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Gonzaga tops oreros by 5 i~k Zeigler, Staff Writer Instead of playing 40 minutes of rough-an~-tumble basketball last night, the University of Sa~ Diego and Gonzaga could just as well have lined up at either basket and shot free throws. In effect, that's what they did anyway. Gonzaga held off a furious USD se.cmi.d-h~lf rally for a 78-73 West Coast Athletic Conference v1cto~y. There were 1,021 fans at the USD Sports Center and, it setlllll!d, as many fouls and free throws. . Fifty-nme personal fouls (and one technical) we ac- tually assessed, and seven players fouled out. The Bull- dogs broke their single-game records for fr':° _l hrows attempted (54) and free throws made (39), missmg th e WCAC marks by one and four, respectively. The Torerc:)$ made 12 of their 24 free throws. . . Said USO coach Hank Egan, the rec1p1ent of tech- nical: "We went out and flat-out fought a battle. And almost won. Despite trailing by 20 points in the first half and by 18 with 13 minutes remaining, the Toreros had a chance to See USD on Page H-4

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The San Diego Umon/Bob Redding USD's Kelvin Means passes off against Gon- zaga at the USO Sports Center.

USD:fan't quitettcateh Gonzaga Continued from H-1 tie in the waning seconds. 'Bulldogs forward Danny Roe (20 points, nine rebounds) missed the second of two free throws with 11 seconds left, giving USD the ball, trailing 76-73. Freshman guard Kelvin Means dribbled up court and passed to freshman forward John Sayers on the right side. ayers stopped, squared his feet to the basket and let loose a three-pointer. It bounced off the front rim. "I thought it was in," said Sayers, who led the Toreros with a career- high 19 points. "It felt good. I had been shooting all right up to there. I was set and everything." Egan lauded Sayers' shot selection. '·I thought it was a good shot," he said. "His fec·t were set. If you pass it, you don't know if the thing's going to come back out." Gonzaga guard Doug Spradley grabbed the rebound and was fouled with two ticks of the clock left. He sank both freebies to give him a e- int an is team an insurmountable five-point margin. "I was happy with the effort level, the way we played with pride, com- ing back, and all those things," Egan said. "But losses still hurt." The Toreros (10-13, 2-8) lost an ex- cellent chance to leap-frog into fifth place in the conference. They en- tered the game tied for sixth with Gonzaga (12-11, 3-7). But it's the Bull- dogs who are now tied with the San Francisco (11-12, 3-7) for fifth. The Toreros are alonP in seventh. Four games remain before the conference tournament

Joey Wahl, left, and his father, Juho Wahl, at their lumber and building supply store, A-Wahl's, 1n Sun Valley. Family turned small lumber store into big business By MIMI A. SLAWOFF Daily N.-..1 Stall Wrrter

The latest addition 1s Linda, who is the personnel manager. Joey said the siblings enjoy working together. "We comple- ment each other. We work well to- gether." he said. This month. the Wahls opened a garden department in their store. continuously offering more ser- vices, the Wahls figure they stay ahead of the game - not that competition has ever been rough, Julio said. "We're the old-fash- 10ned hardware shop," he said, adding that the family stresses personal service to ensure repeat customers. "It's a modern mom-and-pop store," Joey said. "And we plan for growth." Whether more family members will join the business still remams to be seen. Jay and his wife Ellen have a 2-year-old daughter, Carly. And Joey is engaged to·be married to a preschool teacher, Lynne Ro- senberg_ Julio is pleased with how the business has developed. ..It's 1he most wonderful thing to have the kids come in and take over th, business." he said.

