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L • El Cajon, CA (San Diego Co) Daily Californian (Cir. D 100,271) Toreros defeat Loyola, 99-84. Westhead's tantrum helps USD go on in tournament 1987 MAR 3 Jl/~,i P. C. B far. 1888 Torero~ C".'89ping ~P on ba~k II Top Twenty The Umvers1ty of San Diego ba am, tied with top- rfi:nk~d Ne.ada-L~as fort~ 1 n's longest major-college wmnmg streak, hasn't cracked the Associated Press Top Twenty yet, but the Torer?s are getting closer. Coach Hank Egan's club !low 23-4, ~oved mt? 30th place in this week's AP poll after win'ning 1t:5 14th straight, agamst Loyola Marymount on Saturday. The victory moved USO past Alabama-Bmningham Penn and Marshall, all club's that have already earned berths to the NCAA tournament. The Toreros will continue their attempt to get into the postsea~~n party of 64 teams Friday, when they meet Pepperdine in . th~ sem1fmals of the '""'.est C_oast Athletic Conference tournament bemg,played_at the Umvers1ty of S~n Francisco. Santa Clara and St. Marys meet m ~he other contest, with the winners battling Saturday for the automatic NCAA berth. By T.J. Simers Staff Writer straight victory, but for a while it appeared as if the Toreros' joyride might stall. The Toreros fell behind, 46-45, 44 seconds into the second half. But then Westhead, LMU's head coach, took heated exception to an official's call and the game turned decisively in USD's favor. USO center Scott Thompson had taken the ball inside, and when he went up to shoot, LMU forward Mike Yoest went hard to the floor. Thomp- son's shot went in, but Westhead con- tended that Thompson should have been called for a-eharging foul. W~t- head, former coach of the NBA's Los Angeles Lakers and Chicago Bulls, See USD OD Pager-4 USO, capitalizing on a temper tan- trum by opposing coach Paul West- head, kept its cool and fought off vis- iting Loyola Marymount last night in the first round of the West Coast Ath- letic Conference basketball tourna- ment, 99-84. A standing-room-only crowd of 2,500 at the USD Sports Center saw the top-seeded Toreros (24-4) ad- vance to the tournament sernfinals, Friday in San Francisco. They will play seventh-seeded Pepperdine, a 76-73 winner over second-seeded Gonzaga. Eighth-seeded Loyola Mar- ymount finished 12-16. USO had to work for its 14th ---~7 USO. ~P play Waves in semis Continued fro~1 had six fouls and they had two." that he was in the mood to play tough continued to yell at the official as the Egan had no rea:son to worry, basketball tonight." players went down the court. though, because his troops were Thompson eventually drew a He was still offering his opinion shooting so well from the field. The crowd inside which freed his team- when everyone returned to his end of Toreros, who shot 72.2 percent from mates outside . Forward Mark the floor. At that point, referee Ron the field in the second half against St. Manor, the WCAC's most accurate Labetich called a technical. Thomp- Mary's earlier in the week, hit 63.6 three-point shooter, hit 6-of-7 last son made both free throws, and after percent of their attempts in the final night and finished with 23 points, accepting the ball out of bounds as 20 minutes last night. while Marty Munn added 12, Danny part of the technical foul, the Toreros "I'll tell you, though, at halftime Means 11, Nils Madden 10 and Paul went on to score again on a Thomp- we didn't talk about offense," said Leonard 10. son tip-in to take a 51-46 lead. Egan. "We stres~ed defense. The im- The Toreros piled up a 23-point "Yoest deserves an Academy portant thing in this game was to lead (94-71) before coasting to their Award. He's from Hollywood, so attack to win it and not to back up to 17th straight win at home. In the maybe he's going into the acting the pay window. We just decided to final minutes of the game, however, business," said Thompson who had a crank up our defense one notch and Westhead became upset again at game-high 24 points. "It was a nice let the offense take care of itself." someone on the end of USD's bench try, but it didn't work." The Toreros, who lead the nation and resumed yelling at the officials. in field goal percentage defense When the game ended. Westhead, de- Santa Ana, CA (Orange