Smith, Molle Won’t Return to SDSU Basketball Team

Guards Virgil Smith and John Molle will not return to the San Diego State men’s basketball team this season, Coach Tony Fuller said Tuesday.

Smith will not play because of academic reasons. Molle is transferring.

Smith, who was a 24-year-old junior transfer from New York’s Fashion Institute of Technology last year, started 14 of the Aztecs’ 28 games and averaged 4.6 points, 1.9 rebounds and four assists per game. Molle was a freshman from Irvine. He started seven games and averaged 3.7 points and 1.2 rebounds per game.

The San Diego Police Athletic League 13-and-under girls’ team was beaten by Kentucky, 63-58, at the double-elimination AAU/USA Junior Olympics in Kenner, La. Richelle Perkins scored 17 points, Maria Brunker 16 and Jamie Brossard 15 for PAL, which will play a losers’ bracket game today. Kyra Elzy scored 29 points for Kentucky.

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Chris Riley finished in a seven-way tie for seventh after the second round of stroke-play qualifying at the 1992 U.S. Amateur Public Links Championship at Brooklyn Park, Minn. Riley shot a two-under 70 Tuesday to give him 145 after the second round of qualifying at the 6,730-yard, Edinburgh USA course.