Zags complete sweep
Brandon Blank went 4 for 4 and four teammates also turned in multi-hit performances as Gonzaga University swept a weekend West Coast Conference series with a 10-4 victory over Saint Mary’s College on Sunday afternoon at the Patterson Baseball Complex and Washington Trust Field.
Josh Monroe allowed three runs on seven hits in five innings to pick up the win for Gonzaga (26-18, 9-3). Saint Mary’s fell to 16-23-1 overall and remained winless in 12 WCC games.
•Washington State University scored two unearned runs in the eighth inning to break a 3-all deadlock and beat the University of Arizona 5-3 in Pacific-10 Conference play at Bailey-Brayton Field in Pullman.
The Cougars (19-18, 3-9) won the weekend series with two victories in three games. Arizona fell to 31-9, 9-3.
Travis Coulter had a school-record tying three doubles for Washington State.
•Jason Erickson and Nick Hagadone combined on a three-hit shutout and the University of Washington avoided a series sweep with a 6-0 victory over USC at Husky Ballpark.
•Pacific Lutheran scored 13 runs in the final three innings and routed Whitworth 14-3 in Northwest Conference play at Merkel Field.
PLU (29-7, 18-3) is closing in on its first conference baseball title in more than 50 years. Whitworth fell to 13-21, 9-12.
Softball
Eighth-ranked Whitworth College (29-3, 24-0 NWC) swept Willamette University (17-16, 11-13) in Northwest Conference play at Whitworth. The scores were 9-7 and 9-4.
Whitworth’s Lindsay Davis was 4 for 7 in the doubleheader and drove in five runs, including a three-run homer in the sixth inning of the opener. In the nightcap, Whitworth used an eight-run second inning to put Willamette behind early.
•Eleventh-ranked Washington split a Pacific-10 Conference doubleheader with 16th-ranked Stanford.
The Cardinal won the opener 3-2 before the Huskies pounded 14 hits to win 12-1 in the nightcap.
Washington improves to 29-12 and 6-5, equaling last year’s conference win total with the second half of the league schedule still to play. Stanford is 29-13, 5-7.
•The Community Colleges of Spokane defeated Clark College 8-0 at the NWAACC Crossover Tournament in Wenatchee.
Whitney Dilworth had a solo homer in the fourth and a run-scoring single in the fifth and also scored two runs. Kristine Newell drove in two runs. Amber Keeler allowed one hit and struck out four and walked none.
Men’s tennis
Marco Pineda (No. 4) and Charles Adams (No. 6) each posted singles victories but Gonzaga University fell to Loyola Marymount University 4-2 in the seventh-place match at the West Coast Conference Championships at San Diego.
Women’s tennis
Gonzaga University got victories from Emily Anderson and Aglaya Kokurina in the top two singles positions, but the University of Portland won the other four singles matches to beat Gonzaga 4-2 in the seventh-place match at the WCC Championships at Malibu, Calif.
Anderson beat Portland’s Christian Feyen 7-6, 6-3, while Kokurina defeated Megan Sporndli 6-1, 6-4.