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SAN DIEGO UNION

NOV 2? 1983

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USDled by locals SAN DIEGO (AP) Former East County high school standouts Mike Whit- marsh and Anthony Reuss led the University of San Diego basketball team to its second win in as many starts Saturday The senior forward Whit- marsh scored 18 points, had 12 rebounds and nine assists to pace the Toreros to an 87-57 decision over Army in a non-<:onference college game. Whitmarsh prepped at Monte Vista High and and played two years at Grossmont College. Reuss, a 1981 graduate from El Cajon's Christian High, added 13 points and five rebounds in the win. The Toreros shot 59 percent from the floor and converted 27 of 36 free throws. USD led 26-20 with four minutes left in the first half when it broke it open. The Toreros outscored Army 13--0 before the Cadets scored again. Other Torero players to hit double figures were former Mesa College stand- out Al Moscatel with 17 points and Mark Bostic added 10. In another college game Saturday, former Santana High and Grossmont Col- lege star Brian Caradonna chipped in six points as Point Loma College nipped Redlands University 6HO.

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Long Beach better at line in USD loss SAN DIEGO (AP) - Gu r five of his team-high 21 Long Beach State to a 73-~~ vi c oryoverthe Unlversl- ball game Monday ni;~~--confe_rence college basket- Long Beach traUed 58 5 5 Ing In regulation but with two minutes remaln- tive baskets by Craig Al~ the~ead on two consecu- malnlng on a dunk after stn, e last with 1:03 re- San Diego's Mike Whitn4:!~~g an inbounds pass. high 29 points, tied It with f s ' who had a game- onds remaining. a ree throw with 40 sec- In the overtime Lon 8 14-6 to even its s~aso/re::cdh orscored the Toreros ting only two of 10 free thro; 1-1. San Diego, hit- 2-for-6 from the line In rt s m the second half and Toreros made just 4 ot ~;:ir ~:e, slipped to 2-1. The "There is no excuse tor al 20 free throws. USO Coach Jim Brovelli ~t.sslng free throws," said like this as long as I've b. 1 ve never seen anything The To een coaching " reros made 72 p · beating St. Thomas andez,ent of their free throws In was 13 of 31 against Lon Bmy last week, but USO In ddit g each. a ion to hJs 29 ints bounds and 5 assists B h • Whitmarsh had 9 re- free throws. · u e also missed 1l of his 18 in~ d Ricky Smith scored ln overtime to propel ty of San Diego in a

The San Diego Umon Don Bartlell' Torero Mike Whitmarsh gets and Pat Appleman (41) while trying to lobbered by Army's Mike Yeager (24) shoot. USO won its second.

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though, the team is better with me coming off the bench. And you don't change a winning com- bination."

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SAN DIEGO-Cal State Long Beach's Dave ·Buss got his first victocy as 49er basketball coa_ch M_onday when Long Beach defeated the University of San Diego, 73-65 in overtime. "It came hard, but it really feels nice," said Buss, who had been disappointed by a 65-59 loss at UCLA on Saturday. The Long Beach Win was also the first loss for the US!) Toreros (2-1), who had easily won therr fJrSt two games against St. Thomas College or Minnesota and Army This one got away at the end however In regulation play, Long .nea'ch's Greg·Allen stole a pass in the backcourt and drove in for a layup to give his team a 59-58 lead with one mmuteleft. USO forward Mike Whitmarsh then was

fouled and tied the score by making the first of two free throw attempts with 40 seconds left m regulation. He missed the second and the game went to overtime. ~tmarsh, the game's high scorer with 29 pom~. was two-of-six from the free throw lme m the last seven minutes of play. He was a 76% free throw shooter last year when he made the All-West Coast Athletic Conference team. "~-~e can _do is put ourselves in a position to wm, San Diego Coach Jim Brovelli said. "If the free throws don't drop or we make turnovers, then that's that. "Whitmarsh does everything for us. He is normally an excellent free throw shooter. Tonight, they just wouldn't drop." Long Beach called a time out after Whit- marsh missed his second free throw attempt,

