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The San Oieg~Union/Michael Darden place," at debate yesterday on the proposed utility merger. Michael Peevey, executive vice president of Edison, looks on .

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must increase rates to cost or above, Shames, head of the consumer group he added. UCAN, who produced a year-old Page's predictions are expected to SDG&E rate analysis chart that fuel the current controversy over showed the local utility with residen- which utility has the cheapest ener- tial rates rising but continuing to be gy, and whether Edison can deliver lower than Edison's each year on a promise of rate reductions if its through the year 2000. takeover is successful. The chart was produced by Rate arguments are a major ~eg- SDG&E during its so-called border ment of state regulatory examma- wars with Edison over customers lions of Edison's proposed merger last year. to understand how mine _whether ~r. not there are public SDG&E rates last year were predict- benefits to a utility merger. , ed to be better trn Edison's and Page's predictions were cha!- ' lenged by others, including Michael See SDG&E on P ge D-2 with Edison. Regulators must deter- "It is hard

By Charles W. Ross Scarr Wrller Utility bills in San Diego are going • up next year, SDQ&K.president Tom Page predicted1ast night. Speaking at a debate on the merits of the proposed $2.5 billion SDG&E merger with Southern California Edison, Page said SDG&E is current- ly losing money on making electrici- ty. "The math just doesn't work out," said the utility executive, noting that it cost SDG&E 9.50 cents per ki- lowatt-hour to make electricity that is sold £or 8.75 cents. The company

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sDG&E: Debate comes ContinuedJom~- P significanUyduring recent years. now suddenly they are going to be Page told the audience that worse," Shames told Page during the SDG&E would be filing for a fuel- debate. related rate increase on Sept. 29 to

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game. There's nothing in the merger for San Diegans, and th~te pre- dictions are making it difficult for the San Diego public to distinguish between (claims) of the two compa- nies." Government scrutiny of the merg• er is expected to take another two years, and

the state Public ion, ' and under way Edison can E rates to go up 'hen rates of the al, only then can nits promise. Jges) are just a i, an accounting

ence that Page was ab $50 million or $100 mi. crease this month, witl dependent on the desirE management. Navarro said Edison gaily deliver on its pre percent rate reducti Diegans.

go higher than Edison's, and continue to be higher were we to remain as a stand-alone utility," said Page. Peter Navarro, USD economics professor, author m a book on utility economics and leader of an opposi- tion group known as Prevent Los An· gelization Now, told the debate audi-

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take effect next spring. The SDG&E executive said he ex- peels that sometime next year, or

Edison rates are currently higher than those paid by SDG&E custom- ers and are expected to increase by early next year. On the other hand,

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P. C. B E<,. 1888 / ,c;OULILCEiicGE-;;;F~O~O~T::e-=A~LL:-:~U~S~D~------- "J--1 S-S- ----- Toreros hoping to wing their way to good season after impressive opener By Tom Krasovic Staff Wriler

USD defeats Azusa with wing offense By Tom Krasovic ._/ tarr Writer $:';;i? the first half. One man had a different opinion.

mostly because the Toreros have nearly mastered the Wing T. Fogarty installed the offense last year. It relies on mis- direction - and an effective fullback. Last night, it produced 382 yards. Azusa Pacific finished with 133 yards. "I can't think of a time when we played better, though the victory in 1987 against UC Santa Barbara comes to mind," Fo- garty said. "The people I talked to said it takes two years for the Delaware Wing T to click, and it did tonight." Said Murphy, a jumor: "I realized we could be good, because we have our offen- sive line back, and they're good. This was about as well as we have played." Eight players caught passes for USD, led by Todd Jackson with three for 43 yards. The Toreros played host o Whittier College next Saturday at 7:30.

USD's defense, a supposed weak spot, got the ball back quickly, though, and Murphy capped a 43-yard drive with a 5- yard touchdown run. Later in the quarter, Dave Bergmann's 20-yard field goal made it 10-0. In the third quarter, USO fumbled a punt, and Azusa took advantage. Running back Tommy Daniel ran 26 yards for a TD, making it 17-6 with 12:48 left. But the Toreros' Murphy capped a 73- yard drive with a 5-yard TD pass to Mike Hintze. Junior defensive back Darryl Jackson made several key plays that kept Azusa Pacific from getting back into the game. He recovered two fumbles (one by a teammate), made an interception and stopped Adam Gonzaga on fourth-and-2 with 2:11 left in the third quarter. Azusa Pacific seemed unsure as to where the football was, Fogarty said,

