News Scrapbook 1985
Vista, CA (San Diego Co.) Morning Presa
San Diego, CA (San Diego Co.I Evening Tribune (Cir. D. 127,454)
San Diego, CA (San Diego Co.l Evening Tribune (Ci r. D. 127,454!
(D. 7,676) (S. 7,967)
JAN11 1985
Jl{~,i't P. C. B ht. 1888 Preparedness key to Torero-s' future By Mi hael Canepa 1'ribun Spo,-tswriter , While most everyone else wa till recuperating from variou New Years Eve a tivilies the USO basketball team welcom d 1985 Tuesday w1lh one of Its most inte~ prac 1 . of the season Y lcrday, i was more of th same. w Year's resolution of me kind for Torero coach Hank Egan' Not exactly. "I' 1 ked the kids "It' mething I've alway done," said Egan. ve a ways wor . pretty hard on January 1st. JU t in ca e there were any of them _who did a httle too much celebrating the rugh( before It's our way of starting off the ew Year on the nght foot" . ·t That, of course, wa al he practice cour U D will attem_pt to carry 1 over into a game situatlon tonight when 1t ta es on Concordia College of Seward, Neb, beginning at 7:30 at the USD ports C nte~ The Toreros come mto action with a 7-4 record, but their ffort the past few w ks hasn't been Impressive. They are coming off a pair ms ]ast week ov r Hardm· immons and John Brown ncither considered a maior threat - by a combm d total of just eight points. . Obviously, USD i. n't where it wants to be at this pomt of the season. Nowh re clo But the important thmg as far as Egan c; concerned IS that rus, team tlll has four mor games all of them at home - before the W t Coa t Athl tic Conf r n e ason opens. . " "I really don't t tber ' any m gic to geltin there' said Egan: We Just have t work as hard as we can. I certaialy don't want to force the issue. ]I I should succumb to fru trallon, wh1 h l ha en't yet I could mess it up. I ve to I t It com tog ther naturally a pos 1ble "In a way th , games are the toughest ·c1use they are the type of_ teams we should beat," added Torero guard K1ki Jackson. "And they a_re Just as 1 mportan th rest. If we could put together six straight wins before conferen , 1t ould be a great psychological lift ' So far, the T r r have won two straight and Jackson has played a key role in e ch of th m The 6-1 Junior from Phoenix hit 14 of 17 shots, from ~he floor in both wins la t week and ha establi h d hunself as l!SD s leading threat from th outside . . Against Concordia, Jae on will tart alongside Chris Carr in the backcourl, with Scott horn on, Anthony Reuss and Nils Madden up front. It's the same Im up the Tor r have gone with the past several weeks an?, d pite their recent lack of intensity, there doesn't appear t~ be any drasllc chang com ng up in the n ar future "We: don't n d to change anything rn our personnel or our ecution," said Egan. •·w Just n d to get tougher." Concordia, which enter· play with a 6-8 record. will be conclu?ing a three- game ·wing in uthern California The Bulldogs of the _NAI_A District 11 are coming off loss to Loyola Marymount 61-51 and UC R1vers1de 93-66... . . They are expected to s nd out a tarting lineup of Dan Lehnerz and Jim Love al forward, Mike Wert at center, and Dave Ru ert a~d Ray Nutter_ in the backcourt Wert 1s their tallest tarter at 6-6; Russei:t 1s the only semor among that group. Nutter leads the team with a 22.8 scorrng average. •.. The Toreros are led by Reuss, who is averaging 12.2 points and 7.4 rebounds through their fif'l 11 garn . Right behmd him is the 6-11 Thompson at 11.5 and 7.1
