Oregon Daily EmerM Sports Women hope luck continues By Steve Mims £ morale! SoortS Reporter' It's amazing what a win can do for u struggling (train. The Oregon women’s basketball team beat UCLA H‘l-78 last Saturday for its first Pacifii 10 Conference win of the season, breaking an 11-game losing streak this season and a 14-game Pac-10 los ing streak that dated back to last year With one win under their belt, the Ducks have renewed opti mism "We’ve got to come back and win one again." Oregon head coach Elwin Homy said. "The feeling that we can’t do it is gone. We hove finally started playing the way we have in practice " The Ducks (l-10) will travel north to Seattle and Pullman this weekend to face the Washington schools. Thursday night Oregon faces the fi-5 Huskies, who are coming off a road trio that saw them go 1-3 and drop near the lower division of the Pm 10. Washington is led by center Khouila Smith, who averages 18 H points and 7.7 rebounds per game Smith finished with 111 points and 12 rebounds in the Huskies' 87-74 victory over the Ducks earlier this year Oregon could move out of sole possession of Inst place in the l'ac-10 .Saturday mgnt against me Cougars Washington State (2-9) i* on n seven game losing streak and has not won since its 66-54 victory over the Ducks |an. 21 The Ducks' Debbie Sporcich appears to have recovered from an ankle injury that narn|>ered her this season, as she totaled 46 points and grabbed 16 rebounds during last week’s games against USC and UCLA. Sporcioh was especially tough in the Ducks' victory over the Bruins when she scored 27 points and 10 rebounds. Sporcich was named Pac 10 co-Player of the Week lor her efforts Sporcich is leading the Ducks in scoring (14.0 points a game), rebounding (6.2). blocked shots (.8) and field goal percentage (60 percent). Sporcich is in realh of ex-Dur k and current Oregon assistant coach Stefanie Kasperski's Pac-10 record of 60.6 percent field goal percentage. While Sporcich and Sara Wilson have played well inside for the Duc ks. Oregon has also found its range from outside The Ducks lead the Pac-10 in three-pointers made (t 12) and attempts (314). Oregon's Peggy Swadener is set ond in the con ference in three-point percentage at 39.7 percent, followed by teammates Karen Healea. Jessica S< butt and Missy Stowed, who all rank among the top 10 in the conference NABC condemns Campanelli firing KANSAS CITY, Mo (AIM • For the first time in its fifi-year history. the Notional Associa tion of Basketball Coat lies pub licly condemned the bring of one of its members as if i ami: to tfir support of Lou Compandli Tlif NABC. signaling a new ntti tuili- concerning a i 001 h's rob* in the administration of the sport, a> i.list'd California of treating (iimpamdli unfairly and called Ins firing “a shot k to the college basketball community." "The NABC is not a judicial body, but the association must lie i oncemod with the treatment of its members.” the NAHC said in a prepattHl statement, “W« < an son no evidence ol coach Ounpanelli being grant oil rights that everyone deserves If Ins employer had concerns regarding his |<>b performance, he was entitled In fair standards to be informed and notified of the seriousness of those t on corns in a timely manner and provided an opportunity to respond” Carnpanolli was fired unex I Hated I v Feb H lbs young team, led by star freshman Jason Kidd, was 10-7 and had beaten several highly regarded teams, includ ing UCLA and Louisville The NABC's in-member board of directors, which includes many prominent t oaches, met for almost one and-a-half hours by conference call Monday to discuss Campari elli and what they view as a trend toward mill season dis missals. Come see thj mi Macintoshk pnxluctsJwm Aftie Computer tnc.! TODAY! 10:00 am - 2:00 pm Microcomputer Support Center 202 Computing Center • 346-4402 • Monday-Friday 9am 5pm Golfers finish 11th at Hawaii tournament By Steve Mims Emerald Sports Reporter _ The Oregon men's golf team started strong hut finished slowly on its way to on nth-place finish at the Big Island Intercollegiate in Waikoloa. Hawaii, last weekend. Oregon sophomore T«d Suavely played his host collegiate tournament ever, finishing third with a 2-under-pur 214. The competition in the tournament was tough, as eight of the top 10 individual finishers were All-Americans last season. The Ducks started the tournament well and were tied for sixth place at 204 after the first day Snavely shot a 3-under-par 69 on the opening day. followed by Cam Martin, who shot a 72, and junior Kandy McCracken at 74 The second round of the tournament killod Oregon's chances of u high finish, os the Ducks shot a 23-over-par 311 and had no individual shoot lower than 76. Suavely and Jeff Lyons each shot 76 to pace the Ducks. Oregon entered the third round Monday in 11th place, 27 shots behind Arizona State, and was unable to make up any ground during the last round. Snavely once again led the Ducks with a 69 and Lyons followed with a 73. but the rest of the team strug gled. The Ducks finished at 301 for the day and remained in 11th place with a final score of 906. Lyons and MtrCracken finished tied for 43rd place with totals of 229. followed by Martin at 235 and Paul Regali at 242. Arkansas took the team title with a score of 872. one shot ahead of Arizona State. The Sun Devils' Todd Dempsey led the tournament after each round and won the individual title with an B under-par 208. The Ducks return to action when they host the Duck Invita tional March 8 and 9 RIM RESULTS n.'.' tUtkHlwili PUvofl* M. 12 Mm * 2 Sigma Ni»t VJ Mall* 4S Hrok« <»S. Tbomloti (juiiiutr* itt Kim Owtk I* IM Hi in' n Hfl One :.J. It