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"If we put our best team out there and they put theirs out," said Egan, "it'll be tit for tat. After that, I don't know because they have a lot of ways they can go. And you've got to play awfully well to win here. Awfully well." The Toreros didn't play awfully well, but well enough. Tomorrow night, against UNM before probably more than the 17,121 who showed up last night, they'll have to play better. After a second-half lapse - "We got a little conservative early,'.' ~aid Egan "didn't really go after 1t. - USO ~t least pressed late with Mur- phy and his six straight points. That gave USO a six-point lead, its biggest except for the first minute of the half. "Sometimes I think Pete should start," said Egan, who won his first game in The Pit after years of unsuc- c ful attempts as the Air Force coach, "but it's nice to have him coming off the bench. He's a heady player who does all the little things righl" Murphy came of the bench in the first four minutes to hit his second shot, then immediately tied up the ball for a jump, which went to USO. On a team that appe~ed a little ten•

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F.,r. 1888 'New Mexico feat USD .!lf/'3~ Lob ru away with game with 22-6 surge in 2nd half Special to tbe Union ALBUQUERQUE - Kelvin Scarborough, New Mexi- co·s smooth and swift guard, had 14 points and six ass1Sts last night to lead the host Lobos to a 61-46 victory over the University of San Diego in the title game of the Tipoff Basketbail lournament. Johnny Brown the Lobo ' 6-foot-6 en1or forward from Lo Angeles, scored 20 points and was named the tourney's Most Valuable Player. CSO (1-1) wa. playing befor the largest crowd ever to watch the Torero play 17,086. Swmgman lark Bo tic, the only Torero named to the all-tourney team, was limited to three ba kcts and 10 shots. Guard Kiki Jackson led U D with 10 points. With the stronger and quicker Lobos leading 27-22 late in the first half, Scarbor g drove the lane and flipped in an underhand coop. He was fouled and converted the three-point pl y San Diego coach Hank Egan slapped the hardwood fl or in disgust. That failed to awak n the Torero . ew Mexico out- scored San Diego 22-6 m ther first 13 minutes of the second half. wn six (30-24) at halftime was pret- ty good," Egan aid. "But we didn't come out as a team m the second h I We came out as individuals Every- body just v. ent sol '1'hat was the turmng point. We just didn't come out to play. "We just got killed off the boards, and we shouldn't have." Erasing San Diego on the boards was 7-foot, 280-pound Lobo freshman Rober Loeffel of Banning. Loeffel's bulk blocked 7-foot, 250-J, , d Torero center Scott Thompson. San Diego was out-rebounded 34-30. The Toreros, who open their home season Friday n ght agamst evada-Reno at the USO Sports Cen r, had won their opening game in the four-team tourney·-Friday, beating Long Beach State 70-63. The 49ers, behmd center Vince Jefferson's 16 points and 17 rebounds, romped past cold-shooting Bucknell. 65- 45, in the consolation game. "I thought being

By T.R. Reinman Tribune. portswriter A LBUQUERQ E - After two years at Mesa (Ariz.) Com- munity College, Pete Murphy not only had no scholarship offers, he had spine ligament damage suffered in a car accident. Without any playing prospects at a Division I school, he enrolled at UCSO. Three weeks before school started last year, and after not play- ing for a year, he received a call from USO co nk Egan, who neede a shooter after Al Moscatel had transferred to Washington. Mur- phy was it. . In the first game of the New Mexi- co Tipoff Tournament last night, Long Beach State whittled USO's lead down to 54-52 with five minutes to play. With USO's three biggest men having fouled out, Murphy came off the bench to hit two long jumpers and a one-and-one. USO won 70-63. The Torero play New Mexico m the championship game tomorrov. night. Bucknell was tied at 27 points each with the Lobos at halftime, and at 36 with 15:21 to play. Then Uf'j pulled its big team from the floor, sent out its quick one, ran off a 10-0 streak in four minutes and finally won 71.57

