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Sunday, December 15, 1985

T~eros. Tron Aztecs;1-~ c..M•l,.nnd from 11-1 vious losses, but this time couldn't stoma h 30 percent shooting from the floor USO coach Hank Egan concurred that the collection of players in Red and Black last night was not the true Aztecs. "They've played better than that," he said. "You know, they're road- weary." Egan was referring to SOSU's first five game , all played on the road. Last night was supposed to be a homecoming though actually 10 of the 14 Aztecs ~ho dr e i had never practiced or played on the Sports Arena floor before yesterday The Toreros, who hadn't bounced a ball on the ar wood before yesterday either, came out as 1f they knew the place. USO controlled the opening tip and almost every other moment of the first half hitting 19 of 31 shots and two of three from the line on its way to a 40-22 lead. During the first 20 minutes, the Aztecs shot 27 percent from the field (9-of-34). From the line, they were only 4-of-12. The Toreros ran up a 6-0 lead as the Aztecs went the first 2 33 without scoring. \li atson fmally knocked one through, hiltmg a short baselme jumper al the 17:27 mark, but the Toreros stayed hot an had pushed the lead to 12-4 by the ume Games decided he d seen enough and called a ti eout at 15:12. Whatever he said in the sideline huddle was not enough. USO outscored SDSU, 14-3, over the next 6½ minutes, with Mark Manor and Murphy hitting long jumpers and the rest of the Toreros having their way with the Aztecs in- side. The 17-point deficit, at 26--9, was the largest for the Aztecs this season. During their loss at Oral Roberts 11 SDSU's Anthony

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try anything, had a lineup of fresh- man Scruggs, freshman Tracy Dildy, freshman Kevin Brown, freshman Rob Hawkins and ophomore Dave DesRochers. Neither Hawkins nor DesRochers, both fresh off the Aztecs football team. had ever played in a collegiate basketball game. As a reward for the victory, Egan received the Mayor's Trophy after the game, the first time the Toreros have won it smce Pete Wilson start- ed the tradition in 1979. But the coach said afterward that this series has still not become a true rivalry.

With freshman Johnny Scruggs, who had a season-high 12 pomts, hil- ling from outside, the Aztecs did manage to move within 12, 62-50, with 6:08 left. But USO, which was in the bonus situat10n with 14:41 left, hit 13 of its last 19 free throws - the Toreros were 25-of-37 in the game (68 per- cent) - and coasted to the final mar- gin. With 11:30 left Gaines, willing to

"We felt we had to win this one, because we hadn't done it before," said Egan. "Hank's got a good ballclub," said Gaines. "They came out and they hit their shots and they got confidence." And as for his players, who were too shocked and upset to talk to the press after the game? "This is a devastating blow to

Watson brought the Aztecs back briefly, hittmg three straight baskets and a free throw to cut the lead to 12. But then USO was off and running again, outscoring SDSU, 12-3, to gain 1 biggest lead of the half at 40-19. Forward James Knight scored six of the pomts, including two tip-in bas- kets. the Aztecs never had much of a chance to close In the second half,

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'USD-~ces South Flor·da in Tournament SAN~G<5-The l}m~sitt..Q_f 7-foot center Scott Thompson, who The champ1onsh1p game will be S,w D1e_go ~asketball team, coming is averaging 13.0 point per game. played at 6 p.m. Satu,.iay following off of its ;rst victory over San Guard Pete Murphy, who scored a the consolation game. Diego State last Saturday, will career high 2:l points 1 the 81-64 -CHRIS ELLO meet South Florida at 4 p.m. today wm over SDSU is av raging 10.7 m the frrst round of the second points per game. Longhorn Tournament at Austin, South Florida (3 3) 1s led by 6-5 Calendar/ San Diego Tex. Junior guard Martin Teal, who is The Toreros ( 5-3) have won averaging 13.8 points per game • Greyhound Racing both of _their games on neutral In today's second game, Texas 2:30 p.m.-Agua Caliente. courts this season. USD 1s led by will meet Alaska Anchorage 7:45 p.m.-Agua Caliente. 1 -~~-.;._______ _ _ _____ul,

