Bailey in Charge of Bruin Victory : College basketball: With Dollar sidelined, UCLA guard has triple-double against Stephen F. Austin, 109-88.

For the first time since his crashing, slashing national title game flash last April, Toby Bailey was a whirlwind again Monday night.

And, suddenly, the UCLA magic carpet act was flying again.

With regular point guard Cameron Dollar’s injury to his right pinky relegating him to the bench and with six so-so games in his recent past, Bailey assumed control early, reached super-sonic speed midway through the first half, and single-handedly bombarded Stephen F. Austin into submission.

By the time the 6-foot-5 sophomore left the game for good with 9:34 left to play, he had 23 points, 10 rebounds, 10 assists--and only two turnovers--and UCLA was well on its way to a 109-88 victory before 9,421 at Pauley Pavilion.

It was UCLA’s second recorded triple-double, coming one game after freshman center Jelani McCoy recorded the first against Maryland on Dec. 9. It was also the 11th triple-double in Pacific-10 history.

“Toby, he was killing them,” said swingman Kris Johnson. “But that’s nothing new. I’ve seen him do that in practice, all the time. He’s got such great court vision, and he can go down and grab 10-12 rebounds whenever he wants.”

With omm’A Givens--whose mother, Janice Lead, was in the stands visiting Westwood for the first time this week--getting a career-high 18 points and Kevin Dempsey also coming off the bench to score 14, UCLA (4-3), which hadn’t yet scored 80 or more this season after averaging 87.5 last year, barreled by the 80-point line midway through the second half and cruised to 100 with 3:10 left.

The small, fast-paced Lumberjacks (4-4) fought back in the second half to make the score presentable, but essentially lost the game when the Bruins rocketed to a 59-30 halftime lead, including a 29-7 run to close the half.

Dollar, whose playing time has been limited recently because of a torn ligament in his right pinky, did not dress Monday, but, after back-and-forth first seven minutes, Bailey took off and the Lumberjacks could not follow.

“Early on, I think our guys were intimidated,” said Stephen F. Austin Coach Ned Fowler. “We’re usually a very good three-point shooting team, and we just didn’t have it in the first half.”

The Lumberjacks were five for 23 from three-point distance.

In 17 hectic first-half minutes of action, Bailey, who hasn’t played point guard regularly since summer league in high school, scored a game-high 19 points on eight-of-11 shooting (three for three from three-point distance), grabbed eight rebounds and had six assists.

Playing mostly at the shooting guard spot, and filling in for Dollar off and on, Bailey had been averaging four turnovers a game this season.

“When I’m running at point guard, I touch the ball a lot more and I have a lot more chances to do things,” Bailey said. “This is just going to give everybody a lot of confidence in me bringing it up. . . . They know they can give it to me, I’ll take care of it, and I can get it started. It’s something I always thought about. I’m glad I can play the point, and know it in the back of my mind.”

Bailey, who was averaging 13.8 points, 2.5 rebounds and three assists, completed the triple-double when he got his 10th assist with 11:10 left in the game, on a snap pass underneath leading to a McCoy power dunk.

Was Bailey aware he was nearing a triple-double?

“The guys were reminding me, and I was kind of reminding them too,” Bailey said. “I wanted to get the triple-double and get off the floor as quickly as possible, to let some of the other guys play.”