News Scrapbook 1982-1984

LOS ANGELES TIMES JAN 2 9 1984 USD Becomes Challenger After Beating Santa Clara By TIM GILLMAN, Times Staff Writer

SAN DIEGO UNION

JAN 2 9 1984

length of the court for a layup, putting USD up, 37-36. After that, both teams committed turnovers but neither could score. Santa Clara had leads of 5-0, 15-10 and 25-18, but they were built upon· free throws and its charity opportunities dried up late in the first half. USO was helped by the crowd, the first sellout the school has had since the Peppercline game a year ago. "We know we can beat anybody," Reuss said. "Now we just have to prove it on the road.'' The Toreros play their next three league games on the road, beginning with play at Loyola-Marymount Fri- day. ,

just so pleased that he played." Thompson had only two points, but had five rebounds, three blocked shots and two assists. It was his job to counter Santa Clara 7-1 center Nick Vanos, who was the high scorer with 19 points. All-West Coast Athletic Conference forward Mike Whitmarsh had 16 points for the Toreros. Bostic, who ignited the crowd with a couple dunks, had 12 pomts and Carr 10 pomts. Keeling had 17 points. The Toreros went mto the locker room at halftime with a 'J7-36 lead. It was their first lead of the game. With 43 seconds remaining, reserve guard Al Moscatel stole the ball in the Santa Clara zone and drove the

SAN DIEGO-University of San Diego basketball coach Jim Brovelh stopped short of calling Saturday night's 69-62 West Coast Athletic Conference win over the University of Santa Clara the biggest in the school's h tory. . "But thi is the first ume we have been 2-1 in the conference," Brovelh said. "This is a good team." In USO's fir. t four seasons m the league, it was aweak fmisher, with its best showing a tie for fourth place last year In the seven-team league. But Saturday night's win over Santa Clara (14-6, 2-2), a pre eason favorite and a team that has beaten w Mexico, Ohio State and Pepperdine this season, ems to md1cate the Toreros will challenge for the title for the first ttme since jommg Division l for the 1979-80 e n. San Diego is tied for second place with Pepperdine. St. ary's 1s the league leader at 3-0. USO (11-7, 2-1) clung to a 64-62 lead following two free throws by junior guard Mark Bostic with 57 seconds remaining. On Santa Clara's ensuing po sess10n, guard Harold Keeling was fouled and awarded one-and-one free throws. Keehng, an all-WCAC player, missed the shot nd forward Anthony Reuss was fouled on the rebound. fo'ollowing a Santa Clara timeout, Reuss stepped to the hne with 26 seconds remaining. "Sometimes l watch," said Brovelh, who sat with his head down as Reuss stepped to the line. "Yeah, I prayed.'' Said Reuss "I did 1t just the way we do it in practice. We work on those kinds of things." Reuss, a Junior forward who finished with 12 points, sunk both shots. Santa Clara couldn't score the next time down and USO guard Chris Carr got a fast-break dunk that brought the Sports Center capacity crowd of 2,030 to their feet. Carr made another fr e throw before time expired. The lead changed hands many times and the score was t1 d, 62 62, wtth 1:32 remaining on a field goal by 1chael 'orman of Santa Clara. USO was assisted by th play of 6-11 freshman center Scott Thompson who played 25 minutes despite a broken toe. "Scott was m tremendous pain," Brovelli said. "l'm

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"He's the best I've played with with hi back to the basket. He's got all these little dips and swirls and stuff. He neyer really turns and shoots. The only time it hurts him is in a pickup game because be gets fouled every time he gets the ball." Last night he had four two-shot foul op- portunities, and in the 29-pomt Western llli· nois game he made three three-point plays. On the shot be missed last night "I got fouled and they didn't call it." For two years Reuss has been biding his time on the pine. For a lot of his spotty playing minutes it was bard to tell if he was wearing two left sneake or if they were just tied together. ow ... "Now we've got three guys who can score," coach Jim Brovelli said, adding Reuss to leading scorer Mike Whitmarsh and guard Mark Bostic. "I thmk we're going to have to find a way to get him more shots. Tbe thing I'm most pleased with is his defensive improvement. This year he's almost taking control of this team." Maybe 1t was the name change Last year Rolls Reuss was called "Ant," as 1n Anthony. Maybe, but Reus.s points to consistency. "In tbe la t couple of weeks I've done the same things and done them well," he says. "The 29-point game was not as good as I can do, but it was pretty darn close " The same might be said for USD's second half last night. Leading by only two points at the half and outrebounded 23-15 to that point, the Toreros came out strong enough to force most of Mt. Marty's 21 turnovers and outscore the Lancers 27-8 in the next 15 minutes. Now USD has 10 days, including a couple featuring two-a-day drills, before its West Coast Athletic Association schedule starts "It was bard to get up for this, but we'll have to get serious for that," Reuss said. "This is the first time we've bad a leg1ti• mate shot at the league." "This was, 'so what, so we beat Mt. Marty,"' Prunty said. ''But this is the best team I've been on in four years. The con- ference is going to be interesting this year." It will if Reuss keeps rolling around in the lane, even if he is a power forward who dunks more donuts than basketballs.

