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SAN DIEGO - Peter Navarro, Uni- versity of San Diego economics pro- fessor and Del Mar-area slow-growth activist. has been elected to the Los Penasquitos Lagoon Foundation board of directors. "We try to have a balanced board with our members bringing in various talents." Joan Jackson, chairwoman of the non-profit foundation, said Tues- day. "With Peter's economics ------------------

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Jackson announced Navarro's elec- tion earlier this month along with that of Frank Belock, deputy director of the city of San Diego's Engineering and Development Department. Their election to the nme-member board of directors filled seats vacated by JJSD law orofessor Richard Whar- ton and city stall engineer Jim Casey. /

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ti om Pagel Co An; 2-year-old Hank Mart~~ 0 ! Cincinnati once makde;-~1 of 6 maller ball and bas e .- - s "Late Night with David shots on Letterman." Worth one point. a free throw is like a 2-foot putt in golf, a fourth· and-inches situation in fO?tball o:t~ second serve in tenms. It is exp~ l ed to be made, a routine action a draws the most attention when missed This target is 15 feet away d 10 feet high, and notJ?dY is ~owed directly in front or within 5 feet of the shooter. . The free throw. Even its name implies ease. CA A But for San Diego's three • DivlSlOll I men's teams, the free throw: has been costly in 19rot~· The P.CfCentages are .629 at , 605.at"USIU and .600 at USD. Each · tnbute at least two losses to can a d" h ·ty bad days al the so-calle c ar1 striP.e," D. - - I And while the local 1V1sion men•~ teams have wallowe~ around 60o/o- a the line, the womens teams at each school are near 70% or better, SDSU is shooting 74.5%. USD72.2o/o and USIU 69.5%, Behind the statistics have been ubious occurren~es for the :en lffid terrific distinctions for the WOJ:ll n. D With a sprained thumb, ana Jackson, a 38% free-throw shO?ter f SDSU shot two air balls in a at Utah. USIU has had two

an Diego h ol of Nur ing hosts an open houe 'fhursday for registered nurncs at 4:30 p.m. Speakers will pe k briefly on advanced degrees, nd USD nuning f culty will an- ew ~uest1ons on career ad- vancement. Right aft r the pres- entation will be a reception. Pleue contact the school to make a reser- vation. • • • The California Nur es Asso- ciation-Region 2, which repre• nt11 San Diego County nurses, el ct d th following a.s officer& for 1989. LI a Gifford, M.S.N., head of assisted care at Casa de las Campana&, president; Marla Ko metato , B.S.N., Kai r Home IleaIth, pre. ident elect; Mary Ann Hautman, Ph.D., University of San Diego profe 110r, first v.p; Barbara Black, M.S.N., San Diego State Univer ity profes.qor, second v.p.; Mary Hardwick, M..N., ripps Memorial-La Jolla nurse, retary; Jan Harrison, Ed.D, USD profe r, treasurer; nnd Christy Pric , R N , critical nun at Balboa Naval Hospital, member-at-large. CNA reports an increasing member11hip in Region 2 to 716 members. When G1fTorp took over as the president-elect bac ·n 1986, the local organization ha_d less than 100 member nurses, it said. . . .

USD has been the most troubled, losing five games by five points or less. In each, poor free-throw shooting, especially down the stretch, was costly. The top free- throw shooter on the team, Way- man Strickland, is making 76%. Sophomore center Donel! Bell has improved somewhat this season, from- 50% to 57%. with a new 1- handed style. USD'women Candida Echeverria and Paula Mascari are making 87% and 81 %, respectively, of their free throw.s. For SDSU's women, the lowest percentage of the starters is fresh- man Crystal Lee at .739. Center Chana Perry has made 77% (78 of 101). Stefanie Massie 80% and Brooke Meadows 8-4%. Julie Evans has missed only 1 in 25 attempts (96%). For the men, Tony Ross (87.5%) is the only player above 80%. Only seven others are above 70%: One is Sam Johnson, who has improved from -49% last year to 78% this season. USIU has only three women's players (one injured, two reserves) below 67%. The men's team has eight. .. "Ir's.supposed to be a free shot, said Aztec center Mitch McMullen, a 50% free-throw shooter. "There's no excuse. Shame on us if we don't make it." So why the trend at each school? Could. it be that women are better free-throw shooters in general? Did Nostradamus predict the wrong shake-up? Jim Brandenburg, SDSU's men's coach, said, "I think women, in general, have better pairs of hands than men. To catch, to pass, to do a lot of different dexterous- type

