ROMAR GETS VICTORY NO. 1 : PEPPERDINE 81, SANTA BARBARA 67.Byline: Dave Allen Daily News Staff Writer Lorenzo Romar Lorenzo Romar (born November 13, 1958 in South Gate, California, United States) is the current head men's basketball coach at the University of Washington. Romar also played basketball for the University of Washington from 1978 to 1980. accepted the handshakes and hugs with a smile, a wink A short control signal in telephony operations. It can be a single pulse, a brief interruption of a continuous tone, a change of bits or a change in polarity of the signal. For example, a momentary interruption (the wink) of a continuous, single-frequency tone is a signal that the and a wave. It was a special first victory for coach Romar and the Pepperdine men's basketball team. The Waves used nonstop HP's brand name for its fault-tolerant servers, which range in size from four CPUs to 4,000 CPUs. The NonStop line was created by Tandem Computers, which was acquired by Compaq, which later became part of HP. defensive pressure to beat UC Santa Barbara Santa Barbara (săn'tə bär`brə, –bərə), city (1990 pop. 85,571), seat of Santa Barbara co., S Calif., on the Pacific Ocean; inc. 1850. 81-67 Monday before 1,336 at Firestone Fieldhouse Firestone Fieldhouse is a multipurpose arena located in Malibu, California, a suburb of Los Angeles. It was built in 1973 as the home of the Pepperdine University Waves basketball and volleyball teams, who still play at the Fieldhouse today. . ``This was a great effort. I was so pleased to see the team play that hard, that aggressive, for 40 full minutes,'' said Romar, the first-year coach who evened his career record (1-1). ``Yeah, it's my first win. It feels great. The way we played tonight, we're starting to live up to some of our expectations.'' Pepperdine had five players in double figures - including 20 from go-to guard Marquess marquess or marquis European title of nobility, ranking in modern times immediately below a duke and above a count or earl. The wife of a marquess is a marchioness or marquise. The term originally denoted a count holding a march, or mark (frontier district). Johnson - but offense was definitely a secondary piece of conversation. For the Waves, it was the tight defense that created easy scoring opportunities. ``It was 110 percent better,'' Johnson said of his team, which looked sloppy and slow in an 80-54 loss to Weber State on Friday in Ogden, Utah Ogden is the county seat of Weber County,GR6 Utah, United States. A 2006 estimate placed its population at 78,086. The city served as a major railway hub through much of its history, and still handles a great deal of freight rail traffic which makes it a . ``Our offense had some ball movement. Before, it was two passes and a shot. Tonight was different.'' Midway through the first half, Pepperdine's constant pressure wore down the Gauchos (1-1). After two consecutive steals by Johnson led to a 10-point Pepperdine lead, he nailed a long 3-pointer off another Santa Barbara turnover to give the Waves a 28-16 lead. The Waves kept the Gauchos at double-figure distance through halftime, when they held a 37-27 lead, and extended their lead in the opening minutes of the second half. Stepping up as the Waves' top long-distance shooter, Johnson drained a 3-pointer and followed with several key passes inside to forwards Bryan Hill and Marc McDowell. Both resulted in Pepperdine baskets. Johnson didn't slow down until Romar finally gave him a break six minutes later with the Waves up by 18. ``We needed the whole half to come back. The second half started and we just didn't have it,'' said UCSB UCSB University of California at Santa Barbara UCSB University of Casual Sex and Beer coach Jerry Primm. ``(Pepperdine) played really hard with a lot of energy. We couldn't keep up.'' Primm, who has 377 career victories, was the first to congratulate Romar on win No. 1. ``That defense is tough . . . and it isn't even Thanksgiving yet,'' he said. ``I'd say he's looking at a pretty good team by the time this season is over.'' Romar credited Pepperdine's Tommie Prince with a diligent defensive effort against UCSB's Raymond Tutt. Tutt, a junior transfer from Azusa Pacific, still managed 21 points to lead the Gauchos. CAPTION(S): Photo Photo: First-year Pepperdine coach Lorenzo Roman, center, instructs players en route to his first victory with the Waves on Monday. Andy Holzman / Special to the Daily News |
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