News Scrapbook 1956-1959

- February 8, 195

UDWins 82-68, Over Arizona Foe By JOHNNY McDONALD University of San Diego was troubled again with a poor shooting percentage in the first half but gained scoring mo- mentum after Intermission to gain an 82-68 basketball victory over •Grand Canyon College of Phoenix last night in St. Augus- tine High gym. This was the Pioneers' 12th victory against 11 losses. Four players paced the San Diego attack - Ken Leslie with 20 points, Lee Hammond 19, Paul Reynolds 18 and Chuck Thom• eczk 14. Sparking the Phoenix club was T, C. Dean who was high scorer for the night with 23 points. Doug B a k e r con- tributed 16 for the losers. POOR PERCE 'TAGE USD hit only 29 per cent of its shots in tlie first hatl and had 35 per cent in the sec0nd ha!!. The big difference was the Pioneers' ability to dear the boards. l.'S collected 83 rebo ds with Reynolds and Hammond leading the way with 23 and 22 respectively. ,Al though tl1e Pioneers took early 4-2 and 6-4 leads, the Antelopes pulle ahead after three minutes and built their advantage of sc · n points 26-19, with,; eight min tes left in the fir t If. G r a n d Canyon o {'Onn t for U1e next inutes. SD canned 12 point., before Bob Gray of the invaders canned a free throw. The Antelopes closed to within one t?olnt, 31-30, but fell back fr to 34- al intermission. I Leslie, Thomeczk and Reyn- olds canned shots early in the second half and USD had a 43-32 advantage, The Pio- neers managed to maintain that advantage until the 10 minute mark when Grand Canyon whittled it to 6:l-38. Gra.nd Can)on f(HI) t:SO (8·!) Baker.! Ora)',! Gl"P·r Gl PT 1 g 1 i ~~~g1~1.1 : i il!

Pioneer Cagers P ay Arizonans Here Tonight breaker to Los Angeles State individual scoring lead with the in overti,J'ne Tuesday night, will former leading, 249 points to attempt to notch its 12th bas- 242. its best ftght at St. Augustine H I g h games against the D1ablos last gym when It meets G r a n d week, hitting 44.6 per cent of canyon College of Phoenix. its shots overall and 54.8 in ~e The Pioneers, hoping to have first half. In the past, the P10- hot-shootlng night similar to neers have usually started cold fhat against the Diablos, will with around a 23 percentage be paced by theh· 1-2 scoring and had to make up a lot o! punch, forward Chuck Thom- lost ground in the second hatl. eczk and guard Ken Leslie. The Pioneers topped the Other USD starters will be Phoenix quintet, 69-59, I as t forward Lee Hammond, center December but had to c~me Carl Hendrickson and g u a r d from behind to turn the trick. Ken Kettrick. ·USD trailed at halltime, 31-26. ketball victory o! the season to- USD played one o_f The Univer ·lty of San Diego, Leslie and Thomeczk have fresh trom losing a heart- been waging a battle for the