but the play broke down and guard Joedy Gardner took an off-balance shot that failed. ~ng Beach do1runated the overtime period taking the lead for good, 61-59, on a field goai ~Y Allen. San Diego turnover was followed Y a ~rrug Lack field goal making it a four-pomtmargin. San Diego's Al_ Moscatel tried a field goal on ~e next ~ssess1on but missed. Long Beach's Ricky Szruth was fouled and made one of his two free throws. Long Beach kept the margin at at least four the rest of the way, getting another field goal by Vmce Singleton, and a field goal and two throws from Ricky Smith. . G;.eg Allen was great at the end," Buss said: He scored the crucial points." Ricky Smith led Long Beach with 21 poi ts• Gardner had 19. n ,

The lead see-sawed throughout the g and the Toreros led 31-30 at the half . The Toreros were behind, 13-5 six minutes ~~to ~he tame when Moscatel rJplaced John un y. 1th Moscatel in, the home team moved out to a 27-19 advantage b Lo Beach fought back. The Toreros ~eu~ ng trolled st)'.le offense, which relies heavil;o~~ good passmg and good free throw shoot' hUSD was an abysmal 13-for-31 from the 1:~~- owever. , . The Toreros also made as man bad m the closi~g minutes of the gamf as th:ai;::~ m the openingmmutes. USO had 12 turno\rers two came m the last two minutes of re'"••at· , play. e"-' ton "I can't sleep when we don't wi·n .. B 11 . said "I • , rove 1 · won t be able to sleep until Thursday .. That's when USD plays at Texas Tech. . ame,

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ong Beach State to test USD By Bill Center, taff Wrlm cored more than five before. Now Brovelli is anxious to ·ee what happens.

''We can take almost 10 fouls at center without being in big trouble," Brovelli said. "Last year if we got two or three fouls in the middle, we were in big trouble." Long Beach State will also lest USO's guards. Last year the 49ers' Joedy Gardner and Ricky Smith riddled USD's tandem of &-footers by taking them low. That was pre- Bostic. "Some of our biggest improvement has been al guard," Brovelli said. ''Bostic is &-3 and quick. In the past we've had midget guards, and teams with big guards always gave us problems. This year we have Bostic and Chris Carr to defend against big guards. "Mark also plays the transition game well and can run. That's made it easier for Prunty on the point. And we have a good backup there in (Al) Moscatel." Bostic, Carr and Moscatel are all newcomers to the Torero program. "We're better," Brovelli said. "Tonight we start finding out how much better.'_' --~-

It is an unusual question that has to be pleasing to Jim Brovelli's ears. How good is the University of San Diego ba etball team' Brovelli, who typically ha had a forward playing cen• ter, now h two legitimate centers to work with. Instead of havmg two hort point men at guard, he now has a small (John Prunty) and a btg (Mark Bo tic) guard. Bro- v Iii also bas a bench to work with this season The Torer might be eight or nine players deep In the past th •y've been iffy beyond a solid three or four. After two gam , the Toreros also have victories by 25 (St. Thomas) and 30 (Anny) points •·we haven't had a 30- potnt vt tory m seven years," Brovelh said, going back to befor U Dwas a Division I basketball school. . of yet, however, USO has not played a qua!Jty oppo- nent The early-season ucc es have offered more clues than evid nc . While 1mpr ··1ve, a preseason exhibition over the Australian National Team cam against a trav- eling club playing Its fifth game 10 SIX day . So th question per lsts. How good JS USO The answer might come tomght at 7 30 in th USO Sports Center at Al ala Parle Tb Torcro will play Long Beach Stale. The 49ers might be among the better clubs on the West Coast. Satur- day night they dropped a 65-59 ireason-opening decision at UCLA after bemg tied at h lftime. "Long Beach will be among the best teams we play," Brovelh 1d yesterday "I imagm we'll fmd out a lot about oursclv ." Tonight, for example, will be a good test for the Toreros' youn centers - &-foot 9 phomore Mario Coro- n do and 6 11 fr hman Scott Thompson Long Beach Stat ha a quality center m 6-11 Ivan Verbee t an ex- change stud nt from Finland T o years ago th chal- 1 n might have been frightening fo.. USD, which once gave up 20 points to a 7-loot lreshm•n who had never

