NW briefs: UW hoop tickets on sale Monday

Season tickets for Washington men's basketball go on sale Monday at the Husky Ticket Office.

Season tickets are available in the $375 bleacher-with-back and $300 bleacher-without-back seating areas.

Season ticket prices are based on a 17-game home schedule.

The Huskies went 15-0 at home last season and have won 22 straight overall at home — the nation's fourth-longest streak.

EWU releases

hoops schedule

Washington, Marquette, Gonzaga and Brigham Young highlight the nonconference basketball schedule for the Eastern Washington men.

The Eagles visit UW on Dec. 16, then Gonzaga on Dec. 19 and Brigham Young on Dec. 27. They open the season at home Nov. 19 against Pacific Lutheran. EWU plays Marquette in Alaska.

Seafair Torchlight Run

The annual Seafair Torchlight Run, scheduled for 6:30 p.m. tomorrow, will take runners through downtown Seattle streets packed with spectators along the Torchlight Parade route.

The 8K (4.97 miles) and 5K (3.1 miles) runs begin and finish near Qwest Field.

Soccer

Scott Baldwin scored the winning goal in the final minute as the U.S. men beat Mexico 3-2 to advance to the finals of the All Nations Cup tournament at Starfire Sports Complex in Tukwila.

The United States will face Brazil, which beat Iraq 2-1 in the other semifinal, in the championship game on Sunday.

Rowing

Members of the Sammamish Rowing Association earned three gold medals recently at the World Masters Games in Canada.

Hanna Yuse, Wendy Beeman, Theresa Knakal and Sandra McGinnis took first in the women's "B" fours. Yuse, Nancy Myers, Beeman and Tammy Smith won the "C" fours, and Dan Voicu and Sandra McGinnis won the mixed "B" pairs.

Commitments

Four high-school seniors-to-be made oral commitments to play baseball for Washington State in 2007: Michael Weber, who was second baseman for 3A state-champion O'Dea; Josh Ashenbrenner, Lake Washington High shortstop; Cody Bartlett, shortstop and second baseman from Kentwood High School; and Stephen Englund, shortstop from Bellevue High School.

Seth Harvey, a right-handed pitcher from River Ridge High School in Lacey, also confirmed he has committed to WSU.

• Anthony Fields, a linebacker on the Rainier Beach football team and a catcher on the school's baseball team, has committed to play both sports at Concordia College in Moorehead, Minn.

• Sara Trané, an intermediate hurdler and 800-meter runner, signed a letter of intent with WSU.

• Sprinter Jessica Hinton of Lake Stevens High signed a letter of intent with Seattle Pacific.

Notes

• UW junior golfer Alex Prugh was 18th at 2-over 142 overall after two rounds at the Western Amateur in Benton Harbor, Mich.

• Top seed Michael Kogan beat Erik Husa 6-1, 6-0 to advance past the round of 32 at the 114th annual PNW tennis tournament in Tacoma.

• Leslie Folsom beat Amy Walker 2 and 1 to advance to the title match of the Washington State Women's Golf Association Tournament in Clarkston. Folsom will face Kari Sampson.

• The Seattle Stars 18U Baseball Club won the first game of the American Amateur Baseball Congress Connie Mack Western Regional in Bellevue, beating the Trombley Braves, the Southern California Connie Mack Champions, 5-4.

• Matt Anger, UW men's tennis coach, was inducted into the USTA Northern California Tennis Hall of Fame. Patty McCain, ex-UW women's coach, also was inducted.

• Six former boys basketball coaches have been inducted this summer into the Washington Interscholastic Basketball Coaches Association Hall of Fame: Jim Adams (Molalla, Ore., Snohomish), John Clark (Mount Baker, Lynden), Charlie Cobb (Cascade), Mac Fraser (Stevenson, Mount Vernon — three state titles), Roger Ottmar (Mountlake Terrace) and the late Joe Richer (Everett).

Times reporter Craig Smith, The Associated Press, college sports-info departments and other sources contributed to this report.