Jlllen '• ius r-Reuss dumps in 20 t o lead USO victory ,,.. By Associated Press q5 ---------• Anthon> 1'euss scored 20 COLLEGE HOOPS points to lead the Un iver- sit} of San Diego to a 67- 56 non-conference college 1asketball victory over Southwest Texas Stale last -------- ni!!,hl at USD. Reus l1il made four field ;;oals and 12-of 15 free throws as the Torerns improved their record to 10-4. Scott Thompson had 14 points for San Diego and Chns Curr added 11. :\1itd1 Ferguson and Arthur \\'illiams led South" est J'exas with 10 points apiece. The Bohcab, 4 7, con,erted all 16 of their free th rems. USD jumped to a 31-18 halftime lea? an~ wa alrcad b} us man) as 15 on se, cral occ_us10ns ~n the sc•t•(,r,d half, the la t at 55-40 , iU1 hvce rumutes remaining. llCLA 75 WASHINGTON ST. 48: Senior center' Brad\\ ri~ht had <·arc'er highs of 21 points and 14 rehoum.ls lo lt·ad UCLA lo a Pacifie-10 Con- fcr('l1CP basketball ,·ktor) owr \\'ashington Stale in Los Angel(•s. UCLA k
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.-fu.L tRRR ·Balanced race in WCAC 'X~it~;89-84 winner USD By Miclet Canepa Tribune Sport...,rlter I N t1rn PAST, the \Ve.qt Coast Alhh•Uc . onference baskelbilll collt!',t has been little or no cont!'st at all. More quq~nhe haq surrounded lhe All· league selections. Favorites usually won, undr.rdog~ usually lost and t!SF and Pepperdlne had done its share of making this an annual lw~~tMm·aff~1r. But whe,n !ISF d~opped the sport after the 1981-82 seasrJn, thmgs started to even ouL So much so that a little-known USD squad came from nowhere to capture lhe WCAC till" last year and earn an automatic NCAA tournament berth , Did the Toreros' surprise championship start a new trend? It, probably too early to tell . Bul as the WCAC rarP begins tomorrow, th re doe~n•t appear to a weak link among the group. And there ls evldencP lo back 1t up. Consider the following observations: , • Every team comps into confer1>nce play with a wlnnin_g r cord Thats the first time this has occurred in lhe WCAC s 33 yrars of existence. • Every team ls coming off at least one wm. USO ha~ the longest wlnn~ng streak al six straight, with Gon1.aga nndJ.:epperdine right behind with five wins in a row. • The seven mel'f!Jers have a combined home rl'cord of 51 3 (94.4 percent). pJ,.a.~e see wcAc, r,-s SAN DIEGO (11·4) - This may be the mystery team of the entire confer-
ence. The Toreros have looked great in some spots, looked terrible in oth- ers c1nd still havPn't managed to put together a compi?t<: -iO-mrnute game yet this season. Will the real USO team fmally come lo play Saturday night 10 its WCAC opener against Peppcrdine? Coach Hank Egan undoub~ly hopes so. He's cert,unly running oul of time, Basically, there are two keys to the Toreros' conference season - Kiki Jackson and Scott Thompson. Jackson has provided USO with its only reli- able outside threat - he's averaging 10.8 pomts a game - and the 6-11 Thompson (11.3) is one of the few true
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big men m the WCAC. He's hkely to be a marked man this season. Eg,m's most consistent performer has been senior forward Anthony RellliS I\ fonner Christian High standout, Reuss leads the club in both 8Coring (12.8) it'pd rebounding (6.8\ and was an all-conference choice a year ago.
