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scoring 13.9 points. Former Helix High star Eric Mobley is coming off the bench for the Pilots. He's scoring four points a night. Portland is coached by former Portland Trail Blazer Larry Steele, who's coaching for the first time at any level. USO and Portland will swtich sites and play at the USO Spoi:ts Center next Thursday. The Toreros will host Gonzaga on Feb. 13.

"We might as well •do something hard," said Egan. "We didn't play hard." The Tor-:ros are led offensively by 6-foot-6 senior forward Marty Munn, who's averaging 16 points a game. Junior guard Danny Means is aver- aging 12.7. No other Torero is aver- aging in double figures. Portland is led by senior center Adam Simmons, who's averaging a team-leading 14.2 points and eight rebounds. Forward Robert Phillips is

Uso·s' basketball team will be at- tern.ntn1'"--tn stay out of the Vest Coast Athletic Conference cellar to- night when it visits Portland. The Toreros are 1-6 in conference, one game ahead of Portland (0-7). USO is 9-11 overall. Portland is 5-15. USO coach Hank Egan, unhappy with his team's effort in Thursday's 70-52 loss to Gonzaga, put his team through a two-hour practice yester- day.

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USO Can't Make Up for Bad Start .T~2v't~ of San Diego missed its first 1 shuts from the fa;ld Saturday and went on to lose at the University of Portland, 68-64, m a West Coast Athletic Conforence basketball game. USD \9 12, 1 7) fell behind, 14-1, and, by the end of the first half, had made just 9 of 26 field goals. USD was able to make things close at the end. The Toreros cut Portland's lead to one point three times, the last with l ·07 remaming. But Portland (6-15, 1-7) made 7 of 10 free throws, mcludmg five by Adolphis Gaffney, Robert Phillips and Ron D aton, m thl final 2 minutes to hold on. ~arhc•r, after trailing by mne at the half, 30-21, USO sco d the first eight points of the eco d half to pull to within one. Portland thf'r, mc:rease

About 250 f end· of Sister McMonagle recently gave a p rty for her. 'She will be our personal link to a people and country m need," said Betsy Manchester, who fir t knew the nun wh~n lihe was principal of a high school in El Caion. Si ter McMonagle explained why she was ing such a big change. ''So many people are not free to go and help because aid the 66-year-old nun in a recent interview he will be moving to a poverty-stricken country that ha be n wracked with political turmoil. About 50 percent of Haiti' population of 6 million, 1s under 16 Only 150,000 people in the country have a cash mcom and the average annual mcome is $300. Ahalf-million people scramble to survive in the streets of Port-au-Prince, the nation's capital. About 86 percent of the populat10n ls Catholic and 190 parishes are served by 427 priests, many of them Haitian. The country ha· been severely de-forested and suffers from a hortage of water because the soil-stripped land no longer stores rain water efficiently. SJSter McMonagle id the staff hope to drill wells at th orphanage, which will be located in the hills about 90 minutes' drive from Port-au-Prince. The orphanage will be built hacienda-style so it can tart small and add units as mon y 1s available. Eventually, Sister McMonagle • ho s to house 1,000 children there. t the hospice, wh ch must be located near the city, wa r again wlll be a prime cons deration. She said the ho pt taff will have to buy water ' hen I wa there la t year we had to pay $1 80 for a quart of bottled water," she said "We can't drink local water or we would die " The poorest people of Haiti cannot afford to buy water and use whatever they can fmd "I saw a woman wa hing her mfant In th open sewer that runs through the tre ts " she aid. S1 tcr McMonagle admits the politJ.cal turmoil in Haiti a concern, but she 1· not afraid to go. 'Tm not gomg for politi al rea ons anyway I'm going to take care of children," she said. / th y have responsibilities here. ,','l will stay In Haiti for the r of my life, if I can take it,

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< Haupt stands tall against 11 e S S Ings an arrOWS By Don Norcross Tnbune Sportswnter M IKE HAUPT had just returned from a USD road trip. Rather than be by himself in his dorm. he visited his best friends, his parents. When he pulled up to his Mira Mesa house, his dad, Francis, was where he usually was, in the garage. He was finishing a bed he'd been making for Mike's brother, Steve, who's getting married later this month. Mike went into the house. A little while later, his dad walked into the living room, saying he didn't feel well. Then Mike saw his father grab his Seventeen days later, Mike Haupt was in Moraga, playing against St. Mary's. It was early 1n the second half. Haupt dropped down from the top of the key to the low post. He received a pass, planted his right leg, then 1 . , 1 . d chest, suffer a heart attac and die. That was on Jan. 13. Francis was 54.

on the bad things, 'If I just focused that would get me'}- down. But so what if I hurt my knee? That can be fixed. What hurts is not having my dad. I can't get him back. I'm still having a hard time with that.'

