Beavers Best Cougs To Earn Pac-10 Split

Area baseball

David Schmidt’s eighth-inning solo home run earned Oregon State a 5-4 victory over Washington State in the second game as the teams split a Pac-10 North baseball doubleheader Monday.

The win snapped a three-game losing streak for Oregon State (5-5 Pac-10 North, 15-13-1 overall).

Washington State (5-3, 13-17) won the seven-inning opener 5-4.

Kevin Hooker had a two-run double and Matt Bailie added an RBI single as Oregon State collected three runs in the seventh inning of the second contest after trailing 3-1. Tom Cody’s sacrifice fly for WSU tied the game at 4-4 in the eighth.

The Cougars won the first game in the seventh inning on Rob Ryan’s RBI double and Mike Kink’s run-scoring single.

WSU 5-4, Oregon St. 4-5

Wash. St. 200 100 2 - 5 8 2 Oregon St. 200 000 2 - 4 8 2

Ramsay, Kawabata (7) and Kinkade; Lovinger, Jackson (7), Swinburnson (7) and Melwes, Schmidt 97). W-Ramsay (2-1). L-Lovinger (3-2). Sv- Kawabata (1).

HITS: WSU Wetmore, Ryan 2, Cameron 2, Kinkade, Naumu 2. OSU Hardin 2, Hooker, Bailie, Melwes, Wakeland, Snelling, Bland. 2B - Ryan, Bailie, Hardin, Melwes.

SECOND GAME

Wash. St. 110 001 010 - 4 11 2 Oregon St. 000 100 31x - 5 10 4

Swingley, Kawabata (4), Clifford (7) and Hamik; Tuck and Schmidt. W-Tuck (3-2). L-Clifford (0-2). HR-Oregon St., Bailie (2), Schmidt (4).

HITS: WSU Wetmore, Ryan 2, Cameron, Kinkade 2, Naumu, Cody 2, Kaleikilo 2. OSU Hardin, Bland, Hooker, Wakeland 2, Bailie 2, Schmidt 3. 2B - Kinkade, Hooker.

Whitworth 6, Willamette 1

Don O’Neal drove in three runs and Cale Smith smacked a solo home run as the Pirates stopped the visiting Bearcats at Merkel Field.

The teams split two Northwest Conference of Independent Colleges games on Sunday.

O’Neal had a sacrifice fly in a two-run first inning for the Pirates (2-1 NCIC, 8-9-1 overall) and capped the scoring with a two-run single in the seventh. Sean Peterson drove in two runs, with a single and sacrifice fly.

Willamette 001 000 000 - 1 8 2 Whitworth 200 001 30x - 6 9 2

Kosderka, Wilkins (7) and Kelly; Rickman and Schuerman. W-Rickman. L-Kosderka.

HITS: Willamette-Holloway 2, Fera 2, Lindemann 2, Kelly, Evans. Whitworth-Turner 2, O’Neal 2, Smith 2, Schuerman, Peterson, Worsham. 2B-Kelly, Turner. HR-Smith.

Frontier League< Cheney swept a doubleheader from visiting Clarkston, 14-9 and 15-10.

In the opener, Doug Clark had a squeeze bunt that scored two runs in the third inning C.J. Alvin a two-run homer in the fourth.

Bryan Miller, 5-for-8 in the two games with four doubles, had two RBI doubles in the second game to highlight a 17-hit attack.