Vanguard University of Southern California - Centurion Yearbook (Costa Mesa, CA)

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sec 1968-69 VARSITY BASKETBALL SCORES eny Rinker, Lyim Taylor, Rick Shvilts, and Dan Albritton. taller than the Vanguards, were very disap- pointed at Rick Shults who hit a career high of 28 points and played an outstanding floor game. With 31 seconds left in the game the score stood 78-77 for S.C.C. and Jerry Rinker fouled out. The game looked dim as one of the gym lights finally burned out. But Jodie Murray was fouled and sank two free throws to put the game at 80-77. Then with 19 seconds left Greg Jacobs, all star forward, broke up a pass and some how put Murray back on the free throw line with a one and one. He sank the first and pandemonium broke loose and as the second shot swished the nets even the administration cheered, as the Vanguards established supremacy on. Off to Grand Canyon (better we should have gone to the canyon rather than the col- lege) for a pre-Christmas set of two games in which we were crushed 60-101 and 55-93. The lighting was real bad as our players had to play in the shadows of the Grand Canyon giants both nights. They only played 14 men against us (its all they had. ) College of the Desert (not satisfied with sec OPPONENT 92 O.C.C. LETTERMEN ' S CLUB 66 50 CAL WESTERN UNIVERSITY 88 120 VICTOR VALLEY J. C. 85 71 JOHN BROWN UNIVERSITY 105 72 UNIVERSITY OF MICHOCEAN 47 82 B.I.O.L.A. 75 66 COLLEGE OF THE DESERT 84 83 CALIFORNIA BAPTIST COLLEGE 79 60 GRAND CANYON COLLEGE .. 101 55 GRAND CANYON COLLEGE fH ' TmE 83 COLLEGE OF THE DESERT 101 93 CAL TECH 71 74 CAL BAPTIST 75 87 L.A.B.C. 111 85 L.A.B.C 98 108 LIFE COLLEGE 102 128 N. CAL. PENTECOSTAL COLL. 60 84 STANISLAUS STATE 116 67 FRESNO PACIFIC 104 74 REPUBLIC OF CHINA 98 96 LAVERNE COLLEGE 112 113 VICTOR VALLEY J. C. K£ 78 BIOLA COLLEGE 100 73 U. C. SAN DIEGO 107 81 CAL BAPTIST COLLEGE 76 81 STANISLAUS STATE COLLEGE 112 127 LIFE COLLEGE 73 73 LABC 124 74 CAL TECH FRESNO PACIFIC 83 Golden State Athletic Association Games — Second Place SCC Fourth Annual New Year ' s Tourney- Fourth Place Biola Invitational -Third Place their first upset) rambled into Costa Mesa and right back out again after taking the Vanguards for the second straight time 101-83 despite Rinker and Murray ' s 16 points each. To the Rose Bowl city of Pasadena and another very good friend of ours. . . Cal Tech. A sure victory as the boys tripped the Engineers 93-71 behind Jody Murray ' s career high of 34 points. Our Fourth Annual New Year ' s Tour- nament opened and we lost a heartbreaker to Cal Baptist 74-75 in the opening round. Cal Baptist went on to win the title the following night by beating Biola College. Jody Murray came back from his 34 point effort against Tech to bucket 25 against the Lancers, but a shot with seconds left, proved fatal for the Vanguards and victorious for the Lancers. For the first time in the four-year tour- nament sec failed to win the Championship and this year didn ' t even make the top finish as skyscrapping L.A. Baptist ripped the tiny team 111-87 with 6 ' 10 Mike Basarich getting a tournament record high of 49 points. Rinker and Murray made the All -Tourney Second Team.

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?«iit,Ae »- ' - A? -5 (Left to Right) Jim Ortiz, Dennis Lindsay, Jodie Murray, Dick Seivertson, Jimmy Payne, Greg Jacobs, PHI Morocco, Ronn Nipper, Short, sassy, sweet and sour. . .thus one might descriJDe the 1968-69 edition of the Vanguard Varsity Basketball Team. Long on experience but short on height, Reid ' s Runts (averaging 6 ' 0 with shoes on) opened their 30 game season with an easy win over the Orange Coast Letter- men ' s Club 92-66. Freshman Jerry Rinker set the pattern of many games to come by swishing 20 points, and controlling rebounds on both boards. Favored to lose by 30 points, the Vanguards promptly lost their third straight to Cal Western by 38 points, 50-88. Everybody did nothing and all con- tributed little to the powerful Westerners who last year represented the West Coast ™ NAIA National Play-offs. Off to the ■t and good ' ole Victor Valley. . . I fc 1 1 1 a ' ftVi TayloSfeach popped in 20 a piece. . .lead- ing onlyy53-52 at the half the Vanguards raced to a crushing 120-85 win. John l.t»lVJIf »I»I«Bi the grave just in time for the Biola Invita- tional Tournament and the Siloam Springs, Arkansas University whipped the shorter sec five 105-71 in the first round. Rebound- ing (with vigor) the Taco Tucking Vanguards trounced the University of Michocean (Mexico) the following evening to take the Third Place Trophy by a score of 72-47 and Jerry Rinker s 15 points and 16 rebounds. Jerry made the All -Tournament Team, natch ! SCC ' s Little Rascals pulled their first upset of the year as they yanked the basket out from underneath the Biola College play- ers to score an impressive 82-75 win. Rinker proved his All -Tourney selection was no fluke by potting 24 points. With Christmas coming on the Vanguards gave a nice present, in the form of a victory, to College of the Desert 66-84. Slow moving, poor shooting, coupled with a floor full of sleepy players SCC ' s trip to COD was sad to. say the least. Another upset? Yes. . .the Jack Jill (up and down team) five opened their G.S.A.A. conference sched- ule by lumping the Lancers from Riverside 83-79. Cal Baptist, sporting four players

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