Brum adds th t fre throw shooting is different from the rest of the game because you use differ- ent motor movements at the line. "I teach relaxation, focusing and key words in a process called backward shaping," he said. Brum said backward shaping is a :nethod of going through and I nning the fundamental move- ments in reverse order to eliminate errors and bad habits. It all sounds very psychological, but SDSU women's Coach Earnest Riggins says, simply, "Free-throw shooting is mental discipline and concentration." Poor free-throw shooting, said Brandenburg, "ls kind of like being an alcoholic. You'll never beat it until you can say, 'Yes, I'm an alcoholic.' " What happens, Brandenburg said, "is it really becomes a psycho- logical thing with a lot of players. Players that have high anxiety levels, players that are hyper and really want to please, those guys will get up there on that foul line and their heart comes right up in their throat. You can work on free throws and work on free throws, but sometimes you have good free-throw shooting teams and sometimes you don't." Brandenburg said players also tend to see free throws as an unglamorous aspect of the game. For all the analysis, some of the local men's players just might be suffering from an affliction for which there 1s no cure. Lincoln High School Coach Ron Loneski was a teammate of Wilt Chamberlain's at the University of Kansas. "I played with the worst shooter in the world," he said, "and nobody had an answer for him."

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WOMEN ON TARGET Free throw percentages at each of the area's Division I school : School Men Women SDSU 62 9% 745% USIU 00 5% 69 5% USO 600% 722% things. "I'm not sure that I could statisti- cally prove it. But from my obser- vation of 30 years of coachmg, women can probably outshoot the men within certain ranges." Kathy Marpe, USD's women's coach, said, "Women have a more sensitive feel for the ball. And they tend to have more patience." On Jan. 25, 1986. Marpe's USD team set an NCAA record for free-throw shooting percentage in a game by making 2-4 of 2-4. "I think women may have a better mental attitude than men," says USIU men's Coach Gary Za- recky. "Everything I've read is that women handle stress better than men." It's all true, says Mike Brum, an SDSU graduate student who works with the men's and women's play- ers as a sports psychologist consul· tant. "It's been proven, women have a tendency to have greater control over fine muscle movement than men do," Brum said. "And they have a built-in system of handling stress because their bodies are prepared to bear children. They are better able to handle fine motor movements in stressful situations." I

shots-one by Steve Smith (72%)' the other by Willie . Davis (56%1-hit nothing but rur. An- other USIU player, Tim Moore (30%) missed so wildly that the ball ~a'.romed back to him off the rubber bottom of the backboard. Milce, Sterner, USIU'~ 6-_foot 11- inch center, is shooting Just 27% from the line.

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Bv Bill Center Staff \fo,er 7 SAN FRANCISCO - In two years, Hank Egan may eagerly embark on a West Coast Athletic Conference basketball season with the nucleus of his current earn. At the moment, however, taking on seasoned WCAC teams with a band of three freshmen, four sophomores and three upperclassmen - two of USD's better players are redshirting this season as transfers - is no fun for the Toreros' coach. "We're going to be a good team," Egan said this week as the Toreros tried to recover from a weekend Egan described a~ "our worst week- end of basketball in my five seasons here." Tl!e Toreros are 5-9, and a four- gaaie losing streak has carried over into a 0-2 start in WCAC play. They have lost seven of their last eight, beating only Marist College in a 62- 56 struggle. And things don't look to get ho.. ••2r. The easiest portion of USD'r 14- game WCAC schedule was last week• end with home games against Gonza- ga and Portland. The Pilots had lost 22 straight before defeating the Toreros, 57-54, on Saturday. _-1 / 5t::;

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weren't hitting the shat, but the percentages were with us and I was hoping the next one would go down." Instead, the Toreros kept missing. USD shot a a n-low 31.7 percent agamst Portland, hitting 20-of-63 shots. And Egan thought the team had hot poorly the night before in a 71-66 overtime Jo~ to Gonzaga. The Toreros shot 38.5 percent (20- of-52) in that one. Shooting is one thmg, but there are many rea- sons the Toreros (0-2 m the WCAC, 5-9 overall) are truggling this season. ''There's no simple answer, ~td Egan. "There's a lot of things we have to do to '.1"1D. A lot of that is just clean up the way we play basketball. Shot lectton. More consistent defense. . . " One thing IS certain, Egan's decisions this week will be based on !acts, not hope. Th re will be changes tonight against USF (0-2, 8-7). USO sophomore center Dondi Bell will re-

place sophomore Keith Colvin in the starting line- op. Bell had started eight games this season be- fore struggling in recent weeks and being re- placed by Colvin. Bell is U, D's leading rebounder with 6.6 rebounds a game. He is the Toreros' fourth-leading scorer, averaging 9.9 points. Egan plans to work freshman forward Gylan Dottin at guard during some point In tht game against the Dons. That's one way to get the ball mto Dottin's hands more often. Dottin leads USD with 13 points a game. USF has been up and down this season. Last week was a downer. The Dons opened the WCAC season in Los Angeles and lost to Loyola Marym- ount (113-95) and Pepperdme (71-53). Senior center Mark McCathrion feads the Dons with 15.4 points and 7.3 rebounds a game. Santa Clara (0-2, 11-4), which is USF's travel partner, also lost twice in L.A. last week, at Pep- perdme (72-63) and at Loyola Marymount (87-80).

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