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Basketball signings few t San Diego colleges By Mark Zeigler :J- r 5"5" rebound for Mira Mesa High. Starr Writer The Toreros expect to sign two San Diego colleges began the na- more players this v.eck to join Haupt tional letter-of-Intent basketball sea- and Craig Cottrell, who committed in son ;lug11isrl yesterday. November during the early signing U.S. Interna 10nal University, period Cottrell, a 6-5, 180-pound which has 10 scholarships available, guard/forward, played at Marcos de announced the s1gmng of two play- Niza High m Temp , Ariz., where he ers. The Univen:aty of San fiiego an- was the state's second-leading scorer nounced the addition of one player, (22.9) and rebounder (11.2). and San Diego tate announced noth The prize recrmt for USIU coach mg. Gary Zarec~y 1s Mike '.\foses, a 6-2. The A7t cs were mum because 175 pound guard from Rancho Santi- Coach Smokey Gaines could not be ago (formerJ) Santa Ana) College. contacted. Games is attending a foses was a first-team all-Southern coaching clinic in Hawaii and Assist- Section player at We tminster's La ant Athletic 1rector Bill Finley Quinta High, then went to Fullerton said, 'All 1gnees /announcements) state. Moses never played basketball have to go throu h Smokey.'' at Fullerton, instead transferring to The only pl~er USD added to its Rancho Santiago, where he averaged roster y terday is a not a high 22.3 points last season. He has three school or community college signee years of collegiate eligibility remain- but a transfer The Torero an- · mg.

Crew Classic. State finished sec:>nd behind Yale in the finals. USD was the big local winner as its men's and women's crews each won the Cal Cup.

nounced that Mike Haupt, who played as a freshman at San Diego State in 1984-85, has transferred to USO where he will become eligible at the end of the fall semester (mid- December). Haupt, a 6-foot-5, 195- pounder who will be listed as a soph- omore, was the CIF-San Diego Sec- tion player of the year in 1983-84 when he averaged 17.9 points and 10

The Gulls also signed Kelley An- drews, a 6-6 forward who averaged 9.4 points for Cerritos College, which wa~ ranked No. 1 m the state and No. 3 in the nation last season with a 29-3 GSIU scoring leader Joe Yezbak dur- ing his freshman year at Cerritos, has two years of eligibility left. r cord. Andrews, a tr.ammate of

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P. C. 8 / Big Additions for SDSU Basketball Aztecs S!P Three Who Should Bolster Their Front Line ,9-t1 --:-> By MARC APPLEMAN, Times Staff Writer Est. 1888

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Ooranne D•l•STAR NEWS varsity eight also won the Cal Cup in the men's division. The school will enter the Copley and Whittier Cups next year as a result of the victories

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SAN DIEGO-Thursday was a big day for the San Diego State men's basketball team. SDSU announced the signmg of three front-line players, including the first seven-footer to play for the Aztecs. Darrell Fuller of Ontario High School in Ontario, Calif.-7-feet, 205 pounds-averaged 19 points, 12.3 rebounds and 3.6 blocked shots this season. His team went 10-11 overall and finished 7-7 in the strong Hacienda League. Fuller visited Wyoming and Oregon State bef.ore signing with SDSU. "He has a chance to be a pretty good player when he is all grown up," said Aztec Coach Smokey Gaines, who is coaching the West team in the Alhoa Classic in Hono- lulu this week. "Darrell has grown six inches in the last year-and-a- half and is still trying to fill into that new body of his. He may need a ye;ir or two lo mature, but when he does, he could be a pretty good player." The other big men who signed are 6-foot, 6-inch. 210-pound for- ward Kent Bryant of Holy Cross High 'in Flushing, New York, and Rodney Hawkins, a 6-foot, 8-inch, 205,pound forward from Colby Community College in Colby, Kan. Bryant averaged 19.5 points, 12 rebounds and 5 assists and was named to the 12-man All-New York City team. "He can run, shoot and isn't afraid to ml.X it up inside," Gaines said. "He made the All-City team, and like they say, New York is a pretty big city."

Hawkins averaged 14.6 points and 9 rebounds in his sophomore season at Colby. If Colby Commu- nity College sounds al all familiar, it is because that's where Curtis Gates went to school. Gates signed with the Aztecs last year, but his academic record kept him from being admitted. "Rodney (Hawkins] has good size," Gaines said, "but the thing you notice about him is the number of ways he hurts people with his finesse. He has excellent quickness, good leaping ability and really good hands." After implementing the three- guard offense on numerous occa- sions last season, big is back at SDSU. 0 Chris Jeter and Barney Laffitte of Morse High have signed letters of intent to play for the University of Missouri, Tiger Coach Ron Davis announced Thursday. Davis said a number of schools made offers to one or the other, but Missouri and Georgia were the only ones that wanted both. "That was important to them," Davis said. "They wanted a chance to get out of California, but they wanted to go together., They like the Big 8. and Missouri is a team that needs them. They should fit in well." Davis said Jeter, 6-10, will play small forward for the Tigers, and Laffitte, 6-6, will play big guard. Jeter averaged 18.5 points and

