Gonzaga roughs up New Mexico St.
The Gonzaga University baseball team pounded out 21 hits and defeated New Mexico State 17-10 Friday to reach the championship game of the Pepsi/Johnny Quik Classic at Fresno, Calif.
Grant Kveder went 5 for 5 with a double, three RBIs and three runs scored for the Bulldogs (9-7). Evan Wells had four hits and six RBIs.
Gonzaga used four pitchers, with the win going to Matt Fields (2-1). He pitched well through five innings and Gonzaga took an 11-2 lead into the bottom of the sixth inning before NMSU scored six runs.
Gonzaga, 3-2 in the tournament, will play Utah today for the championship. Gonzaga defeated the Utes 10-5 earlier in the tournament.
•Travis Coulter and Jim Murphy drove in two runs each to lead Washington State to a 5-3 non-conference victory over No. 25 Oklahoma at Norman, Okla.
The Cougars (11-4) scored two runs in the first, two in the second and one in the third to build a 5-1 lead. Jared Prince and four relievers made the lead stand up. Prince pitched five innings and allowed two runs, one earned. Seth Harvey, Steve Kost, Andrew Davis and Matt Way finished, holding the Sooners (14-3) to one more run and ending Oklahoma’s 11-game winning streak.
“Jared Prince gave us exactly what we needed and our bullpen performed like it has all year,” WSU coach Donnie Marbut said. “Oklahoma is the best team we’ve beaten this season.”
Rowing
The Gonzaga University men’s varsity 8 won its season opener, defeating UC San Diego by 3 seconds on Mission Bay in San Diego.
Swimming
The Whitworth women, paced by two individual All-American performances and another in a relay, are in 10th place heading into the final day of the NCAA Division III Women’s Swimming and Diving Championships at Oxford, Ohio.
Whitworth’s Samantha Kephart picked up her eighth career All-America honor, placing fourth in the 100-yard butterfly with a time of 56.33 seconds.
Natalie Turner placed fifth in the 200 freestyle in 1:52.05 for the Pirates.
Women’s golf
Eastern Washington’s Marli Mikulecky was named co-Big Sky Conference golfer of the week after shooting a school-record 67, with a hole-in-one, at Wednesday’s UNLV Spring Invitational.