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Barr honorable mention All-American

Idaho’s Stacey Barr earned Women’s College Basketball Coaches Association All-America team honorable mention honors on Saturday.

The senior guard averaged 21.3 points per game, best in the Big Sky Conference, along with 6.7 rebounds and 2.3 assists. She is the first Idaho player to garner recognition from the WBCA.

Barr is the Vandals’ all-time leader in 3-pointers and is fourth on the school’s all-time scoring list with 1,896 points.

Baseball

Andrew Sopko allowed one run through five innings and Gonzaga put up seven runs in the fifth inning in a 9-1 West Coast Conference win over No. 25 San Diego (17-12, 9-3) in Spokane.

Taylor Jones had four hits and drove in two runs to lead GU at the plate. The win gave the Bulldogs (15-16, 5-7) a 2-1 series victory.

• Chris Paul had three hits and drove in three runs and No. 12 California (21-9, 8-4) topped Washington State 6-2 in a Pac-12 game in Berkeley, California. The Cougars won the three-game series 2-1.

WSU couldn’t get much going against Golden Bears’ starter Matt Ladrech, who allowed a pair of runs on five hits in seven innings.

The Cougars (14-16, 3-9) play their next nine games in Pullman, beginning Tuesday against Gonzaga.

• Ryan Schmitten, Brandon Choate and Troy Rallings combined on a two-hit shutout in Washington’s 5-0 win over Stanford (11-17, 0-9) in a Pac-12 game in Stanford, California.

The win gave the Huskies (18-12, 5-7) their first road sweep of the Cardinal.

• Linfield scored an unearned run in the top of the seventh and clipped Whitworth 7-6 in a Northwest Conference game in Spokane.

The Wildcats’ Finn McMichael scored the winning run after an attempted pickoff throw by Whitworth (20-11, 11-7) catcher Joshua Davis sailed down the left-field line.

The win gave Linfield (21-9, 11-7) a 3-0 series sweep.

• Evan Douglas hit a grand slam in the top of the 11th inning and Community Colleges of Spokane (16-5, 5-3) beat Walla Walla 9-6 in the opening game of a Northwest Athletic Conference doubleheader in Walla Walla.

Walla Walla (15-9, 5-3) won the nightcap 6-5 after scoring three runs in the final two innings.

Softball

Shannon Wessel’s grand slam in the top of the seventh gave Whitworth (25-7, 16-4) a 7-4 win over George Fox (24-8, 14-6) in the opening game of a Northwest Conference doubleheader in Newberg, Oregon.

Megan John also had a home run for the Pirates – a three-run shot in the third.

In the nightcap, Makayla Lefever fired a complete-game three-hitter and Whitworth won 5-1.

• Sydnie Malloy hit a three-run home run in the first game and Lexi Miller hit a two-run shot in the second game and Community Colleges of Spokane (18-2, 10-1) swept Big Bend (10-16, 4-8) in a Northwest Athletic Conference doubleheader at Spokane Falls Community College.

The Sasquatch won both games 8-0.

• North Idaho (20-1) swept Wenatchee Valley (16-9) in a nonconference doubleheader in Coeur d’Alene.

The Cardinals walloped the Knights 19-0 in five innings in the nightcap.

Hayden Fields had three hits, including a home run, and six RBIs to lead NIC at the plate. Hayley Fields and Keku Haake each added four RBIs.

NIC won the opener 9-5.

• No. 20 Washington (34-9, 6-5) completed a three-game series sweep of Stanford (16-22, 1-8) with a 17-6 Pac-12 win in Seattle.

The Huskies’ Krystal Aubert and Taylor Van Zee drove in five runs apiece. Casey Stangel (Lake City High School) drove in a pair of runs.

Track and field

Gonzaga’s Jessica Mildes and Washington State’s CharLee Linton both set school records in the 10,000-meter run late Friday night at the Stanford Invitational in Stanford, California.

Mildes finished in 33 minutes, 40.82 seconds and Linton crossed in 34:03.69.

• Gonzaga’s Max Kaderabek led a first-through-fifth finish for the Bulldogs in the men’s 5,000-meter run at the Sam Adams Classic at Whitworth University.

Kaderabek finished in 15:09.19, and was followed by teammates Jake Pearce, Colin O’Neil, Dan Amann and Mitchell Beard.

Katy Culver led the GU women with a first-place finish in the 1,500. She crossed in 4:44.78.

Phil Puccino led the Eastern Washington men by securing the long jump (22 feet, 11 3/4 inches) and triple jump (48-5 1/4) titles.

EWU’s Brooke Monson won the women’s 400 in 56.34 seconds – third-best in school history.

Katie McKay, Nicholas Gosselin and David Whitmore led the Whitworth men and women. McKay was first in the women’s 800 (2:16.17), Gosselin won the men’s 400 (49.17) and Whitmore won the men’s 110-meter hurdles (16.43).

Men’s golf

Washington State’s Sang Lee shot an even-par 70 in the third and final round and the Cougars finished in 13th place at the Arizona State University Thunderbird Invitational at Karsten Golf Course in Tempe, Arizona.

Lee finished tied for 28th at 5-over 215.

• Lewis-Clark State’s Cole Lorenzo earned medalist honors and the Warriors rallied in the second and final round of the Whitman College Invitational in Walla Walla, and beat Whitworth by one stroke.

The Warriors shot a second straight 296 and overcame a four-stroke deficit. Whitworth shot a 301 in the second round.

Lorenzo shot a 3-under 141. The Pirates’ Samson Martinez was second with a 1-under 143.