News Scrapbook 1982-1984

State's women gymnasts rate ninth nationally, de- pit a r . h of early• ea on mjuries. They scored a 171 la t week, and figure to do even better now with Elli ready to compete again and overall ace y Jon in mid-sea on form They visit Oklaho- ma tate Friday and defending NCAA champion Utah Mor day. l 1 NOTK'l - It's be n a long basketball season at SIU, wh re the men are 2-21 and the women are i>- 16. Th bright spot has been Jamie Glassford, a !>-8 junior guard from Madison High, who is leading the Gui s in scoring for the third ·tra1ght year Glassford, the first woman at USIU to core more than 1,000 poi l.l, ha 1,336. This year despite switching from forward to guard, he i averaging 17.3 points and 47 per nt field goal hooting. IU, which la ·t year finished fifth in the Associa- tion of Intercollegiate Athletic for Women golf com- petition, ho ts a six-team women's golf tournament Feb 7 at hadowridge in Vista. Semor Gisela Llnner,

LOCAL NEWS USO BASKETBALL/ The University of San Diego travels north for a W~st Coast Athleti~ Conference basketball game agamst Gonzaga Um- versity tonight in Spokane. The Toreros_move down to the University of Portland Saturday mght. U~D 1s 1-3 in the conference and 7-11 overall. Gonzaga 1s 1-3 and 9-10. Portland is 0-4 and 6-14. Gonzaga has scored impressive road victories over Pepperdine (69-68) and De Paul (72-71). Former Grossmont College standout Mike Whitmarsh is USD's top scorer (15.8 points per game) and s~~ond-leading rebounder (6.3) against WCAC competition.

Guard John Stockton scored 19 points and passed out eight assists to lead Gonzaga to a 64-55 Western Collegiate Athletic Conference win over the University of San Diego Thursday night at Gonzaga. USD (7-2, 1-4) led by three points at halftime, 22-19, but Tony Neal scored IO pomts from the floor and Bryce McPhee adaed 13 as Gonzaga came back in the second half. Mike Whitmarsh scored 19 points, including 13 from the foul line, and grabbed 11 rebounds for USD. Rich Davis added lOpoints. USD returns to action Saturday night agalnst the University of Portland at 7:30.

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Gonzaga ~ets bullish on Toreros SPOKANE (AP) John Stockton scored 11 of his 19 points In the second half to lift Gonzaga past the University of San Di- ego, 64-55, in a West Coast Athletic Conference bask- etball game Thursday. Stockton's second half performance helped lead the Bulldogs back from a three-point halftime deft· cit. Gonzaga took the lead for good with 18:30 to play on Bryce McPhee's 20- · toot baseline jumper. Gonzaga then reeled off seven straight points to take a 38·30 lead with 9:47 to play. San Diego was unable to draw closer than five points, tralllng 40·35 after John Prunty hit a reverse layup with 8: 31 remain• Ing. For Gonzaga, McPhee scored 17 points, Jason Van Nort had Hand Tony Neal hit for 10. Mike Whitmarsh led the Toreros with 19 points. Rich Davis added 10, all In the first half. The win evens Gonza- ga' a overall record at 10- 10 and vaults them to 2-3 In WCAC play. San Diego drops to 7-12 overall and 1-¼ in league.

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Gonzaga Topples USD SPOKANE Wash. Gonzaga Umvcr~1ty shot -a school record 78 9 percent m the ec-ond half to ov r- come the University of San Diego 64-55 here last mght Gonzaga's Bulldogs over- Gonzaga is now 2-3 in the West Coast Athletic Confer- ence and 10-10 overall; USD drops to 1-4 and 7-12. came a 22-19 halftime deli- • •!!!!!!!•---~-- John Stockton led the Bulldogs with 19 points on 6-of-9 shooting.

SAN DIEGO UNION FEB 6 1:383 Portland Defeats Toreros 74-51 Darren Jenkins scored 12 of his 15 points in the first half as Portland defeated the University of San Diego 74- 51 last night in a West Coast Athletic Conference game in Portland, Ore. , , Jenkins, a 6-foot-8 sophomore, and Dennis Black, a 6-7 jumor, helped the Pilots dominate the Toreros on the boards. Portland outrebounded USO 22-8 in the first half and 45-22 for the game. Portland led 36-26 at halftime, despite 14 points by USD's Rich Davis. The Toreros threatened early in the second half when they cul the lead to 37-30, but the Pilots pulled away and led by as many as 21 points at 64-43. · Davis led the Toreros with 21 points. Black scored 18 points and led both teams with 12 rebounds. Jenkins scored his points in 17 minutes of ac· tion. Portland, which won its first WCAC game, is 1-4 and 7- 14 overall. USD is 1-5, 7-13.

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cit to take a 31-30 lead on a jumper by Bryce McPhee with 14·10 remaining. Gon- zaga proceeded to score the next seven points and USO never caught up. Both teams shot poorly in the first half as USD hit only 8 of 24 for 33 percent and Gonzaga made only 7 of 20 for 35 percent. USD's Rich Davi made al, 10 his mts in the first half t keep the Toreros ahead Mike Whitmarsh led the Toreros with 19 poinL as he made 13 of 13 free throws. The second half was all Gonzaga as it hit 15 of 19 shots, many from the out- side over the Torero zone. McPhee scored 13 of his 17 in the second half and Neal scored all 10 of his points in the second half from the out.~1de.

