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;,, The foul shots don't fall, but Tore_ros do in loss to Western Kentucky '::2 Q~ · · ard wa an Strickland missed a Strickland was short on another Tnbune Stafflfepiirt game, resulted in USD's fifth straight Sports Center. . . Anthony South missed the front. en~ gu • ttem t the Toreros three-point attempt, but ~estem Even though the basketball began road loss, 64-59, before 3,800 at Did- ~he sight of free throws mJSSmg of a one-and-one. The Toreros dido t ~po w!n!m l~ntucky guard Kentucky closed out the w:m whe,n t:, fall for USO las!,..mght against die Arena. their mark was another story. get of a l!hot,. however as B tt M N 1 McNeal who scored I Mike WilsoD rebounded Strickland s Western Kentucky, the Toreros still The Toreros shot a season-low 32 "We've been struggling with our more cente~ Ke~ th Co.lvm was cal !!e-hic b · ints ~de both free miss and hit two free throws after can't take anything for granted. Like percent from the floor in Monday free throws this season, but not this for a lane violation with l:lO to P ay. g g po 57 d' ta being fouled free throws. night's 7S-57 loss at Utah. bad," said USO coach Hank Egan, down the floor and took the lead for USD's Craig Cottrell ma~e a layup Cottrell led w1 Western Kentucky (9-3) came back throws for a 62., a van ge. . USO 'th Slow starts have plagued USO this Evidence that things are looking whose team trailed 3 0- 29 at halftime. good when Roland Shelton hit a to close the gap to th~~ pomts again M 1 eans _wads tbhle tg~ eason, but the Toreros opened up a up came when Toreros sophomore "If we make some free th rows in th e three-pointer to make it 60-S7. When with 18 seconds remammg. Payer m ou e 6·0 lead last night in Bowling Green, center Dondi Bell made a move first half, we could have built a Ky. USD al o has been shooting poor- toward the basket late in the first spread. But we weren't able to. You 1 from the field, especially on the half and lost control of the ball, just can't miss that many sc · ng op- oad, but hot 43.9 percent while Jim- which went straight up in the air, portunities and win on the road." ting the Hilltoppers to a eason-low came down on the rim and went into Despite its problems at the foul 34.8 percent. the basket. line, USO still had an opportunity to f 1 h ho h d USO' It wa a welcome sight for USO, win the game in the final minutes. I on Y t e unce a gone s The Toreros (5-7) tied the game 57· aY.. t th!' fr -thrnu· linP whoro "1e which doesn't have any more prac- I

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to now we feel everyone has im- proved as individuals. Everybody has improved as a team. We're getting closer, but we're not there yet." Ready or not, the Toreros open play in the WCAC against Gonzaga on Friday at the USD Sports Center. USO, which won the regular-season conference championship in 1987, fin- ished seventh last eason with a 3-11 record. USO looked like a team to contend as early as the second game of the WCAC preview season, a 64-53 win over New Mexico. At other times, the Toreros have shown their age - or lack of it. USO has 10 players on the roster who are either freshmen or sophomores. ''We thought it was going to be a tough preseason schedule as young as we were, but we got better," said Egan, whose team completed non- conference pla) Thursday night with a 64-59 loss at We.stern Kentucky. "We played as good a ballgame as maybe we have all year against Western Kentucky We just didn't hoot well at the free-throw line." To paraphrase Egan if it isn't one thing it's another. That's the price one pays for youth. But wait until next year ..•. Next year is here for Gonzaga, Pepperdine, St. Mary's, Santa Clara, and defending conference champion Loyola Marymount, where youthful- ness has given way to experience. Any and all of those teams should vie for the conference championship. And any one of those teams could rise up and wm the conference tour- nament, which will be held March 4-6 at the University of San Francisco. Here's a look at the 1989 WCAC in predicted order of finish: It's been 30 years since SI. Marys won the conference championship, so its about time the Galloping Gaels did it again. The credit for the program's resur- gence belongs to Nance, who took over a team that was coming off a 3-11 con- ference finish in '86 The school hadn't seen back-to-back winning seasons in 25 years until Nance coached the Gaels to 17-13 and 19-9 finishes the past two seasons. A 65-64 loss to Stanford is the only reason this team isn't undefeated enter- ing conference play Crucial to St. Mary's success - and a cornerstone of Nance's coaching philosophy - is de- fense. The Gaels have limited opponents to 58.2 points a game on 39.6 percent shooting from the field. Meanwhile, St. ST. MARY'S Coach - tarters - 11-1. Lynn Nance (203-113). Re- 5. Non-conference record 9. Returning turning lettermen -