Continued From P~ge E-1 game (an embarrassing 61-47 loss to the Aztecs), it's worked every time." Take out the San Diego State debacle - "I don't know what happened there" - and in five games since that Florida A&M matcbup in Reno, Reuss has made 30 of 38 shots. But it's hard to tell. He doesn't load up with windmill dunks or above-the-rim tip-ins. No Lorenzo Charles Atlas power moves are stashed in his gym bag. He bangs around the lane like he's chained to it. But by his reckoning his nickname fits. "Not flashy, like a sports car, but more reliable, kind of smooth, like a Rolls, I guess," is how Reuss describes his game. Senior guard John Prunty, an in-your-jock, knee-scraping, elbow-grinding, Eastern urban Catholic league player protoype himself, has another description. "He's just always there," Prunty says.

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JAN 2 9 1984 USD 69, Santa Clara 62

SAN DIEGO - Forward Mike Whitmarsh scored 16 points as the University o( San Diego defeated the Santa Clara in a West Coast Athletic Conference game. San Diego's Mark Bostic hit two free throws to break a 62-all deadlock with 57 seconds remaining as the Toreros scored seven unanswered points in the final minute to clinch the victory. Anthony Reuss also made two free throws after Santa Clara turnovers and then guard Chris Carr added a slam dunk to ice the win. Nick Vanos led Santa Clara with 19 points and pulled down 13 rebounds. SanDiego Improved its record to 11·7 overall and 2· l in the conference. Santa Clara (ell to H-6 and 2·2.

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S.0. HOME & GARDEN

Thursday, Fe

FEB 1984 THE INDIGNANTARTIST

A breathtaking buildup for architects T he subject was houses when 500 of San and his wife, Rita. (The new, expanded USO library -

!J1ere is almost always a visual surprise m the small ~?unders Gall ry at USO. This m?nth it s a print show of artists' expressions of protest on politics soc'al change, human rights, and war. lnclu~ed are works by William Hogarth, Thomas Nast, Kathe Kollwitz, Jose Oement Orozco, Honore Daumier Otto Dix John loan, and Reginald M~h, comm;nting on the 17th through th 20th ce turi Febnmry 23 lhrmwh March 27. Open 1:5· reception Fe/m,ary 22, 7 lo 9 PM Cali;; Jumr,; w~ekdays 12 lo 5. Wednesday 12 lo 7. D, Unwersi/y 0 1 San Diego, Alcala Park San · ego, 291 6480. x 4261. '

renamed The Helen K. and James S. Copley Library - will be dedicated April 8.) • • • A dozen new members of San Diego's Social Service Auxiliary were introduced the other morning at a coffee in the home of Kay and Bill Rippee. Auxiliary president Mary Madden and member- ship chairwoman Mary Baine Holmes welcomed Bernadette Arnold, Frances Birney, Mary Ann Fitch, Pat Fritzenkotter, Rachel Nelson, Kay Pasquale, Opal Rafferty, Hazel Schaefer and Arna Thompson. At the same time, three Juniors of the Social Ser- vice Auxiliary were taken into the senior fold. Transferring from Junior to Senior were Jean Hope Ellie Pecka and Joan Streicher. '

Diego's top architects and designers and their guests met for cocktails and dinner the other night in the forecourt of the La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art. And the suspense was intense. They were all there to see who won this year's Residential Design Awards handed out by the San Diego Chapter of the American Institute of Archi- tects and San Diego Home/ Garden magazine. This is the fifth year of the awards, and the AIA's Donalee Deffenbach and Home/Garden editor Peter Jensen were the chief party-plotters. After a buffet dinner catered by The French Gourmet, the crowd moved into Sherwood Hall for a multimedia presentation called "Close Focus: The San Diego House," and announcement of the winners. They turned out to be architects Scott Emsley, Stanley Kemston, Dale Jenkins, John Mosele, Ste- phen Borow and Skip Haugh. • • • M ayor Hedgecock and more than 500 others who make news in San Diego crowded into a Town & Country banquet room the other noon to tell Hazel Tow how much they've always admired her. It was Hazel's last hurrah as society editor of The Tribune. (Before settling into that role 14 years ago, she had been a war correspondent and had held all sorts of journalistic jobs.) Lois Dechant and Sharon LeeMaster were the ringleaders in planmng the luncheon salute, which was sponsored by COMBO and the Trojan League of Southern Cahforma. Profits from the party will help to establish an internship at COMBO for a commu mcat10ns student. There were tributes from Herb Klein, Neil Mor-

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gan, Bob Arnhym and other friends and co-workers, and the crowd represented a remarkable cross sec- tion of the San Diego scene. All those accolades, the guest of honor admitted, left her "overwhelmed" and astonished. "I thought," she murmured, "I was just doing my job." Hazel cleared out her desk at The Trib Sunday afternoon, but pooh-poohed any suggestion that she can now put her feet up and take life easy. Not so, she said. "All those thank-you notes to write!" • • • T bey're expanding the James S. Copley Li- brary at the University of San Diego these days, so the annual USO President's Club din· ner was moved from its traditional library setting to the Westgate Hotel. Marge and USD President Author Hughes greeted more than 200 of the university's benefactors in the mirrored opulence of the hotel's Versailles Room. Lincoln Ward, 1984 chairman of the President's Club, was there to introduce Art Hughes, who re- viewed some of the university's long-range plans. Hughes then presented a Baccarat crystal bowl to Josiah Neeper, outgoing President's Club chairman,

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