SAN RAFAEL - Dominican College, according to UCSC men's basketball Coach Joe Richardson, was simply in the wrong place at the wrong time. Coming off a heart-breaking loss to cross-county rival Bethany Bible College earlier in the week, the UCSC Sea Lions came out Saturday afternoon with fire in their eyes.

"The kids definitely came here to win, they were very upset at that loss (to Bethany)," said Richardson, whose team set a new school scoring record in blasting Dominican 116-61. Dominican, which hasn't won a game in Bay Area Intercollegiate Conference play this year and slipped to 0-8, was simply out-matched, said Richardson. "Our guys were really up and they (Dominican) were really weak. It was a combination of those two things," said Richardson, whose Sea Lions retained a one-game lead over Bethany by raising their own conference record to 7-1. Julius Patterson scored a career-high 31 points and missed tying the school individual scoring record of 33 by just one basket. Teammate John Saintignon, who shares that mark with Mike Weaver, added 19 points against Dominican. Tom Spencer and Jeff Ramseyer added 14 and 11 points, respectively, for the Sea Lions, now 9-12 overall.

UCSC connected on 60 percent of its shots from the field, hitting 48 of 79. Dominican hit only 27 of 73 for 34 percent. The big difference, said Richardson, was UCSC's 50-19 rebounding edge in the game.

UCSC (116) Patterson 13-5-31, Saintignon 9-1-19, Spencer 7-0-14, Ramseyer 4-3-11, Moss 2-4-8, Reinstein 3-2-8, Heyeck 2-4-8, Buffett 3-1-7, Beale 3-0-6 Hussey 2-0-4. Totals - 48-20-116.
DOMINICAN (61) Healey 5-3-13, Sadgio 6-0-12. Bredner 4-4-12, Savana 3-0-6, Burns 3-0-6, Bennington 1-0-2, Ercole 2-0-4, Savides 1-0-2, Stanford 1-0-2. Totals - 27-7-61.

UCSC (9-12) 54 62- 116
Domincan     23 38 -  61

-Santa Cruz Sentinel Feb. 5 1984