SANTA CLARA Coach - Carroll Williams (295-218). Returning lettermen - 9. Returning 1tarter1 - 2. Non-conference record - 10-2. Santa Clara has a veteran team and the most veteran of the conference's coaches. Not a bad combination. Williams has used the same five start- ers all 12 games and welcomes back senior Dave Aaron, who missed all 12 games with a broken hand. Aaron, who was projected as a starter at the begin- ning of the season, can play three differ- ent positions. Defense is winning games for the Broncos, who didn't allow an opponent to shoot more than 50 percent in any of their first 11 games. Williams remains concerned with offensive consistency and scoring off the bench. If the bench develops, watch out. Four of the five starters are scoring in double figures and junior swingman Jetty Connelly Isn't far away at 9.8 points a game. Senior forward Jens Gordon leads the team in scoring with ' 17. 1 points and rebounding with 9.6. Senior guard Mitch Burley is the shooter. He's averaging 13 points a game and has 27 of the team's 34 three- pointers. PEPPEROINE Coach - Tom Asbury (8-7). Return- ing lettermen - 6. R turning ,tartel'I - 4. Non-conf rence record - 8-7. The sh~ting of junior forward Tom Lewis and junior guard Craig Davis was supposed to make up for the absence of center Levy Middlebrooks' rebounding. Middlebrooks is gone, and so is the shooting touch of Lewis and Davis. Lewis, who is scoring average is down six points to 16.8, is shooting 43 percent from the field alter hitting 49 percent of his shots last season. Davis, whose av- erage has slipped three points to 12.1, is shooting 39 percent after hitting 49 per- cent last season. Players like Junior forward Dexter Howard, who leads the team with 18.7 points and 8.3 rebounds a game, have picked up the slack. Junior guard Shann Ferch, a Montana State transfer, is aver- aging 10 points off the bench. The Waves are ready to roll, though.

Coach - Dan Fitzgerald (108-68). Re- turning lettermen - 9 Returning alarlere - 4. Non-conference record -8-4 Gonzaga probably can't pull olf enough surprises to wm the conference this season, but the Zags should win enough games to determine who does win the title. Junior forward Doug Spradley (21.9 points a game) and Jim McPhee (19.5) give the Bulldogs two of the confer- ence's top four scorers. The shooting of Spradley and McPhee allows Gonzaga to lead the conference In free-throw shooting arid three-point shooting. Gonzaga's problem is that its other three starters are averaging 16.5 points combined. Fitzgerald didn't know whether he should be concerned follow- ing the team's third-place finish in Wyo- ming's Cowboy Shootout. "I don't know if it it was that they weren't productive or if it was that we didn't give them a chance to be produc- tive," he said. · Fitzgerald is concerned about the team's health. Four players are sl(lellned with injuries which gave the Bulldogs just eight able-bodied players for prac- tice this week. The most erious injury is to senior center Paul Verret, who leads the team with 6.8 rebounds a game. Verrett has a stress fracture of the right shinbone, which will sideline him at least four weeks. USO Coach - Hank Egan (218-229). Re- turning lettermen - 7. Returning 1tartera - 1. Non-conference record -5-7. Although USD lost for the fifth straight time on the road Thursday against Western Kentucky, the Toreros contin- ued to show signs of improvement. The team·s shooting from the floor improved and it competed better mentally. USD is just waiting for its scores to reflect the .improvement.

