NW briefs: Huskies fend off Cal rally

Washington's Kyle Parker (6-4) held California to two runs over 7-2/3 innings, and Matt Hague drove in two runs on three hits as the Huskies baseball team beat California, 5-4, yesterday at Husky Ballpark.

Washington (23-13, 4-4 Pac-10) has won 19 of its last 25 games.

Down 5-2 entering the ninth inning, the Bears (23-16, 5-6) mounted a comeback off UW reliever Brandon McKerney. With one on and one out, right fielder Jeremy Burchett belted a homer into the Cal bullpen in left field. But UW's David Dowling and Josh Conover came on to retire one batter each to end the game.

Brent Lillibridge, who went 2 for 4 with a double, extended his hitting streak to 13 games, longest of the year by a Husky.

Other baseball

• Gonzaga (21-13, 8-4) beat Portland 3-1 in a West Coast Conference game.

Tennis

The Washington men defeated Oregon 6-1 in their regular-season finale to win a share of the Pac-10 championship. The 11th-ranked Huskies (18-4) pulled even with UCLA atop the Pac-10 standings at 6-1, and the two teams will split the title.

The Huskies responded from a rare doubles point loss to sweep all six singles matches. Alex Vlaski won the day's premier match at the top singles spot, taking down 14th-ranked Sven Swinnen 6-2, 2-6, 6-3.

• Pacific Lutheran pulled out a 4-3 win over Whitman in the Northwest Conference men's championship in Yakima.

In key matches, David Miller and Erik Husa outlasted Brad Changstrom and Dane Miller of Whitman 8-6, giving the Lutes the doubles point; and Justin Larimore won a tiebreaker in the second set to pull out a 7-5, 7-6 (7-3) triumph at No. 6 singles to give PLU the title.

In the women's championship, Linfield defeated Puget Sound 8-1.

Gymnastics

Seattle Pacific's Debra Huss and Kari Kelly combined for four individual titles at the USA Gymnastics national championships in Ithaca, N.Y.

Huss, who already earned the all-around title, tied for first on floor exercise, and she posted a 9.750 to tie for first on the uneven bars. Kelly won the vault with a 9.712.

Rowing

Washington won seven of nine races, including the featured women's varsity clash, during the annual dual regatta with Washington State in Pullman.

The Huskies women's crew finished the 2,000-meter course in 6 minutes, 30.14 seconds. UW swept all three men's races including the weather-shortened varsity eight competition, in 6:11.12.

WSU's only wins came in the women's junior-varsity eight and varsity four.

• The Gonzaga women's varsity crew advanced to the Grand Final of the Knecht Cup in Camden, N.J., by finishing second to George Washington in their semifinal heat, 7:29.5 to 7:27.

Track and field

Western Washington's Bul Nyuop won the men's 10,000 meters in 33:39.80, .55 of a second off the meet record at the Spike Arlt Invitational in Ellensburg.

Central Washington won both team titles, with Western second in the men's and women's standings.

Western had three other individual winners: Sam Brancheau (men's 1,500, 3:59.70), Beth Rosapepe (women's 5,000, 18:31.80) and Kim Bascom (women's long jump, 16-6 ½). Also, Seattle Pacific's Jennifer Marsh took first place in the 800 meters, finishing in 2:19.91.

• At the McDonald's Outdoor Meet at Moscow, Idaho, WSU's Brett Ortgiesen won the javelin (197-10); Ben Hampton won the triple jump (46-7-1/3); Mason Kien won the long jump (23 ½); and Kyle Eaton won the high jump (6-6 ¾). Among the WSU women, McKenzie Burgess won the shot put (44-2).

Golf

The UW men turned in rounds of 295 and 293 to stand 11th at 588, while WSU was 16th at 598 at the U.S. Intercollegiate at in Stanford, Calif.

The Huskies were led by Alex Prugh and Sterling Clark, who both shot 7-over 147. The Cougars' Chris Collins shot a team-best 146.

USC leads the field at 2-over 562. The Trojans' Bradley Shaw owns a one-shot lead in stroke play at 4-under 136.

Compiled from reports by college sports-information departments.