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' hopes fading fast Toreros lose game to Gonzaga

quired. Gone from this Gonzaga team is WCAC Player of the Year John Stockton, who was a first-round draft choice by the Utah Jazz. Back for coach Jay Hillock is Bryce McPhee, an all-conference player two seasons ago who sat out all but six games last year with a stress fracture in ht right fibula A6-3 forward, McPhee is averaging 16.2 points and 6.9 rebounds and has taken away some of the burden from Stockton's departure. He's joined on the front line by 6-9 forward Jason Van Nort (10.3 points and 6.1 rebounds) nd 6-10 center Tim Ruff (9.9 and 7.3), with Dwan Hurt (5.3) and Jeff Condill (9.4) in the backcourt. "They are a very physical unit," said USD coach Hank Egan of Gonzaga. "We're a big team, but I think they're even bigger. They execute well and are a very solid group. And something like five of their top six have tarted at lea t one full eason So they have a lot of experience" So much so that nior Jeff Reinert was pulled from the !in up rly in the season 1n favor of the quicker Hurt. And R inert tarted all 28 of the Bulldogs' games la t ason. He I now the team's sixth man. The Toreros, on the other hand, have been struggling with three returmng starters among their top eight (Chris Carr, Anthony Reuss and Scott Thompson), two oth who .saw little action la 't year (Madden and Steve rallrnan), and three players who were on the JC level la t a on (Jackson. James Knight and Pete Murphy). "I' on rn d because at this lime of the season you hould be getting better," said Egan, whose team will take on Gonzaga tomorrow beginning at 7:30 PST. "At t, w 're holding our own. Somehow, we've got to find way to put the ski on it. Somehow, we've got to build som momentum. Fast." The two teams ·plit last year's series. The Bulldogs took a 60-58 ded ion in San Diego on Reinhert's last econd hot and the Toreros won a 71-69 thriller in dou- ble overtime in the return match in pokane. . .. Gonzaga 1s 11-5 overall and evened its WCAC record to 1 I with a 57-55 win over St. Mary's Saturday night. Its m t impre 1ve win was a 60-54 defeat of Marquette Dec. 29 in the Milwaukee Classic. It was only the second time in ·19 years the Warriors failed to win their own tournament. ... The Bulldogs come in with the o. 8-ranked rebound- ing team in the nation. Gonzaga is averaging 36.2 re- bound a game, compared to 28.2 for the opposition.

-;JJfS- - Tr t une Staff&port S POKANE, WASH. - It was m,ake-or-break time, a pivotal test, ~e opportu_nity to turn. a potentially disappomtmg season ID the opposite direction. But ~dn't accomplish any of that here last night at the Kennedy Pavilion. . . What the Toreros did do was drop a 58-45 decision to Gonzaga in a West Coast Athletic Conference game, their second straight defeat smce conference play opened last week. And if not for a few spurts that opened both halves, it might not have been that close. "We played terrible," said USD coach Han Egan, whose team fell to 11-6 on the year. ' hey are 'a solid club and we knew com1ng'in it wasn't going to be ea y. But we still didn't play as well as I think we could have. "We gave up a lot of eas bas ets on th tr game. We di 't give ourselv a chance o w1 e ballgame at all. As far as Egan's concerned, the ballgame was lost toward the latter tages of the first half. Until then, USD was playing perhap its best basketball in quite some time. The Toreros held leads of 11-7 and lf>-9 before the Bulldogs caught up at 15-15 with 6½ min- utes left before intermission. That's when things caved in. Gonzaga guard Jeff Condill, who scored 10 of bis game-high 16 points in those o ng 20 minutes, hit a couple of key baskets down the stretch that helped the Bulldogs outscore the Toreros 11-4 the rest of the way. Having gone into the locker room trailing 26-19 at the intermission, USD never seemed to recover. Two quick buckets at the start of the second half by NiJ.s Madden and Kiki Ja.::kson got the Toreros back within three, but Bryce McPhee then answered both of them th five consecutive points for the Bulldogs. From there, it was a 10- to 12-point Bulldog advan- tage the rest of the way. "During those first 10 minutes we played about as

