Alcalá 1968

Backup forwards were Rick Sabosky, who played in all 26 games, and Dick Lavelle. Lavelle led the Toreritos in both field goal, and free throw percentages, with respective percentages of 62.2% and 86.4%. Backing up the starters at guard were John Wathan, Don Rush, and John McGreevy, while John Gleave and Joe Fogel served behind the starting center. The Toreritos were a running, rebound– ing team that specialized in fast breaks. As a result, they set the single game scoring record of 106 points in their game with the Naval Air Station, and averaged a healthy 76.5 points a game. The Toreritos season culminated in their capture of the San Diego champi– onship when they won the first USD Frosh-JV Basketball Tournament. The JV's defeated University of California, San Diego 80-68 in the Semi-final and, in their last game of the season, downed Cal Western 68-66 for the title. Although they were not the best shoot– ing team in the school's history, this year's JV's possessed the quality to win. They finished the season only one win shy of the record 19 wins set by last yea r's Frosh squad.

Big f/24, Steve Oberholser, was fl in scoring this year with 14.4 digits a game. A frosh. Steve was also third in rebounding.

Even shots like this couldn't keep Benton White from beingf2. Benton was second in both scoring and rebounding but played in all the contests despite recurring illness.