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Toreros )-lifng o , beat USF By Tom McMillan, Staff wr11er SAN FRANCISCO - Another game down another myth destroyed. "People who think we're a 'one-man team - I don't think they know too much about us " Scott Thompson said. ' _The University of San D~o played more than four minutes aown the stretch last night without Thompson, a 7-foot center, but the Toreros never blinked. Forwards Mark Manor and Nils Madden had robust second halves Thompson came off the bench with two minutes left and ~so_ held o~f ~e ~niversity of San Francisco, 77-74, for its eighth wm m mne basketball games. The Toreros pumped their overall record to 13-4 the schi,IO ' . tart sin o,.infe""EFcO=t iviis~ioijnipjii,;inj;.,;19;:7;.9-:;8;;.0They take a 4-1 West Coast Atu e c on tonight's league game at Santa Clara (12-7, 3-2). . USO leads second-place Gonzaga (3-1) by a half-game m the WCAC race. "I feel more confident playing with- ou_t Scott lately than I would have early in the season," said Hank Egan, the Toreros' coach. "I think our team does, tC?. Maybe it's because of the way we re coaching them th~ year. Maybe we're not concentrating so much on poundmg the ball inside." Thomps?n led USO with 18 points, with 8-for-11 field- goa_l ~hootmg, but he drew his fourth foul with 6:25 re- ma1mng and the Toreros holding a 60-55 lead in Memori- al Gymnasium. Egan brought Steve Krallman off the bench, shook an encouraging fist at Manor and Madden er~ h~ fingers and watched USO build its lead to m~y as nine, 68-59, before Thompson returned with two rrunutes left "We know when he's out of there, so Steve and I just get together and try to pick up the slack," said Madden who had 23 points in the 68- win over USF last Satur~

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and Patrick Clardy 12 each and Grossmont College alumnus Rodney Tention 10 for the struggling Dons. Clardy, the team's leading scorer (15 ppg) this season, returned after missing five games because of a sprained ankle. He bit five of 11 shots and bad four rebounds in just 24 min- utes. "Clardy makes a difference out there takes a little of the load off insid~," said losing coach Jim Bro- velli, who coached at USO for 11 se~- sons until 1984. "But that's an experi· enced team we played. It's very_di!fi· cult to match up with them ms1de when they've got Thompson and Madden and those guys. And it's tough to beat that kind of experience. "Guys like Madden and Scott and Krallman have been around for four years. They know what it takes_ on the road in this league. They Just came in here and beat us tonight. We didn't beat ourselve:i." USO led through much of the first half and by 38-37 at halftime, thanks to Danny Means' three-point shot with three seconds left. USF re- gained the lead only twice after that - 39-38 and 53-52. "It was a good win," Egan said, "and it's important because there's no team out there this year that I think ou/Jht to win the conference. We're one of the teams that has a chance. But I don't think we're that far apart."

Continued rrom D-1 win over USF last Saturday. "Our job when he's out is to really pound the boards." Still. the Dons (12-6, 2-3) rallied. Mike D'Alois10 rainbowed a three• point shot with 1:17 to play to cut the lead to 72-69, and hearts began thumping on the USO sideline. Mad• den hit a basket and a free throw, but D'Aloisio answered with his fourth three-pointer of the night to make it 75-72 with 36 seconds left. Not until Manor dropped in two more free throws at 0:27 could USD peek ahead to Santa Clara. . "I thought it was a great wm for us one we needed very badly," said Thom~son, who moved into fi~th place on the school's career scoring list. ahead of Ken Leslie. "You've got to win the close games on the road to do anything in this conference.. My only regret is I wish we had a httle more time to savor. Now we've got to go back out and play the same type of game (at Santa Clara).' Manor scored 14, guard Paul Leon- ard 13, Madden 12 and Krallman 10 for the Toreros, who shot 60.9 per- cent from the field and hit four of seven attempts from three-point range. Manor scored 10 in the second half. Mark McCathrion had 18 points and six rebounds to lead USF, which lost for the fourth time in five games. Anthony Mann scored 13, D'Aloisio •

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Friday, January 23, 1987 Egan is fearing revenge factor 'J-1-S-~ • • - . on Toreros' v1s1t to Bay Area By Tom McMillan tarr Writer SAN FRANCISCO - Guys who

