Whitworth Scores Late, Gains Split

Chad Ripke, in the seventh, and Miguel Saldin, in the eighth, had two-out, RBI singles Saturday as the Whitworth Pirates (13-17, 11-3) won the nightcap of a doubleheader to earn a Northwest Conference of Independent Colleges baseball split with visiting Willamette (21-10, 12-5).

The split kept first-place Whitworth in front of Willamette in the standings.

Sam Fleming worked out of trouble in the sixth and ninth to win for Whitworth.

Tim Bishop’s three-run homer in the first gave the Pirates a 4-1 lead, but Willamette tied the game, thanks to Mitch Gregg’s two-run blast.

Willamette 211 083 0 - 15 13 2

Whitworth 000 020 0 - 2 6 2

Corey and Kelly; McDougal, Yoshihara (5), Radke (7) and Chimienti, Schuerman (7). W-Corey (6-2). L-McDougal (3-4).

HITS: Willamette-Kelly, Cox 2, Zavislak, Flynn 2, Hazelbaker, Heath, Eathorne, Ohlsen 2, Edelrock, Westwood. Whitworth-Saldin, Arthaud, Ripke, Chimienti, Brown 2. 2B-Ohlsen, Flynn, Ripke. HR-Flynn (6), Eathorne (2), Brown (2).

Willamette 100 210 000 - 4 10 1

Whitworth 400 000 11x - 6 13 3

Kosderka and Kelly; Fleming and Schuerman. W-Fleming (5-4). L-Kosderka (7-3). HITS: Willamette-Kelly 2, Cox, Flynn, Hall 2, Eathorne 2, Gregg 2. Whitworth-Saldin 3, Arthaud 2, Francek 2, Bishop, Ripke 2, Schuerman 2, Fischer. 2B-Earthorne, Flynn, Kelly, Saldin. HR-Gregg (2), Bishop (8).

WSU 9-12, PSU 2-10

Jason Hairston’s two-out, two-run homer in the bottom of the ninth of the second game gave the Cougars (11-33, 6-9) a sweep of their Pacific-10 Conference North doubleheader with the visiting Vikings (9-33, 2-11).

The Cougars have won six consecutive games. Portland State has dropped five straight, all to WSU.

Dave Wheeler went the distance in the opener to become the Cougars’ first three-game winner. Mike Schneider (2-0) picked up the win in the nightcap.

PSU 011 000 0 - 2 7 2

WSU 011 502 x - 9 11 1

Maddox, Walker (6) and Andrade; Wheeler and Hairston. W-Wheeler (3-7). L-Maddox (3-5). HITS: Portland State-Keith, Burke, Schetzsle 2, Andrade 2, Manuokian. Washington State-Stevenson 2, Randall 2, Kelley, Hairston, Mitchell 2, Robinson 2, Gleason. 2B-Burke. 3B-Stevenson. HR-Gleason (1), Kelley (6).

PSU 202 031 020 - 10 17 0

WSU 220 042 002 - 12 14 0

Oyler, Darling (5) and Boslar, Andrade; Belitz, Schneider (9) and Smith, Hairston. W-Schneider (2-0). L-Darling (1-2).

HITS: Portland State-Keith 4, Case 3, Burke 3, Southall 3, Boslar 2, Schetzsle, Manuokian. Washington State- Stevenson 2, Randall 2, Curran 3, Kelley, Mitchell 2, Robinson 2, Hattenburg, Hairston. 2B-Boslar, Keith, Mitchell, Robinson, Stevenson. HR-Burke 2 (6), Case (3), Southall (10), Curran (5), Hairston (10), Kelley (7).

OSU 7-17, Washington 6-7

Tyson Vermillion crashed into the left-field fence to preserve the opener and the Beavers (28-10-1, 10-4) swept the visiting Huskies (30-17, 11-4) at Corvallis, Ore., to close within one-half game of first-place UW in the Pac-10 North.

OSU freshman B.R. Cook allowed six runs on eight hits in 7-1/3 innings in the nightcap.

USF 4-8, Gonzaga 0-3

Sean Buller and Ray Rivera pitched complete-game wins to guide the visiting Dons (22-25, 10-9) to a West Coast Conference sweep of the Bulldogs (16-26-1, 4-15).

Buller pitched a five-hitter and struck out three to outduel Kevin Workman, who made his collegiate debut after usually playing shortstop. Workman allowed Jermaine Clark’s two-run homer in the first and a pair of Dons sacrifice flies.

Rivera scattered nine hits and struck out four. Matt Purkiss’ two-run double highlighted a three-run third that gave the Dons a 4-0 lead.

USF 300 000 1 - 4 5 0

Gonzaga 000 000 0 - 0 5 0

Buller and Quittner; Workman and Asan. W-Buller (5-3). L-Workman (0-1). HITS: San Francisco-Hurtado, Clark 2, Quittner, Walsh. Gonzaga-Bowne, Knight, Murrell 2, Uberuaga. 2B-Quittner, Walsh, Murrell. HR-Clark (6).

USF 013 103 000 - 8 13 0

Gonzaga 000 100 011 - 3 9 2

Rivera and Nowlin; Hess, Zimmerman (3), Adams (5), Newton (6), Sazama (9) and Canny. W-Rivera (4-4). L-Hess (1-4). HITS: San Francisco-Nakamura 2, Hurtado 2, Clark 2, Marshall 2, Purkiss 2, Hempel, Nowlin 2. Gonzaga-Bowne 2, Prince 2, Wulf, Uberuaga, Canny, Hunt, Doolittle. 2B-Purkiss, Doolittle. HR-Prince (1).

CCS 9-1, Yakima Valley 4-4

Adam Flohr threw a complete game and Chad Kline reached 40 RBIs with his 13th and 14th doubles as the visiting Sasquatch won the opening game of a Northwest Athletic Association of Community Colleges doubleheader with the Indians.

Michael Penny of CCS added three hits and two RBIs in the opener.

CCS 003 210 3 - 9 9 0

YVCC 100 020 1 - 4 10 7

Flohr and Zarfas; Yates and Love. W-Flohr (5-3). L-Yates.

HITS: Community Colleges of Spokane-Kline 3, Davis, Penney 3, Zarfas Crandall. Yakima Valley Community College-Taylor 2, Kennedy 2, Neumeyer, Mitzel, Crow, Leon 3. 2B-Kline 2, Crandall, Kennedy, Neumeyer, Leon. 3B-Davis.

CCS 001 000 000 - 1 5 1

Yakima 200 011 00x - 4 11 0

Higgins and Hare, Zarfas (6); Hill and Love. W-Hill. L-Higgins (2-4).

HITS: Community Colleges of Spokane-Hare 2, Kline 2, Crandall. Yakima Valley Community College-Taylor 2, Kennnedy 2, Rogers 3, Rhodes, Leon 2, Doll. 2B-Taylor, Rogers.

Women’s crew

At Vancouver Lake, Wash., Washington State’s Varsity Eight and Junior Varsity Eight defeated Gonzaga and host Oregon State.

WSU’s Varsity Eight finished in 7 minutes, 7.6 seconds - faster than OSU by 4 seconds. The JV Eight’s winning time was 7:06.4 to OSU’s 7:09.

GU’s 7:42.4 in the Varsity Four topped WSU by 10 seconds.

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