USD’s Wood Named All-West Coast Conference Again

Kelvin Woods, University of San Diego’s 6-foot-5 senior forward, has been named to the All-West Coast Conference basketball team for the second consecutive year. He averaged a team-high 13.7 points, 10th best in the conference. Woods shot 51.9% from the floor (seventh). He is USD’s first repeat All-WCC choice since Scott Thompson in 1986-87.

Pepperdine’s Tom Asbury was named coach of the year and Pepperdine’s Doug Christie the player of the year.

GOLF

San Diego State’s Kevin Riley fired a par 72 at Torrey Pines South to take the first day lead in the University Division of the Southern California Intercollegiate Golf Tournament. Riley’s score helped move SDSU to second in the team standings with 313, seven behind Pepperdine.

University of San Diego’s Steve Brown is tied for third at 76, and Point Loma Nazarene’s Rusty Fallin is another shot back. USD is tied for seventh (327) and PLNC ninth (334) in the team standings.

In the College Division, UC San Diego’s A team leads with a 320 score, and the B team is fifth (337). Jeremy Moe’s 78 is three strokes off the lead for UCSD A.

BASEBALL

Jonathan Jarolimek struck out 10, allowed only one hit through six innings and walked two in nine innings to help Nevada Las Vegas to a 7-1 nonconference victory over San Diego State.

SDSU (11-6) got four hits, and Steve Dietz got two of them, including a double and the Aztecs’ only RBI. UNLV is 13-7.

WOMEN’S BASKETBALL

Santa Clara clinched its second consecutive West Coast Conference championship with a 69-48 victory over University of San Diego at the Sports Center. Melissa King led Santa Clara with 27 points as the Broncos closed the season 18-9, 10-4.

Two Mt. Carmel graduates led USD, as senior Lynda Jones scored 15 and freshman Vicki De Jesus scored 10. Jones also had a team-high 10 rebounds.

USD is 9-17, 4-10.

Both teams shot 38% from the field, and USD even shot 70% from the free-throw line to Santa Clara’s 54%. But The Broncos got off more shots, making 29 of 76 to USD’s 20 of 52.

Santa Clara’s victory clinched the host’s role for the first WCC postseason tournament.

MEN’S VOLLEYBALL

Stanford needed only three games to get by San Diego State, 15-6, 15-4, 15-6, and improve to 12-2, 10-1 in the Western Intercollegiate Volleyball Assn. SDSU, led by Doug Morland’s nine kills, fell to 5-14, 1-9.