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WEBER ST. 76, RENO 74: At Reno, rcscne forward Kent Hagen hit a 17-foot baseline jumper \\ itlr four seeoi1 San Diego, CA (San Diego Co .] Even ing Tribune (Cir, D, 127,454) JAN 1 1 85 Vista, CA (San Diego Co.) Morning P.-.ss (D. 7,676) (5. 7,967) v1Zf~ '• F.sr. 1888 P. C. B 'PO~ ~AKE ON WAVE~ - Tb~ailketball team opens West Coast Athletic Conference play to- night on its home floor against Pep- perdine. Pepperdine, the pre-season WCAC favorite, started its confer- ence play with a 77-62 win over Loy- ola Marymount on Thursday night. The Waves boast a 12-6 record, a six- game winning streak and, at more than 80 points a game, the WCAC's most explosive offense. The Toreros (11-4) also have won their last six straight. , TORERO WOMEN WIN - The USD's women's basketball team, down 13 points at the half, came back to beat Pepperdine 84-79 last night at Malibu. Torero guard Mary Stanbra hit for 30 points. Also last night,rthe UCSD women's team beat Claremon Mudd 72-65. / Jl. ll~ri·• P C B , ., 18X,\ / u, ~-i~(}t ~~)?.~!~",: 12 of I, s gar11t-high 18 points in the second half last n1glrt a !ht Lm,~of San Di(•go outscored '> 111lh\H t Baptist (.\lo:)4r-n 111 tire second half to t,ike ,1 Gl, 1!) rrrm-t·onfrrt•11et· collegt- ba~ketbull 1 rllon South" t 8 1pt,,t , ,, lrieh held a 28-2.5 halftillle edge. till t d 36 3J ,, ilh 1.5.32 remaining, hut tht> 1 • nr s co ·d the 11e;,;l c·ighl points and "e11I on , red of! a 3,3.3 ,tri11~ a, the BPareab went the l.,s lO 27 "lllrrnrl a ride! goal. an Drt•go 1s no,1 ll-4 \\ !rile the Beareals are • I I Hocln \ oc! It-ti S\\ Baptist" ith 13 points. \1110,11 Heu" added 12 point\ for San Diego a111I Chri, Carr !rad 11. ----'~- • San Diego, CA {San Diego Co.) Evening Tribune (Cir. D. 127,454 ) AN 161985 v1lf/e11 '• P. C. B F.. Sudde By ~ efcfn:pa ly chips are down, so Toreros looking for hot hand long. "So we'll have to stop them from making many fast-break baskets, They execute their offense real well and they do it with good athletes. This could well be the best team we've faced all season," ''This is going to be a real good test for us," added senior guard Chris Carr, "because we haven't played a real good team in our last six games. I guess it's about time to stop putting it off. We need a real tough test right off the bat to see where we stand." Basically, the Toreros (11-4) haven't played a solid, emotional game since a 76-60 thrashing of UC Santa Barbara. And that came back on Dec. 8. From there, USO went on the road for back-to-back tournament ap- pearances in Dallas and Stockton in which it won one of four games. That was then followed by a six-game non-conference home stand against less superior teams - all of which were won by the Toreros in a non- impressive manner. Egan will s rt hi usual lineup of Reuss and Nils Madden at forward, Scott Thompson at center, with Carr and Kiki Jackson in the backcourt. school we're going up against. I've played them before, so I know how tough they can be." In truth, this could be the best team the Toreros have faced all season - and that includes San Diego State. The Waves, who opened their WCAC schedule with an easy 77-62 win last night over Loyola Marym- ount, come into town with a fine 12-6 record, a six-game winning streak and the best offense in the WCAC. By far. Their 80.6 points per game average is nearly seven better than No. 2 Santa Clara. They are also loaded at every position. Guards Dwayne Polee (15.9) and Jon Korfas (12.7), forwardi; ,Fr•r White 14.6) and Anthony Frederick (13.4), and center Levy Middlebrooks (11.9) are all ranked among the conference's top 15 scorers. Polee and Middlebrooks each had 20 last mght against the Lions. In comparison, USO has just one player among lbe-Ieague leaders and that's Reuss at 12.8. The Toreros as a team are averaging 63.9 points an outing and don't have nearly the overall speed and quickness as Pepper• dine. "I think the game will be won between the free throw lines," said D coach Hank Egan, who has been watching film of lhe Waves all week TribuDe Sportswriter The mood around ,..,._...mese days is pretty much the same, really. Coaches are sWl working hard, players are being worked even harder and both seem just as optimistic now as when basketball practice com- menced some three months ago. So what makes the Toreros' next game any different from the 15 previous' This 1s when they start playing for keeps. There are no more Southwest Baptists on the remaining schedule, no more ohn Browns and, hopefully, o more problems with a lack of intensity. Up next is Pepperdine University tomorrow night in the opener of the West Coast Athletic Conference season, And if that alone can't get USO emot1onally ready to play, nothing will. "If we're not on a high for this one then we should seriously get something checked out,' said senior forward Anthony Reuss, whose Toreros will face Waves beginning at 730 at the USOSports Center. "Thi is what it' all a Tb· is what we',;e been talking about aoo orking for all this ti . "But I don't see any problem. This is a highly respected Division I
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