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USD: Toreros throw game away at foul line Continued from C-1 hit at a 75 percent clip and this season was . "We worked hard for 39 minutes to get 8-for-10 going into last night's game. He mto position to win, then we didn't do the was 7-for-18 from the line against the primary fundamental of the game to get 49ers. the victory," Brovelli said. "It's unfor- That one statistic ruined an otherwise lunate." outstanding game for Whitmarsh, who fin- Brovelli felt that his side's poor free- ished w!th 29 points (ll-f~r-19 from the throw shootmg eventually took its toll on floor), nme rebounds and five assists. He the parts of USD's game that had been paced the Toreros throughout, scoring 13 of working so well. the club's first 19 points. :•M~,ntally, we let down defensively," he His last ~ask_et fr~m the floor was wor- sa!d. It came to a point where we had thy of ~he h1ghhght films. missed so many free throws that it hurt us Commg down the middle out of the USO m. other parts of the game. After Mike weave, Whitmarsh took a pass and cut for zrussed the two free throws at the start of the basket, only to have the most direct overtime, the rest of our game just broke route blocked by 6-foot-11 Long Beach cen- down. ter Ivan Verberckt. Whitmarsh shifted the "Free-throw shooting is the fundamental ball into his left hand and scored on a re- that we practice more than anything else" verse layup that put USD up by three with he continued. "But it comes down to eith~r less than two minutes to go in regulation you, <;:'-n shoot them in a game, or you "We ~o!, th~ game exactly where we· don t. wanted 1t, said Brovelli, "and we shot it USO shot 72½ percent from the line last away." week while routing St. Thomas College and Long Beach State fought back behind the Anny. to open the season. In a tight game perimeter shooting of guards Ricky Smith last mght, however, the Toreros went 13- (21 points) and Joedy Gardner (19 points) for-31_. and the inside play of forward Craig Lack Whitmarsh was an unlikely victim of the (10 points, 14 rebounds). cold hand. The Toreros were also plagued All along, however, USD shot Long by poo_r. free-throw shooting last year when Beach back into the game - missing nine they hit 67 percent as a team. But the all- straight free throws in one stretch that West Coast Athletic Association forward could have meant 13 points.

USD throws away 73-65 OT decision at foul line Whitmarsh missed two more foul tosses. After that the Toreros game seemed to collapse. Long Beach ran off five straight points and went up 67-60 with a minute to play in the five-minute overtime. By Bill Center taff Writer Jim Brovelli had a word for his m' hooting exh1b1tion la t mght "Amazing,' 1d th University of San Di go ba ketball coach "I've nev r n anything like that as long a I've been roaching" Last mght, USO missed 16 of its final 20 free-throw attempts to drop a 73-65 overtime decision to Long Beach State at the USO Sports Cen- ter Miss them the Toreros did, howev- er. They missed the front end of four straight one-on-ones lo close out the first half, throwing away eight points and turning what might have been a four-basket lead into a narrow one- point advantage. with two beautiful driving layups, went to the free-throw line with two shots and a chance to put USO up by five points. Miss. Miss.

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After Long Beach's Greg Allen scored twice on a 10-foot jumper and a dunk after his interception of the inbounds pass, Whitmarsh did tie the game by hitting one of two free throws with 40 seconds to play. But with a chance to put USO back on top 19 seconds into overtime,

It was a game the Toreros would have won with a hotter hand at the foul line. "We would have won it with even a poor night of free-throw shooting," Brovelli said. "But this was sad . there is absolutely no excuse for missing free throws."

After two straight wins to open the season, USD was headed to its first loss in an important game it could have won. See USD on Page C-5

The real disaster struck in the final minutes of regulation time, though. With 1:58 to go, Mike Whitmarsh, who had just shot USD into the lead

Unfortunately for the Toreros, that wa not good. The "amazing" Brovel- lt h d tn mtnd wa followed by some "t rnhle "and ''awful ."