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SAN DIEGO UN ION f£B, ----- Whitmarsh's shot lifts USO nter, laff Wrlltr rl-:R It didn't tak any coaching magic on Jim Brovelh's part

Sanday, February 5, 1984 Waves outdistance charging Toreros By Bill Center Staff Writer

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After Pepperdine's Scott McCollum put the. Waves back up by six with a Jay-in behind the USD press, Prunty hit his jump- er. an~ Moscatel followed with his eighth point m 2½ minutes to get the Toreros to within a basket with 24 seconds to play. McCollum was sent back to the line and sank the front end of a I-and-I, but the Toreros wasted valuable time getting the ball up court, although both Whitmarsh and Reuss had shots from under the basket in the final seconds. Reuss led USD with 15 points, 10 coming in the second half. Whitmarsh, Bostic and Carr all had 12. Freshman center Thomp- on, playing with a swollen and broken toe ' Gondrez1ck, who a night earlier had gone I f ·8 from the floor m an eight pomt loss to t. M~ry's, was ll-for-15 last mght, equalled ht season high with 22 pomts and pulled down a career-high nine rebounds. Anger and McCollum both srored 11 pomts. Although USD made nine steals and turned the ball over only 13 times to Pep- perdine's 20, the Waves out-rebounded the visitors by 36-22. In the second half Pep- perdine won 19 of the 27 rebounds. ' w scoreless.

the Toreros will be playing for a share of the WCAC lead when they travel to Moraga Saturday. "It's really nice to be here," said Brovelli of the WCAC race. "Top to bottom there's not an easy out in this league." Last night the Waves - who lost to even- tual champ North Carolina St.ate by two points in the first round of last year's ~CAA tournament - did an outstandmg Job of denying USD some of its better plays. Mike Whitmarsh scored only six points in the ftrst half and took only two shots from the floor. The USD frontline of Whit- marsh, Anthony Reuss and Scott Thompson had only nine shots between them in th first half. Paced by Grant Gondrezick, who scored 1~ of h!S 22 points in the first half, Pepper- dme shot out to a 36-31 lead. Guards Mark Bosllc and Chris Carr kept the Toreros alive m the first half, getting 18 points between them. But with forward Victor Anger hitting the boards to help Gondrezick, the Waves moved to a 50-40 lead with 14:38 to play. It was still 60-51 with 3:12 to go when Mosca tel, a sophomore transfer from Me. a College, g?t the Toreros' offense moving with a pair of basehne Jumpers and two free throws. Before Moscatel hit, the Toreros had gone more than four minutes ~ithout_scormg and bad only two points in eight minutes. USD missed 6 of 7 shots in a stretch where Pepperdine, up by five, had turned the ball over four times. Although USD didn't move any closer on Moscatel's shooting, the Toreros seemed to come alive when he stole the ball and passed 1t to Bostic for a slam that made it 64-59. Prunty sank a technical foul that brought the Toreros to within four at 64-60 with 1:2.1 to nlay • USD's men's basketball team will be in a must-win situation Saturday. The ' Toreros (3-2) will play St. Mary's (4-1), the conference leader and they need a victory over the Gaels to remain in the race for the WCAC championship. ranked DePaul University 76-74 in Moraga. At the lime that was their eighth straight loss They . also played UCLA, UC-Berkeley and Washington during the streak . St. Mary's over- all record of 9-12 ranks better than just three WCAC teams. If St. Mary· s 1s like a Portland team like Whitmarsh said, the Toreros should know how to go about with their defensive strategy. USO earlier mppped Portland 65-63 in the Spo ts Center. r '·They are leading the conference in turn-