Co.) Register (Morning Ed.) (Cir. D. 263,099) (Cir. S. 280,000) MAR 1987 Jllleri 's P, C. B. fist. 1888 ~-------------r--- 'WCAC TOURNAME Davis' 28 spark Pepperdine upset of Gonzaga, 76-73 Gmird Craig Davis scored 23 of his career-high 28 points in the sec- ond half to lead seventh-seeded Pepperdine to a 76-73 victory over second-seeded Gonzaga in the first round of the West Coast Athletic Conference Tournament on Satur- day night in Spokane, Wash. A jumper by Mike Cumberland with 10 minutes remaining gave Pepperdine (11-17) the lead for good over Gonzaga (18-10). Uni~lego 99, Loyola Marymount 84: Senior center Scott Thompson scored 24 and se- nior forward Mark Manor 23 to lead the Toreros (24-4) past the Li- ons (12-16) in San Diego. Manor connected on six three- point shots as the Toreros hit a sea- son-high 11 while winning their 14th straight. Guard Chris Nikchevich scored 20 to lead Loyola. Mike Yoest added 14, and Enoch Simmons and Jeff Fryer, a Corona del Mar High product, had 13 each. St. Mary's 62, Univ. of San Francisco 57: Senior guard Paul Robertson scored 24 to power the Gaels (17-12) over the Dons (16-13} in Moraga. Associated Press ,qsS Armstrong&-71·211,Yoest6-142-214,Lazzareai 2-63-8 7. Nikr;hev,ch &-9 7· 7 20, Simmons &-100-0 13, Vogel 1·32· 2 4, Frye< 4-11 1·2 13, Roscoe 0-0 0-0 0, Vearga,on 1-50-0 2, carter 0-0 0-0 0. T01als 29-85 1&-23 84. SAN DIEGO (99} Manor8- 12 1 2 23. Mooden 5-90-010. Thon1)Son9-16 6- 8 24, LeonardS-100-0 10, Means4-IIO-O 11.-0-2 0-1 0, Hauf:AO-OO-O0. "'"114-6 2-212.Kralman4-51-1 9. Totals 39-68 10-14 99 HaJ!t,me--San D,ego 45. Loyola MarjTnoln 43 3-poirt 90019-loyola Marymount 10-23 (N,kchevictl 3-8, Smnons 3-5, Vogel 0-2. Fl)'Of 4•101 San 0ego 1 1-22 (Manor 6-7. L.sonard 0-3; Moans 3-8, Musselman 0-2, Munn 2-4). Fouled Ou1-l After the game Westhead was asked about the official's call and the resulting six-point swing. "The season's over and it was a good win by San Diego," he said. "It When the question was repeated, Westhead became angry and refused "I thought there was no foul," said USD coach Hank Egan. "I thought the kid threw himself on the floor. What Westhead said to the official, I don't know. I was worried about the (with the officials) after the technical because I looked up at the score- board a few minutes later and we was a great game." to discuss it. momentum going the other way spite saying later he wasn't upset, expressed his displeasure to Egan. "He said someone on the end of our bench was harassrng his players," ; said Egan. "He said 1t wasn't a coach < or player, though. I'm not sure who it J was." Angry or not, LMU returns home to plot strategy for next season, while USO prepares to take on Pep- perdine for the third time this sea- son. "We just have to prove all over again we're conference champions," said Thompson. "And that's fine with us." (.359), limited the Lions to .382 in the second half. They also handcuffed senior guard Chris Nikchevich, al- lowing him to score six points in the second half after opening with 14. "We were ticked off at halftime," said Thompson. "We weren't playing well and we were fortunate to be ahead (45-43). We got a chewing out and came out hard in the second Thompson led the charge from the locker room, scoring a season-high 17 "Scott played a heck of a game," said Egan. "We had a feeling, after watching Scott the last few days, half." points in the second half. USD's Marty Munn (30) lays up a shot against Loyola's John Veargason. San Diego, CA (San Diego Co.) Evening Tribune (Cir. D. 127,454) MAR 2 1987 / TIIE~TRIBUNE ~(-~~:-1~!~m~:~:[m and stall out. We felt that the import- C-3 San Diego, Monday, March 2, 1987 ~~!JJlerdi:!.~ra.