"It's a modern mom-and-pop store. And we plan for growth. " -Joey Wahl A-Wahl's vice president of merchandising

UN V LIEY - Thirty years a o, the Wahl fam1l}' began build- ing a family tradition and a lum- ber busmt"SS on an mdustnal cor- ner m Sun Vall y. Julio Wahl and h, parents, Eha and Clara . l,110 the founda- lion for a family busin ss by open- mg a small hardware store and lumber shed on I 'Ii acres on TuJt- ford trect m Sun Valley. • Since then. A-Wahl's has ex- panded to a 60.000-square-foot lumber and home building facihty w1rh five st·parate buildings on fh a,rcs, said Julio, president. His two sons, Joe}'. 27, and Jay, 29. and his daugh1er. Lmda, 25, help him run the bu~mcss. ..J consider myself a lucky man lhat my kids are {working) here," said Julio, 55. who was born and raised in Cuba. From the beginning, A-Wahl's wa a flounshing business, Julio id. When the business was first es-

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tabli h , jt was a type of wreck- ing yard. "We tore old houses down and sold the matenals," Ju- ho said. "It was hard work." Initially, the family leased an additional IO to 15 acres. But when the Golden State Freeway was built, they lost that property. As new homes were being built in Sun Valley. which was rapidly developing into an industrial cen- ter because of the freeway, the fo- cus of the business shifted from selling used materials to new ones. Since the mid-I 960s, A-Wahl's has continued to eJtpand about every four years. In the early 1970s, the Wahls added a I 0,000-square-foot ware- house, a 30,000-square-foot lum- ber building and about 15,000

square feet to the main building_ In the late I 970s. the family bought two more acres of land. Julio, whose parents passed away in the 1970s. was relieved when his son. Jay, joined the busi- ness in 1980 after graduating from the Universily of San Di~o with a degree in business. After Joey graduated from the University of Santa Barbara with a degree in an, he too joined the family business. While Julio's sons were attend- ing college, each worked in con- struction to gain a better under- standing of the building business. "We both wanted to get work eJt- perience." Joey said, vice presi- dent of merchand1Sing. Jay is vice president of operations. "All of us are knowlegeable in the field."

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The San Diego Union/Bob Reddmg Gonzaga's Jim Greene gets a rebound against USO center Jim Pelton during the first half.

The Toreros didn't come back in one huge spurt but chipped away, two points here, three there. They , closed to eight with eight minutes left, and a Sayers three-pointer cut it to 62-57 with 6:01 left. Danny Means (11 pomts) sliced it to 72-70 with a After Spradley pushed it to five, USD center Jim Pelton (Hi points, seven rebounds) tip-dunked in·a miss. He was fouled on the play, and made "At halftime, I told the kids just to go after it," Egan said. "If they (the officials) were going to call fouls playing the way we did in the first half, I told (the players), 'Let's make it a good one.' There was not a lot of magic in what we did. We didn't put a whole lot of X's and O's on the - ~ bo: a~r!d·:"----~-------- minute left. the free throw.

have scored five more points - game's final margin. Two of their misses last mghl were air balls. Gonzaga coaoh Dan Fitzgerald of- fered this explanation for the free- throw affinity: "We both run motion offenses. We don't stand around a lot. And we have competitive kids. So the there's going to b~ contact." In the first hal~ the three-man of- the Toreros than Bulldogs. USD was 0-5 from the line i1 the half, Gonzaga 16 of 23. That acoounted for all but one point of the Blllldogs' 42-25 lead. • It was 53-35 seven minutes later. 'Yfhey turned up the heat on de- fense," Fitzgerald said. "We couldn't take care of the ball. They flustered us. We lost our pose . . . We were fortunate to hold onat the end." ficiating crew sa" more contact by Then . . .

