News Scrapbook 1956-1959

December 1, 1956

USD Faces Oceanside University of San Diego has an excellent ~hance to c~t Its losing string at six games tomorrow mght when 1t travels to Oceanside-Carlsbad College.

USO Resumes Cage Action University of San Diego cag- 1 ers will go back into action this week with two games on the road. Friday night they play Riverside's California Baptist and the following evening the Pioneers tangle with Pasadena Nazarene. The Pioneers will be trying for their sixth and seventh atraight victories in these tilts. Ken Leslie is high scorer for the Pioneers with 163 poin , an average of 12.5 per game. Chuck Thomeczk comes next with 141 digit and a lD.8 aver- age.

USD Play

Pioneers Dro <:age Opener To Marines OCEANSIDE-The University of Sal) Diego cagers bumped into a sharp-shooting Camp Pendle- ton club In their basketball sea- son opener here Tuesday night In Oceanside. Community Center and came out on the short end of a 76-46 score. charge from the start, with the Marines connecting on 36 per cent of their shot~ In the first half complll'cd with the Pioneers' 16 per cent. The Marines led at halftime, 33 to 12. USD V F P T' Pendleton G F P T Cromwell I 0 0 0 0 Jolm•on I 3 1 3 7 Reynolds f 5 2 2 12 Ducote I 5 11 11 Hammond t 4 l 3 9 B. Wtlm's f 0 0 1 0 H'rck:-ion e o 2 O 21 Elltott ! O O O O ~nw::k e g gg i 0 ~l~.! I i g n B&nchez g l O t 2 1 laha e 4 ff o 8 R<>lh R 1 0 1 2; Bte,r~r- o t O O 8 Thmczk r 2 5 2 o Wyatt e o 11 0 o Lnllelt It 3 0 3 6' J. Wll'ms I 4 2 I 10 l Leeg 2105 Mulc•hl' I .0 I 0 People a: 3 D15 Total • 18 JO 12 46 Tot&ls US 11 76 H&lCtlmt Pendleton 33, USO 12. Camp Pendleton was !

night Against NTC

The Pioneers, who have showed vast Improvement in their last two games, will be meeting the team against which they scored their only victory this season. That was 77-64 in the second game of the season. Coach Fon Johnson hop_es this might be the game that will provide the necessary spark to put the Pioneers on the win side of the ledger. "We've faced some pretty t o u g h competition," Johnson said, "and we've looked good in spots. Once we begin to jell, I think it will be a different story." Against WhittiPr. probably the Pioneers' toughest !oe so far, USD closed within one _point midway in the second half and appeared ready to pull ahead but couldn't main- tain the Poets' shooting per- centage from that point. "We've been close in several of our ball games within the last eight to 10 minutes but something seems to happen and we fall apart," Johnson re- marked. The Pioneers will play Im- perial Valley College Satur- day in St. Augustine High's gym and then leave on a three- day junket next week. They'll play at Imperial Valley Dec. 20, at Grand Canyon, Ariz., College, Dec. 21 and at Luke Air Force Base, Ariz., Dec. 22. G FG Leslie. 1 ..•..... a 36 Thomeczk. t .... 8 27 Re)'nolds. t ..... a 22. Hendrlek&on, c .8 20 Hammond, f •... a n . Roth. • ........7, IL Rudzlnsk.1, g • • . • 4 4 •i~tritc'k.er ··:·,•: ..J : i ~~~:.~·u,'t ·::::j l Total •• • . • . . 1:-5

By JOHNNY McDO. ALD The Unh,ersity o! San Diego basketball team will attempt to even Its record at 2-2 to- night when It plays N a v a 1 Training Center In Gym 1 at NTC. Tipoff ls scheduled for 8p.m. Pioneer C\lach Fon Johnson said he'll start Lee Hammond and Paul Reynolds at torwards, Carl Hendrickson at center, Ken Leslie at one guard and either Brian Roth or Charles Thomeczek at the other guard Jot. "The team !las improved since its opener against Pendle- ton," Johnson commented, "but this figure · to be one of our roughest w eks." Aiter the Bluejacket game, the Pioneer will travel to Loy- ola University J.'"riday night and Chapman College Saturday. Leslie, a former Amateur Athletic Union All-America and NTC player, is the lead- ing scorer with a 13.7 average while Hammond is close be hind with a 12.3 average for three games. NTC, however, will have an experiPnce edge in its starting quintet with three of the play- ers former captains of their colleges. Bob Blake, player-coach at forward, wa~ a captain at the University of California, while guards Bob Delpit and D i C k J orgcnsen had the same honor at Tulane and Wisconsm, re-

