NW Briefs | UW softball dominates Oregon 8-0

No. 11 Washington used a one-hit shutout by ace Danielle Lawrie and five extra-base hits to beat visiting Oregon 8-0 in six innings Sunday in front of 804 fans to complete the three-game sweep against the Ducks.

The Huskies improve to 32-13 overall and 9-6 in the Pac-10. Oregon dips to 39-14 overall and 4-11 in conference play.

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Seattle University and Central Washington split a Great Northwest Athletic Conference doubleheader in Ellensburg, damaging the Redhawks' title hopes and mathematically ending CWU's title chances.

The Redhawks scored five runs in the seventh to snap a 1-1 tie in the opener in a 6-3 victory. CWU (22-20, 11-7), however, bounced back for a 10-5 win in the second game.

The split left the Redhawks (29-20, 12-6) two back of conference leader Western Oregon (13-3).

• Lindsay Fujita hit two home runs as Puget Sound swept Pacific Lutheran Lutes, 4-0 and 5-3, in a Northwest Conference doubleheader.

Tennis

Alex Slovic fell in his bid to become the first Husky to win the Pac-10 singles championship, losing in straight sets to Stanford's Matt Bruch at Libbey Park in Ojai, Calif.

Bruch cruised past top-seeded Slovic 6-0, 6-4 to win his second-consecutive Pac-10 singles title.

Bruch missed most of the season due to a stress fracture in his wrist and foot, but appeared plenty healthy in controlling the 87th-ranked Slovic from the get-go. Bruch entered the Pac-10 Tournament sporting just a 3-9 record, with one of those losses coming to Slovic back on April 7 in Seattle. Sunday's loss snapped Slovic's nine-match win streak and dropped his record to 21-10 this season and 97-40 in his career.

Freshman Derek Drabble lost in the Pac-10 Men's Invitational Championship final, losing to USC's Jason McNaughton, 6-7 (7-5), 7-6 (7-4), 6-4.

• Pacific Lutheran's David Miller and Justin Larimore won the Division III men's doubles title at the prestigious Ojai Tournament. The event features players from the top Division III programs on the West Coast. Miller and Larimore defeated Max Liberty-Point and Brian Pybas from UC Santa Cruz 6-3, 6-4 in the title match.

• After earning its first two postseason wins of its NCAA Division I era, the Eastern Washington men's team saw its season end in a 4-0 loss to host Sacramento State in the Big Sky Conference tournament championship.

Baseball

Hector Estrella's two out, two-run single in the bottom of the eighth capped a three-run inning and propelled USC (23-22, 6-9) to a 10-8 victory over Washington State (21-20, 4-11) in the Pac-10 Conference series finale in Los Angeles.

• Justin Marshall's RBI single in the seventh snapped a 4-4 tie as Central Washington completed a GNAC doubleheader sweep with a 6-4 win at Lacey. The Wildcats won the first game 8-5.

CWU's two wins moved the Wildcats (25-17, 9-11) into a tie for second-place with the Saints (17-27, 9-11). At the same time, it enabled first-place Western Oregon (15-5) to clinch its sixth consecutive GNAC title.

• Gonzaga (27-21, 10-5 WCC) fell 10-2 to host San Francisco (23-23, 6-9).

• Linfield handed visiting Whitworth a 7-1 defeat in the final regular season Northwest Conference contest for both schools. The Wildcats (22-14 overall, 17-7 NWC) finished in third place in the conference standings. The Pirates (13-24, 9-15) fell into a three-way tie for sixth place.

• Korey Yost scored the game-winning run on a squeeze bunt in the bottom of the 11th inning as Pacific closed out the season with a 5-4 victory over Whitman in a Northwest Conference game.

• Pacific Lutheran proved to be too much for Puget Sound as UPS fell 9-3 to the Northwest Conference champions in Parkland.

Crew

Pocock Rowing Center's Anna Mickelson and partner Megan Cooke rowed to a 1.8-second women's pair victory over the Princeton/Vesper Boat Club's Caryn Davies and Carolyn Lind to earn a bid for the 2007 U.S. National Rowing Team at the USRowing National Selection Regatta on Mercer Lake near Princeton, N.J.

• With a strong second half, Seattle Pacific earned the bronze in the women's varsity eight at the Western Intercollegiate Rowing Association Championships on Lake Natoma in Rancho Cordova, Calif.

The Pacific Lutheran men's lightweight four and the women's varsity eight boats both placed fourth.

The Western Washington women's varsity eight finished third and the novice four first.

Note

• Puget Sound has hired Justin Lunt as coach of the men's basketball team. Lunt served as interim head coach during the 2006-07 season after two years as an assistant coach with the Loggers.

Compiled from sports-information reports and other sources.