Huskies Keep Rolling Vs. Cougs

Freshman Brent Robertson hit a grand slam in the second inning Friday, sparking Washington toward a 9-6 win over Washington State in Pacific-10 Conference baseball at Pullman.

Dwight DeMar added a solo homer in the second, giving the Huskies a 5-0 lead. Washington (28-13, 10-6) has won nine of its last 10 games.

The Cougars (18-25, 1-15) appeared to tie the game at 5 on Jeff Scherer’s double in the third, but Steve Curran was ruled to have missed third base after an appeal.

WSU’s Shawn Stevenson was 4 for 6 and is 29 for 66 (.439) against the Huskies in his career.

The teams play again today in Pullman at 1 p.m.

Chris Kahl hit a two-out, solo home run in the ninth to lift San Diego (26-20, 11-11) to an 11-10 win over visiting Gonzaga in the West Coast Conference.

The Bulldogs (23-17-1, 11-9) tied the game in the eighth by scoring twice, on an error and wild pitch. Bo Hart, Adam Stokey and Barry Matthews were all 3 for 5 for the Zags, combining for six RBIs.

The Toreros’ Greg Sain was 4 for 4 with six RBIs, including a grand slam in the first. Kahl also homered in the first.

Community Colleges of Spokane, leaving a runner at third base in the ninth, dropped a 4-3 game at Wenatchee Valley CC.

Josh Gonzalez had two RBIs for CCS (16-14, 10-10 Northwest Athletic Association of Community Colleges), which entered the ninth trailing 4-1. The Sasquatch’s George Petticrew struck out nine, walked none and allowed two earned runs.

The Knights are 12-16, 9-12.

Track and field

Whitworth’s April Gallagher won the women’s discus at the Northwest Conference championships at Pacific Lutheran University in Tacoma.

Gallagher, out of Mead High, threw the discus 125 feet, 3 inches for a cushion of 4 feet, 2 inches over Linfield’s Lindsay Holbrook.

Other Pirates women in the top five were: Jamie Wakefield, long jump, third, 16-8; Elysia Hanna, hammer, fourth, 136-6; and Annie Scott, 3,000-meter run, fifth, 10 minutes, 33.94 seconds.

Frank Moore, in the discus, and Takashi Atkins, hammer, both placed fifth for Whitworth’s men. Moore threw 142-5, Atkins 137-10.