Timm Wins, Just In Time

Colleges

Les Timm made his final throw a memorable one.

Down to his last chance, Timm uncorked a personal-best toss of 191 feet, 2 inches Saturday to win the men’s hammer throw at the Big Sky Conference outdoor track and field championships at Sun Angel Stadium in Tempe, Ariz.

The Eagles’ other highlight of the day was a women’s 400-meter relay win in 46.53 seconds.

The Idaho men defended their 400-meter relay title. The Vandals competed without their strongest leg, Niels Kruller, who suffered a hamstring injury during Friday’s 100 preliminaries. Still, Idaho ran a season-best 40.36.

Kruller’s injury and Jason St. Hill’s false start in the 200 on Friday hurt Idaho’s chances to repeat as team champion. The Vandals had 40 points through seven events, nine behind Northern Arizona.

Through eight events, the EWU women were seventh with 17 points.

Softball

Most valuable player Brenda Ruppel pitched a seven-hitter to lead Clackamas over host Community Colleges of Spokane 4-1 for the NWAACC softball tournament championship at Spokane Falls CC.

Ruppel went 3-0 during the two-day tourney, striking out 22 in 19 innings and fashioning a 1.22 earned-run average.

Clackamas finished the tourney 4-0. The Cougars opened the day by beating Edmonds 2-1 on Ruppel’s five-hitter.

The host Sasquatch (38-10) eliminated Walla Walla 2-0 to open the day, then ousted Edmonds 1-0 to advance to the championship. CCS needed to stop Clackamas twice for the title.

Julie Fountain pitched a five-hitter, and Kelly Kinder and Barbara Cossette drove in runs in CCS’ win over WWCC. Laura Schwarz pitched a complete-game three-hitter and Traci Moore scored in the ninth as CCS beat Edmonds.

Cossette, Fountain, Schwarz and Moore were named to the 13-member all-tournament team.

CCS 2, Walla Walla 0

Spokane 000 100 1 - 2 9 1

WW 000 000 0 - 0 5 2

Fountain and Lawler; Carpenter and Sapp. W-Fountain. L-Carpenter.

HITS: CCS Moore 2, Fountain 2, Meddock 2, Fine, Hedbum, Cossette. Walla Walla - Coles, Whitney, Hogle 1, Alvarado.

CCS 1, Edmonds 0

Edmonds 000 000 000 - 0 3 1

CCS 000 000 001 - 1 6 1

Werder and Hanke; Schwartz and Lawler. W-Schwartz. L-Werder.

HITS: Edmonds - Paul, Ahlers, Bennyhoff. CCS Moore 2, Cossette 2, Fountain, Meddock. 2B-Cossette.

Clackamas 4, CCS 1

CCS 100 000 0 - 1 7 1

Clackamas 013 000 x - 4 7 0

Schwartz, Fountain (3) and Lawler; Ruppel and Whitton. W-Ruppel. L-Schwartz.

HITS: CCS Fine 2, Moore, Risinger, Meddock, Cossette, Hedbum. Clackamas - Voil, Scott, Menzia, Haselwood 2, Demos, Ruppel. 2B-Risinger.

Baseball

Right-hander Scott Henderson (8-1) pitched seven strong innings to lead Southern California to a 5-0 win over Washington in Los Angeles, giving the Trojans (41-14-1) their second consecutive Pacific-10 Conference championship.

The Trojans earned the league’s automatic berth to the NCAA Regional playoffs. The Huskies (30-28), the league’s North Division champion, lost the best-of-three playoff 2-1.

Marc Mirizzi had a two-run double off Blair Fowler (3-4) in USC’s second.

Tennis

Shyla Gordon won her No. 1 singles match and teamed with Susan Scheckells to win at No. 1 doubles as CCS opened competition at the NWAACC championships in Yakima.

Also winning for CCS was Heather Adams, 7-5, 6-1 over Shoreline’s Sandra Lester in No. 3 singles.

Scheckells lost her No. 2 singles match. Also losing were No. 4 singles Maria Norby and No. 5 singles Kim Hindman.

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