Double Gives Nic A Split

Designated hitter Ryan Lupul’s no-out, two-run double in the seventh inning Saturday rallied North Idaho to a 4-3 win over visiting College of Eastern Utah in the second game of a Scenic West Athletic Conference baseball doubleheader.

CEU won the opener 5-4 with a four-run seventh.

Clifton Vancleave began NIC’s second-game comeback with a leadoff walk. Keith Osso followed with his fourth single of the game, then Lupul hit his second double of the season.

Casey Hoorelbeke (4-1) pitched two hitless innings for the secondgame win. In the opener, NIC’s Rob Sumner led off the fourth with his team-leading second homer of the season.

NIC (18-15, 9-9) is 3-1 in the series. The Cardinals have won eight of their last 10 games.

Jason Young struck out 15 in eight innings to lead seventh-ranked Stanford (24-9, 5-3) to an 11-3 win over Washington State in Pacific-10 Conference play at Bailey-Brayton Field.

Young (4-0), a junior right-hander, fell one strikeout shy of his career high. He scattered seven hits, walked four and allowed three runs.

Joe Borchard hit a three-run homer in the first for the Cardinal. Stanford had five hits during a fourrun eighth, breaking open a 6-3 game.

Shawn Stevenson and Ray Hattenburg had two hits apiece for the Cougars (14-21, 2-6).

Erik Torres became the third player in school history to homer three times in a game, and Arizona (19-21, 4-7 Pac-10) tied a school record with six homers in a game during a 14-8 win at Washington.

Ron Hassey, in 1974, was the last Wildcats player with three homers. Freshman Tyler Davidson went 3 for 4 and homered for Washington (13-16, 3-5).

Adam Stokey homered in both games, giving him four for the season, and David Hixson worked a perfect ninth in both games of Gonzaga’s 5-4, 6-4 West Coast Conference sweep of Saint Mary’s (12-24, 3-11) at Moraga, Calif.

GU (17-15, 8-5) opened a 5-0 lead in the first game and withstood a rally stoked by Jason Waugh’s three-run homer in the eighth. Hixson retired the side with a strikeout and two groundouts in the ninth.

In the second game, the Zags led 5-4 after Stokey’s two-run homer in the eighth. Hixson fanned two and coaxed a groundout in the ninth.

Richard Brown hit his first homer, a two-run shot in the sixth for a 5-4 lead, and Whitworth (10-14, 5-5) defeated visiting Pacific 6-4 to split a Northwest Conference doubleheader.

Adam Edwards homered twice and had six RBIs as the Boxers (4-17, 2-8) took the opener 14-13, overcoming Scott Biglin’s three homers.

Biglin was 5 for 6 on the day, with five runs and five RBIs. Edwards’ two-run homer in the sixth of the nightcap gave Pacific a 4-3 lead.

Jason Nevils singled home Chad Keefer in the eighth, lifting Community Colleges of Spokane to a 5-4 victory at Walla Walla CC in the first game of a Northwest Athletic Association of Community Colleges doubleheader.

WWCC scored in the ninth for a 5-4 win in the second game. For CCS, Josh Turrell had two RBIs in the opener and Chet Womach went 4 for 5, with two RBIs, in the second game.

Track and field

University of Idaho’s three-time All-American Joachim Olsen and teammate Simon Stewart packed a one-two punch in the University of Oregon’s Hayward Relays in Eugene, Ore.

Olsen, already a qualifier for the NCAA Championships in the shot put, broke his own school record with a winning heave of 64 feet, 11-1/4 inches. Stewart finished second with a personal best of 57-1-1/2.

The Vandals finished first in three other events. Tawanda Chiwire finished first in the 200 meters at 21.28 second, Sherwin James tied for first in the long jump with a PR of 24-0 and the 4x100 relay team took first in meet record time of 40.38.

Idaho’s women scored 165 points to claim second place, six points behind host UNLV in the UNLV Invitational in Las Vegas.

Shana Ball, who had taken the shot put on Friday, won the discus for the Vandals with a personal best of 167-11. Teammate Katja Schreiber was second at 159-4.

Idaho’s Christi Bentley won the pole vault, clearing 11-6-1/4 for a school record. Cassie Greenlee won the 100-meter hurdles in 14.40, and Zsanett Teveli ran first in the 3,000 meters in 10:20.06.

Whitworth’s men and women were team champions during the Northwest Conference Quadrangular meet at Whitworth’s Boppell Track.

Annie Scott won the women’s 3,000- and 5,000-meter runs to help Whitworth to 80 points. Other women’s winners for Whitworth were Jessica Austin, high jump; Danielle Swift, javelin; and Mindy Bandy, shot put.

Whitworth’s men scored 83 points, with dominance in the sprints. Bryce McDonnell, Joel Robnett and Marshall Ochi took the top three spots in the 100 and 200, and Leo Suzuki won the 400. Other Pirates men’s winners were Nathan Porter, 3,000 steeplechase; Aaron Baldwin, triple jump; Whit Spencer, javelin; and the 1,600 relay.

WSU had seven double winners and swept team titles during a dual meet against visiting Utah State.

Winning twice were Anson Henry, men’s 100 and 200; Demetrius Murray, men’s long jump and triple jump; Ian Waltz, men’s shot put and discus; Francesca Sewell, women’s 100 and high jump; Randi Smith, women’s 400 and 400 hurdles; Agneta Rosenblad, women’s 100 hurdles and long jump; and Andrea Thornton, women’s shot put and hammer.

Thornton’s 187 foot, 9-inch hammer was a Mooberry Track and school record. Rosenblad’s 13.68 seconds in the 100 hurdles was also a school record.

Golf

University of Arizona’s Reid Hatley, a freshman from Spokane’s Ferris High, slipped to a 73 in the second round of the U.S. Collegiate Golf Championships in Los Cabos, Mexico.

Hatley’s total of 141 leaves him in eighth place, seven shots off the lead, entering today’s final round.

Arizona stands seventh in the team standings at 578, 15 shots behind pace-setting Georgia Tech. The Yellow Jackets (563) are one shot up on Florida, the first-round leader.

Softball

Kylee Curry’s three-run double to left-center capped a four-run seventh, lifting CCS to a 5-4 win in the opening game of a sweep over Big Bend at Spokane Falls CC.

Curry had a two-run single and Jill Miller added an RBI double during a five-run first, starting the Sasquatch (12-0 NWAACC) toward a 9-1 win in the second game.

Rebecca Triplett pitched a three-hitter in the second game and had an RBI single before Curry’s double in the opener.

Hayley Boston (8-4) allowed four hits and one run over 10 innings, picking up both wins during Willamette’s 3-1, 4-1 Northwest Conference sweep at Whitworth.