UCLA Women, Seeking Fifth Win in Row, Play Oregon Tonight; USC Faces Oregon St.

The UCLA women’s basketball team, which has ridden the hot shooting of Dora Dome to four victories in a row, will play Oregon, a team with eight straight wins, in a key Pacific 10 Conference game today at 5:15 p.m. at Pauley Pavilion.

Dome, a junior guard-forward from Fairfax High School, became only the third player in Bruin history to score 35 points or more when she reached that plateau, along with a career-high 13 rebounds, last Thursday at Arizona State. Denis Curry did it 13 times--she holds the school record of 47 points--and Ann Meyers once.

Dome was first to reach 35 since February of 1981. She followed that with a 28-point effort Saturday at Arizona, giving her a 22-point scoring average for January.

UCLA is 9-4 overall and 3-1 in conference play. Oregon, tied with Washington for the Pac-10 lead at 3-0, is 9-2 overall and unbeaten since losing consecutive games to Texas Tech and Cal State Long Beach in early December.

USC, meanwhile, is tied for third in the conference race with UCLA and is the 15th-ranked team in the nation with a 9-4 record heading into a game today at 5:45 p.m. against Oregon State (11-2 and 2-1.) at the Sports Arena.

When the Trojans lost three straight games recently to fall from No. 7 to No. 15 in the Associated Press poll, it ended a streak of 78 straight appearances in the top 10.

USC did, however, keep another string alive by making the top 20 for the 110th consecutive week.