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LOCAL NEWS TOREROS LOSE/ John Stockton scored 11 of his 19 pomts in the second half to lift Gonzaga past the University of San Diego 64-55 in a West Coast Athletic Conference basketball game Thursday night in Spokane. Stockton's second-half performance helped lead the Bulldogs back from a three-point halftime deficit. Gonzaga took the lead for good with 13: 30 to play on Bryce McPhee's 20-foot baseline jumper. Gonzaga then reeled off seven straight points to take a 38-30 advantage with 9_:47 to play. San Diego was unable to get closer than five pomts after that The Toreros tralied 40-35 after John Pruntv hit a reverse layup with 8:31 remaining. For Gonzaga, McPhee scored 17 pomts, Jason Van Nort had 14 and Tonv Neal hit for 10 Former Monte Vista High School player Mike Whitmarsh led San Diego with 19 points. Rich Davis added 10, all in the first half, for the Toreros. The win evens Gonzaga's overall record at 10-10 and gives the Bulldogs a 2-3 mark in WCAC play. San Diego drops to 7-12 overall and 1-4 in league action.

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Meanwhile, USD was losing to Portland 74-51 in the . Oregon city as the Pilots dominated the boards 45-22. It was P~rtland's first West Coast Athletic Conference win this season and USD dropped to 1-5 in league and 7-13 overall. On the winning side was San Diego State's women's basketball team, which defeated Ariwna 64-63 on a 23- foot jumper by Marci Blackman with seven seconds left.

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TOREROS LOSE/ Dennis Black scored 18 points and grabbed 12 rebounds Saturday night as the University of Portland won its first West Coast Athletic Conference basketball game of the season 74-51 over the University of San Diego. Portland, playing its first WCAC home game, bolted to a 14-7 lead and never led by fewer than six points the rest of the way.

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Brovelli-------------- Continued From Page D-1 moved to the floor where he has taught the Clippers the fundamentals of team defense.

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Brovelli's lot in life is not unlike the Myth of Sisyphus. He has spent these last four seasons in Division I basket- ball rolling a heavy stone up a steep hill and knowing it is destined to roll back down. Last week, the rock hit bottom in a 74-51 loss to the University of Portland, and defeats of that magnitude are not the stuff for recruiting pitches. "There was a time when not many kids knew about us," Brovelli said yesterday. "They'd say, 'Who are you?' Kids only know what they read about in the papers or watch on TV. At that time they knew about Pepperdine, USF, the Pac-10. "But they've heard of us now and they know what conference we play in. If we could get over the hump and beat some of the good teams we've lost to by a point or. two during the past few years that would really mean something when we go out recruiting. I know we can ~o it. If not, I guess I'll just get gray hair and ulcers." USD's basketball tradition is not exactly brimming with saviours. Akid named Bill Bradley took Princeton to the Final Four in 1965, but history rarely repeats itself by chance. And the odds that it will happen at a little Catho- lic college in San Diego are even slimmer. Logic suggests that Jim Brovelli one day will find his way back to the University of San Francisco, where he played guard in the early '60s. When USF was searching for a coach in May 1980, Brovelli's name was mentioned but Pete Barry got the job instead. Now that the Dons are considering re-instating basketball after dropping it amid scandals last year, Brovelli is once again a candidate to lead USF to the promised land. When the Clippers were considering a bench coach to aid Paul Silas a few months back, Brovelli's resume was under study. But the Clippers proceeded to hire Bob Klop- penburg as their chief scout, and Kloppenburg has since

"Both Paul and Pete Babcock thought very highly of Jim," Clippers' GM Paul Phipps said. "But for continuity sake, we didn't want to shake things up any further. We thought Pete should stay on the bench for a while. "But I'm a big believer in the Jim Brovelli-type coach. If there's any one area that's lacking in NBA coaching, it's the Xs and Os coaching. There are not enough guys who have that technical understanding of the game. No player ever stops needing to be schooled on fundamentals." "I remember Paul Phipps calling me and asking if I'd be interested," Brovelli explained. "I said I'd like to sit down with him but that's as far as it went. I know I've said this many times before but I don't look too far in the future. I'm just concerned about the development of our basketball team. "I really enjoy coaching these kids and I don't even-' think about what it would be like coaching a team full of blue-chippers. In time, I hope we have those blue-chippers here. "Some of the other coaches in our conference tell me that they're picking us to win it in 1990. I tell them that if schools in our conference keep dropping basketball it could happen even sooner." Jim Brovelli laughs and you know he doesn't want to discuss USF or the Clippers. He'd rather keep playing the same old chess game with the pawns of his chosen profes- sion. There is a certain underdog's charm to USD's level of competition for sure. It is fun to watch and clinically correct for the most part. But dignity, it seems, does not allow Brovelli to admit that the road he's traveling here ts destined to remain a steep hill. Unconquerable to the last.

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