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Someone hit his right knee.it buc- kled, and Haupt fell to the floor. He tried to get up, but couldn't. He was carried off the court. Steve Nellis, USD's assistant train- er, told him it was serious. "I appreciated that" said Haupt, who wound up tearing the medial collateral and anterior cruciate liga- ments. His junior season is over. He may never play collegiate basketball again. "The guy has had a tough couple of weeks," said USO trai Carolyn Greer. Try a tough career. As a San Diego State freshman in 1985, Haupt passed kidney stones late in the season and missed the confer- ence tournament and NCAA playoff transferred to USO and redshirted the following season. The summer before his sophomore sea- son he started losing the feeling in the lower part of his left leg. It was discovered that one disk in his back was bulging, another was herniated. He was confined to a bed for two months. One doctor told him he'd never play basketball again. "When they told me I wouldn't play again I said, 'OK, I'll go on to something else,' " said Haupt. "I just figured something happened and I had to go on and work through it." Haupt overcame the back injury and played on the Toreros' NCAA Tournament team. He was a bit per- former, playing m 4 games, averag- ing 1.1 points. He was a starter this season, averaging 4.9 poiRts and a team-leading 6.1 rebounds. He was one of those players whose perform- ance couldn't be measured by the box score. They don't have categor- ies for screens set, charges taken or shots harassed. "Any loose ball was his," said teammate Efrem Leonard. "He was never afraid. He was ready for any kind of battle. He can feel proud that every time he stepped on the court he gave it his all." With Haupt, the Toreros were 9-7. Without him they're 0-4. He was a versatile player, some- times bringing the ball up the court, then banging bodies inside. He was a leader. On two occasions this year a reporter asked the team if games against San Diego State and USIU were special because of the cross-town rivalries. Marty Munn had negative comments about a San Diego State player. When the reporter came back looking for copy before the USIU game, he searched out Munn. But Munn already had been cautioned by head coach Hank Egan to edit his comments. Just to make sure. Haupt gave Munn a reminder, too. The temptation is to feel sorry for Mike Haupt. But he doesn't want sympathy. When a caller told him that if it weren't for bad luck he'd have no luck at all, Haupt stopped the person in mid-sentence. "I don't want it to sound like that," he said. "I have a great family. I'm basically healthy. I have a good mind. (A business major, he has a 3.2 grade-point av~age on a scale of 4.0.) I'm at a great.school and I have a lot of friends. "If I just focused on the ad thmgs, game against UNLV. He

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Sayers, who scored a career-high 18, made a jumper and two free throws m the run. Portland built its lead back to 10, 48-38, with 13:12 left on Robert Phillips' second three-pointer of the half Randy Thompson's three-point shot got the Toreros within 61-60 with less than two minutes to play, put the Pilots made seven of 10 free throws down the tretch to ward off the San Diego threat. "We hung in and battled,'' said San Diego coach Hank Egan. "I thought we played hard, but we just shot ter- rible " Ron Deaton led the Pilots with 17 points, and 6-foot-8 center Adam Simmons added 15 Sayers' 18 led the Toreros, fol- lowed by Leonard with 10.

PORTLAND, Or . - The Universi- ty of San Diego couldn't overcome an 0-for 14 shooting ~tart in last night's We t Coa l Athletic Conference game agamst Portland and lost, 68- 64. The Torero (9-12, 1-7 m confer• ence) m ed their first 14 shots of the first half, and the Pilots (6-15, 1•7) took a 14-1 lead. Guard Efrem Leon- ard helped the Toreros at the 11:26 mark of the first half with a jumper from the top of the key to make the score 16-7, The Torero hot miserably m the first half from the floor, makmg six of 29 hots (20 7 percent). What kept S n Diego in the game wa its free- throw hoo ing; the Torero made eight of 11 in the half. The Pilots led, 30-21, at halftime. San Diego scored the first eight points of the second half. John

that would get me down. But so what if I hurt my knee? That can be fixed. What hurts is uot having my dad. I can't get him back. I'm still having a hard time with that." At that point, Haupt broke down, cried and excused himself from the phone. "I'm fortunate," Mike said when he returned. "I'm walking. I don't have cancer. I don't want people coming up to me, giving me hugs and saying they're sorry. I've been blessed more than a !ot o people." Some things are still difficult, though. Like going to the garage. "That was his spot," said Mike. It was inside that garage that Mike and his father rebuilt Mike's '66 Mus- tang. The youngest of five children, ranging from 21 to 33, Mike was probably the closest to his father. t Francis was in the Air Force for 21 i years. He inspected air bases and ( was gone much of the time during his t military career. He retired from the Air Force in 1975, then went to work for the county as a claims inspector. "The other kids didn't get to grow up with him as much as I did," said Mike. Mike's brothers, Steve and Chris, also played basketball. Mike remem• bers his father pretending he got tired of going to basketball games. "He'd say, 'Oh, no, I've got to go to another basketball game,' " recalled Mike. "But he'd be the first one there and he'd be yelling the loudest." As Haupt said, he doesn't want sympathy. And one person who knows him well doesn't feel there's a need for any. "I'm not worried about Mike," said Egan. "There's a great deal of sub- stance to Mike. "The only time you have to feel bad is when you leave something having not given it your best shot. If Mike can never play again he'll be OK. Every day in practice, every game, he always gave it his best. "And he has so much more to offer than basketball. He's a talented kid academically. Socially, he gets along with so many people. He has leader• ship qualities. People enjoy being around him. He influences people. "Mike Haupt is going to be suc- cessful."

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