AUCKLAND, New Zealand -- The America's Cup campaign by the Seattle-based OneWorld team ended in a series of tactical mistakes, one day after the troubled syndicate avoided disqualification.

	The racing was close at one point, but Oracle, left, was the clear winner in the end.

San Francisco's Oracle team rallied to beat OneWorld by 1:04 on Monday to sweep the best-of-seven repachage series and advance to the challenger final against Switzerland's Alinghi.

On Sunday, OneWorld escaped disqualification when an arbitration panel could not clearly establish that the syndicate used a rival's design secrets.

On Dec. 9, the panel penalized OneWorld a point in each of the remaining rounds of the America's Cup. The panel found one of OneWorld's designers, Ian Mitchell, possessed and later destroyed secret design data belonging to Team New Zealand.

"We set about participating here to do two things," said OneWorld co-owner Craig McCaw. "We of course hoped to win on the water as gentlemen and we worked to raise awareness of the importance of taking care of the oceans that we race on.

"Hopefully something will come of both. We believed that you could have a kinder, gentler event, but we have to hold out hope that others will do more to improve it in the future."

McCaw, a cell phone magnate, and fellow billionaire Paul Allen, the Microsoft co-founder who owns the Seattle Seahawks and Portland Trail Blazers, put $80 million into the campaign.

"It's too early to make a call on whether they might be back again," OneWorld skipper Peter Gilmour said of McCaw and Allen.

"They've picked up a few bumps and bruises on the way through and it hasn't been easy for them. But winning the America's Cup doesn't come from your first effort and I wouldn't be surprised to see OneWorld back out there in one way or another."

The best-of-nine final is scheduled to start Jan. 11, with the winner facing Team New Zealand for the America's Cup in February.

"All the ingredients are there for us," Oracle helmsman Peter Holmberg said. "We're happy with our boat, our performance and the chemistry of the team. Alinghi is still the benchmark, but we're looking forward to racing them."

On Monday, the San Francisco boat took advantage of a tactical error to turn a 48-second deficit at the third of six turning marks into a 38-second lead at the fourth.

In the third race Sunday, OneWorld erred before the race, incurring a penalty for crossing the starting line early. Oracle won that race by 55 seconds.

"It may well have been a totally different set of circumstances if we had gone in a different direction on the three occasions we led them in these races," Gilmour said. "Hats off to Oracle for sailing so well when we sailed so badly."