~~~~fuhas Toreros ride wa~~.. backing you up. And when guys come in off the bench they fit right in with- out worrying about interrupting the Krallman might have used Satur- day's game against the Lions for a and reserve forward Marty Munn. With nine points, Krallman just missed joining the group. Krallman has been the No. 1 re- serve for the Toreros all season. He fills in for Thompson and Madden when needed. Munn stepped in when Manor, who scored 18 of his 23 points on three-pointers, got into foul trou- hie against the Lions. Munn prompt- ly supplied two more three-point bas- championship with a 13-1 mark, the Lions have been inconsistent. When they're hot they have competed with the best in the league. When they're not .... Suffice it to say, the Lions were the tournament's eighth seed after finishing 4-10 in the conference. Loyola-Marymount used a hot first half Saturday to stay within two points of the Toreros at halftime 45- 43. But as the Lions went cold in the second half, the Toreros went on to "We wanted to attack this game as the start of the second season," USD coach Hank Egan said. "One of the win. flow." case study. The Toreros had six players score in double figures - all five starters kets for the Toreros. In contrast to the Toreros, who won the WCAC's regular-season Thompson, forwards season - Tribune Sportswriter Scott Thompson has been in the middle of it all season, but even the USO center couldn't put his finger on tfie reason behind the Toreros' un- precedented success. Thompson wasn't without his theo- ries, however. W WESTCOAST ATHLETIC CONFERENCE Postseason Tournament Frida)"• games Semifinals at USF Pepperdine (11-17) vs. USD (24-4), 6:30 p.m. Santa Clara (16-13) vs. St. Mary's (17-12) • Championship game Satur- day at USF "I think playing together is a big part of it," Thompson said. "Most of the same players are back from last year. Who did we lose from last year? We lost Pete Murphy, but Mark Manor has stepped right in there. We lost Mark Bostic, but we've ad others to take his place, too." USO is the only team in the West t Athletic Conference to play the ant thing in this game was to go after it and attack it and try to win it. Not to try to back up to the pay window. ''When we talked in the locker room (after the game) we said we wanted to go up to San Francisco with the idea of winning two games, not just to go up there to coast along. It's not a Christmas tournament. It's But the Toreros shouldn't have to worry about coasting. They haven't been the team riding the roller coast- er this season. It's the Loyola-Mar- ymounts and the Pepperdines who have had their ups and downs. The Waves, last season's confer- ence champions, started off slow this season. Although they finished sev- .he Waves have shown im- provement the past few weeks. Then they headed into thEc tournament on the strength of Wednesday's 98-78 loss at Loyola-Marymount. So what does Pepperdine do Saturday? The team defeats Gonzaga 76-73 in Spo- kane, Wash., where the Bulldogs were unbeaten this season. "A lot of these teams have been streaky," Thompson said. "Pepper- enth, "I'd rather be consistent. That way we know what we're going to do. We know we're going to come in every night and get the job done. The teams that are up and down.have to come in wondering how they're going to_,. ----=- play." for the marbles." dine's one of them. Manor and Nils Madden and guards Paul ~onard and Danny Means. While other teams in the confer- ence have had their ups and downs, the Toreros (24-4) ha, e been a model of consistency. They have won 19 of their last 20 game,, including 14 USD continued it winning streak Saturday night with a 99-84 victory over Loyola-Marymount in the first round of the WCAC .rournament. The win advanced the Toreros to Friday night's semifinals double-header at USD will play Pepperdine at 6:30 in the opener. St. Mary's will play Santa Clara in the second game. The winners advance to Saturday night's championship game at USF. The tournament winner receives the WCAC's automatic bid to the NCAA "Maybe it's the chemistry of the team," Thompson said. "Maybe other teams don't have the chemistry. Ev- erybody gets along bere. And every- body is a role player. There are no stars on this team, and I think that has helped. We haven't had to rely on any one person. There's always someone who has stepped forward to Added senior forward:Steve Kr.all- man: "There's always somebody to hit the shot. There's always some- body to grab the rebound. And you Consistency. straight. USF. Tournament. get it done." --.,,_::;;,,...,....... ""'"il![.:.I,,....,.._. "-"~.......i., • i.......,...- ~,t~~!!!!!!!~=~~~~~d ~-:..,____ 'THERE ARE NO STARS ON THIS TEAM' SCOTT THOMPSON -
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