"Azusa took us for granted," said USD quarterback Brendan Murphy (14--0f-21, 192 yards). '·We could tell. Before the game, the team attitude was, 'We're going to surprise them.' " The surprise came qmck and hard. USO outgained Azusa Pacific in the first half, 275 yards to 47. The Cougars failed to get a first down in the first quar- ter, but surrendered eight. Early in the game, though, USO blew a prime scoring opportunity, The Toreros drove 64 yards to the 5- yard line to open the game. On third down, Murphy hit Todd Whitley on a crossing pattern near the goal line. But defensive back David Taylor brought down Whitley on the 1 USO elected to go for the touchdown. "I probably got greedy there," said Fogarty. Linebacker Jeff Gustin stopped Jack- son inches from a touchdown.

Stop the fullback, and you're quite like- ly to stop the Delaware Wing T offense. Azusa Pacific did stop USD fullback Todd Jackson last mght - on fourth down on the Cougars' 1-yard line. But after that early failure, Jackson proved unstoppable, and so did the rest of USD's wing offense. The Toreros (1-0) shot to a 17-0 halftime lead and rolled to a 24-6 victory before a crowd of 3,827 at USD. It was the first time in seven tries that U D coach Brian Fogarty had beaten Azusa Pacific (0-1) This was supposed to be an exceptional Cougars team, too. Azusa Pacific has 16 starters from last year' team. which was 7•1. O1d the Cougars take USD lightly? "Heavens, no," said Azusa Pacific coach Jim Milhon. I don't think so," said Jackson. who gained 117 yards on 21 carries and put USO ahead, 17-0, with a 1-yard run late in

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'(The playoffs are) our ultimate goal ... We're probably one of four or five teams in California capable of going.' - Brian Fogarty, USD football coach probably one of four or five teams in Calif?rnia capable of going," Fogar- ty said. . Much of the optimism would fade if opponents figure out USD's offense which hardly features 11 All-Ameri~ cans. Though it had faced USO last year, Azusa Pacific was bamboozled by all the misdirection of the wing-T Saturday and found its size advan- tage useless. To be sure, the Toreros are ~m?Other on offense this season, said ,1umor quarterback Brendan Murphy who completed 14 of 21 passes for 192 yards Saturday. Still, upcoming op- ponents will be better prepared for the USO offense, Fogarty said. In years past, Whittier has slowed USD's offense, and seven defenders r~turn from last year's team. Hoover High graduate Gaylan Sweet, a slot- back, led the Poets in receiving (31 catches, 276 yards) and rushing (181- 618). Other key returnees are senior quarterback Mike Haney (5-foot-S 170; l,34~ yards, 10 touchdowns) and Jumor wide receiver Russell Goo. Haney missed most of last year's ga~e'. won by USO, 21-6, because of an mJury. The Poets were 3-6 last year and have yet to play this season. USO sophomore linebacker Dan Chandler (shoulder) is doubtful and would be replaced by sophomore Lenny Territo.

The city that likes to call itself America's finest can take heart: at least one of its football teams played well in an opener. . The University of San Diego, play- mg before a near-capacity home crowd of 3,827, beat favored Azusa Pacific, 24-6, Saturday. The Toreros play host to the Poets of Whittier College tomorrow night at 7:30. Were USO a prominent football program, ef~usive • columns might have been written about its perform- an_ce Saturday night. The Toreros, usmg the Delaware wing-T offense outgained their bigger but confused opponent in the first half, 275-47. The Cougars were rated as California's top small-college team in preseason reports. They have 16 starters back from a team that last year went 7-1 and beat USD, 14-13. Is USO really that good? "I think we surprised them a lit- tle," said Coach Brian Fogarty, who had. lost all of his six previous games agamst Azusa Pacific. "I know Coac:i (Jim) Milhon was a bit concerned about that before the game. But you can talk all you want _ sometimes players don't listen. "I think once we got up on them it was good for our players. I don't know that we are 18 points better. Probably not. It was one of those games where everything kind of went right." It will have to be that sort of sea- if USD is to make the NCAA Di- v1S1on III playoffs for the first time. Only 16 of 217 teams are selected. Because the West Region has the most teams, USD could go undefeat- ed and still not be one of the region's four qualifiers, Fogarty said. "It's our ultimate goal .. . We're

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Torero defensive back Darryl Jackson had an interception and also recovered a fumble. He added another fumble recov- r J and had on of the biggest hits of the night in the ~Pcond half O 1 a fourth and two in the third quarter, Jackson came 11p from his corner• back spot and crunched Azusa's Adam Gonzaga, who lost four yards on the play. -JIMLINDGREN

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