well as we have played all year," said USD's Anthony Reuss. "Then, in a couple of key situations,_the ~al~s just didn't go our way, In the second half we Just d1dn t do what we had to do to win." Unfortunately, Reuss didn't exactly help matte:s as the 6-foot-7 senior forward was held scoreless m 21 minutes of play. The former Christian High standout came in as the team's leading scorer (12.7) and reboun- der (6.8), but mysteriously came away with jus~ two rebounds on the night. Center Scott Thompson fm1shed with just four points, seven below his seasonal aver- age. That left most of the scoring load on Jackson and Madden, both of whom led the Toreros with 10 pomts apiece. But neither could get hot in the final half to help USD get back in it. s a team, the Toreros finished shooting truSCrable 41 percent from the field in losing their fifth road game in six tries this year. Gonzaga, on the other hand, was a fine 58 percent (22 of ) from the floor as It improved its record to 12-5 overall and 2-1 in league play. " e just have to find some people who will take charge out there," said Egan, who hintea" rller in the week that lineup changes could be orthcoming. "We've had our problems this year sustaining anything offensively or defensively and tonight we had some menta apses We got away from things we wanted to do." Basically, what the Toreros have to do now is win tomorrow night at Portland or they might as well forget about repeating their WCAC championship. At 0-2 jn conference play, USD is already 2Vz games be- hind leader Pepperdine. And, obviously, the Waves aren't going to be easy to unseat. They are 3-0 after defeating preseason confer- ence favorite Santa Clara 53-52 in the Bay Area last night.

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When.._Il.Sfilas~ met St. Mary's on the basketball court, all that was at stake was the 'w_VCAC title and an NCAA tournament bid. The Toreros took a 68-59 dec1s1on last year on the final day of the regular season and the Gaels concluded their season at least one game sooner than they expected. Will there be a revenge factor working for the Gaels thlS time? Proba- bly.. St. Mary's comes back into town tonight for a 7:30 assignment agamst the Toreros at the USD Sports Center, Th~ Gaels are ~oming off a 67-61 victory over pre-season conference favorite P~p~rdme last Saturday in the Bay Area, as they handed the Waves their first WCAC loss. . In that ~ame, St. Mary's senior forward David Cooke scored a career- high ~9 pomts a~d added nine rebounds. Cooke, who hit 15 of 18 from the foul !me, sank six straight critical free throws in the late going. He was named conference player of the week for that performance. The Gaels enter with a 2-1 WCAC record - 10-8 overall - and now that Gonzaga has lost leading scorer Bryce McPhee for the season ~ith a 'They have some really good athletes.... It looks like it's going to be our inside game against their quickness' -Hank Egan knee injury, probably rate among the top three teams in the conference. St. Mary's only loss in league play was a 57-55 defeat to the Bulldogs. "They have some really good athletes," said USD coach Hank Egan who has been stu~ying films of St. Mary's most of the week. "They have gr~t deal _of quickness. It looks like it's going to be our inside game agamst their quickness. They remind me an awful lot of Pepperdine in that respect." If the Gaels have a weakness, it would appear to be a lack of size. Thei~ front line fea_tures Cooke (6-7), Eric Cooks (6-6) and Bryan Shaw (6- 4), with Daryl Smith (6-0) and Paul Robertson (6-2) in the backcourt.

