News Scrapbook 1986

'"".....&&.&&&on heads list of Cypress-bound cagers Itho q ( Well, according to El Dorado Coach Terry Western forward Alvin Lott one of the most rndo t ndout for• Conley, Sammon received innumerable offers underrated players m the Big A Empire, w 1rd Jim summon from four-year sch~I~, but hopes that two hasn't been contacted by Cypress, but will ha rcce1v d w Ith year_s at a good JC will improve his chances of probably try to make the Chargers' team any- f off r from four- landmg a scholarship at a big-time Division I way.

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Along with Sammon, Cypress is getting two other players from the all-Big A Empire first team - Troy's Rob Burrer and Troy Joseph of Western. Burrer and Joseph also had some small college offers before finally deciding to attend Cypress. Loara's Gary Miller, who averaged over 20 points for a team that didn't win a game, is also headed for Cypress next year. It also looks like Sammon's teammate, for- ward Rob Hanna, might be playing for the Chargers next season. He hasn't yet made a verbal agreement to go to Cypress, but is leaning m that direction. Valencia's top player the last two years, Kevin Jones, hasn't made his final decision, either, but will probably play for Cypress.

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ANAHEIM - Tony Robuffo, the team's top player, is considering going to Fullerton JC. CANYON - Standout forward Ralph Garcia is also one of the Comanches' top baseball players, so he will make his decision after the season. The University of Redlands has al- ready offered him a scholarship in basketball. CYPRESS- Chris Yoxtheimer, the 6-7 cen- ter ~ho made third team all-Big A despite m1ssmg half the season with a leg injury, is headed for Cerritos College. EL MODENA - Forward Ryan Rycraw, is Please see PENNER -r

The women's eight is coached by John Ciani, who rowed in the USO varsity eight last year. Although they lost to Long Beach State, the Toreras defeated UC-Santa Barbara, USC and Loyola Marymount the past three weeks. "Three weeks ago, we were hopmg to win the women's race," said Flohr, a former San Diego State oarsman. "This week we expected to." The winning USO women's crew numbered Julie O'Neil, Nancy Nadea, Judy Bubien, Judy England, Liz Ciarrocchi, Lisa Shine, Amy Sha- piro and Laura Love, with Sharon Kavanagh as coxswain. Flohr said his crew is looking for- ward to the San Diego City Champi- onships on April 19 on Mission Bay. The Toreros have yet to win a var- sity eight race m the four-year histo- ry of the regatta. USO entered only one other crew yesterday, which was fourth in the women's junior varsity eight. Besides the second in the light- weight eight, Aztecs mrn's crews were fifth in the Cal Cup and sixth in the open novice. SDSU women's crews were fifth in the Cal Cup, sev, enth in the collegiate novice eight and second in the open novice. UC San Diego's men placed fourth m the Cal Cup fiftli m the freshmen eight and fifth in the open light- weight. The Tritons women were third in the Cal Cup, fifth in the jun- ior varsity eight, fourth m the open lightweight and fifth in the open nov- ice. San Diego Rowing Club had a third in the men's masters eight. ZLAC was fifth in the women's junior eight. Mission Bay Rowing Association was fifth in men's masters eight. • • • Cal won the first Lowenbrau Cup team championship with 48 points. Washington was second with 42, UC- Santa Barbara third with 41. Cal claimed the trophy long after most crews left the Crown Point Shores area, when they beat Orange Coast College in a re-rowing of the protest- ed freshmen eight finals. • • • The day wasn't a total loss for

By Bill Center Staff Writer Hail the conquering Toreros. The University of San Diego enjoy- ed its biggest afternoon in the sport of rowing yesterday while scoring an unprecedented double at the San Diego Lowenbrau Crew Classic. The Toreros won both the men's and women's Cal Cup varsity eights, thereby earning automotic berths in the heats of next year's premier Cop- ley and Whittier Cups. "In a few words, we're elated," third-year USO coach Joe Flohr said after the Toreros turned in the top hometown showing in recent Classic history. The closest any other local crew came to winning was San Diego State's talented lightweight eight. which finished second to Yale for a third straight year. "This beats anything a USO crew has ever done before," said men's stroke oar Neal Stehly, the sixth member of his family to row for the Toreros. But the Toreros were not exactly a Cinderella story. Flohr had been building both his varsities toward this day. The shortest oarsman was 6-foot-2 on the men's crew that aver- aged just more than 6-foot-3 and 185 pounds. Flohr' program includes every-other-day morning sessions in the weight room and daily afternoon practices on Mission Bay. "The numbers have remained the same in the program," Flohr said, "but we're getting higher caliber and more committed athletes. Most of my varsity rowers played some sport in high school." Flohr felt confident about his men's eight from the first week of practice. "We were faster on our 500- meter practice course in the first week of March than we were at the end of last season," he said. "I hin our rowers sensed we might be pret- ty good." The last two weeks, the Toreros men defeated UC-Irvine and Long Beach State in dual meets. Yester- day those crews were in the Copley Cup fleet. USD had finished second in the past two Cal Cups to Irvine (1985) and Long Beach (1984). "Right now, we'd have to be rated about the best collegiate crew in the