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:roreras troun~y Lady Dons / The Universit)l-ffll~l'IJDiego women's basketball team lost its second straight,J,1'le'1-c6ast Athletic Conference game Friday night, 69-55 to the University of San Francisco in the USO SgofilCenter. The Toreras were behind 29-26 at halftime, buMl 40-2 ouffiurst in the second half paced the Lady Dons to victory. Maragaret Walsh . • paced the Dons with 21 points. No Torera managed more than 12. JJSD, which is 0-2 in conference play at 7-9 overall, next plays at home against Santa Clara tonight at 7:30.

center Scott Thompson got 23 points and 11 rebounds. Egan's team is 3-1 in the WCAC, tied with Gonzaga for the conference lead, a game ahead of USF, Santa Clara, Loyola Maryrn- ount and Portland. "We lose one of these," Egan says, "we fall right back into the pack." WCAC officials sa. they schedule back-to-back trips to prevent teams from playing four straight games on the road, a noble enough gesture. Egan shrugs and looks at the next Io games his schedule: Loyola Maryrn&unt, Pepperdine, at Pepper- dine, at Loyola Marymount. "We did the same thing last year," he says, "and we lost three of the four games." Oh well. So much for re- venge factors. USD heads into Memorial Gymna- sium tonight having won seven of its last eight games and 12 of 16 overall, but Egan knows conference road games "decide how far you're going in a season." He looks at the San Francisco-Santa Clara swing as posi- tively vital to a WCAC title run. Last week against USF, the Toreros pounded the boards and played stel- lar defense in trampling the Dons, with Madden, Thompson and guard Paul Leonard all scoring in double figures. But that was at home. "Let's face it," Egan says, "when you get to conference play you abso- lutely have to win at home, but what separates you from the pack is what

you do on the road. We beat these two teams at home. Now we've got to try to pull away from that pack. It's not going to be easy." Egan expects not much different strategically from a San Francisco team that is 12-5 overall but shooting horribly. At USO last week the Dons shot 39.6 ·percent from the field. Coach Jim Brovelli's team is lead by sophomore center Mark McCathrion, the only starter in double figures at 12.l points per game, and junior for- ward Pat Giusti (9.7 points, 5.3 re- bounds). USF is 10-1 at home, includ- ing conference wins over Pepperdine and Loyola Marymount. "You worry about their quick- ness," Egan says. "It's a team that's very athletic, and because of that we can't let them get too far away from us. I know they don't feel they played as well as they could last week. Now that we're going at it back-to-back, I'm sure the revenge motive will be high." USO counters with a team playing sharp, efhc1ent defense. T!ie Toreros rank fifth ~ationally in fewest points allowed (58.8) and sixth in poorest shooting percentage allowed (40.5). On offense, "We're not as pretty as we were last year, but we're getting better," Egan says. Thompson aver- ages 16.4 points, Madden 11.3, Leon- ard 10.1. But Egan's team is just 5-4 on the road. /

make basketball schedules never take into account the poor coach who faces revenge motives. The poor coach this t1me is Hank Egan of the Univ!!!itY.. OLSan Diego, co-leader of the West Coast Athletic Conference. Grumbles Egan, "It's not like a team forgets you from a week ago." When last we saw the Toreros, they were mopping up the University of San Francisco, 68- 6, Saturday in the USO Sports Center, with forward Nils a en scoring 23 and Egan doing cartwheels on the sideline. So what happens now? Egan herds them north and frets about revenge and other demons for tonight's 7:30 re- match at USF's Memorial Gymnasi- um. "It's just like we're going out for the second hall," Egan says, "only instead of the usual halitirne, there have been five days in between. You worry about revenge motives and how the kids will react, but there's not very much you can do in a situa- tion like this. You've got about three good days of practice to prepare. There's not a whole lot you can change." It doesn't get much better tomor- row, when the Toreros barge into Santa Clara to frnd revenge in the gym once morP Last Thursday, USO gored the Broncos, 73-51, as 7-foot

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Toreros beat USF, take WCAC lead Scott Thompson scored 18..ncri~nd Mark Manor added 1 '.1, to lead the Universi~ of San~a77-74 West Coast Athletic. -conference baskebaii vietdry over the University of San Francisco .on Friday night in San Francisco. San Diego takes over sole possession of the conference lead with a 4-1 record. The Toreros took the lead on a three-point shot by guard Danny Means at the • end of the first half to make the score 38-37. They took the lead for ' good with 10:30 remaining in the game on a shot by guard ~au! Leonard. USF was led by sophomore centerMar~ Mc~athr:i~n, who had 18 points, and Patrick Clardy, ~ho had 12. M1~e D i\l01s10 also had 12 points, hitting four three-pomt shots. San p1ego nses to 13-4 fo e season. USF drops to 12-6 overall and 2-2 m conference play.

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