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• • • FAST START - Serra High's basket• ball team went all the way to the finals of the Bakersfield tournament before losing in the championship game to powerful Fresno Edison 60- 37. Serra won its first five games of the season before losing to the Cen- tral Section team, going 3-0 in the Mt. Helix tournament, and then beat- ing Bakersfield and Sao Francisco Washington in the Bakersfield meet. Coach Tom Williams' first team of Steve Smith, Deven Moran, Anthony Moore, Matt Van Scyoc and Michael Karp has done virtually all of Serra's scoring, but both Smith and Van Scyoc were. nursing injured ankles going into this afternoon's game Poway High's perennially strong wrestling team won the Coca Cola-Marauder tournament last Saturday, scoring 216 points to outdistance Escondido's 141. St. Augustine took third with 110 and was followed by Vista with 97, Mira Mesa 93, Army-Navy 89, Hoo- ver 86, Patrick Henry 76, Clairemont 75 and El Cajon 74. A total of 20 schools participated. The championship matches: 98 - Medma (Mira Mesa) dee. Pbai (El Cap1lan), 9-3. 105 · Pacheco (St. Augustine) dee. Story (Poway}, 4-3; 112 - Sailors (El Cajon) dee. Legaspi (Poway), 3-2 in overtime; 119 - Cromley (Hoover) dee. Rozsa (Clairemont), 21-5; 126 - Watts (Poway) dee. Dulay (Henry), 13-4; U2 - O'Brian (Poway) dee. Murguia (SL Augustine), 8--0; 138 - Cepeda (San Diego) dee. Anderson (Poway}, 9-8; as - Eagle (Poway) dee. Monshige (University), 7-@; 154 - Martinez (Escondido) dee. Aguilar (St. Augus- tine), 10-2; 165 - Cronk (Henry) won by disqualifi- cation over Shrim (El Cajon); 175 - Damirjian (Clairemont) pinned Medrano (St. Augustine), :!3; 191 - Wilmont (Vista) won by disqualification over Molaison (St Augustine); Heavyweight - Patstone (Escondido) pinned McCauley (Army-Navy), 3:51. against Kearny. • • • TITANS TRIUMPH -

• • • SUNDEVIL TOURNEY - The Mt. Carmel girls basketball tournament gets under way tomorrow with four City Conference schools, Mira Mesa, La Jolla, Madison and University, en- tered in the eight-team affair. In tomorrow's opening games, Mira Mesa plays San Marcos at 3

Stewart, who bad a 2-8 record this season and is 13-26-1 for his four years as the Saints coach, will con- tinue to teach biology at the North Park school. lo his previous Saints seasons, he had 6-4, 1-9 and 4-5-1 records. Stewart's resi ati · d among City Conference schools since the close of the 1985 season. Previ- ously, Willie Matson had stepped down at Mission Bay after two years, and Nate Wright resigned at Claire- mont after only one season. St. Augustine is accepting applica- tions and will do so until Jan 10 when it will select its new coach. • • • KEARNY COACH - John Gunth• er, assistant baseball coach at USD to John Cunningham for the past seven years, is the new baseball coach at Kearny High, succeeding Steve Soldi. Gunther, 39, who teaches at Mont- gomery Junior High in Linda Vista, has previously had most of this year's Kearny baseball prospects in his Montgomery classes. ASan Diegan for the past 13 years, Gunther was an interim head coach at the University of the Pacific dur- ing the 1972 season and served on the UOP staff for two years. He was on coach Jim Dietz's staff at San Diego State in 1973-74, moved to Mesa College under Bill Sandback in 1975 and stayed through 1979. He then joined Cunningham at USD. Mike Fazekas, a Patrick Henry product who played for Gunther at USD, will be the Kearny pitching coach, and Troy McLaughlin will

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Preps p.m., La Jolla takes on Vista at 4:45, Madison go against Hilltop at 6:30, and University plays Mt. Carmel at 8:15. Madison, San Marcos and the host Sundevils would appear to be the strongest teams. The semifinals will be played Thursday and the champi- onship game Friday evening. ••• WARHAWK TOURNEY - Four of the teams in the Mt. Carmel tourney, Madison, Mira Mesa, La Jolla and Mt. Carmel, will also compete in the Warhawk-Coca Cola tournament scheduled to start at Madison High the day after Christmas. Semifinals in the Warhawk are set for Friday, Dec. 27, and the champi- onship game will be Saturday eve- ning, Dec. 28. First round pairings have Mt. Car- mel vs. Serra at 3, Lincoln vs. San-

close calls down the stretch really hurt us," said Toreros coach Hank Egan. "I still can't believe that play at the end. We're disappointed but we'll come back tomorrow." ' The Toreros were set to play Alas- ka-Anchorage today at 4 p.m. (PST) in the consolation game of the four- team tournament. Tourney host Texas defeated Alaska-Anchorage 68-57 in the second game of the dou- ble-header last night. Teal, who hit just 7 of 19 field goal attempts, led all scorers with 16 points. Bostic had 15, junior Mark Manor 12 and 7-foot center Scott Thompson 11 for the Toreros. The defeat dropped USD's record to 5-4 on the season. Off next week for Christmas, the Toreros return to action against Northern Iowa on Dec, 30 at the USO Sports Center.

The USD ba§ketbafiteam had a one-point lead possession of the ball and didn't even have to take a shot during the closing seconds of last night's game against South Florida in the opening round of the Longhorn Classic at Austin, Texas. So how did the Toreros let things slip away' See if you can follow. After turning the ball over then fouling Martin Teal, Teal miss~d the front end of his one-and-one. Toreros forward James Knight went up for the loose ball and inadvertently swatted the ball through the basket with 12 seconds remaining. USD forward Mark Bostic missed a 30-foot desperation shot at the buzzer and South Florida had itself a 56-55 victory. "We hung in tough, but a couple of

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