oregon State Classic. An Oregon State manage~ wanted to ~now if USO ~ad brought its centers. Assistant coach Cmdy FJSChe~ point- ed to 5-10 Theroux, 6-0 Jill Bradley and 6-0 Bambi Brun- ing. The manager said "Where? Who? Them?' Theroux has been humming Aretha Franklin's "Re- spect" for years now, though. A two-time All-CIF pick_ at Helix High and the Grossmont League MVP her semor year, she missed a good shot at a scholarship ~ause her interscholastic season ended late in the sprmg, by the time most college programs have dispersed their scholar- ship money. , . "But that was all right because I wasn t basmg my college future on that anyway," Theroux said. So she went to Chapman College in Orange for a year, but ended up quitting the basketball team. "The coach was a little too demanding, I think," she says. "But I wasn't mature enough to handle it, either. So, I chose school instead." And then she chose Grossmont Community College, where last year she was the co-MVP of the Pacific Coast Conference, averaging 13 points and eight re~unds • And now she's at USD. Right galaxy, wrong light year.

THE TRIBUNE

LEMON GROVE REVIEW JAN 2 G 1984 Toreros Host Broncos The Universit;., nf San Dit>go Toreros will tak,, on th" streaking- Santa CJ: r, Bron, cos in WCAC 1<,11ur. thi · Sat- urday night, ,,r 7·:,n p.P'l. in the l'SJ) Sportt Center. The Broncos '14-1 arc tnking their 8-game winning strPak to St. Mary' < ollc~e tonil!ht b<>for,, journ<:ying- !South · to San Diego. Bo'.h St. \fary's and Santa Clara an, 2-(l in WCA(" play.

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It was clutch time and Debbie Theroux answered the call with a basket as'time ran out t~ give the University of San Diego Lady Toreras a 57-55 victory over Northern Arizona last night at Flag- staff, Ariz. .Ther~ux's basket came on her third attempt for win- mng pomts after rebounding a miss by Lori Morris with four seconds on the clock. !he Toreras (9-11) were also led by Theroux, who had 17 pomts and 12 rebounds. USO moves over to Tucson to play the University of Arizona tomorrow.

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THE TRIBUNE

DAILY CALIFORNIAN JAN 2 5

JAN 2 7 1984 Tomorrow night at 7:30 the University of San Diego Toreros (10-7 overall, 1-1:. m the WCAC) will face West Coast Athletic Conference foe, the Santa Clara Broncos (14-5 overall, 2-1 in the WCAC after losmg 81-64 to St Mary's last night) at the USD Sports Center.

DEBBIE THEROUX Buzzer bucket Tonight the USO women, losers of five of their last si> games, are trying to improve their 8-11 record at N~rth em Arizona. Along the way there have been other little ,---------- victories.

hri tian's Dan Henson takes USD coaching job

Henson made the move also because he felt it was time to get out of the high school ranks. "The big thing for me 1s to make the move now, ' Henson remarked. "I've talked lo too many guys who waited too long to make their move. They wish they would've but didn't. I had to move out now or be hurt rn the long haul If I would have waited another five to seven years I wouldn't have been able to make the move at all. I would have probably had lo take a pay cut to st.art on the college level then. "I would like to stay around Christian next year I think it could be the best team we·ve ver had here. Next year there will be a definite reaping of what we have sold over the past 12 months " Hen n will be working with the of• fen 1ve backfield at USD. " Brian Foggarty is a class guy," Hen- son ,;a, . "I respect the way he handles the kids and the program." Henson said his working with the Toreros could aid USD in recruiting the local talent · I know most of the high school football coache in the county and I think it would be a good recruiting thing," he said. "There are a· lot of high school players who want to continue their edu'cation and play football. They are not the blue- ch1ppers. but are the ones who are passed over really re- searched the type of kid in San Diego who could go to USD. A lot of San Diego football players can fit in " A decision on Christian's new football coach is expected by Feb. 3. •·1 don't feel they have

By Mike Mathison of The D 1/y Ca/lfornlan

SAN DIEGO UNION ~N27 198,t Theroux lifts USO to win FLAGSTAFF, Artz. - Debbie Theroux scored a layup with no time remaming as the University of San Diego defeated Northern Arizona 57-55 here last night. Theroux's basket came on her .third attempt for the winning points after rebounding a miss by Lori Moms with four seconds Northern Arizona's Julie Hanks had tied the game at 55 with 13 seconds to go. Theroux led USO (9-11) with 17 points and 12 rebounds. Hanks led Northern Arizona (8-8) with 19.

