WSU baseball takes series with 14-8 victory over UW

Pinch-hitter Jeremy Farrar hit a three-run home run as the Washington State baseball team beat Washington 14-8 yesterday in the final matchup of a three-game series at Husky Ballpark.

Farrar's homer came in a six-run seventh inning for the Cougars (21-10, 3-3 Pac-10), who won the first game of the series before losing on Friday to the Huskies (19-10-1, 5-4).

Aaron Trolia (4-2) picked up the win, recording the final out in the sixth inning in relief of starter Garrett Alwert. David Dowling (0-1) took the loss for UW after entering the game in the third inning. Dowling pitched 3-2/3 innings, allowing four earned runs.

In the seventh, WSU's Jay Miller singled to drive home Justin McClure and Kaeo Rubin. Farrar homered, and Justin Hart singled home Zach McAngus for the final run of the inning.

Crew

Jennifer Devine of Seattle's Pocock Rowing Center advanced to the U.S. Olympic trials with a win in the women's single sculls at the first National Selection Regatta on Lake Mercer in West Windsor, N.J.

Devine covered the 2,000-meter course in 7 minutes, 38.99 seconds, 1.06 seconds ahead of Kelly Salchow of the Princeton Training Center.

• Washington won eight of nine races on the Montlake Cut in its annual dual regatta with WSU. The UW women's varsity eight won in 6:21. The Cougars covered the course in 6:25. WSU's lone win came in the women's junior eights.

• The Seattle Pacific women's varsity four won, and the men's crews won three of four races at the Governor's Cup Regatta on the Willamette River in Salem, Ore. The SPU men won the lightweight four, novice four and junior varsity four against a field that included Willamette, Lewis & Clark and Humboldt State.

Track and field

WSU's Tim Gehring won the shot put with a heave of 63 feet, 6 inches at the Brutus Hamilton Invitational in Berkeley, Calif., the fourth-best mark in WSU history.

• Seattle Pacific took the women's title and Western Washington captured the men's title at the Shotwell Invitational, hosted by Puget Sound.

The Falcons women took the crown with 164.45 points, followed by WWU at 138.20. The Vikings men had 186 points, followed by Linfield College (138).

Pacific Lutheran's Carrie Larsen surpassed her meet and Baker Stadium record in the women's 400-meter hurdles, winning in 1 minute, 2.74. seconds. Her previous record was 1:03.38.

Janna Schaafsma led the SPU women, winning the 100-meter hurdles and finishing second in the 400 hurdles. Falcon Jennifer Marsh won the 800 and ran the anchor leg of the winning 1,600 relay team.

Golf

The Huskies men took 10th place at Arizona State's Thunderbird Invitational, shooting a 5-under-par 859 overall. The host Sun Devils won the title at 821.

UW senior Brock Mackenzie shot a 10-under 206 to finish eighth overall in medalist play.

• The UW women were in third place after the first round at the Peg Barnard Collegiate at the Stanford Golf Course. The Huskies shot 16-over 304 and trailed first-place Stanford by nine.

Other baseball

Western Oregon at Central Washington — CWU senior lefty Jeremy Mannin gave up six hits in 8-1/3 innings, and Willie Kahn went 4 for 4 at the plate as the Wildcats won Game 1 of a doubleheader, 9-3. The Wildcats (18-11, 4-2 Great Northwest Athletic Conference) also beat WOU in Game 2, 11-5.

Softball

Seattle University at WOU — The Redhawks split a doubleheader with the host Wolves (9-23, 4-8 GNAC), falling 5-4 in Game 1 and winning Game 2, 9-3.

SU (14-10, 7-3) rallied from a 3-1 deficit to tie the score in the fifth, then got the win with a six-run seventh.

Western Washington at No. 9 Humboldt State — The Vikings (15-16, 4-6 GNAC) were swept in a doubleheader, 9-1 and 3-0, by HSU (38-10, 13-1). The Vikings only run of the day came in the second inning, as freshman Cortney Walton singled home Adrienne Moore.

Willamette at Puget Sound — The Bearcats (16-15, 12-8 Northwest Conference) swept a doubleheader, 7-0 and 1-0, against the host Loggers (10-14, 7-9). Willamette scored the lone run of Game 2 in the first inning.

Other sports

• Preston Burpo made five saves as the Seattle Sounders played the Vancouver Whitecaps to a scoreless tie in an soccer exhibition at Civic Stadium in Bellingham.

• Jaynie Reynolds tied for second on balance beam and finished sixth on uneven bars and Sarah Sullivan (vault) and Debra Huss and Kari Kelly (floor exercises) earned All-America honors for Seattle Pacific at the USA Gymnastics National Championships in Denton, Texas.

• The No. 18 UW men's tennis team fell 5-2 to No. 4 UCLA at Bill Quillian Stadium.

• USC beat the UW women's tennis team 5-2 in Los Angeles.

• The WSU women's tennis team fell 6-1 to host UCLA.