NW Briefs: Huskies baseball suffers shutout

The Washington baseball team suffered its first shutout loss of the season Saturday, as Arizona's Brad Mills and Matt Baugh combined on a six-hitter in a 15-0 win at rain-soaked Husky Ballpark.

The start of the game was delayed roughly five hours due to rain.

The usually high-scoring Huskies (29-16, 7-7 Pac-10) had been held to one run only once all season and to two runs on three other occasions.

Matt Hague led Washington at the plate, going 2 for 4.

Track and field

Behind Shane Charles' meet record in the hurdles and a sweep of the shot put and discus by Will Conwell, the Washington men defeated Washington State, 112-91, in a track and field dual meet in Pullman. The Huskies' women were defeated 111.5-91.5 by their cross-state rivals.

Charles crossed the line in 50.18 seconds, well below his meet record of 50.76, set in 2005.

On the women's side, Ashley Lodree set meet and stadium records with a winning time of 13.25 seconds in the 100-meter hurdles. Lodree also won the 100-meter dash (11.76) and anchored UW's 400-meter relay to second place.

Tennis

Washington's Jean-Noel Insausti and Mike Ricks advanced to the final of the invitational doubles draw at the Pac-10 championships in Ojai, Calif. The UW duo beat Stanford's Phil Kao and Chris Rasmussen, 8-5, in the semifinals. It will face in the final another Stanford team, James Won and Jon Wong, which beat UW's David Chu and Andy Gerst 8-2 in the other semifinal.

• Pacific Lutheran's Ricky Butenko and David Miller won twice to advance to the Division III West doubles final at the Ojai (Calif.) Tourney. The PLU duo beat Andrew Elling and Eric Wagar of the University of Redlands 8-4, then won 8-4 over Guillaume Schils and Lawrence Wang of Claremont-Mudd-Scripps to reach today's final.

Other baseball

Zach McAngus had three hits, including his third homer of the year, as Washington State (28-16, 6-8 Pac-10) beat USC 13-7 in Pullman.

• Pacific Lutheran (22-17, 12-11) split a Northwest Conference doubleheader with Whitworth in Spokane, winning the opener 1-0, then falling 14-2 in the nightcap.

Softball

Western Washington (21-25, 9-11 GNAC) dropped a doubleheader to top-ranked Humboldt State, 7-2 and 4-3 in eight innings, in Arcata, Calif.

• Rain forced Puget Sound (22-14-1, 12-12-1) and Pacific to settle for a 3-3 tie in a NWC game in Tacoma. The second game of the scheduled doubleheader was canceled and will not be made up.

Rowing

All three Western Washington entries advanced to grand finals at the Western Intercollegiate Rowing Association championships on Lake Natoma, near Sacramento, Calif.

The Vikings' women's varsity eight completed the 2,000-meter course in 6 minutes, 48.9 seconds, finishing second to Loyola Marymount but advancing.

Western's women's varsity four (7:40.5) and women's novice four (7:49.6) also moved on to today's competition.

The Seattle Pacific men qualified for the varsity four grand final, while the Falcons women made the varsity eight petite final.

• Britton Nixon and Abelyn Broughton of Seattle's Pocock Rowing Center won their women's lightweight double sculls heat, and former UW rower Matt Deakin and partner Beau Hoopman won their men's pair heat to advance to the finals of the U.S. National Selection Regatta in Princeton, N.J.

Football

Western Washington quarterbacks threw four touchdown passes, three of them by James Monrean, but the defense claimed a 51-26 victory in a Vikings spring scrimmage.

Notes

• Duvall's Amy Tryon was fifth aboard Woodstock after the cross-country competition at the Rolex Kentucky 3-Day Event in Lexington.

• Roger Levesque and Jamal Sutton scored goals in the last 15 minutes as the Seattle Sounders beat Seattle University 2-1 in a soccer exhibition at Bothell's Pop Keeney Stadium.

Compiled from sports-information reports and other sources.