Bulldogs Pelt Cougs With 19 Runs

Gonzaga scored 13 runs in the seventh and eighth innings to hand Washington State a 19-12 setback Tuesday afternoon in a non-conference baseball game at Columbia Basin College Field in Pasco.

The Bulldogs (9-10-1) pounded out 20 hits off five Washington State pitchers in evening their series with the Cougars (2-21) at one win apiece.

Each team belted three home runs, with Cougars Steve Curran, Jason Hairston and Duane Stewart hitting the long ball for WSU and Scott Asan, Jeff Bowne (grand slam) and Trevor Davis doing the same for the Bulldogs.

The game was tied at 6 after six innings before Gonzaga’s rally.

The Bulldogs used five hits in the seventh inning, including Asan’s three-run home run, to score five times and build an 11-6 lead. Dominic Prince drove home the other two Gonzaga runs in the inning with a triple.

Gonzaga added eight runs in the eighth on five hits, one Washington State error, three walks and two hit batters.

The teams meet again today in Pullman. Game time at Bailey Field is 2 p.m.

Five Lewis-Clark State pitchers held Whitworth to four singles as the Warriors defeated the Pirates 4-1 in a non-league NAIA game at Lewiston, Idaho.

One of Whitworth’s hits, a single by Jay Wendt, gave the Pirates a 1-0 lead in the first inning.

LCSC tied it in the first on a triple by Jose Rijo-Berger, followed by a sacrifice fly from the next batter, Keith Habig.

The Warriors (15-5-1) took the lead in the sixth on an RBI single by Bucky Jacobsen and added two runs in the seventh on RBI singles by Rijo-Berger and Habig.

Jason McDougal started for the Pirates (3-11) and allowed one hit and one earned run in four complete innings. He collected three strikeouts.

College track and field

Washington State’s Heidi Shultz set a meet and Warmerdam Field record in the 800-meter run on her way to a second-place finish at the Fresno State Decathlon/Heptathlon in Fresno, Calif.

Washington State All-America decathlete Leo Slack withdrew from the competition following a recurrence of shoulder pain after the discus competition, the second of Tuesday’s five events.

Shultz, a senior from White Salmon, Wash., scored a personal-best and NCAA provisional qualifying 5,075 points in her first heptathlon this season.

Slack, a junior from Kennewick, and the defending Pac-10 decathlon champ, was in second place with 4,004 points after the first day, 55 points behind the leader.

Golf

Wandermere golf course will hold its first men’s club meeting Thursday at 8 p.m. A free spaghetti dinner will be served at 6:30. Men’s club play begins March 29.

College basketball

Former Idaho men’s basketball coach Joe Cravens interviewed for the UC Irvine job last week.

Cravens was an assistant at Irvine last season.

College soccer

Women’s soccer will become a varsity sport at the University of Idaho in 1998, Vandals athletic director Oval Jaynes announced.

Jaynes said a full complement of scholarships will be offered by the third season. In 1998-99, 50 percent of available scholarship funding will be offered. That will increase to 75 percent for the 1999-2000 season, with 100 percent available for 2000-01.

, DataTimes