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MORNING PRESS JAN 5 1984

Wednesday, January 4, 1984

THE TRIBUNE

1984

JAN 5

Aztecs 'host' Toreros in cross-town matchup SA.' DIE(,() - Smok<''v Cainc•s will try to rnerease his winning streak against the University of San Diego tonight at the Sports ArN1a, Caine , the filth year San Dit•go Stal<• basket hall <.·oach, has played and bealt>n the 'l orerns in his first four s<·:Lsons, 67-.'58, 60-52, 41-36 and 47-45. Tonight's cont« t, \~hieh begin at 7:35, is the final Jlfl•~ea ,,n match for the Aztecs, whose recor

NCYl'ES - Three's a charm from the unknown, but not untalented friends in the West Coast Athletic Conference. Three players from the WCAC were named MVPs !n three holiday tournaments - Mike Whitmars~ (USO~ m the Wolf Pack Classic where the Toreros lost m the title game. John Stockton (Gonzaga point guard) in the Far West Classic where they finished third, and Nick Vanos , (Santa Clara's 7-foot center) in the Cable Car Classic which the Broncs won . SAN DIEGO UNION JAN 'I 1984 • MEN'S COLLEGE BASKE:l'BALL - USD hosts Western Illinois at the USD Sports Center, 7:30 p.m. The Point Loma Nazarene College Classic concludes at Point Lorna's Golden Gym. Seventh place game, 2:30 p.m.; consolation championship, 4:30; third place, 6:30; championship, 8:30. The UCSD Tournament winds up at UCSO's Main Gym. Third place game, 5 p.m~ championship, 9. _____________,

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those gam That bas to happen here. Hopefully, young people will see this game, too, and th y will remember 1t and 1t will I m " But II 1l' San Diego's collegiate b ketball fans - and they are not Je- g111i~ - hardly have tripped over them• selves buying tickets to watch th Az- tecs and Toreros play, even when th y've h ed m of America' big bots. ot ven the DePauls, lndiaoas and Georg towns that have blessed the Aztecs' C rillo Classic have filled the bulldm . Stmply, ere ls very little - if any_ - ba ketball tradition in this town. Adding to 1t all the fact that schools such as tat and D go elsewhere to get most of t ir tal nt. • That's a problem," said Michael Brooks, e Clipper f?rward. Brooks gr w p P adelpb1a and attended La Ile, ich bas furious crosstown r1valrt mg In Philly with the four oth r Big 1v bools - Villanova, St Joe s, T m e nd Penn. "There' no ay thlS can be compared to that " oo said y terday prior to the Cl;ppers' practice at USO. "It's so Intense back there, it's unbelievable. "When I wa going to LaSalle, most of the playe at all the schools in the city were from Philly. They knew each otb r. T e was a friendly rivalry be- for you ven got on the court. Here, you ve ys spread out from all over. How many people here (at USD) do nothing t think, 'I want to beat San Die o Stater re real rivalries back there. ''Those o out. H re, I don't think these guys mix 1t up ge r off the court " Jimmy Lynam. the Clippers' bead coach, pl ed at St Joe's and coached there. He knows all about crosstown rivalries "I may sound provincial, but what goes on m Philadelphia goes on nowhere els in th country," Lynam said. "The Big Five . . . four of the teams play home games on Penn's home court. That's how badly they want to play each other. "A lot of the players are from the city, and most of those who aren't are from th Northeast Everyone gets to know ea other It's crazy. Some peo- ple rrugh think V1llanova's one of the better teJIDS m the East. They've al- ready los to LaSalle and Temple. Any- thin can happen in those games.'' Por that matter anything can happen in the State-USD matcbup. The Aztecs, usually blessed with greater talent, have wo four in a row, but USO always gives them fits Maybe the Toreros take It as 11 so Intense. After a game, guys would get together and som of

14 - Friday, January 6, 1984 SPORTS DIGEST Basketball S~SU BEATS UCSD:

Senior forv.ard Michael Cage ~cored 26 points and grabbed 18 rebounds last night to lead San Diego State to a 61-47 non-conference college basketball victory over the University of San Diego. ~ophomore guard Bobby Owens added JO pomts for•the Aztecs, who won their fifth game in a row over their crosstown rivals. San Diego Stale now has a 9-3 record. Forward Mike Whitmarsh led the losing Toreros, who fell to 7-6, with 16 points and five rc~ounds. Reserve guard John Prunty added IO pomts for San Diego. . The Azt~ led all the wa}, taking 10-2 lead 111 the openmg minutes at the San Diego Sport Arena; It was 32-20 at halftime and the Torern w~ren t closer than lJ points in the final 20 mmutes. . S~n Diego State connectl'

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By United Press International Playing against crosstown rival University of San Diego has never been easy for San Diego State. The games have West always been close - until Thursday Basketball ni~ht. Forward ______. Michael Cage hit 9-of-11 field goal attempts and had 26 points and 18 rebounds to lead the Aztecs to an easy 61-47 non-conference victory over USD. Cage, a 6-foot-9 senior, scored 12

points in the first half and grabbed 10 rebounds in guiding the Aztecs to a 32-20 lead. The Aztecs, 9-3, increased the lead to 38-23 early in the second half, holding the Toreros scoreless from the field for nearly five minutes. The closest the Toreros, 7-6, came the rest of the way was within 11 points. San Diego shot only 29 percent from the field. The Toreros, whose total was 30 points below its season average, were led by Mike Whit- marsh's 18 points while John Prunty added 10.