That door has taken another tum Henson is going again His on-again. off - again rela • tlonsh1p with Chris• lian High 1s off• agam. Henson h s ac • cepted a position with head coach Brian Foggarty and the University of San Diego football team. The 31-year-old Henson leaves Chris• tian for the second llm m thr years

Dan Henson

He d parted 1s h d coachmg job 1n 1981 to become an a 1stant coach at South- we tern College in Chula V1 ta. He re- turned to the El Caion campus and his head coaching duties after one year with the Apache . lo work full -time there (Southwest ml," Henson aid. " The classe the ass istant coaches ere able to teach were all cut back If I would have had a teaching job at South- western I would have stayed there." A full -time teachmg position at USD is more promising Henson believes "Th re wa no opportun ti

Still, she has a good vantage point to watch the rest of the women's basketball world race by. San Diego State is well within sight. "They have a nice team but now they're coming up ag_ains_t teams that are just as tall and quick," Theroux said, fmgermg a three-inch scar on her left forearm left by th~ nails of State's Dee Dee Duncan. "They'll get pro- gressively better, hut so will we. Right now we don't have the, hei~h~ ma~~h up a lot of the time. Even though we re D1v1S1on I, 1t II take some time to get to where we want to be." Winning more games, in-conference or not, should help. Last year USO went 8-18. The Toreras already have won that ~any games this year, and play six of their last seven m town. Bringing in more quality players to go with sopho- mores Theroux and scoring guard Michelle Dykstra should help. Coach Kathy Marpe sends out a team that h~s t_wo seniors, two juniors and IO underclassmen. Cathy 0 Br1~n,. a former AII-CIF player from San Marcos, is redshirtmg after transferring from Notre Dame Theroux and O'Brien are among the top 10 career high school scorers and rebounders in the county. f'.ressu~e is something the Women of Troy are learning to hve with, and something on which the Women of Mon- tezuma are taking notes._ For the U~D women the only pressure, subtle and self-imposed as 1t may be is to win more games than they did last year. ' "It's _fun," Theroux ~ys, "because each day we learn something new and we re growing. We're getting to be a better team." They're still not on the map, hut at least there's a marked road to follow.

LOS ANGELES TIMES

JAN 2 8 1984

USD's Scott Thompson Is Injured SAN DIEGO-University of San Diego center Scott Thompson is unlikely to play m tonight's game against the University of Santa Clara at 7:30 at the Sports Center. Thompson. a 6-11 freshman from Citrus Heights. broke a small toe early this week and his part1c1pation is doubtful, USO Coach Jim Brovelli said Friday. Thompson, a starter, is averaging 7.7 pomts and five rebounds per game for USO (10-7. 1-1). Santa Clara (14-5, 2-1) suffered its first West Coast Athletic Conference loss Thursday night, 81-64, at St. Mary's.

SAN DI EGO UNION JAN 2 9 1984

Tribune photo by Tony Doubek

~~--- USD succumbs to Arizona Guard Karen Smith scored 26 points to -=----~-~-

USD'S DEBBIE THEROUX TAK.ES AIM Her goal is to put the Toreras on the college basketball map

THE TRIBUNE JAN 3 l 1984

lead Ar!zona to a 69-62 victory over the University of San Diego in a non-confer- ence women's basketball game at The vents Center in Tucson, Ariz., last night. Mary Standra, a 5-10 junior forward led USO (9· 12 ) with 18 pomts. Debbie The;oux dded 13 points while Lori Morris had 10. Ji!l Bradley led the Toreras in rebounds with seven. The Wildcats led most of the game and were ahead 29-23 at the half. Arizona outre- bounded the shorter Toreras 44.30 and outshot them at the free throw line 15-of-18 to USD's 7-of-16

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