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SOUTHWEST TOURN • Y Af LOI Vegas MCRD 88, Broder's Chinook • 57. lead COiiete COLLEGE USO 93, Grand Canyon 8.-4. J'oerr~g~ 141.' Muhlenburg 89, Gettysburg 62. Holy Cross 79, NYU 74. SteubenvHle 92, Wheelfn1 53. Bucknell 55, Lehigh 51. West Virginia 87, St. John's lrnl 78. N"atlonal Aorlcultural 87, Rutaers (South JeE;~kln~ 41 io9, North Ga. Tchrs. 57. East Carolina 68, Atlantic Christion 51. Case Tech 74, Fenn 63. Carson-Newman 103, Millison (Tenn) 75, Washlnoton Collene 68, Gollaudef -47. ~:~,\~nn 1't'~tr~;c:9l p~~n~/lole 78. !7~ 1 i~~er'f~~J,Ch{2~ b°~fcfv'"~v~o;J1~ :t Hastings 79, Doane 65. Montclolr 65, Rider 58. Newark Engineering 7~, Panter 6'. t:~~er;~, ~r1Trav~l~o.Hlram 70. Bates 63, Tufts 77. Connecticut 107, Vermont ts. Worce~1er sr. Tchrs, 90, Keene (NH) Tchrs. 66. New Bedford Tech 76, Lowell Tech 75, Eastern New Mexico 70, Arltona st, CFJ~fg{f~ 6 JOrthern 77. Texas Wesleyan 93, Te>eas Lutheran 1-4. Arkansas State 91, Union (Tenn) 1,. Massachusetts 65, Rhode Island 60. Corne;le Tech 71, Wavnesburg ~- Mt. St. Marv's 88, Western MaR;land 56. pr~~i~'~tMacon 78, NtWPOrt IWS Al>- Wllllom and Marv 15, Hampden-Sydney 59. Southern llllnots 7", Eastern llltnola 64. ~~l~~~~J"lit~K//. k~s:inci1 ~c~r_ Stat • 70, Wabash 88, Franklin 85 (Overtime}. ,~~~fs 0 r~'~tu1!· il'b'1~~~f~l 9 • Wllllmantlc (Conn) ''(.., Platlsburir. dt, (Osv°elNrmet!· Vo.) 95, Ht Va. • 9-4. llllnols olle;e 1~/a1."rlhov 10, Akron 124, Kontos City 95. Pioneers lop Grand Canyon Quintet, 93-84 Paul Reynolds and Ken Leslie set tile pace as the Uni- versity of San Diego Pioneers rallied for a 93-84 overtime victory over Grand Canyon in Hoover High gym last night. Reynolds established what may be a school record when he collected 34 rebounds and s c o re d 20 points. Leslie paced the Pioneers' scoring with 23. Down 10 points with· five minutes to play, USD came roaring back pn the strength of Hector Sanchez's four quick buckets to move into a brief lead but a Grand Canyon ba ket with 10 seconds re- maining sent the game into the extra session. Leslie hit six points and Reynolds five in the overtime with the latter completely covering both boards to per- sonally halt the Grand Can- yon offense. Rick Dienes hit 30 points and Bob Baker 26 to lead the visitors. It was USD' & 14th victory against eight defeats. The USD freshman defeat- ed the USS .Bayfield, 73-61, in a preliminary contest. Grand Canyon (84) uso OJ) GFPT Gl'l'T fgr~~s~., 1 ~ 31 ij AA~r~:tl : :.,, T, Oeon,c 3 6 5 12 Revrolds,c 6 8 4 20 J. Dean.a 2 O2 -4 Leslle,g 8 7 2 23 Dienes~; 13 -4 5 30 Sanchez,g 5 1 2 11 rtock,o 1 O 1 2 Turpin,f o l 1 1 MottM>n,c D O3 OR:eed,f 1 OO 2 Shfpp,c O 0 1 o Hamond,c 1 o l 2 i~~r~~kY,; % 1 Totahi 34 l6 li 14 Totals 33 27 21 '3 Halflime Score: USO 36, Grand Convonl 31; c:n-:iou~aJb~n game score: USO 80, Grand (Overtime). ~~:~Is t°cf~fv0 ,Jt: (Brook•

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The Umver 1ty of San Diego cagers harbor dual purposes as they host the ba ketbil.lJ forces or Grand Canyon College in the ~n,wer_ High ~chool gym tonight at 8. 1 he Pione rs, who will be out to repeat an 1earJy season Win over the .Arizonans, also will attempt to keep their two-year • • • i-ecord againat the visitors un-

blemished. In the pre-Christmas contest In Phoenix, USD romped to an 83-69 triumph over Grand Canyon. The teams also met twice last seMon, with the local aggregation claiming both vic- tories by aubst~tial margins. USD's record now stands at 13 wins, 7 losses. The latest defeat was tagg-ed on last Fri- day nig-ht by La Verne Col- leg-e. The Leopards reversed an earher setback to USO and nipped the .Alcala Park quintet 63-61. For the second time in as / many years, La Verne'• Bob Pucci scored the points which sank the Pioneers. Early in the 56•'57 camPl!,.lgn the diminutive guard dropped In a field. goal with only seven ~econds re- maining a.~ La Verne squeezed by USO, 61-60. L11.st Friday Pucci scored on a tree throw and a field goal with 15 seconds remaining to almost duplicate his feat ot a year ago. He totaled 15 po nts tor the night to lead his team Ken Leslle topped the coring parade with 19 point~. He also came close to knotting the count m the ·anmg second ot the nip-and-tuck contest. With less than a minute to go he scored on a drive-in which moved USD to within a point of the Leopards. Seconds later he snatched the baJI from a La Verne player, but as he moved toward the Pioneer bas- ket he was tripped by one of his teammates. L he lost control o! the ball and the Pioneers lost their chSJtce to win. Tonight's varsity contest wlll be preced d by a tussle between the USO J'ayvees and the USS Hanson. The preliminary starts at 6:30.