Laffitte 13.2 points for the Tigers, who finished second in the City Eastern League and lost in the second round of the San Diego Section 3-A playoffs. 0 The University of San Diego singed 1xmdi Bell, a 6-S~pound forward from Crawford. Bell aver- aged 14.9 points and 14.9 rebounds and shot 49.3% from the floor. "He's a very fine athlete," said USD Coach Hank Egan. "He's a budding prospect with his best basketball ahead of him." 0 United States International Uni- versity announced Thursday that three freshmen recruits from Texas and a junior college transfer had signed letters of intent to play basketball for the Gulls. Leading the freshmen is Mike Heygood, a 6-7 all-league forward from Sante Fe (Tex.) High School. Heygood averaged 22.5 points and 8.2 rebounds last season. USIU also signed 6-8 forward London McWhorter and 6-11 center David McAfee. McWhorter averaged 15.2 points and 8.9 rebounds a game at Clear Creek High School in League City, Tex. McAfee averaged 10.1 points and 9.2 rebounds a game for Alief Elsik High School in Houston. Transfering to USIU as a junior will be Russ Heicke, a 6-4 swing- man from Cerritos College, which has one of the state's strongest community college programs. Heicke averaged 10.8 in both his seasons al Cerritos.

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a player doesn't know her very well. "I think she'll be a better college than a high school player," said Silva of the Grossmont League Player of the Year and All-CIF San Diego Section first-team standout who averaged 25.8 points a game this past sea- son. "She'll have big people to get the ball to, for one, and she won't have to worry about rebounding any more. "Plus, she can concentrate on just one sport now. I think people are going to discover she has a good outside shot, too." Mascari is eager to find out. EXTRA BASES - Madison's Lisa Glassford has signed a letter of intent to play softball for the Universi- ty of Utah next year. Lucky Utes. The right-handed sen- ior is currently 6-0, having given up only one earned run in 29 innings pitched, and is balling .410 (16-for-39) ... Five city players have made the c01 1 nty Slam 'n' Jam basketball team: Hey Parsons and Jemel Nutt from Morse, Madison's Jeff Harper, Ul'liversity's James Wil- son· and St. Augustine's Charley Applegate. Madison's Maurice Jackson was named the player alternate ... The county's first slam-dunk contest for high school stu- dents will be held at 7:30 p.m. on April 25 in Mt. Carmel's gym. Players wanting more information should contact their school's athletic director or basketball coach.

San Diego Sectio? commi 1oner Kendall Webb is one of the eight finalists for the Southern Section commis- s10ner:;h1p and, according to sources, is almost a shoo-in to make 1t to the fuial round of three. W bb, who tock over for the late Don Clarkson as San Di g Secllon commissioner in 1973, originally worked m th Southern Section a an administrative assistant. Jommg Webb in the fmal round, the sources say, will probably be SouthP.rn Section Administrative Assistant Dean Cro~ ley and state Associate Commissioner of Ath- letics Margare Davis. also former Southern Section ad- mm1 trative as 1stants. Ray Plutko, the current commis- 1oner, 1 lcavmg to accept the state commissioner post of Colorado HI replacement 1s expected to be named by early May. Webb wa aware that he was one of the eight finalists, but aid he didn't know the identities of the others, ex- c pt for Cro I y nd Davis. "I can't even find out how long the interview will be,'' he said of his session Monday in the uth rn Section's Cerritos office. ''I don't know if I hould bring a sleeping bag or what." Webb rec 1ved considerable flak this past winter from area ball coache when the Umpire Services A od- ation wa g1 n a contra t, mstead of the San Diego Baseball Umpires A oc1ation, to officiate all county baseball gam lh1 season The SDCBUA lost its exclu- sive contract for the first lim last season, and when the SDCBUA r fus d to work unless the '86 contract was

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The format for the contest is to have one athlete compete for each school. Of the approximately 60 schools in the area, 15 have entered so far, and at least that many more are expected before the contest. Howev- er, perhaps the county's most accomplished dunker, Sweetwater's Williams (who won the dunk contest at last summer's Cliff Livingston basketball camp). won't be there. "We hope to make this an annual event," said Mt. Carmel basketball coach John Marincovich, who is help- ing run the contest. "But I think we made a mistake not having it right and the end of basketball season at the end of March. A lot of people are thinking baseball right now." MIGHTY MASCARI - When Paula Mascari, Monte Vista· High's playmaking 5-foot-4 guard, decided to con- tinue her education at the University of San Diego, there were many who nodded their heads. Althol!Bh USD is Division I, it isn't big-time Division I, like USC or OCLA. Some lee! Mascari, despite having a deadly outside shot, excellent quickness, intelligence (4.0 grade-point average) and outstanding floor sense, isn't a major-school player. Admittedly biased, Monte Vista g1rls basketball coach Manny Silva says anyone who thinks Mascari will fail as

exclusive, the Board of Managers awarded the contract to USA. The SDCBUA since then agreed to cover what- ever games the smaller USA can't. That is not to say Webb will accept the Southern Section Commission job 1f he is offered it. 'Tm not convinced I want to leave San Diego,'' Webb said. ·rm very happy here. Sometimes you apply for a job because you're unhappy where you are, and some- times you do it thinking it might be good to have a new challenge. I would have to say this situation is of the latter" Webb's marriage this winter could make the depar- ture from San Diego more difficult as well, he said. SLAM-DU 'K CONTEST After watching the NBA hold its slam-dunk contest during halftime of the all-star game, ML Carmel athletic director Frank Andruski thought, "Why don't we have a slam-dunk competition of our own?" Well, albeit several w~eks after the close of the high school basketball season, here it is. Andruski will hold the first slam-dunk contest for San Diego area high school athletes at 7-30 p.m. on April 25 in the Mt. Carmel