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The difforence last night was free throws. Take away free throws, and USD outscored Gonzaga, 61-39. If the Toreros had made their 69.3-percent average from the line, that would

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/Old Globe-USD effort ''The Relap , or Virtue in Denger," Su John Vanbrugh'1 17th century ~tora• tioncomedy, howcascs 11tuden m the~ Old Globe Theatre-University of San n Die o gradu te drama program. . . They were &e· lected from hundred ofapplications! and r pr •nt the tin the ~ountry. This how ill their second pubhc performance. 'I he training differs from that ofmost graduate programs. Cle. member follow a regular course of tudy on campu , but r ive pr ctical training at Old Globe. They appeared last fall in the comedy vi- gn tte of". n from Am rican Life." Norman Wei.sh, en ff'Cently the cold, aristocratic patri rch in•Holiday," direc . • The Relap , or Virtue m Danger pl ys in USD'a Camino Th atr . P rfor- manc r a p.m. Tuesday, dn • day nd again Jo'eb. 27; ar,d at 2 p.m. Jo'eb. 27. C 11260-8888 for tick tint nnation. c tu en receive uch cl<>t1<· sc ti- ny II M the c rter mem ra of thi,i unusual tcr of Fine Arts cla

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won the Nos. 5-6 singles flight with a 6-7, 6-1, 6-3 decision over top-seeded Chico Bonner of Long Beach State. USO also won the Nos. 3-4 singles consolation bracket, when Dan Mat- tera defeated teammate Mark Far- But the Toreros prevailed behind their doubles teams. They were final- ists in the No. 2 and No. 3 flights and lost in the semifinals in No. 1. In the Nos. 1-2 singles, the tourna- ment's feature bracket, Chapman senior Miles Walker became the first champion to defend his title. He beat teammate Olivier Amerhnck 7-6, 3-6, "It's a big challenge to play in this tournament," Walker said. "I'm play- ing against a lot of Division I play- ers, a lot of players I respect. I don't get to play against Division I players very often. That's why I get pretty ren 6-3, 1-6, 7-5. 6-1.

sored tournament are given two points for every victory in main- draw singles and doubles brackets, and one point for a victory in conso- lation matches. USD finished with 51, followed by Long Beach State and Nebraska (34 each), U.S. Internation- al (30), Chapman College (26) and Fresno State (24). Fourteen teams The Toreros have one of the best teams in school history, good enough perhaps to land USD's first NCAA team tournament berth. But Collins ive his team much of a chance to win the tournament it hosts especially not after the open- ing d~y, Thursday, when seven of his didn't "! didn't pay any attention to the team standings until (Friday) night," Collins said. "We went out to dinner, I started to add them up - everyone else was talking and eating - and all of a sudden, I said 'Oh, jeez, look at this. We're in first place.' " Indeed the Toreros entered yes- terday's ~atches with a 42-34 point margin over Long Beacn. They • clinched when senior Rick Matheson competed. nine singles entrants lost. and I brought the dra sheets along.

.;cr-:,-.J When hosting an athletic tourna- ment (Exhibit A: early season college basketball tournaments), the idea usually is to load it with Marshmal- low State and East Cupcake so the home team wins. But in the decade that University of San Diego men's coach Ed Collins has operated the school's annual tournament, he has invited some of the West Coast's - and nation's - finest. And never won - until yesterday. The Toreros took the. unof · c1a am title m the 17th annual San Diego Intercollegiate .~vitationa~, besting defending unoff1c1al champi- on Long Beach State by 17 points. "Unofficial," because two years ago the NCAA deemed this tourna- ment to count as three dates against a school's allotted 30 if the event had an "official" team title. The tourna- ment has a flight format - various singles and doubles individual brack- ets - so it counts as only one day with an "unofficial" team score. Collins has kept track, regardless. Teams in The San Diego Union-span-

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USD ••nni• - Mike Stewart and idge won their singles matches and teamed to wm at No. 1 doubles to lead the Toreros past Air Force, 7-2, at USO. Stewart routed Don Kaliski 6-0, 6- 1. at No. 1 singles, and Patridge beat Brad Rice by the me score t o. 2 singl es. Stewart and P atri dge downed Kaliski and Tony Krawitz 6- 3, 6-4, in doubles. USO is r ked 23rd nationally Scofi a

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USI 's Robert Soneru won the Nos. 3-4 singles bracket, ,beating Pep- perdine's David Klemdith 6-0, 6-4 . . . The Toreros, ,ranked 23rd nationally, host No. 11 UC Irvine today at 1:30.