News Scrapbook 1956-1959

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January 8, 1958 Leslie Leocfs USO In 89-82 Victory By JOHNNY McDONALD Consi tent Ken Leslie continued his phenomenal shooting average by leading University of San Diego's basketball team to an 89-82 victory over Camp Pendleton in Kearny High gym last night. Leslie scored 24 points as the Pioneers captured their ninth straight and avenged an opening-season loss to the same Leathernecks. The ex-AAU All-American, to give Pendleton two points who had averaged 51 per cent and a 24-23 lead. through nine games, canned The Pioneers, hitting 54.3 11 ot 19 field goals and made per cent, kept at least four two free throws. points in front most of the Dick Murray, Hector San- first half. Camp Pendleton had chez and Lee Hammond also an excellent 48.6 percentage. hit double figures tor the Pio- Shooting averages c o o I e d neers with scores of 19, 17 and off in the second half but 15. Pendleton a!Ho had four the San Diegan,; were able to men in double figures w i t h fast-break under the basket Arvel Lee hitting 17, John and obtain -a more comforta- McClosky getting 16, Bob Mc. ble nine and later 11-p o i n t Gilvry, 15, and Andy Wyatt, 14. advantages midway of the FREAK PLAY half. USO (89) Camp Pndlton C12..j Although it was a C I O S e ',\urrov,1 : ff 11 Lee.f ~ff 11 game from the start, 1.he Pio- ~~~t;,:o~d,c ; l1 n l\',~/~•kY,O t 3 1~ neers managed to stay ahead Lesfie,o 11 2 3 2, wvott,t • 6 2 1, except on one occasion, and ~"v"n"o'"r3,,t r l t 1 ~;,1W~ry,f g i 1~ t hi"s was on a freak play ;Thrnczk,< 1 o 2 2 srouffr,f 5 2 o 12 · IY.alns,o • o 1 8 Mccor,,c o 2 2 2 USD's center, Hammond, ~~P.~,• 0~ 1 gg tossed the ball inbounds and Totoh 40 , 20 st Totals ' 30 22 14 a2 it caught the net and W a S 4, F[::11e th f~1:\0~~ 55 f~·=ca~5 p 0 p~ 0 cH~76~~ swung up through the basket I ~;ili~t ('.'

Pion ers Roe Cal Poly Five INdcl te The jan D••to Union .. AN DI !AS, Jan, 3--Uni• vcrsity of San Diego hit only 25 per rent of it shots to- night, :1-et raced to its eigh_th lctory tn ninr starts t h I s ~ea on, de!eatmg Cal P o I Y, •-4.,, He tor Sanchez.' 17 points paced the Pioneer~ who. con- nected on just of their 92 attempts from the field Bob Grl!!In, wlth 12 pol1:ts, was high for Cal Poly, which made good only 15 of its 59 field goal efforts, a percen- tage of .254 ·ub t1tuUng liberally, U D pulled away in the secon~ half after leading, 2:i.1s. at 1nter- m 10n . The Pioneers make t h e 1 r next start 'rue day night in the J'earny High gym, ente. talnlng Camp Pendleton USO (16) Col Poly (4S) P T Gl"PT GF 3 G 5 , Arios,f O 3 2 J 7 J I 17 Griffm,f " " 2 12 0 " 6 Hogon.t l " 2 10 t J 1i ~oberts,• i YI Cir: ff gh; ~ii~ f B8 f if~ f Pdrw kt g 1 0 1 2 T'::,r;;,~;k.• 2l1: 2, s: Totats 14 1C U 4S Halftime Score-USO 23 Col Pof'r 18. Fret t rows m ssed: USD-MRurrov,/, ~~he{. :21:c o~v~..,~~• Hao~ t Ru,t3 SI g. _