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1,oyola-l\1arymount volleys a~y USD The u?rXfsil.y of~Diego women's volleyball team fell to Loy- ola ~1a.-ymount 8-lfl, 15-8, 15-7, 15-10 in action last night at the USO Sports Center. Amanda Amberson had 12 kills and five digs for Loyola (14-3, 7-4). Kris Mitchell had 14 kills and Gina Trapletti 12 for the Toreros (2-23, 1- 10). USO s fmal home match of the sea- son i tonight against WCAC champi- on Pepperdine at 7:30 L

Murphy, who at 6-4 can play at t~.e big guard or 1ther forward ·pot. I get a feel for th flow of the game from there. Wh n I go in, it's just a matter of t ppln up and hitting that little 20-foot r.' With Long Beach State sagging in- id on center Scott Thompson and forward , 11 Madden, Murphy had all the little 20•foot rs he wanted And that helped open the in ide f~r Mark Bo tic, back after a years layoff with a broken ankle. A ake unlll 5:30 yesterday morn- ing with a case of nerv~s, he h~d o_nly butterflies by game time. His first move, a double-pump layup in traf- fic, wa USO's first field goal. Long B ach State never led after 2-1. f "Pete' our heart and soul with I that jump r," said Bostic, who also 1 had 14 points and kept the team ~n whatever tempo it could must!r m the cond half "I'm not a Jump shooter. rm a take-it-to-the hole kind t of person" r The 49ers have three former San Diego kind of persons. Last yea_r's Grossmont League MVP Demetrius Lafitte of Monte Va ta, and Sweetwa- ter High' aron Combs only watched as ophomore Reggie Wal- lac out of Sweetwater by way of Oregon, scored 11 points USO came out a little flat in the second half, bowed igns of weak- ness agamst pressure, and watched Its early 37-29 lead hrink to 63-52 ith 5:41 to play as W all11ce hit on a couple of bomb . "I wa n t really concerned," said Bo tic, who as s al played both guard and mall forward and had even rebounds. "We have the per- sonnel to win. It' not a five- or six- man team We bowed that tonight." Eleven of 12 Toreros played, eight of them for at least nine minutes. And in crunch time, they won it at the free-throw line.

"The only thing we talked about afterward was having to continue the attack for 40 minutes." But he's thinking about how to light a fire under Thompson. The seven-footer, who made three of only 'The only thing we talked about afterward was having to continue the attack for 40 minutes' -Hank Egan

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five shots and had two rebounds in 23 minutes, fouled out with five minutes . . ... "We've got to get him gomg, said Egan. "He's going to come, but he's just taking his time." Meanwhile, Murphy :,viii take whatever time he gets. After what he has been through, it's all gravy, any- way. •The five we've got right now are doing the job," he sai~. 'Tm happy just playing. It was a big adJustment from junior college. There, guys are two or three inches taller. Here. there's seven-footers and guys who jump through the gym. It's a whole different game." Making the switch this year is 6-6 Mark Manor, last year's league MVP at Mesa. d ,, "But the adjustment can be ma e'. said Murphy. "Just step up and h1~... - the easy 20-footer." "'

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May it was a case of jitters, or pcrhap 1t was just a good defensive effort. But.U.SD:s..basketball team hit just 20 of 53 shots from the floor (37.7 percent) last night in the finals of the Tipoff Basketball Tournament in Al- 46. And it could have been much clos- er. The To eros were within 30-24 at the intermission, only to be outscored 22-6 in the first 13 minutes of the crowd a Toreros team has ever played before, USO went through a cold stretch and never recovered. "I thought being down six at half- time was pretty good," said Toreros coach Hank Egan, whose club opened the 1985-86 season with a 70-63 wm Friday night over Long Beach State in the tourney's opening round. "But we didn't come out as a team in the buquerque,, ·.M. Final score: 'ew Mexico 61, t:SD second half. In front of 17,086, the largest

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