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P. C. 8 Est. 1888 I USD Loses Close One to Santa Clara By ~c?J.~EMAN, Times Staff Writer SANTA CLARA-Statistically, the game between the University of San Diego and Santa mal"II-Wll9 eV'eryi:rii aa.close as the final score. Santa Clara defeated USO, 55-53, m the West Coast Athletic Confer- ence opener for both clubs Friday night at Toso Pavilion. In terms of intensity, USO Coach Hank Egan thought there was a gap between the clubs. "When you go into conference play, everything raises in intensi- ty," Egan said. "I don't think we raised our level like they did. We didn't get after them as hard as they got after us." Yet, a couple of free throws by one of Santa Clara's worst shooters and a missed 10-footer by Torero guard Mark Bostic made the differ- ence in the end. This was how close it was, Each team took 46 shots from the floor and got 30 rebounds. USO led at halftime, 26-25, and the lead changed hands through much of the second half. The Toreros fought back from a 51-46 deficit with 2:31 to play. With 38 seconds remaining in the game and Santa Clara leading 53- 51, Bronco forward Matt W1lgen- bush (79% free-throw shooter) missed the front end of a one-and- one. The rebound was tipped back to guard Chris Lane, who was fouled while going after the loose ball. Lane, 0 for 6 from the foul line this season, hit both ends of a Please aee USD, Pare 11

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USO.holds - of former ach's quad ~ 5 A ,ated Pres Pete Murphy scored 18 points and ils Madden added 16 as the Uqiv rsity of San Diego held off a late 'an Franci8co rally atur• d y and defeated the host Do~s 7 59 in a West Coast Athletic Coni rence basketball contest. West roundup rh Torero led by as many as 24 p mts m the second half be- fore a late USF rally closed the core to it 8 fi nal margin . San Diego evened it. conference re- ord to 1-1. while USF's record fell to l 1. The game marked the fi rst time USF Coach ,Ji m Brovelli h p layed the team he used to ( h before taking the USF job, . he on led only three mm- into the game before USO pulled way. t.:SF went nearly 10 minute without a field goal in th first half and hot 33 percent for the game. USD's biggest lead w 58·34 before the Dons made the1r charge. USC 81 , Arizona St. 72 LO A GELES - Freshmen Eric Gather . T om Lewis and Greg Kimble combined for 57 point to lead Sout hern Cal to a victory over Arizona State in a Pacihc-10 Conference game. Gathers scored a career -high 20 points, includ ing 16 in the econd half, while Lewis added 19 and Kimble 18 for t he Tro• j1m , who raised their conference r cord to 3-3, 8-7 overall. Bobby T hompson and Arthur Thomas each scored 18 points for t he Sun Devils, who fell to 1-4 in confe rence, 7-8 overall. U C hit 16 of 21 shot s (76.2 percent) from the field in t he econd half. The T rojans' victory was the 200th in t he career of Coach Stan Morrison, 100 of which h ve come while he was at USC. Washington 73, Oregon St. 72 CORVALLIS, Ore. - Center C'h ris Welp sco red 23 of his 27 points in the second half as Washington edged Oregon State to move into first place in the Pacific 10 Conference. The Huskies, 5-1 in the Pac- 1Oand 11-7 overall, took the lead for good at 65-64 on an 18-footer by fo rmer University of San Die- go player Al Moscatel with 3 mmutes and 10 seconds to play. Welp's three -point play with 1:27 t o go boosted the lead to 68- 64, and the Beavers never were able to maKe up the differ- ence. Arizona 81 , Miami, Fla. 74 MIAMI - Steve Kerr bombed for 28 points and Sean Elliott ad- ded 25 as Arizona claimed an overtime victory over upset- minded Miami. P laying before a home crowd of 3,156 at the Knight Center, Miami (8-7) led 58-46 with 10:49 to play. But the young Hurri- eanes faltered down the stretch. Kerr hit 10 of 16 shots, all ute

'1 was 6w20and struggled dur' ng my first year atUSD. but this isa lot · ficu t SiLu.ci1uun. bringing p ayers into a program that was non-existent for three years. rvehad 14 different personalities and there has beenalotof experimentation.~

IT'S HIM AGAIN Former USO Coach Is Trying to Patch Together a Program, but This Time It's in San Francisco

By MARC APPLEMAN, Times Staff Writer SAN FRANCISCO-Upon his return to this city of hills, University of San Francisco men's basketball Coach Jim Brovelli expected some peaks and valleys in restarting what had been a legendary program. However, USF has spent much of its time of late going downhill, and Brovelli could not have anticipated that the hill would be quite so steep. His injury-riddled Dons, who lost nine straight games after winning their first

four, are 6-9 going into tonight's 7:30 game against the University of San Diego at Memorial Gym. "It has been frustrating at times and disappointing at times, but we've never been discouraged," Brovelli said. "It's been an experience." When he left USO and took the USF job in the spring of 1984, Brovelli welcomed the challenge of bringing back a bask1· ball program that had been dropped. Please aee BROVELLI, Pare 1

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ASU 's Bobby Thompson drives by USC's Greg Kimble. from long ranie, in the second half to fuel the comeback for Ari- zona (12-5). H • finished with 14 of 24 on field al attempts, and ished with 12 points. Wyoming 94, Utah 79

