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rhamp1onsh1p team tv o years go. Th crowd was mto 1t, anj that re Hy t,elpcd u . I'm glad to be a µart of thi: " Egan allowed hims~lf a smile. "This a fun, • he sa1'l. ' What more could you want' The band played pretty good, too." Egan, of cours , under tands that thi~ was not an occasion to be long celebrated or savored. This was no time to cut the nets off the rim or spray champagne or over- turn police cars. This was not the culmu ation f a dream. but r her taste 0 , what might b accom phshed. 'd "This wa one game ' he sa1 . "The next three arP ur toughest three of th~. easor1 This 1s a cnllcal time for us. . . Loyola Marymount will v1S1t USD's cozy little steam room to- night. It will be another very big occw ion m Alcala Park because Loyola (5-0) is now the occupant of first place m the WCAC A qwrk of cheduling will cause USD to play Loyola a."ld p J,perdine ag...n next. weer., but on tne road w-~~----l 10 fr l A thE:r night, ..not er game At least another party and maybe arothe: . Oh yes, also on the agenda s Hank Egan's Special Program :or Shedding Pounds While Exerc1Smg Nothing More Tmng Than Vocal Chords. celebral!on.

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thorough )Ob or di mantling Pepperdine, a team which w r nk 20th nallonally by United Pre Interna- tional. Th 1'orer at the Waves by a mode 69-6-4, but by many 18 points in the second half. rclm did .m k I r lnt.ln:Udlltlrrg run down tr tch, but that only m de It more interest.Ing. ardl •USD'1 fan would not have fall n asleep ev n if th 1r h were up by 30. Th e pe ple were going to n.JOY a wm by. ny margin. USD fans mu t think Alcala Park ii in North rolina. They appro ch a big game with th t kind of f rvor nd fever. They come with pa1 tr.;! aces, and they come early. Th USO Sports Center ii not much bigger than a una. and not much cooler, either. Th w· an occasion reminiscent of that climactic game two y ra ago, when USO needed to beat St. ary'a to wm Its first W Coast Athletic Conference champ1onsh1p nd make ilA ira v a tournament. The Sports Center was filled more ~an two hours before that game, and the celebration rev bcrat a long llm in the aftermath. Once aga n, the Toreros e In a position to make a run at another WCAC ti tie. However Pepperdine wo ld not be an e Y mark. Consid r th~t th Waves. before Thursday night, had suff red thr e 108 es In the 1985-86 season-to Kans . Kentucky and DePaul. Not bad company. A couple minutes before the game began, the public ddress announcer asked the fans to alide toward the center of the bleachers lo make room for folks standing In the aisles. I couldn't figure how the people in th middle could get any cloger If they were actors nan X-rated movie. Amid this dm, It was up to Egan's Toreros to mamtain d1scipllne and order. The frenzy of the crowd was more in tune with the rhythm Pepperdlne wo d I POR C I

YUSDt Coming Off Big Win, Faces Loyola Marymount ~~GO-The..ll.!! versitv of for first w th a victory over the and Forrest McKenzie (19.3). 6-foo~ 4-inch _senior guard scored

18 pomts agamst the Wave and has played an important role m USD . recent hot 1,tre..k. Scott Thomp6on (13.2). Murphy (12 9) and f~rw~d Mark Bostic (10.1) lead USD Ill rcormg At tne Sports Center, the Toreros have uut.~cored their opponents by an average of 17 points per game.

First-year coach Paul Westhead has put together a fast-paced of- fen e that 1s averaging 83.5 pomts U O guard Pete Murr,hy, who •uffcred a spramed left a kle an•~t Pepperdm.:, is exn •cted to be n unifotrn Wnlght. Murphy aid per game th i~ season

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ru -Diego-men's ba.ketballteam, c mm off lt.s big'1:est victory of the Peppcrdm . will play anotner im- portant game at 7 30 tomght when it faces fll's -place Lo~¥.ary- ount at the U D po~er The oreros ( 4-1 m V. est Coa,t Athletic Ccnf.:rence pl Y Ii 14-5 OveraJ .l) after the1·r 69-"• v1cto~ -:iver the waves. can mov,. mto e O't 'J ea.o~ Thursday iight O er

USD ha w n 9 of 10 games, including 4 traight, anct 1 Pat- Pn in nine home games trus seafon. Lo ola h~ won even stra ght and leads :.h,-, Toreros and Pepp r

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sD: oreros third ·n WCAC after first home loss Continuedfr:o1-t trol his anger. "Especially since still were down by six, 70-64, but spurred by the overflow crowd of 2,800-plus, they marched back. a full-court press. It worked brilli- antly. Leonard ended up driving the lane and dropping in a hanging IO-footer with 11 seconds left.

who kept his dribble, electing not to pass to any of his teammates. His coach could find no fa ult with that. "Unless somebody IS wide open, we want him to keep the ball," said Westhead. "He's the first and last shot." "I just wanted to dribble into posi- tion where I wanted to shoot, not where they wanted me to shoot," said Smith. Smith, the leading scorer and as- sist man in the WCAC, finished with 22 points and eight assists.

