Regional Sports Roundup: Kirk adds a silver at world swimfest

SHANGHAI — Bremerton's Tara Kirk captured her second individual medal of the Short Course World Swim Championships on Sunday, taking silver in the women's 200-meter breaststroke to go with the gold she took the night before in the 100 breast.

Kirk, who competed at Stanford from 2000 to 2004, clocked in at 2:21.77, a second behind China's Qi Hui.

"I was happy with second place," Kirk said. "I was pretty tired after a lot of racing this week, but I wanted to take it out and see what happened. These girls are great racers and great athletes. I certainly just wanted to swim a good race against them."

BASEBALL

TEMPE, Ariz. — J.J. Sferra's 11th-inning single through a drawn-in infield drove in the winning run as 13th-ranked Arizona State beat Washington, 8-7, and took their three-game series, 2-1. The Huskies (22-13, 4-5 Pac-10) once led 6-2 and were two outs from winning 7-6 in regulation, but Seth Dhaenens' pinch-hit RBI single for ASU (25-10, 4-2) in the bottom of the ninth forced extra innings.

Curt Rindal hit his eighth home run of the season for the Huskies in the 4 ½-hour marathon, and Ryan Anderson added his second.

• Josh Roenicke drove in four runs and UCLA reliever Hector Ambriz held off a late WSU rally as the host Bruins (22-12, 4-5) came away with a 10-7 victory over Washington State (18-14, 3-2) and a 2-1 win in their weekend Pac-10 series. Ambriz, the UCLA reliever who picked up the win in Friday's opener, got a strikeout and popup to end the game with the tying run at the plate. Jeff Miller had four of the Cougars' 14 hits.

• Ryan Thorne went 5 for 6 and scored four runs as PLU (17-12, 7-7 NWC) split a doubleheader with Pacific, winning 15-5 and losing 3-1.

• Shaun Kiriu's RBI single gave Puget Sound a 2-1 win over George Fox, but the Bruins romped in the nightcap, 13-1.

SOFTBALL

TEMPE, Ariz. — Rhiannon Baca hit a shot to the left-field wall in the bottom of the 13th inning, giving Arizona State a 5-4 victory over Washington in a 4-hour Pac-10 marathon. Lauren Greer hit a two-run homer to give Washington (28-12, 2-4 Pac-10) a 4-2 lead, but the Sun Devils forced extra innings in the bottom of the seventh and Katie Burkhart eventually got the win with six innings of no-hit relief work.

The outcome was a role reversal of Saturday night's late game, in which Greer and Dominique Lastrapes led off the 11th inning with back-to-back home runs to give the Huskies a 3-1 win. Burkhart, ASU's starter, struck out 23 — tying her for fifth on the NCAA all-time list for strikeouts in a game — and UW hurlers Caitlin Noble and Danielle Lawrie combined for 19 more.

• Kelli Marek went 5 for 6 with two doubles, three runs scored and five RBI as Seattle U. (22-13, 7-1 GNAC) rolled over Western Oregon, 8-0 and 8-1. The Redhawks' Erin Martin threw a two-hitter in the Game 1 shutout.

• Whitworth swept Puget Sound, 3-2 and 3-0, moving the Pirates (18-8, 13-4) into sole possession of first place in the Northwest Conference for the first time in school history. UPS fell to 16-10 and 6-8.

• Molly Maxfield drove in the winning run with a squeeze bunt in the bottom of the fifth and Mallory Holtman hit a solo home run to extend her hitting streak to 13 games as Central Washington earned a split with a 2-1 win over Western Washington. The Vikings won the opener, 6-2.

• Pacific Lutheran split with Linfield, winning 4-2 and losing 3-0.

OTHER SPORTS

WEST WINDSOR, N.J. — Anna Mickelson of Seattle's Pocock Rowing Center teamed with Megan Cooke to win the women's pair on the final day of competition at the first U.S. national selection regatta on Lake Mercer near Princeton N.J.

In the two-boat race, Mickelson, a former UW rower and member of the U.S. quadruple sculls entry at the 2005 world championships, and Cooke covered the 2,000-meter course in 7:33.74, winning by nearly 14 seconds.

Pocock's Lia Pernell finished second in women's single sculls, and teammates Abelyn Broughton and Britton Nixon finished 2-3 in lightweight women's singles.

Lake Mercer will also host the second national selection regatta, on April 28.

• Gonzaga's women's eight finished second to Massachusetts in the Knect Cup Grand Final on the Cooper River near Camden, N.J.

Compiled from college sports information and other reports