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LOS ANGELES Tll.,,IES JAN 7 1984 S an Diego Portscene Crosstown Rivalry May Cure Apathy The crosstown rivalry between San Diego State and the University of San Diego was to be renewed Thursday night, so I visited the Sports Arena to absorb the ambi- ance of the frantic multitudes. I've got to admit that when I pulled into the parking lot I thought I had gotten the date wrong. Being a spectator rather than a reporter, I arrived a few minutes before the tip-off. And parked in the second row. The arena was no more congested than the parking lot. The crowd was 3,866. Maybe San Diego State's Smokey Gaines was correct when he said that it really isn't much of a rivalry, and won't be until the matchup produces a crowd of 10,000. There are times when Gaines is baffling. If attendance is such a concern why not promote the credi- bility of the crosstown rivalry rath- er than announce that It really doesn't exist? It bothers Gaines to have to play USO. Jim Brovelli's Toreros ha.ve always been the little kids on the block, troublesome and ambitious. It's been said that San Diego State has e_verything to lose and nothing to gam. Wrong. A decent intra-city rivalry could eventually become a nice gate attraction, one less night a year when university business managers don't have to look up into the stands and grimace. As it turned out Thursday night, Pleaae aee SPORTSCENE, Page 16 By DA VE DISTEL, Times Staff Writer

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SUS orer s 1981 Christian High graudate AnthonyReuss says tonight Inay be USD's turn to Cage San Diego State ' By Mike Mathison / of The Delly Cellfornlan ------- That'~ no~ like him. In his senior year at Christian, Reuss fired m 110 of 163 (71 percent). Llke any athlete, all Anthony Reuss wanteq was a shot. He wanted his shot to prove he could play Division I basketball for the University of San Diego. This season head coach Jim Brovelli gave Reuss that shot. The f>.foot.7, 205-pound junior hasn't been disappointing. Reuss has been laking those shots and hitting them at a 64 percent rate. '. 'The free ~ows got a little better tonight," Reuss said alter going nine of 12 against Idaho. "I've worked a lot o~ them in practicce. It's coming around a little now. I Just don't know what it is. This year I've gone back to _the way I was shooting them in high school. They tried to change my ways my first two years here."

"This could be the year to beat them. We match up the best now than we ever have. We did not have the personnel in the past that we do

Reuss' first two years at USO weren't ones he will put in the memory bank. He played in 10 games as a freshman, totaling 45 minutes of court time. Last season he appeared in 26 contests, starting four of them. He averaged 4.5 points and 3.7 rebounds. "I was not happy last year," he said. "It (sitting the bench) was not what I expected or was used to. I just kept at it. "All along I knew I could play. I never thought I had the full opportunity. This is the first time in my college career that I've been healthy. I've had Achilles and knee problems. I feel really good now. The two biggies for me is that I'm getting a chance to play and I'm healthy. '.'I'm looked upon to rebound, score in the nine-to-11 po~t range and get some assists every once in a while. Basically, I do a little bit of everything. I know the system a little better than most of the guys who are younger than I am." :-Uthough Reuss has achieved one of his goals in being a starter, he knows there is still work to be done. "I need to quit being inconsistent," he said. "I feel the same all the time before a game. I don't have a good explanation for it. I would like to play like that (against Idaho) all the time.

His efficiency from the floor is one of the reasons the Toreros are 7-5. Tonight at 7;30 in the Sports Arena USO faces its toughest challenge yet. The Toreros will hook up with San Diego State in the annual clash of crosstown rivals. "This could be the year to beat them," Reuss said. "We match up the best now than we ever have. We did not have the personnel In the past that we do now and we were always close." The Aztecs have won the last four meetings and hold a 14-4 seties edge. Last year's contest was 47-45. USO last won 67-63 m 1976-77. Reuss came out of Christian High in 1981 highly touted. He was named The Daily Californian's Grossmont League Player of the Year for the 1980-81 season - the only year Christian was a part of the league He dominated the league in every aspect, scoring at a 24.6 clip and grabbing at least 10 rebounds in all but one contest When 1t came down to choosing a college, the choices were USD and San Diego State. "I wanted to stay in San Diego," he said. Reuss is averaging 9.8 points and 5.6 rebounds through 12 games this season. He had the best outing of his career Monday night in a 92-64 win over the

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University of Idaho, scoring 17 points and pulling in 11 boards. Toreros head coach Jim Brovelli will need an encore from Reuss tonight. "Anthony is really corning into his own," said Bro~elli, ~ho is his 10th year at USD. "He is really playmg with confidence. We've been getting a better performance from him each game." Reuss has started every game and has netted 47 of his 73 floor shots. That percentage is the best on the team for anyone who has taken over 15 shots. His problem has come at the free throw line where he has made just 24 of 4-0 (60 percent).

Jimmy Ooranta/for The Calif Anthony Reuss

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