Gena Miller

Pauline Jordan scored 10 points and had 14 rebounds to lead Nevada Las Vegas to a 55-49 victory over Cal State Fullerton in a Big West Conference women's basketball game Thursday at Las Vegas. Las Vegas (15-1 overall and 6-1 in conference play) is ranked 19th in the nation. Gena Miller scored 26 and had 7 rebounds to lead Cal State Fullerton (12-3, 4-2). No other Fullerton player scored more than 7 points. Fullerton trailed, 32-30, at halftime and was outscored, 23-19, in the second half.

Southern California College defeated Cal Lutheran, 101-72, in a Golden State Athletic Conference men's basketball game Saturday night at Thousand Oaks. Jeff Bickmore had 23 points and Kyle Lundy 21 for SCC (13-2 overall, 2-0 in conference play). SCC's Jim Mansfield added 15 points. Steve deLaveaga had 23 points for Cal Lutheran (6-10, 0-2). In other Golden State Athletic Conference action: Cal Baptist 107, Christ College Irvine 74--Tony Smith had 27 points to lead host Cal Baptist.

Forward Amy Torczon scored 23 points and had 8 rebounds to lead the Cal State Fullerton women's basketball team to a 74-56 Pacific Coast Athletic Assn. victory over San Jose State Saturday night in Titan Gym. The victory was Coach Maryalyce Jeremiah's 300th career victory. Jeremiah is in her third season at Fullerton after coaching at Indiana, Dayton and Cedarville College. Fullerton's Gena Miller had 16 points and 6 rebounds and Felicia Benson added 12 points.

Chana Perry was held to 10 points as San Diego State lost to Cal State Fullerton, 68-60, in the first round of the Big West Conference women's basketball tournament Thursday afternoon at Cal State Long Beach. Perry entered the tournament second in scoring in the Big West with a 23.7 average. Julie Evans led SDSU (23-8) with 16 points. Cathy Werth led Fullerton (21-7) with 22 points, and Gena Miller added 19 points and 12 rebounds.

Mike Cadigan and Shiege Kanroji of UC Irvine defeated Jason Netter and Paul Sholtz of UCLA, 6-1, 6-1, to clinch Irvine's 5-2 victory Thursday in the first round of the National Invitational Collegiate men's indoor tennis tournament being held in Louisville, Ky. It was the first time in Irvine's history that it has defeated UCLA. Irvine (4-1) won four of the six singles matches, led by Trevor Kronemann, who defeated Pat Gilbraith, 6-2, 3-6, 6-1.

Senior Doug Kline hit a three-run home run in the third inning to lead UC Irvine to a 9-3 victory over the University of San Diego Thursday in a nonconference baseball game at San Diego. The home run came off losing pitcher Louis Skertich and gave Irvine (2-2) a 5-0 lead. Kline had four hits. San Diego could have gotten out of the third when Irvine's John Seeburger hit a possible double-play grounder to first baseman Sean Baron with one out.

Stacy Hunt scored a career-high 23 points to lead the Cal State Fullerton women's basketball team to a 73-59 Pacific Coast Athletic Assn. victory over UC Santa Barbara Saturday night in Titan Gym. Hunt, who hit four three-point shots, scored 18 points in the first half. Jennifer Latta, an Esperanza High School graduate, tied her career high with 17 points. The Titans led, 18-6, midway through the first half, but UCSB climbed back into the game, trailing, 32-28, with 1:30 remaining in the half.

No one had given much thought to the notion that Angelique Lee, center on Cal State Long Beach's basketball team, was a secret weapon. A big weapon, surely. An injured weapon, of course. But not a secret one. However, in Long Beach's 89-81 victory over Nevada Las Vegas Saturday at the Long Beach Arena, which gave the 49ers their third consecutive Big West tournament championship, Lee functioned in just that manner.

When Sheryl Jones and the other Cal State Fullerton guards faced the full-court pressure of Cal State Long Beach Friday, they knew they faced trouble. Their plan was to move the ball up slowly, with short passes out of the darting reaches of Traci Waites, Penny Toler and the other 49ers. But try as they did, the Titans couldn't escape the pressure, and seventh-ranked Long Beach sped to an 81-61 victory in a semifinal game of the Big West Conference women's tournament in Long Beach Arena.

Cal State Fullerton's women's basketball team has to be one of the more deceptive teams around, more or less sneaking up and surprising unwary opponents. The Titans have done it all year--taking third place in the conference--and they nearly did it again in the semifinals of the Pacific Coast Athletic Assn. women's basketball tournament Friday. This time, however, No. 2-seeded Nevada Las Vegas woke up just in time, defeating the third-seeded Titans, 61-55, Friday afternoon at the Forum.