NW Briefs | UW senior Brown captures men's 800

EUGENE, Ore. — Washington senior Ryan Brown won the men's 800-meter run at the Oregon Invitational with the nation's fifth-fastest time Saturday, capping an outstanding two days of competition for Huskies athletes at the prestigious meet.

Brown finished in 1 minute, 48.60 seconds, .09 seconds better than runner-up Lachlan Henshaw of Australia.

The Huskies also got a victory from junior Norris Frederick, who won the long jump with a mark of 24 feet, 3 inches.

Trojans top UW baseball

USC used a four-run sixth inning to break open a tight game and hand the Washington baseball team a 5-2 loss at Husky Ballpark.

The Trojans have won the first two games of the three-game conference series, dropping the Huskies to 19-18 overall and 5-6 in Pac-10 play.

Washington starter Nick Haughian (3-5) gave up three runs on seven hits over five-plus innings for the loss. Matt Hague led the Huskies offensively, going 3 for 4 with a double, a home run and two runs batted in.

USC 5, WASHINGTON 2

USC	010 004 000 — 5 11 0
Washington	000 002 000 — 2 10 2

Cook, Koss (9) and Bowden. Haughian, McKerney (6), Nichols (6) and Dunn. WP — Cook (5-2). LP — Haughian (3-5). Sv — Koss (14). HR — UW, Hague (5). A — 674.

Other baseball

Nick Ison allowed just two hits in 7-1/3 innings and Mike Gilbert drove in three runs as Washington State (18-18, 2-9 Pac-10) defeated No. 12 Arizona 4-3 in Pullman.

• Evan Wells recorded a career-high four hits, including a two-run home run, as Gonzaga (25-18, 8-3 West Coast Conference) beat Saint Mary's College 7-2 in Spokane.

• Whitworth (13-20, 9-11) ended a pair of long Pacific Lutheran winning streaks with a 5-4 victory in the opener, but the Lutes rebounded to beat the Pirates 14-0 in the nightcap of a Northwest Conference doubleheader in Spokane. PLU (28-7, 17-3) had won 10 straight overall and its last 15 NWC games in a row.

Softball

Seattle University (23-18, 6-6) split a Great Northwest Athletic Conference doubleheader with Western Washington (22-18, 7-5) at Logan Field, winning 2-1 before falling 11-1 in the nightcap.

• Lindsay Fujita and Victoria Raeburn had four RBI each to send Puget Sound past Lewis & Clark 11-5 in the first game of a NWC doubleheader in Portland. The second game was suspended in the top of the second by rain and will resume at 11 a.m. today.

• Whitworth (27-3, 22-0) swept visiting Willamette 8-2 and 8-0 in a NWC doubleheader in Spokane, setting a school record for consecutive wins at 14 in a row.

• Steady rain halted the game between Washington and Stanford in Palo Alto, Calif., with the Cardinal leading 2-0. The game will resume at 10:30 a.m. today in the bottom of the third inning.

Rowing

In its first home dual regatta of the season, Washington won nine of 10 races against Oregon State along the Montlake Cut. The top-ranked Huskies men's varsity eight beat the 18th-ranked Beavers in 6 minutes, 44.7 seconds. The 10th-ranked Washington women's varsity eight posted a winning time of 6:50.8 against the 20th-ranked Beavers.

• Western Washington's women's team won five of six races, including the featured varsity eight and four events, to take its third straight title at the Northwest Collegiate Rowing Conference Championships, held on Lake Stevens. Puget Sound was second and Humboldt State third.

• The Gonzaga men recaptured the Fawley Cup after defeating Washington State on the 2,000-meter Silver Lake course in Medical Lake. The Zags' varsity eight defeated the Cougars with a winning time of 6:18.94, 13 seconds better than the Cougars.

Other track and field

Teona Perkins and Brian Cronrath each earned victories for Seattle Pacific on the final day of the Oregon Invitational in Eugene. Perkins won the high jump, clearing 5 feet, 6 inches, while Cronrath won the 1,500 in 3:53.39.

The SPU team of Latasha Essien, Perkins, Jessica Pixler and NyEma Sims won the 1,600 relay in a GNAC season-best time of 3:53.89.

Eastern Washington got wins from David Paul (discus, 177-0), Brody Faire (shot put, 50-4) and Chad Butorac (200, 22.24).

• Washington State's McKenzie Garberg won the shot put (48-3 ½), discus (159-8) and hammer (194-9), all NCAA regional qualifying marks, at the Cougar Invitational in Pullman.

The Cougars also got wins from Robert Williams (110 high hurdles, 14.30; 400 hurdles, 53.54) and Sarah Burns, who won the women's triple jump with a leap of 41-1 ¾, the sixth-best mark in Cougars women's history.

• Linfield took home its first NWC men's championship since 1996, and Willamette won the women's title in Tacoma.

Tennis

Top-seeded Emmett Egger of Issaquah defeated Sean Berman of Irvine, Calif., 6-1, 6-3, to win the boys' 14-and-under event at the 40th annual Easter Bowl Junior Tennis Tournament in Rancho Mirage, Calif. Egger also made the doubles final with partner Christian Harrison of New Braunfels, Texas, but they fell 6-1, 1-6, 6-1 to Nick Chappell of Indianapolis and Shane Vinsant of Keller, Texas.

"It was a good week for me," Egger said.

• The Washington men (16-6, 4-3 Pac-10) beat Oregon 6-1 in Eugene. Alex Slovic paired with Daniel Chu for an 8-4 decision at No. 1 doubles to increase their Huskies record doubles wins total to 83. Slovic then posted a quick 6-1, 6-1 victory over Marcos Verdasco at No. 1 singles for his 93rd career singles win.

• The Washington women (4-16, 1-6 Pac-10) picked up the first Pac-10 victory of Jill Hultquist's coaching career, beating Washington State 5-2 at Nordstrom Tennis Center. Allison Rainey won the deciding match, 6-3, 6-3 over Bianca Selaru at No. 5 singles.

• The Linfield women beat Puget Sound 7-2 to win an unprecedented sixth straight NWC championship in Yakima.

• The Gonzaga women (4-17) fell to San Francisco 4-0 during the second day of the WCC championship in Malibu, Calif.

• The Gonzaga men (11-15) fell to Portland 4-1 during the second day of the WCC championship in San Diego.

• The Eastern Washington men (12-11) finished their regular season with a 6-1 loss on the road to Boise State.

Note

• The IBL Everett Explosion released Antwon Jones for conduct detrimental to the team following a locker-room incident Friday.

Compiled from sports-information reports and other sources.