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ANAHEIM BULLETIN B3 a 6-6 forward, will probably go to Occidental. Brad Veale , 6-5, is headed for Southern Or- ego 1 Community College SERVITE - Bob Coady is considering Loyola- Marymount, Idaho, and sev• eral Division II schools . TROY - In addition to Burrer, 6-3 forward Scott Godwin is also continuing on . He has accepted an of er from Redlands. VALENCIA - Guard David LaRue may play at a local JC, if he doesn't join the Navy. VILLA PARK - Guard Greg Burton has been accepted at BYU, and he may try to walk- on there. /

baseball as well as basket- ball. 'orth Texas State, Seat- tle Univer:;ity, Pepperdine, and Montana are among the schools interested in Snow as a basketball player . In foot- ball, Long Beach State, We- ber State, and the Air Force have made offers. He has yet to receive a solid baseball of- fer, but by the end of this sea- son, Stanford and Arizona are expected to be after him. ORANGE - First-team all- Big A player Dave Roth has narrowed his choices down to William & Mary, University of San Diego, and University of Alaska. Point guard Mark Holman will try out for Ful- lerton College. SAVANNA - Frank Smith,

mg \\ hether or not to con- tinue. FULLERTON Chris Zer •a, 6 6, has accepted an academic athletic financial aid package at UC San Diego. Third-team all-Big A player Rolph Tallant will play JC ball , probably at Fullerton. KATELLA - Erbst still says he' s going to SC, and forward Darrell Baldwin is going to the University of Washington on a football :;cholarship. LOS ALAMITOS - Guard J.T. Snow, one of the best all- around athletes in CIF, is get- ting offers in football and

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Washington rowers. Both the men's and women's junior varsity eights won, as did crews from the Lake Washington Rowing Club (men's masters eight) , Conibear RC (women's masters eight) and Green Lake RC (junior girls' eight) .. . Long Beach Rowing Association also scored a double, taking the men's and women's club eights. Stanford won both the women's collegiate novice eight and women's open novice eight. Orange Coast College won the men's open novice and finished second in the freshmen eight and third in the men's junior varsity eight .

west outside of the Pac-10 universi- ties," said Flohr, who scours the campus for potential rowers during orientation week each fall. The USO men's eight included a French exchange student (Erik Hen- rion) and a student who missed last year while studying in Spain (Jaime Bea). The boat includes four seniors (Brett O'Keefe, Treak Tasker, Bea and Bill Creagan) plus coxswain Suzy Duyn, who will not be arounci for the '87 Copley Cup. "I don't see them slowing down," O'Keefe said.

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average through high school, will major in communica- tions. She hopes to be able to communicate well with her USO teammates. "We only lose two seniors," she said, "and USD is trying to pick up its program nationally. They were third in the West Coast Athletic Conference last year only two games behind Nevada Reno and USIU. ' "I don't expect to start right away. I want to get a lot of minutes in and maybe, if I work hard, I can start some games the second half of the season. They made it clear that it's up to me." Buechler, the section's 1985-86 Player of the Year led the county with a 23.3 scoring average. The 6-f~t-6 forward is also one of the nation's top volleyball pros- pects, which will enter into bis final decision. Buechler's teammate, Dominick Johnson, a two-time All-CIF first team player, said he is looking to follow in his father Deron's footsteps and play baseball, so he will not be signing a letter of intent today. Johnson is the No. 6scorer all-time in the county with a career total of 1,631 points. Orange Glen's Kory Kelly, an All-CIF third team choice, i~ expected to sign with Humboldt State today.

It didn't take Paula Mascari long to make up her mind where she would attend school next fall. Jud Buechler is taking a little longer, but is expected to decide between UCLA and the University of Arizona today, the first day colleges can sign basketball players to national letters of intent. Mascari, who led Monte Vista into the CIF-San Diego Section 3A basketball championship game by averaging 25.7 points, said first impressions gave the University of San Diego an overwhelming edge over Santa Clara and San Diego State. "I never felt so good as when I walked on that campus {USD}" sajd Mascari, a 5-foot-4 play-making guard who was second only to junior Terri Mann in the All-CIF balloting. "I went home and told my mom, 'That's where I want to go.' "Although Santa Clara was a pretty campus. I had doubts when I visited there. San Diego State only of- fered me tuition and one of the reasons I'm going to USD is they offered me a full scholarship, plus I can live at a dorm at the college." Mascari, who has maintained a perfect 4.0 grade point