Guard Pete Murphy, who came mto the game on a tender left ankle but scored a team-high 18 points, tied up Yoest out near mid-court. The re- feree signalled jump balf, and on al- ternating possessions, it went to USD. The Toreros used their last timeout to set up for the tying shot. Egan wanted the ball to go inside to 7-foot center Scott Thompson, who scored 1:> pomts, but Loyola had the middle covered Point guard Paul

both teams were in a zone and, as a matter of fact, we were getting the ball down low more than they were. That's why I was upset." Westbead, asked about the officiat- ing. just shrugged his shoulders, as a winning coach is likely to do. The game was tied at 60 with 5:41 left, but Loyola scored six straight points and had a 66-60 lead with 3:33 to go on McKenzie's 15-footer. With 1:29 remaining, the Toreros

"I thought it was a three-point play," Egan said "I thought we got the foul." There was no rail, but the game was tied. At least. it was until Smith took over the last 10 seconds. Loyola quickly inbounded without calling time, and Smith raced up the court. "If we'd called a timeout, they would have had a chance to set up their defense," said the point guard,

Mark Boslic drove the lane for two. Reserve forward Sieve Krall- man came m after a USD timeout and hit an 18-footer to cut the Loyola lead to two, much to the surprise of Westhead. "He wasn't oa my hst," said the Lion coach. ''I was looking down (at his game sheets) and said, 'He wasn't supposed to shoot. " USD called another timeout to set up its defense and Egan put them in

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Smith's shot at end is winner fo~ Loyola By Michael Bass Staff Writer Loyola Marymount's guards get all the ink, and why not? Keith Smith and Forrest McKenzie are the highest- scoring backcourt in the land, averaging better than 43 points a game. Last night at the University of San Diego Sports Cen- ter, the two guards teamed for 42 points, and Smith hit a 20-foot, spin-around jump shot with one second showing on the clock to stun USO, 72-70. But the key to the game for the Lions was the play of sophomore forward Mike Yoest, who came in averaging 8.1 points per game. Yoest last night bad a career-high ..4 points, going 6-for-8 from the floor and 12-for-12 from the free-throw line. ''I think it's safe to say that without Yoest we wouldn't t,ave won this game," said Loyola coach Paul Westhead, whose team is now alone atop the West Coast Athletic Conference with a 6-0 record (14-6 overall) and is riding an eight-game winning streak. "He did a good job, he's a good player," said USO coach Hank Egan, whose team fell to third in the confer- ence with a 4-2 record (H-6 overall). "He's playing so confidently," Smith said of Yoest. "Especially from the free-throw line. He won a game for us last week against Santa Clara when he hit two free throws with 11 seconds left to give us a three-point lead. He told me he was going to make them. Tonight, he goes to the line and does the same thing." Egan, whose team lost for the first time at home this season (against nine victories) and only the fifth time in bis two years in San Diego, was fuming afterward about the officiating. The Toreros went to the free-throw line only 12 times, and not at all in the second half. Loyola shot 17 free throws in the game, nine of them in the second half, and missed only one. "I think that the disparity in th free throws in the

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-- OSD blows chance to ----- mov~ in~ first place SAN J?IEGq (AP) ior The Lions then went to Smith, ~ard Keith Smith co on a who hit the game-winning shot. JU_mp shot from the top ?f the key The win was the eighth in a row with tw~ seconds rem_ammg Satut'- for Loyola, which is atop the day mght to give LoyoJ.a WCAC with a 6-0 record. The Marymount a 72-70 West Coast Lions are 14-6 overall Athletic Conferenc~ bas~etball vie- USD fell to 4-2 in. league play to_ry over the University of San and 14-6 overall. Had the Toreros Diego. . . . . won, they would have moved into a The_v1sitmg Lions to<;>k a 70-64 three-way tie for first place with lead with 1:28 left ~n a Jump shot Loyola and Pepperdine. by Forrest McKenzie, !>ut the To- Mike Yoest led the Lions with reros battl~d back to tie the game 24 points. He connected on all 12 o_n a ~hortJump sh<;>t ~y Mark Bos- of his free throw attempts. Smith tic with 1:17 remammg, a l'.•foot finished with 22 points and a Jumper by Steve Krallman "."'1th 48 game-high eight assists while seconds to go, and a short Jumper McKenzie added 20 points by Paul Leonard with 11 seconds .Pete Murphy paced the Toreros left. with 18 points.

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