Cougars Earn Split With Oregon State

Ray Hattenburg’s first career home run ignited Washington State in a 9-0 shutout of Oregon State Sunday as the Cougars gained a split in their Pacific-10 Conference North double-header at Pullman’s Bailey Field.

Wade Parrish (4-1) worked seven innings in the nightcap to pick up the win for WSU (10-11 overall, 2-1 Pac-10), while starter Brody Percell (2-3) took the loss for OSU (12-7-1, 1-2).

Oregon State won the first game 6-2 behind the five-hit pitching of Andrew Checketts. Todd Meldahl (2-3) took the loss for the Cougars.

WSU’s only scoring in the first game came in the sixth inning when Casey Kelley hit a team-leading seventh home run and Greg Mitchell followed with his fourth home run.

After struggling against Checketts, WSU collected nine hits in the nightcap, including Hattenburg’s three-run homer that finished off a six-run Cougar rally in the seventh.

WSU earned its first shutout in 103 games, dating to a 5-0 win over Portland State in April 1996.

UW knocks off No. 1 Stanford

The 20th-ranked Washington Huskies baseball team held No. 1 Stanford to three hits to beat the Cardinal 9-5 in the second game of a three-game non-conference series in Stanford, Calif.

The win marked the first time the Huskies have beaten a No. 1 team, and the three hits were the fewest by a Stanford team since 1995.

Washington improved to 13-5; Stanford dropped to 21-3-1.

Washington starter and winning pitcher Travis Anderson (4-2) allowed the three Stanford hits, giving up four runs, three of them earned.

Kyle Woods hit his fifth home run of the season for the Huskies.

UW lead from the start, scoring four runs in the first inning, highlighted by a three-run double by Ryan Lentz.

The series concludes with a game tonight.

Whitworth falls

In Newburg, Ore., George Fox University swept a men’s baseball NCIC double-header from Whitworth University.

A five-run sixth inning by George Fox (10-7, 3-2 NCIC) in the opener led to a 9-8 win. The Pirates (6-7, 4-3) scored six runs in the second inning but couldn’t hold the lead.

In the second game, which was shortened to five innings because of darkness, the Bruins used a second-inning grand slam by catcher Mark Tyler to go up 6-0 en route a 12-6 victory.

Whitworth’s Sam Chimienti and Tim Bishop had home runs in the second game.

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