MALIBU - Defeat no longer comes easv for the University of San Diego That might be the Toreros' biggest step forward of all this season. Defending West Coast Athletic Confer- ence champion Pepperdine last night snapped the Toreros' three-game winning streak to drop USD into a third-place tie with the Waves in a league race that IS becoming a war. But while the 12-9 Waves had run over the :roreros in r~enl .meetings, Pepper- dme eighth straight victory in the series was m doubt to the final seconds. Pepperdine won by three, 67-64, after leadmg by nine with two minutes to play and holdmg a 66-60 edge with only 56 sec- onds to go. USD, now 12-8 and 3-2 in conference play, pulled to within two on a pair of out- side jumpers by reserve guards John Prun- ty and Al Moscatel (who had eight points in the fmal three minutes) and was grappling under its basket for a possible three-point opportunity when the gun sounded. "We made a great run tonight," said USD coach Jim Brovelli. ''I'm really proud of the way we played. "When you go on the road and get a split (th~ Tor~ros won at Loyola-!llarymounl Friday ~1ght) you're usually happy. But we were a little greedy this time I thought we might sweep. ··We'vecome that far We're in the hunt." Both Brovelh and Pepperdine coach Jim Hamck called both last night's physical match and the overall WCAC race a "dog- fight." Because Loyola-Marymount upset league-leading Sl Mary's 57.54 last night,

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JSD: Wins OT on Whitmarsh shot

Whitmarsh was out because he had drawn a second personal foul. He is so important to USD that Brovelh feels h cannot run the risk ol keep• ing Whitmarsh in a game after he draw his econd foul of a half. "We had two games this year where Mike got his third foul Just before th end of the fir t half and h!S fourth in the first minutes of the second half. He eventually fouled out of both." And USO lost both The visitors led 67·63 with 116 to go before Lion guard Keith Smith hit his second traighl 20-foot bomb, fol• lowed by guard Jeff Hill's first-ever basket, an 18-foot prayer that forced overtime. In between U o·s John Prunty mi sed the front end of a 1· on·l Excellent pa by Prunty and Bostic gave U, D a pair of lay in bas• kets by Thompson and Reu s to give the Toreros a 73-71 lead m the over- time. But Whitmarsh missed a free throw that could have scaled the de- cision and · h 20 seconds to go, Loy- ola- arym unt al forward, Forr cKenzie, htl a 13 foot base- line jumper to tie 1t It took USD only one pass to get the ball into Wh1tmarsh's hands. He faked to his right, dribbled left through the top of the lane, turned and fired, capping mcely another Whilmarshian effort - 12-for-17 from the floor, eight rebounds and seven assists.

The Daily Californian • East San Di . ego ounty, Cahforrna • Friday, February 10, 1984 3B !;~!!.~os face crucial WCAC weekend of The Dally Callforntsn ov~rs," Whitmarsh said of the Gaels. "We're C .

LOS ANGELES TllvlES FEB 5 1984

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gomg to keep pressure on them all the time ,, St Mary's turns the ball over 18 times. a game. T_he _Gaels are also leading the con- ference m field goal shooting (_526 ). f The Gaels ~re paced by 6-foot-5 sophomore orward David ~ne, the WCAC's leading rebounder (11.0) • He s also scoring 15 points per game. Rebounding has not been a Torero stron smt. They are being outrebounded by seven ! game through five league contests. Whitmarsh lea~s the te_am at 7.2 an outing. Anthony Reuss is right_ behm~ at 6.8. Whitmarsh is third in the league m s_cormg at 17.6. Reuss is netting 13 4 a game. Whitmarsh is also second in the league averaging seven assists. P Rebow:iding hurt USD in its 67-64 loss to epperdme last week. "'Nobody really had a good game ,, Wh·t marsh said. "I didn't play well pe~sonali1 . Sc~tt (6-ll center Scott Thompson) got 0 J~ pomt and two rebounds. we need Scott to ~ack. He's been a little timid lately withc~:::i~ roken toe. He needs to get a little more aggressive for us. "'I'm looki_ng forward to next week when we get _Pepperdme and Loyola in our gym Their talkmg about basketball around here· these days. "

