News Scrapbook 1962-1964

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TOURNEY TALK Coaches Express Playoff Optimism

Knights Seek Sixth Aft r Rallying for Tri

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:n hip. Cerritos Is 5-1. po nts for USD and Lymond In other games last night, Williams and Phil P r I c " Unlvrrslty or San Diego added 14 each.•John Hughes bowed, • 70-li5, , to ~e~ad~ s<'ored 17 and Silas St PP 15 outhem In the Cal o " od to pace the evadan Pomona Invitational an

'J',,urna1111 nt timr I~ morl' than a month away, b u t tcm nament talk addrd spice to rstrrday's 1 nion-Trib- une b a s k et b a 11 writers' lunch<'On at Kink's Inn. Cal \\Tc•stPrn hopes to makr th" National Assoria- tion o! Intercollegiate Ath- letics playoffs for the sec- ond straight year. A berth in the National Collegiate Athletic Association College- divislon comp<'tition Is with- in reach o! San Diego State Collrgt> The We terncrs, winner~ or 10 In a row, end a two- week layoff tonight in San- ta Barbara against West- mont, their leading rival in the> , 'AT A

UniJersity of 8an Diego entertains L.A. State Fri- day, and c·oach Phil Wool- pert believ<>s the Toreros <'an win "if we put both halves of our game togeth- er, offense and defense." Woolpert complimented Clifford Ashford, Lymond Wllliams, Phil Price n d Mike Jackson for their play In the Cal Poly of Pomona tournament over the week• end, in which USO t o o k third place. "The Nevada Southern coach told mP. Cal Western was the finest defensive t e a m they had met this year," said Wool1;>crt. "We did nothing to hurt that image (a 70-65 lossl ." Coach Charlie Hampton credited "a real good team , <'ffort" for San Diego City College's key victory over Cerritos Friday, then he singled out Elburt Miller, Joe Mathews, John W i ]- Iiams, Ron Kroepel, Conrad Seymour, Dick Dowling and Nick Alessio !or special commendation. "For the first. time this year," he said, "we came up with a real fine defensive effort. Miller played h I s finest game. He's learning to play defense and he's passing off well. He got the key rebounds and the big shots. He did this all night. Consistently he has done it in the big games. · Now 6-0 in thl" Metropoli- tan Conference, the Knights play al Long Beach Friday, and Hampton said, "They scare me to death. They're the leading offensive team in the conference. We beat the leading defensive club, now we'll have to see tl we can beat the top offensive club."

hihPa defeated Miramar aval Air .Statton, 82-61, on the wir,ners' tloor, l'SD pla) O('('idenlnl, !17• 7 lo er to Cal Pol}, tomgl t t 7 m the eonsolat 10n ga mr The Tme1·, led, 31 28, at the halt but fell hehinrl, 60- 50 midway throu h th P<'- ond half and ne, er caught up

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eway jump the ,vlnnlng point tor the KHlghts, who trailed, 59-55, with a little more than two minute remaining. Elburt l\ltl\er connc ted with 1 42 Jell but the Knight!\ ti 11 trailed. 59-S7, at th ~ 1 ' 19 mark whrn Cerritos Gary tcCoy was fouled 1cCoy, who had hit on I con cutlve free throws ml sed, and thl' Knights got the ball to Joe Matthews, ho th1cw in b ket from the d1> for a .59 dead. lo k with 5~ seconds re- m mmg. McCoy mis~ed an other free ttirow with .51 C t anrl SD C fed Al for th ame clincher. hot provided

POMONA, TOURNAMENT

Nevada Southern Nips USO, 70-65 POMO, "A Nevada.· uthf'rn fast broke for a 1ive-mmut"' tretch late in the garne la~t night tn defeat University o! an Diego, 70-65, in thr f1rst rounr! of the Cal Poly of Po- ona Invitational baskN'> lour ey here SD'~ Torero~ will fac =~-___,....,,,,........__...,,,~:-:== cidental, lo~er to Cal Poly mght, in tonight's ronsoiat , / game at 7 o'clock.

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John Hughes with 17 ;>oints and Silas Stepp with 15 paced Nevada Southern against the Toreros, whose attack wa · spearheaded by Cliff A•htord With 23. The game was ni and tuck up until only eight minute re- mained, then Ne\"ada ~outh- ern surged with it.· ta t break j to jump ahead, 60-50. and that wa~ thP game. The defeat left the Toreros with a 7-R over-a II mark USO (UI C: F T Ntv. Sovth~nFf',!'l T WJllioms 1111 6 2 14 St!"'PD 6 J 1 15 " 1 i 1: ! i ,6 T~~monn , 2 5 , Topp~r , 3 3 11 As:hf:'.!rd , S , 23 Caneva, 1 o 2 2 f ~Jkt:,~a V '8 J j R~=an i i 1 J ~Otl!!rk 1 0 3 2 Hugh~! 6 S '1 17 M~i:/i~ g V 6 Oovlu a o To~als 25 15 21 ,s Totals :ZS ,t 1S 70 Haltt,m• score USO 31, No. H.

. Coach Dick Pegler, whose ry Meek in Friday's oss o Marine Corps Recruit De-

pot team ",~tarted back on

a hitting streak" last week, can clinch 'the 11th Naval n.ando Valley State Saturday. District title tonight with a ''If we'd had another man win over PhibPac. Pegler of 1\,!eek s strength," he said, said the game was shifted "tt might have made a dif- from Point Loma High to frrcnc<. They scored 16 Cal Western's Golden Gym points on tip-ins It was a because "we enjoy playing mean , tough game. They de- there _ also PhlbPac hasn't served it. They have b i g, won there tt is year " strong kids, who bounce you , around under the boards. The refereeing was good.

You ve got to beat a team on the floor, adjust c!,nd re- act."

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