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prevails, 80-61, ag · st Santa Clara By TomMci~t this season. Starr Wr I r

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"Sure, we had a very good road trip, winning two tough ones, but I don't think we've left the pack or anything," Egan said. "The San Fran- cisco game (Friday night) was a struggle, and we just happene~ to catch these guys at the right time. There's a long way to go. I still don't think that, personnel-wise, we domi- Paul Leonard and Mark Manor scored 17 last night as USO (14-4) nate that much."

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SANTA CLARA

Hank Egan peeking in his rearview mirror, waving goodbye to the West Coast Athletic Conference? league," Egan says - but the piecE;S are falling together nicely for his Umversity of San Diego basketball The Toreros beat Santa Clara, 80- 61, last night at the Toso Pavilion, making their WCAC record 5·1, a Probably not - "Too tough a team

Robinsons • Paces Navy Rou·1 David Robinson scored 25 points despite sitting out the last i2 minutes and 19th-ranked Navy roll- ed over William & Mary, 82·59, in a Colonial Athletic Association game at Annapolis, Md.. last night. Navy (13-4, 6-11broke a 23-23 tie with a 16-3 run in the last four min• utes of the first half, and William & Mary 14-11, 1-5) then went scoreless for the first five minutes of the sec• ond half to turn 1t mto a rout. Other Ga1nes Tim Legler and Lionel Sim- mons each scored 20 points to rally LaSalle, which never led during regulation and trailed by five pomts with 2:-17 left, to a 69-00 o,·ernme victorv o t:r Fordham in a )letro Atlantic Athletic Conference game at Ph1ladelph1a ... Danr,y Pearson scored 21 pomt,. includmg SlX straight free thro,~s in the final 38 seconds. as Jackson1·ille took a 79- 67 Sun Belt Conference wm over host :\'orth Carolina-Charlotte ... At Wichita Falls. Texas. Robert Har- ns scored 37 points to lead ~fid• western State to an 8-1-,9 win over Ea~t Texa~ State - the 500th ca- reer coachinl,l win for the Indians· Gerald Stockton. ty. Durmg one 30-second stretch six minutes into the game. he helped force three turno1·ers. ultimateh' transforming a l.J-8 Torero lead into a tie game. In the \\ake of three strai~ht losses, Brovelli remained relatively upbeat. ''We're competit11·e," he said. conceding no comparisons to last season. which featured two long los- ing streaks. of nme and se,·en games. "This season, we wanted, at the end of a game, to be in a position to wm. We "ere there tonight. The more experience we get, the more we 11 do that." • -

trip or the season, to Gonzaga and Portland. "This sets us back a liltle bit," Tention said. "We bad to win two. The home court is a big thing. But th1S makes us that much more hun- gry for a win Uomght against St. Mary's>." Despite USD's incredible accu- racy, the first half couldn't have been closer. Just as one team would string together a few minutes of impressive basketball, the other would Cl)me roaring past. At half- time, USO led, 37-36. For first four minutes, it was the Scott Thompson show. The To- reros' 7,foot center accounted for eight of hlS team's first 10 points, scoring at will over Peter Reitz, who was starting his first game of the sea on. But then Patrick Clardy, the Dons' leading scorer O\er the first 13 games of the season until he was sidelined by an ankle sprain. came in. Brovelh witched ~lark l'llcCath- non onto Thompson, and lJSF was able to take advantage of it distinct edge in quickness to even up the game. "McCathrion was a little more physical." said Thompson, who end- ed up with 18 points, one of five Toreros m double figures. "He pushed me out farther." McCathrion·s defensive heroics on Thompson didn 't preclude an im- pres 1ve night offensively. He led the Dons "1th 18 pomts and "1th six rehounds. Reuniting ~lcCathrion and Clardy was a tremendous boost for the Dons. With 12 points and four rebounds. Clardy played better than he expected but said he was a half-step slow and that his timmg was a little off. And another soul from missing persons - Al Atcles Jr. - also had a big impact on the early going . For the first time since USF opened its conference season. Brov- lli started Attle,. who - with his father lookmg on from the balcony - made the most of his opportuni-

streaked away in the second half to half-game ahead of second-place win for the ninth time in 10 games. Gonzaga (4·1) and at least two games Manor hit five-of-five from three• ahead of everyone else. What's more, point range, four of them in the fi_rst Egan's team plays five of eight re- five minutes, to lead an impressive maining conference games at the See USD on Page -3 USO S1>9rlS Center, where it is 7-0

.~ ha, la) t•d San l)il·~o i" ic1• in the . •tpa,L ,ix d,1), und lo,t to th . ague I ·adl·n huth 11mc, ,,t.. ,n't mean lhly 1·,m for~el - about tho,· Ton•roh. I' "W mav hav,· an,nht•r s}wt at th m" a,d f 'SF toat cum• od1t11•,. ,l , fnotH. Ju,t b •t·au,c SJ.' ,\, tuall ·, CSF nt•1·er 11as ,n a 111111 ut,•s, althou~h the D'.H.s izap cons1d rabl~·. \\ 1th the 11am , the :ore- rus had th ,,r big2est lt•ad or the g,mw, fiR-59 , hut l.' 'F kt•pt i:ain,m: on them. "\\'. ot th shot~ wt> wantecl.'' said t:SF l(uarrt Rorln I Tenuo~; ''hut 1w JU. t ,tarll'd a little too latt•. - /\mom~ thost: shots wer tv.o clutrh :J pointer, hy ~like D'.\lo1sm. .;·ho \\as +tor-ti from beyond the Une Ja,t m~ht. • But t•wn D'Alo1s10\ sharp- ,hootrn~ couldn't comppnsatt: for the Tornos· hot hands, e pec1al1~ m th(' t'lrst half. CSD hot an awesome iwn·t>nt bt:'forc intt·rm1~sion. and ~dcd tht' 11amc ~hooting JU t under ~1 p •rct•r,t. ·~ "Th y played a hell of a game:" •-i"aid Browlli. "'hose team now lS r,rn owrall, 2-3 lfourth place! in con- rer(•n e. "An experienced team can do that on the road," • 'SF, which previou ·ly had lost on)y one game alls ason in Memori- al Gym, had been pointing to Its home gamE'S this weekend to gather momentum for Its tou hest road po,11ion to lit· tlw seor in the \\au_ im: do t'

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