/ USD's w 4t gam S- T women' basketball ~earn, ll'd1iy1Jebbie Theroux, gained its fourth straight victory last night - a 66-56 defeat of visiting Point Loma Nazarene College. Theroux scored 15 points but 11 of the total came in the ~nd half wh~n the Toreras were widening their three-point (32-29) halftime lead. Also in the second hall, Kelly Sc~oeder scored eight of her 12 points and Mary tanbra added eight of her total of 10. USD (7-10), which led from the st:art and by as many as 14 (60-46) with SIX mmutes remainmg, outre- bounded the Crusaders 44-28 Theroux grabbed H. PLNC (10-11) got a game-high 20 potnts from Kar- men tiekney. _L1

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P. C, B fat. I 888 USD's Cah111 takes- a lol}g-range view By~kib~pa Tribune Sportswriter I T W,\S A PROGRAM that went from nowhere to respectability from the lower ~helon of the WCAC to the very top. About the only thing more shockmg than t~USD..l!!'sketball team's rise to the conference lltle and NCAA tournament last season was that it was accomplished so quickly. The posillve side to all this was that the Toreros managed to put them- selves on the athl_ellc map -: no small achievement for a school recognized almost solely for its acaderrucs They established instant credibility and set a standard that h~d never. been seriously discussed Jet alone attained. But t~e negative end 1s that one championship got some people automati-

cally thmkmg about a second. And. at the moment, this is a team that is s1111 struggling to find the same magic that put it over the top just 11 months ago. If it hadn't been for last year's success, state several Toreros, they would probably be content with their performance this year. If the players ~re making comparisons, one can imagine what followers of the team must be thinking ''I wa amazed at the reaction I got after the Pepperdine loss," said HSD athletic director Rev. Patrick Cahill, discussing the state of the program. The Toreros are 12-6 over- all and 1-2 in WCAC play entering tomorrow night's encounter with St. Mary's at the USD Sports Center. •·People were really curious to know what was wrong with the team." Cahill continued. "What surprised me the most is that this was after just one game. I hadn't heard much until then. I guess I re- ally didn't realize until then the ex- pectations had gotten that high or unrealistic."

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Cahill on thP other hand says he .___________ ..,1 is realistic - ~t least more ~o than some others. He doesn't appear concerned oyer t_he teams sub-par performance to date, is generally pleased with the d1rect10n of the program and has been impressed by the job of new coach Hank Egan. In truth, Cahill wasn t ~ven. counting on a championship season last year. that was before certam thmgs fell into place. I can remember some big games in previous years where we went down to the last second and ended up losing most of them," he said. "Last year, for ~hatever reason, we pulled a lot of them out. I think there were somethin hke ~even games down the stretch that went down to the final shot. We wo~ all of them. Call us the team of destiny or whatever but that's not going to ' To f ly appreciate how far this team progressed under former coach Jim Brovelh, coru1 der that th~ Tor~r?s. never had a winning record in the confer- ence before la f season. Smee JOinmg the Division I ranks m 1980 USD went 2-14, 3-11, 4-10 and 5 before turning things around with a 9-3 mark last year Pleases TORER C-6 happen very often."

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has set f:W'* forums to ad- ~l'eSstne recently published U.S. ' 11shops' Pastoral, "Catholic Social Teaching and the U.S. Economy." The first is scheduled for Monday at 7:30 p.m. in the Manchester Center on campus. Dr. Robert O'Neil, professor of economics, will address "An Historical Perspective of the Economic Pastoral. " The public is mvited to all the forums, the next ones scheduled for Feb. 26,

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. D ~EETS PORTLA D - J.ISD-wi!l attempt to rebound torught from Jts d1~p~!ntmg 58-45 1~ to Gonzaga in Spokane, Wa h. Thursda ni ht ~hen it vi its th Umvers1ty of Por an.9,jo W Co t Athl r f g hon ncounter, t rting t 7·30. S e IC ssoc1a- Portl nd' Pilots, co ched by Jack Avina, is consider d one of the m st mproved lubs in the conference The Pilots started off with a res tabl bl 0-5 non nferen record before dropping the1 fll'I three WCAC ~tes~ Ya cumulative total of 13 points.

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