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Coach - Jim Brovelll (203-183). Re• 3. Non-conference record -7-5. Brovelli was encouraged with the pro- gram's progress when USF won seven of its first nine games, but he's con- cerned about the Dons' current three- game losing streak. Included among USF's victories were wins over Idaho State to win the Fresno State Tournament and Hawaii to win the Met Life Classic the Dons hosted. The Dons play host to Notre Dame tonight following losses to San Jose State, Ari- zona State and Iowa State. Senior Mark McCathrion, USF's 6-8 center, leads the team with 15.6 points and 7.6 rebounds a game. The Dons also are getting double-figure scoring from junior forward Joel DeBortoli (12.5) and senior point guard Kevin Mouton (10.2). Sophomore swingman Scott McWhorter, junior guard Shawn Sykes and sophomore forward James Bell are big off the bench, which Is responsible for 33 percent of the team's scoring. PORTLAND Coach - Larry Steele (6-34). Return• ing lettermen - 6. Returning 1tarter1 - 1. Non-conference record - 0-12. The most positive thing to say about Portland Is that the Pilots have nowhere to go but up. It could be awhile, though. Portland's last win was at home Feb. 6 against USD 68-64. Since then the Pilots have established the nation's longest losing streak, dropping 19 straight games with Notre Dame due in Monday night. Among the Pilots' problems: they're shooting an all-time low 54 percent from the free-throw line; they finally broke the 70-point barrier In the season's 11th game, a 79-71 loss to Stephen F. Austin; and they're being outscored by an aver age of 78-60. turning lettermen - 7. Returning 1tartere -

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game with them. But losing junior guard Bo Kimble, who may be out for the sea- son after undergoing -surgery on his right knee, may be too much. Kimble averaged 22.2 points a game last se!i- son. Junior forward Hank Gathers is trying to pick up the slack. Gathers is averag- ing 34.4 points and 14.3 rebounds a game. He scored 120 points and grab- bed 45 rebounds during a three-game stretch last week to earn Sports Illus- trated Player of the Week award. Three other players scoring in double figures

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wo~ETBALL Porn( ~zarene won the Whittier tournament with a 72-37 victory over UC Santa Cruz. Cam- ille Armijo Jed Point Loma (9-4) with 16. Ann Duffy, the tourn~- ment MVP, and Shawndel Reddic added 12 each. • The University of San Diego ( 4 -6) brolce a 3-game losmg streak by defeating Weber State (7-2), 78-74, in Ogden Utah. USD's Mo~y Hunter made two free t~~ows 23 seconds left to clinch/

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heverria aids USO win ov r Weber State Candida Echeverria had 21 points and 12 rebounds to le d th University of an Diego pa t Weber State, 78-74, in a non-conference women's game y terday before 240 t Ogden, Utah. Th win breaks a thr game losing streak for the or r (4·6).

The Wildcats (7-2) led, 72-71, with 2:14 to play, but Molly Hunter hit a layup at l:S2, starting USO on a game-deciding S-0 run. Paula Mascari scored 14 for the Toreras. The Toreras shot 30-of-60 from the field and 18-of-26 from the line, compared to 32-of-7S and 8-of-14 for the Wildcats. Katei Wyenberg led Weber State with 23 points and l>.;lwn Lawler added 14, but she was held to two in the second half. Lawler also contributed 10 rebounds. Echeverria's performance placed her 10th in career re- bounds (284) for USO.

In other women's play: PLNC 72, UC Santa Cruz 37 - Camille Armijo scored 16 and tournament MVP Ann Duffy 12 to help the Crusaders (9-4) win the Whittier Tournament. Shana Margolis led the Banana Slugs with 10. PLNC had a 20-6 lead seven minutes into the game. Crusaders Shawndell Reddic and Shannon Anderson also made the all-tourney team. PLNC's next game is Tuesday at Azusa-Pacific. Men PLNC Claaalc Trabecca Nazarene 118, PLNC 80 - David Shelton

scored 30 and Maurice Halburton 2S to lead the visitors from Nashville, Tenn., at Golden Gym. Mark Ryan had 22 points and eight rebounds for PLNC (2-11). Trebecca is 7-9. Community College Imperial Valley 75, Palomar 116 - Phil Clark scored 25 to lead the host Arabs (17-2, 2-0) to the Pacific Coast Conference win against the Comets (11-7, 1-1). The loss ended a five-game winning streak for Palomar. Lee Cobb led the Comets with 16 points, and teammates Dave Delaney and Darryl Smith scored 13.