LARAMIE, Wyo. - Wyo- ming's Turk Boyd and Fennis Dembo combined for 45 points, including 26 in the fi rst half, as · the Cowboys jumped out to an early lead against Utah and held on to win a WAC game. Boyd scored 24 points and Dembo 21 as the Cowboys, who shot a blistering 67 percent from the floor, moved to 3-1 in the WAC and 9-7 overall. The loss evened the Utes' league mark at 3-3 and dropped them to 11-6 on the season. Utah shot only 38 percent. New Mexic9 St. 48, Fresno St. 46 LAS CRUCES, N .M . - Junior guard Kenny Travis scored a season-high 23 points and un- shakeable New Mexico State held on for a victory over Fresno State in a Pacific Coast Athletic Conference game. The win was the seventh straight for New Mexico State, now 5-0 in the PCAA and 11-3 overall under first-year Coach Neil McCarthy. Fresno State dropped to 10-7 overall and 3-3 in the league. UC Irvine 99, UC Santa Barbara 88 IRVINE - Tod Murphy scored 22 points and Johnny Rogers added 18 to lead UC Ir- vine to a victory over UC Santa Barbara in a PCAA game.

none were froo inside 12 feet. California 75, tanford 69 STANFORD - Guard Kevin Johnson scor•d 23 points, in- cluding 12 in tht last 8:23, to lead California to a Pacific-IO Con- ference victory over Stanford. Johnson wa.i perfect on six free throws in 1he final 3:49, in- cluding four ir the last 14 sec- onds, to ensure the win. The Bears improved their conference rewrd to 3-2 and their overall mark to 11-4. Stanford dropped to 2-4 and 8- 10. Brigham Yoarg 65, AirForce57 AIR FORCE ACADEMY, Colo. - Briglum Young sank 9 of 11 free thr • w attempts, in- cluding four key free throws by senior guard Ri:hie Webb, in the last 1:35 to bett Air Force in a Western Athhtic Conference game. Brigham Yomg, now8-9 over- all and 4-2 in U-e WAC, led by 14 points with 10:20 remaining be- fore the Falcom, 7-10 overall and 1-5 in the leagt.e, fought back to within two at tle 1:49 mark. From that p • int, the Cougars sank nine fre1 throws to pull away for the victory. Sophomore forward Jeff Chatman led Ingham Young in scoring with 18points and pulled down six rebomds. Webb fin-

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Son a Claro Holds Off t re o~ 55-53 Santa Clara 1inal took th£> lead for good with less than seven minutes left in the game and held on the rest of the way to beat U. of an Diego, 55-53, at Toso Pa\_. la~ lilo,IL Ill e WC C opener San Diego had a 26-25 halftm1e edge and the lead changed hands 11 more times in the second half be- fore Steve Kenllvorrs layup with 6 35 remaining gave the Broncos a 45-44 lead. Ken Mulke) led Santa Clara (6-9, 1-0i Lth arareer-hlgh 14 point~. Dan ·weiss had 13 and Kenllvort 11 point and eight rebounds. Scott Thompson the Toreros' 7-0, 260- pound center, had 17 points and a career-high 17 r~bounds for San Diego 00-5, 0-1). Hayward loses UC na,is, shooting 67 percent and ls ng It• height advantage for a 41-2{; rebounding edge, beat ,•J !ling Hayward State, 88-59, to end the Pio- neers' 11-game v. in streak. Todd Reiswig had 17 points for the Aggies (11-6, 3-J J; Otis Ward topped Hay. v. ard !14-5, 41) with 17 pomts ... San Francisco State (9·10, 3-3J with Rob- ert Hickey scoring 20 pomts and Larry Wickett 18 Including 8-of-9 free throws down the stretch scored a 69-67 NCAC \1 ln orer host Humbold t State (fl.11 , 2 2).

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USD J c;)...f,.S--~ Continued from Pare 1 one-and-one to make it 55-51 with 35 seconds to play. USO guard Pete Murphy hit a 20-footer from the right corner to make it 55-53 with 26 seconds left. After forward Mitch Burley missed the front end of a one-and- one for Santa Clara, the Toreros had the ball and a chance to tie. Murphy got the ball in the right corner and appeared to try and shake loose for the type of shot he had hit seconds earlier. "They cut him off pretty good," Egan said. "They double-teamed him, and we were able to get a decent shot by swinging the ball around to the back side." Bostic's 10-footer from the left

baseline hit the front rim and the Broncos came down with the re- bound. "The shot felt good,'' Bostic said. "The two shots I took in the first half rolled around and went in. I should have hit it, but I know I was the last open man they were look- ing to." It was a night when the USO offense, which connected on only 39% of its shots, rarely seemed to be in the right place at the right time. "The offense wasn't too smooth,'' said center Scott Thompson, who was the game's high scorer and rebounder with 17 points and a career-high 17 rebounds. "It seemed like we were taking quick shots and weren't in our rhythm." Forward Mark Manor added 12 points and Murphy had 11, all in the second half. Murphy missed 16

minutes of the first half after picking up his third foul. "He's one of our main outside shooters,'' Egan said of Murphy. "But in past games this season, someone moved in and filled the void when we needed it. That didn't happen tonight." The Toreros weren't pleased with their performance, but they were quite impressed with the way the Broncos played. Santa Clara entered the game with a 5-9 mark, but rose to the occasion in front of 3,214fans. "They were well prepared for us,'' Egan said. "They cut off a lot of things we do, and they did a heck of a job taking away our basic stuff." In addition to playing smart and aggressive defense, the Broncos also hit 50% of their shots from the floor.

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