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U emote ed Aga inst Pendlet The Unh·ersity of San Diego, riding an eight-game win steak, will attempt to avenge its only loss thls season Tuesday ni ht at the Kearny High gym when it faces Camp Pendleton's basketball squad. The Pioneers dropped their•------------- opener to th Oceanside Leath- leaders are Arvel Lee a n d ernecks, 82- 1. Andy Wyatt. Thls will be the first local The Pioneers will be mlnus appearance for USD since it head coach Bob Mccutcheon, swamped Laverne College, l O we v e r. Mccutcheon is 100-80, here last Dec. 13. 1 The local club will paced scheduled to leave by plane b Ken Leslie and U ct or today :for the annual National s~nchez, ho are unning Collegiate Athletic Association neck-and-neck In the · d d·lcoache meeting !n Phila- uai scoring race with 17 a d I delp c tcheon hopes to 1 -16 point-per-game averagdes.b finaliz the Pioneers 10-game The l\larines, he,,de Y b _., · I M!C Icy have won 10 J9"'..i8 foot al s h,«uled dur ng i~f1~~ ia~es th~s far. :'.\kC!os- the_ four-d!'-Y CAA meeting, 'lk f rmer Little All-Ameri- which begms tomorrow. 'fr~ ~roc:n Rockhurst, Mo., Col. Pavl Platz will ban~le the 'lege has averaged 13 points baske all squad until Mc- 'per 'game. Other high point Cutcheon returns.

The University of San Di-,strlng forward, the top re• ego, ranked 15th among the bounder on the club w.th 102 nation's small schools in the while Dick Iurray and Lee latest 'ational Collegiate Ath- Hammond run 2-3 with and etic Association scoring sta- 92 respectively, tlstics, wlll go after its ninth The Pioneers ha e an over. straight v I c t or y tomorrow all team shooting averag of night in the Kearny High 38.6 and 74.7 poirts p e r gym. game. The oppos1tior. has av. The Pioneers, however, will eraged 60.2 per game. be meeting Camp Penrllrto:1, L••"• G :ro ri'.1l,/fs/1'1i ',\ hich defeared them, 82-61, Ill Sanchez 9 52 29-1• 35 8 13 I the season opener. ; 5t.H :g :i ,J Heading the USO quintet is ~~;g; ; ~! 3tl 8 H Ken Le s I I e, a 32-year-old Revoolds , 1621-2102 " " d h h ged 1 - 1 Reed f •.•. .. .• 9 10 H 26 27 3.0 guar , w o as avera ': p ,..,.,k ...... 9 12 9-< 12 28' J.1 points in nine gar.-.es. Leslie i:.~t" ,';'.;:::: I { fa n l:t has connected on 50.4 per J.t:r~r,~•:,k ::::· 2 1 H ! 1 i u cent of his hots from t h e Totals . .• . 921,232. 2-s2• 672 10 !Joor for 154 points. wil~ \:b~~l62 .._.3 542 60.l

• •ext in scoring is former St. Augustine star H e c t o r anchez with a 13.1 a,·erage. ~a chez, who .stands 5-9 has 41 er cent shooting av-

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January 10,1953 BASKETBALL SCORES

Pioneers Wall arstow, 83-58, For 10th In Row SPlcial to Th1 San 0iH0 Union BARSTOW, Jan. 10 - The

January 14, 1958 USD CANCELS CAGE GAME The Uni\ erslty of San Die' •o yesterda) cancelled it~ haskelbalJ game wilh Cal Baptist College of Riv. en,ide scheduled tomorrow for S1 Augustine High gym. Instead, the Pioneers wili travel to Pomona to play C,ii Poly of San Dimas. The Cal oly game orii;inally \\ as ct fo1 tonigh1. Th" Pioneers defeated the Baptist t<>am earlier this year, 81-J:l. using their r<'sen·cs most of the way. The Baptist coach said he felt his tram \\'.a,; ou(. <'lassecl.

Paul Reynolds lead the Pl• D(ego oneers' attac-k with 15 points,

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with Dick :'11:urray netting 11, Hector Sanchez 13. and Ken Leslie and Walt Cooper 12 each Dick Griggas of Bars1ow was the game·s high point man with 21. USO Call lar,low (SI) GFPT ,J.FPT Murrav,f -' 6 -' 14 Lopez,# o O o o Sollchez,r 5 3 J J Llndguist,r S -' J 14 Revnolds,f 6 3 3 ls Bra11t.r l O 4 6 Hommond,c 2 O , , Grieoa1,f 9 3 2 21 E~:r~11 t j g l~in~;-~c g A 13 Maine~., 2 o 1 "Grayrg 2 o l , l Thmczk.,f 2 3 1 7 Mortmez,g O 2 2 J Turpin,c I o o 2 Perrv,g o l fl McCoy,g I O O 2 Slick:,9 O O o Tolalt ll 17 20 SJ Totals 231217 5t Halffim1 icor1: USO 42, Barstow lf~

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