WOMEN’S BASKETBALL

The University of San Diego lost to Pepperdine, 76-73, in a West Coast Conference opener in Malibu. USD entered with a 10-3 record, equaling the best preconference mark in the five-year history of women’s basketball in the WCC.

Everybody scored for Point Loma Nazarene as the Crusaders routed visiting Master’s College, 91-55, in a nonconference game. Shannon Abrams scored 17, and four other players added 10 apiece for PLNC (7-6). The Master’s is 2-14.

Lisa Beaver and Nadirah Scott scored 16 points apiece to lead UC San Diego to an 80-72 victory over visiting Cal Lutheran in a nonconference game.

The Tritons shot 58% in winning their third consecutive game and improved to 7-5. Cal Lutheran is 9-4.

TENNIS

Dodo Cheney of Santa Monica won both the women’s 65s and 70s singles titles, and Del Mar’s Bob Seymour won the men’s 65s in the San Diego Super Senior Tournament at the San Diego Tennis & Racquet Club.

Cheney defeated Jerry Golding of Provo, Utah, 6-1, 6-7, 6-2, in the women’s 65s and Pat Yeomans of Los Angeles, 6-1, 6-0, in the 70s. Seymour won, 6-2, 6-2, over San Diego’s Stan Potts.

Oceanside’s Bill Conel won both the men’s 80s singles and doubles title (with Corona del Mar’s Dick Lusch). San Diego’s Dick Brown teamed with Hal Bowers (El Toro) to win the men’s 75s doubles. Helen Roach (La Jolla) and Phyllis Adler (Toluca Lake) won the women’s 65s doubles. Margaret Bradshaw and Myane Evans defeated fellow La Jollans Gethine Brown and Helen Anderson, 6-4, 6-2, in the women’s 80s doubles.

GOLF

Phil Mickelson of San Diego shot a second-round 66 and was the only amateur to make the cut at the Tucson Open.

Mickelson, who won the NCAA championship as a freshman at Arizona last season, has a 36-hole total of seven-under-par 137 and is seven shots behind leaders David Frost and Jay Haas.