_T~e Toreros aren't looking at that •·inust- wm s1t~at1on yet, but a victory would sure makes thmgs a lot easier for the next couple of weeks. Jim Brovelli's University of San Diego men's basket_ball team is s1ttmg in the West .Coast Athletic Conference rocking chair that can just as easily go forwa:d as it can go backward. The Tore~os are looking at a nice thrust in the positive direction Saturday night. USO travels north to Moraga to take on WCAC leader St. Mary's for a 7: 30 p.m. tipoff The Gaels are 4-1 in conference contests. Santa Clara is m second at 4-2. Pepperdine and the Toreros are_ tied at 3-2. A loss would not give USO the brightest of futures . The Toreros have had their share of troubles away from home. They are 2-6 wearing the blue uniform The second of their two road wins came_last week at Loyola-Marymount 75-73 in overtime. The Lions then went and upset St Mary's the following evenmg. · '"They·~~ bas1~ally_ the same team they had last year. USO s Mike Whitmarsh said about the Gaels. ''They're big and strong, can jump and hke to run. They're more like a Portland team than a Pepperdine... Earlier in the year the Gaels lost to highly-

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Pepperdine Edges San Diego Behind Gondrezick's 22 Points Grant Gondrezick scored a career-high 22 points and Pepperdine escaped with a hard-fought, fIT-64 win over the University of San Diego Saturday night before 1,fIT7 fans at Firestone Fieldhouse in Malibu. Anthony Reuss led the Toreros with 15 points, but San Diego scoring leader Mike Whitmarsh was held to 12 points. The victory turned the West Coast Athletic Confer• ence race into a dogfight. First-place St. Mary's, beaten by Loyola Marymount, is 4-1. Santa Clara is 4-2, and Pepperdine and San Diego are both 3•2. Pepperdine had a 64-55 lead with 2JY7 left to play, but the Toreros scrambled back and cut the lead to two, 66-64, on a 15-foot jumper by San Diego's Al Moscatel with 24 seconds remaining. However, with 16 seconds left, Pepperdine's Scott McCollum was fouled in the back court and hit the front end of a one-and-one. Neither team scored after that. -RAY RIPTON

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USO OSES/ 'lhe Univer 1ty of San Diego m n's ba k tb II t am was left high and dry Sarur- d Y Ill ht n ahbu Th Pepperdine Waves drowned th Torero 67-64 In a West Coast Athletic Con• ferenc game USO and Pepperdine are in a third- plac • II~ at 3-2 Santa Clara i in second at 4-2. St. Mary 1s leading the pack at 4-1. The Gaels lost to l..oyola•Marrmount 57-54 Saturday. The Toreros lost to P pperdme because the Waves outrebounded th m 36-22. The Waves held a 19-8 advantage in the econd half. Mike Whitmarsh led USD with six rebounds. The Torero had four players in double figures. Anthony Reuss led the point production with 15. Whitmar h, Chris Carr and Mark Bostic all totaled 12. _Pepperdlne' Grant Gondrez1ck led all core:. with 22 USO didn't help itself with its floor shooting. either. The Toreros connected on 45 percent (25 of 55) from the field, while Pepperdme was 27 of 50 154 percent) , USO hits the road again n~xt ~eek for a :howdown with St. Mary's Saturday mght in Moraga The Tor ros are 12-8 overall 2~ on th road '

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b gan his 21st a on th1s afternoon as head coach of th Tor roa. USO hosted Pt, Loma today, hosts UC San Diego on Wednesday and ho ts Los Angeles State In a noon doublehead r on Saturday. USO was 17•27•1 overall last season and 10.18-1 ln th ir con!erenc , th Soouthem California Baseball A soclatlon . This y ar's pitching staff will revolve around sen• lor Rus. Applegate, a former Palomar College and San P qua! High School standout. A right-hander, Applegate was !HI with a 4.37 ERA last year. "Barring injury, we'll be stronger than last year ov rall," a.Id Cunningham. "We have more depth in the 1nl1 Id o.nd mor and b tter players 1n the out- leld I definitely think we have more punch in the Un up th.an we'v had 1n recent seasons " USD's ch dul lnclu

LOS ANGELES T IMES FEB 9 1984

Bertrand Leads USD to Baseball Win SAN DIEGO-Greg Bertrand threw a one-hit shutout ,, for six innings to lead the University of San Diego to a 6-0 win Wednesday against the UC San Diego at USD. Mike Fazekas pitched the seventh inning and Russ Applegate pitched the final two innings. USO catcher Enc Bennett hit a solo home run and Andre Jacas added a two-run double in the fourth inning to supply the offense. USD improves its record to 2-0. UCSD drops to 0-4

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