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Date Posted: 10:36:58 02/22/02 Fri
Author: Jon Ralston
Subject: Re: Tigers squeak by the Titans
In reply to: Jon Ralston 's message, "Tigers squeak by the Titans" on 10:32:57 02/22/02 Fri

Titans press issue yet lose to Pacific

The team's eighth consecutive defeat is at least competitive as UOP hangs on, 67-61.

February 22, 2002

By LARRY BORTSTEIN
The Orange County Register


FULLERTON -- The good news was at least it wasn't another blowout.

In fact, with 1:12 left in Thursday's basketball game between Cal State Fullerton and Pacific at Titan Gym, the Titans trailed by six points and Babacar Camara was on the foul line to shoot two free throws.

He missed both, and CSF missed an opportunity to avoid its eighth consecutive defeat.

The Tigers escaped with a 67-61 victory in front of the largest - and loudest - Titans crowd of the season. The Tigers had beaten CSF, 82-48, in Stockton on Jan. 26.

Of the 1,521 people in the stands, about 650 were students from Sycamore Intermediate School in Anaheim, where CSF director of basketball operations Tom Goodell is a teacher.

Two squads of Sycamore youngsters played an informal game at halftime and they cheered heartily for the Titans the rest of the time.

The Titans had lost their previous seven games by an average of 20 points.

This one also looked hopeless for CSF (4-20, 1-14), which has clinched last place in the Big West.

Pacific (16-9, 8-7), whose earlier defeat of the Titans was CSF's most one-sided in conference play this season, led, 54-36, when Jono Metzger-Jones hit a three-pointer with 7:49 left in the game.

Having nothing to lose, Coach Donny Daniels directed the Titans to press Pacific.

"We've shown we play better when we press," Daniels said. "But we've been so shorthanded in personnel, I wouldn't ask guys to press for 40 minutes. They'd never last."

Daniels had one more player to call upon Thursday night than the ones who have dressed for the past month.

Senior guard David Castleton, who missed six games while on academic probation, played 21 minutes and scored nine points.

Castleton sank a 20-foot three-point shot with 48 seconds left to cut Pacific's lead to five points. But Mike Preston scored an uncontested dunk with 30 seconds remaining.

Preston and Maurice McLemore scored 17 points each to lead the Tigers, who beat UC Irvine, 73-61, on Saturday night. Mike Hahn and Demetrius Jackson chipped in 11 points apiece.

For the Titans, Pape Sow led with 18 points and 10 rebounds. The guards, Derick Andrew and Kevin Richardson, followed with 16 and 11 points, respectively. But Sow's partners in the front court, Camara and Brandon Campbell, each managed only two points.

Camara, at 6-11 the tallest player on the floor, also managed only one rebound in 28 minutes.

Pacific coach Bob Thomason thought the Titans' press hurt his team late in the game.

"We've played very well in the first half and most of the second half," said Thomason, who has coached Pacific to six consecutive victories over the Titans. "But we did some bad things in the second half, and it was their press that caused it. It was surprising to me because we had practiced against the press. But when they threw it at us, we didn't handle it very well."

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