Whitworth Wins Swim Title

Host Whitworth won its first men’s team title and produced the top individual women’s competitor in the NCIC swimming championships that wrapped up Saturday at the Whitworth Aquatic Center.

The Pirates men rolled up 482.5 points to outdistance Pacific Lutheran. Jeff Rice broke the meet record in the 200-meter butterfly with a time of 1:54.52.

Whitworth’s Jan Okada won the 200 and 400 individual medleys and the 1,650 freestyle and was named the outstanding swimmer of the meet.

Pacific Lutheran won the women’s team title, unseating the defending champion Pirates.

Baseball

Chris Kerns’ two-run single capped a four-run seventh inning for Gonzaga as the Bulldogs rallied to knock off Washington 5-3 in the second game of a nonconference doubleheader played at Newport High School in Bellevue. UW won the opener 8-7.

Pepperdine rocked four Washington State pitchers for 11 hits in capturing a 5-3 win over the Cougars at Field Stadium in Malibu, Calif. The Cougars (5-12) followed with a 6-2 loss at Long Beach State.

Track and Field

WSU’s Dominique Arnold won the men’s 55-meter hurdles and improved his personal-best and NCAA-provisional qualifying time to 7.28 seconds at the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation championships in Reno, Nev. The top performer for WSU’s women was freshman Francesca Green, who won the long jump with a provisional qualifying and personal-best leap of 19 feet, 10-3/4 inches.

Wrestling

Freshman Mark Janke (158 pounds) and Jason Moaney (167) won individual titles for North Idaho College, but Lassen College of Susanville, Calif., ran away with the team trophy in the National Junior College Athletic Association wrestling championships at Bismarck, N.D. NIC finished second.

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