NW briefs: Husky softball edged by Wildcats, 4-3

TUCSON, Ariz. — Arizona's Courtney Fossatti drove home Allison Von Liechtenstein from third base with a seventh-inning single to lift the third-ranked Wildcats (37-9, 10-7 Pac-10) to a 4-3 victory over No. 20 Washington (29-19, 8-10) yesterday.

Kathy Fiske put the Huskies on the scoreboard in the top of the sixth with a leadoff home run, and Kristen Rivera hit a two-run homer to tie the score at 3-3 in the seventh. But Arizona came back in the bottom of the inning, loading the bases with a single and a pair of walks. Fossatti then bounced a high chopper over the third-base bag to bring in with the winning run.

Other softball

• The season-ending doubleheader between Western Washington (22-19, 16-8 Great Northwest Athletic Conference) and Humboldt State was canceled because of bad weather.

Baseball

Brady Everett hit a pair of two-run home runs to help Washington State (20-27) defeat Sacramento State 11-4 in Pullman.

• Central Washington (28-23, 8-12 GNAC) dropped a pair of games to Western Oregon, 7-2 and 5-4.

Track and field

Washington State's Darion Powell won the decathlon and Julie Pickler took the heptathlon at the Pac-10 Conference combined events championships in Los Angeles.

Powell, a Lake Washington High graduate, won with a personal-best and NCAA qualifying total of 7,531 points. Julie Pickler overtook Diana Pickler, her twin sister and the first-day leader, to win the heptathlon with a 5,569 total.

• Oregon freshman Galen Rupp broke the U.S. junior record in the 10,000 meters, finishing in 28 minutes, 15.52 seconds at the Oregon Twilight meet in Eugene. His time beat the record of 28:32.7 set by Rudy Chapa at the Drake Relays in 1976.

Rowing

Julie Nichols of the Pocock Rowing Center won the finals of the lightweight single sculls in the first USRowing national selection regatta on Lake Mercer near Princeton, N.J. Her time of 7:50.54 was eight seconds better than the standard necessary to earn a spot on the U.S. team that will compete at this summer's World Championships in Gifu, Japan.

Note

• Ross Conway, from Garfield High School, has accepted a baseball scholarship to Concordia University in Portland.

Compiled from reports from college sports-information departments and other sources.