PIONEER PATTER By GREG l'EARSO:-J U D haa only one road rame remaining on 1tA hoop 1chedult and the Pioneers "111 be ·tra thankful when It's over. After 111.st Friday night's contest at La Verne, they ar~ convinced that home la the only place to be Bob JllcCutcheon I athletes were scheduled to meet La V rne 11.t 8 p.m. At 6:45 the tra-nlln party, numbering 11 was atr nd d tn TemecuJR with only one auto The car In which the coach nd seven of hta player• wer• riding ha,:I broken down. Mccutcheon sent his top even ballplayers ahead In the ood , r. Then aftei a few phone calls, h~ m na ed to Jet one ot the local residents lo come to his aid The good a 11. m a r I tan'' 1h01 ·ed up In a lMS two-door mod I vehicle It would have been ad•quate except the dri,·er h"-d 1)11 ife nd two chlldren with him. He insist- ed on taking th m along. JllcCutcheon hesitated at !int, then chmbed Into the bn k sea wt th f1 vc of his ('harges. The seventh member of the atr nded part waa put In front w1th the dnver, the wife, and the two ch Id n At 8.30 the h"a.v ly•laden uto chugged into L Verne. Local off1cl la had held up the am an that tcCutcheon could ret his team atarted s t was, the Plonerrs drop- ped heartbre11k1ng 63-61 de• cl1Ion • • trs Dorothy fcCu tcheon and her two daughters ar- nved during the game, as did aa81st.ant coach Frank Mur- phy 1cCutcheon had called th m from Temecula. and they drov up to take the players back home. • • D iring th rame the Pio- neers had 26 fouls called on them. La Verne was penal- lz d 11 times. • • •

TODAY IN SPORTS USKETBALL Unlversllv ot Son Dino VJ. ~rand Con- y~ College, I Pf~i'Atf."er H 'ilh School. Fronton Palace, T11uana, Mexico, first tame, 7:30 p.m

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CAGE SCORES Far West MCRf1 81, Son-0,eoo U. 61 Howo,J 116, os..An;eles Sta~ 1'07 '; ~sod!~a :J:erstde UC so. Nevada 69, hlco State 59. SF State 6 , Col Aggies 57. lha~ben J9~, 6 8Ccl~in'1~rta5 JV 52 Fre!n(? State 70, Santo Barbara 6S Son Diego JC 90, E. Los Angeles ,53 J6'JsT 0 i-4,AF~f1~r 5to~C6~~· . ~tnt~a~ 0 :n{gc,,ocft!'U1R%erside '12 ~fek:J~r!el:!,,a;:de~~,~~r 52. San Berna(dino 7-4, Chaffey 68 l~~;~a.~°o~'ti 0 11~• cfa 1 1(~°n't5~ 59 • Son Francisco CC 58, Mode•to 50 Sierra 60, American River 5' · Son Mateo 58, Stockton SJ · V~lleio 68, Hartnell 54. • D1able Valfey 64, Menlo 55 Santo Roso 59, Sacrament0 JC 50. East Dartmoutn 75, Cornell 73. Mit~,,~~a~l, iH~ly ot~~~s;;rn 5'. Yale 81, Penn 73. Pratt 65, Worcester Poly A9 C[;~)N~~'w~:Jicx;, 6-4. Oswego St. 71., Albany St 62 Rider ~7, Wilkes Collc1e- 6J.. a~~~~~n~o.st;:oss~~nrg~r Colle9,. 45. Prine. ton 61, Brown ,a. Moine 7A1 Mos husl!'tls 69 Horvord 80, Col mbla 75 Bates 8-C, Tutt 7' South Ausfin Peay 7 . Belmol"l1 .t.

Pioneers Host Grand Canyon The University of San Diego basketball team will go after its 14th victory tonight when it meets Grand Canyon Co!- 'legp ot Phoenix at Hoo,·er High. T poff is scheduled for 8 o'clock. Coach h MrCutrheon has ~witched two pla ·er• in his .,tarting- l neup, mo\'ing He<'- tor Sanrh.-z from forward to guatd anq Bob Maines from i::uard to forward. OtJier start- ers v; ill hp Paul R ynold.• at ~enter, Dtc-k .1ur y at for- ward and en Les! at guard. Leslie is <'UlTC'n ly leading the team scoring 1th an av- erage of l'l 2 point~ a game while San z is next with 13.4 Thi will meeting h school,. l Grand Canyon Southwest lour ber. The llSD jarvee squad will meet thP !';S Bayfield in a 6·30 preltmrnan·.