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January 6, 1957

Pasadena Rips Pioneers, 80-42; 'Bond Hits 30 Speela.l te 1·he Sa.n Dlero Union PASADENA, Jan, 5 Jim Bond, a 6-5 forward with a wide assortment of shots, scored 30 points tonight as Pasadena :Kazarene College raced to an easy 80-42 basket- ball victory over the Univer- sity of San Diego. The lopsided loss ended the Pioneers win streak at six games and gave them an ov-er- all record of 7-8. It was Pasa- dena's sixth victory in eight games. Pasadena got off to a fast start and held al least a 15 point lead until the final eight • minutes. Then, USD complete- ly fell apart and the Nazarene, players stretched the margiq to the final 38-point spread. With the exception of a 1-0 lead, USD failed to even keep up. Center Eric Pyle aided Bond in scoring with 16 points while the Pasadenans used 13 players. Forward Chuck 'J:homeczk paced the losers with 12 points. USU Cl'i) G F p T Pasa.dena (8~ F p T Hmmnd.! 2 o 3 4Olnn.! 3 0 2 6 ~~~1d;~l g R i ~g~~1· 1 1l g 3~ ~~~t~·J.e i l 15 ~f.tpire.~ 8 g 8 g ~~~h~·i., gg 2 f:ci~Jt~ r 8 A 1 1 Kttrck.ir O l 4 1Wallace,g 3 0 1 l:t Leshe.c 4 1 0 DBrwn.a: 0 0 3 0 Rdtnskl.l 2 2 2 6 Prtr,i 2 l O 5 ~ 1ivcn~~.ir 6 ½ O i Oloe.s:- 1 o o 2 Total Hi 10 18 4°? 'I"otals 3~! 16 1:l flO I;,1:~~tunu;roi-0,re htf,~~~4en¾}Ji·-°c~~J;•e1t 2. Thomeczk 5. Kettrirk 2. Ll'~lie 2 Rudzinski. Pasa.dena.--Hubband, Bond 6. D. P~·lc. Wa.lla.ce 2,,,_ 'OSl:,;;•c;,vc:.:o:..;v.:. • ·=-----~

-San. Otego Union staff Photo Guard Ken Leslie, leading scorer for the Univer- l'lity of San Diego basketball team, will be in thl' starting lineup tonight when the Pioneers meet Long Beach State in Mii:;sion Bay High gym at 8 .'clock. Leslie has scored 174 points, an average of 11.6. Pioneers En rtain Long Beach Toni t By JOHNNY McDONALD Coach Fon Johnson's University of San Diego ha~ketball team will attempt to reverse an earlier setback tonight when It entertains Long Beach State in Mission B:i.y High gym. Tip- off is set for 8 o'clock. I The Long Beach quintet, guards. Paul Reynolds w ! 11 member of the California Col- spell Thoemeclk and Duane legiate Athletic Association, ls 1 Rudzinski will go In for Ket- small but bas plenty of speed ..triek as able alternates. Long Beach_ 1Vorked. a f!st USD's big job will be to stop break eUectively agamst San Baron, who is considered the Diego on Dec. 4 to win, 74-65. best shot on the team and is The 49ers wlll _be paced by difficult to guard. center-forward William ~aron, Leslie is still pacing the who can~ed 31 pomts m th e Pioneers in total points with last meetmg _between the_ two 174 and game average with 11.6 club~: Roundl!lg out the sta rt- a contest.. tfammond, third- ing lmeup will be Do;111 Loe highest sc er. is the top re- (6-0) and Harvey Hollis . rn-ll bounder With 172 in 15 games at forwards and Ca:l ". 11 ~en while Reynolds is next with (5-10) and John l\11halJev1ch 158 (5-10%) !it gua\ds. . The San Diegans lead the op- The Pioneers record has im- position in points average with proved considerably srnce their 63 .8 to 60,3 and have a 34.5 la t ho~ne game D;c· ~5. Thanks percentage on field goals and to a SIX-game wmnmg streak 60 9 on free throws. Te a m prior to a lopsided loss (80-42) sc~ring: · to Pasadena Nazarene C o J. 0 Fs ua11e. s ...• ,.. H 81-68 ~8-38 17• 11.e ' " TuQll ec:tk. f ••• • }t'5 15il-58 1»•4'1 j63 10.9 and eight losses. Hammond f • .. 6 168-~o 54-28 28 a.5 Johnson is expected to open n:nd~/g:,on, • ·::: u ll~~ it-u m u with Lee Hammond and Chuck Hudzin k!, • .. "· I½ ,g:~~ ~tli fl fj Thomeczk at forwards Carl ~~l~ii& g ·::::::.1 4 g6-n n·A 6 g~ ~-: ' d K Turcm. c ....... 13 41~ · -· Hendrickson at center an en crom.,ell. r ..... e 21-s 10-~ 13 H Leslie and Ken Kettrick at saf~Pa°1~· • . .'.' · ·1s 1.b:fs~ 4of24, 9,7 SJ:s