White fires 63 to break marks.

Byline: REGIONAL ROUNDUP by The Register-Guard

CORVALLIS - Jimmy White wasn't officially part of Oregon's lineup Friday, but he is part of the Ducks' record book after setting school, course and tournament records with a 9-under-par 63 at the Northwest Collegiate Classic at Trysting Tree Golf Course.

White, a senior from South Eugene High School, used nine birdies and nine pars to finish tied for fourth place in the tournament at 9-under 207, three strokes behind medalist Travis Bertoni at Cal Poly.

It was White's best finish as a collegian, but it didn't count toward the Ducks' team score because he was competing as an individual.

White's round broke the school record of 64 set by Ryan LaVoie at Karsten Golf Course in Tempe, Ariz., in 1999 and matched by Chris Carnahan at the same course last year.

As a team, Oregon didn't play quite as well, falling to a tie for fourth place at 869 after a final-round 298, the worst score among its three rounds.

UC Irvine closed with an 11-under 277 to finish at 846 for a 15-stroke victory over Long Beach State.

Justin St. Clair, a sophomore from Thurston High School, was Oregon's top counting player, finishing in a career-best eighth-place tie at 213 after a closing 73.

Oregon State finished sixth at 870 after a 296 in the final round. The Beavers' Ryan Gilmour finished fifth at 210 after a 69 Friday, and Brian Kelly shot a 73 to finish tied for eighth as an individual at 213.

UO volleyball losing

streak reaches four

LOS ANGELES - Oregon's volleyball team lost 30-20, 30-21, 36-34 to No. 8 UCLA in Pac-10 play on Friday.

Brynn Murphy and Heather Cullen had 15 kills apiece for the Bruins (10-2 overall, 2-1 Pac-10).

Jaclyn Jones had 16 kills and hit .303, Jodi Bell had 32 assists and Katie O'Neil had 16 assists to lead Oregon (3-9, 0-3), which suffered its fourth consecutive defeat.

USC hammers OSU 

to remain undefeated

LOS ANGELES - Top-ranked Southern California had little trouble remaining unbeaten Friday, as the Trojans hammered Oregon State 30-19, 30-25, 30-13 in Pac-10 volleyball.

April Ross hit .400 with 11 kills for USC (11-0 overall, 2-0 Pac-10). Karah Rhoades' eight kills and nine digs led Oregon State (9-6, 0-4), which hit just .067 as a team compared to USC's .386.

Loyola Marymount

blanks UO soccer team

LOS ANGELES - Oregon's women's soccer team suffered its third consecutive loss, falling 5-0 to Loyola Marymount in a nonconference game Friday.

Kelly Lewandowski scored twice for the Lions (5-2-2), who outshot the Ducks (5-3-0) 12-3 in the first half en route to a 3-0 halftime lead.

Ducks' Bieri advances

at tennis tournament

LAGUNA NIGUEL, Calif. - Oregon sophomore Thomas Bieri overcame a first-set loss Friday to win his first-round match at the USTA Futures tournament.

Bieri beat Scott Hansen 4-6, 6-2, 6-4, winning the final set after trailing 4-2.

Oregon junior Sven Swinnen lost 1-6, 6-2, 6-4 to Arizona's Roger Matralonga.

OSU women's golf team

struggles in first round

FRANKLIN, Tenn. - Oregon State's women's golf team was 16th in a 17-team field after Friday's first round of the Mason Rudolph Championship.

The Beavers' 320 team score left them 39 strokes behind first-round leader UCLA. Leah Whiting and Lindsay Eide each shot 79s to lead Oregon State and tie for 68th place, 12 strokes behind UCLA's Hannah Jun.

UO cross country teams

set for official openers

The Oregon cross country teams officially open the 2003 season today, the men competing at the Roy Griak Invitational in St. Paul, Minn., and the women at the Sundodger Invitational in Seattle.

The fourth-ranked Duck men return to the meet they won a year ago. Oregon is led by Ryan Andrus, a junior who finished fifth in the Pac-10 Conference meet last season. He is joined by Eric Logsdon, also a junior, and seniors Brett Holts, John Lucas and Noel Paulson.

The unranked UO women join six other teams, including host Washington, at the Sundodger. Leading the Oregon women are two seniors - Eri Macdonald and Magdalena Sandoval - junior Annette Mosey and sophomore Sara Schaaf.

Lane captures first

NWAACC volleyball win

ALBANY - Lane Community College improved to 1-2 in Northwest Athletic Association of Community Colleges Southern Division volleyball matches Friday by defeating Linn-Benton 30-20, 18-30, 30-25, 28-30, 15-12.

Mackenzie Rae-Winkle had 17 kills to lead the Titans, who got 25 kills from Kristen Diehl and 18 digs from Shelby Whitmore.

Spoelstra inducted

into Montana State Hall

CORVALLIS - Oregon State University women's basketball coach Judy Spoelstra was inducted into the Montana State University Hall of Fame on Friday as part of the 1992-93 MSU women's basketball team.

Spoelstra coached the 1992-93 team to a 22-7 record and a Big Sky Conference title. She will be joined in the Hall of Fame by OSU sophomore guard Mandy Close, who was a 10-year-old team manager for the Bobcats.

First-year program

drubbed by the Ducks

Western Baptist's initiation into college softball was a rough one Friday, as Oregon beat the Warriors 17-1 and 11-0 in a fall scrimmage at Howe Field. Western Baptist, a first-year program from Salem, will compete on the NAIA level next spring.