NW Briefs: Huskies baseball tops Arizona, 4-2

The Washington baseball team rallied for two runs in the eighth inning to edge Arizona, 4-3, Sunday in a tight series finale at Husky Ballpark. The Huskies won the series, two games to one.

Washington (30-16, 8-7 in the Pac-10) entered the eighth trailing 3-2 after Arizona had broken a 2-2 tie with a run in the top of the inning. After a walk to Joey Dunn and a bunt single from Bradley Boyer put two runners on base, freshman Brett Kaluza singled up the middle to drive in pinch runner Nick Burnham with the tying run. Later in the inning, Kaluza scored on a sacrifice fly from Matt Hague.

Huskies reliever Richie Lentz (1-0) got two outs in relief for the win. Washington ace Tim Lincecum gave up two hits and a walk in the ninth, but held off the Wildcats to pick up his third save of the year.

Other baseball

Jared Prince earned his sixth victory of the season and capped his day with a home run as Washington State (29-16, 7-8 Pac-10) defeated USC, 6-3, in Pullman. The 29 wins tie for the most by a WSU team since the Cougars posted 35 victories in 1994.

• David Fox's sacrifice fly in the top of the ninth scored Roger Guzman with the winning run for visiting Pacific Lutheran (23-17, 13-11) in a 5-4 victory over Whitworth (19-20, 13-11) in the Northwest Conference season finale for both schools.

• Western Oregon completed a season sweep of Central Washington (16-25, 2-12 Great Northwest Athletic Conference) with 16-2 and 2-0 wins in Monmouth, Ore.

• Gonzaga (26-19, 7-8 West Coast) was limited to two hits in a 5-0 loss to Loyola Marymount in Los Angeles.

• Shaun Messerli hit two home runs to lead Puget Sound (18-20, 14-10 NWC) past Whitman 8-3 in Walla Walla.

Softball

Western Washington (21-27) managed just seven hits total in dropping a doubleheader to Humboldt State, 10-2 and 11-2, in Arcata, Calif.

• Hailey Gee was 3 for 5 with a double, triple and four RBI as Puget Sound (23-14-1, 13-12-1) finished the NWC season with a doubleheader sweep of Willamette, 9-2 and 6-5 in Tacoma.

• Central Washington (19-22, 9-11 GNAC) split a doubleheader with Western Oregon, taking the opener 5-0 and falling 12-4 in the nightcap in Monmouth, Ore.

• Linfield (29-8, 22-6) dropped the opener of a NWC doubleheader 3-2 to Whitworth, but came back to win 11-0 in five innings in Game 2 to wrap up its third straight conference title. The Wildcats earn the conference's automatic berth to the NCAA Division III playoffs.

Tennis

Washington's Jean-Noel Insausti and Michael Ricks fell 9-7 to Stanford's James Wan and Jon Wong in the doubles final of the Pac-10 Invitational in Ojai, Calif.

Rowing

Several local crews were victorious at the Western Intercollegiate Rowing Association Championships on Lake Natoma, near Sacramento, Calif.

The Western Washington men's varsity four crew won a competitive grand final, finishing in 6 minutes, 25.7 seconds. Seattle Pacific's women's varsity eight won the petite final (7:14.8), and the Gonzaga men's varsity eight won its petite final (5:58.3).

• Anna Mickelson, of Seattle's Pocock Rowing Center, and partner Megan Cooke qualified for the U.S. national team with a victory in the women's pairs at the U.S. National Selection Regatta near Princeton N.J.

Mickelson, a former UW rower and 2004 U.S. Olympic silver medalist, and Cooke clocked a 7:17.28 on the 2,000-meter Lake Mercer course, beating the U.S. time standard of 7:24 to earn a trip to Eton, England, for the 2006 world championships in August.

The win earned the Newport High School graduate and Bellevue native her sixth berth on the U.S. national team.

"The pair is something new — it's like an entirely new sport," said Mickelson, who previously competed for the U.S. in the quadruple sculls. "All those miles on Lake Washington in a single have paid off."

Notes

• The Everett Hawks (0-4) fell 60-41 to the Central Valley Coyotes at the Everett Events Center, remaining winless in Arena Football League2 play.

Compiled from sports-information reports and other sources.