Cougars drub OSU with big start

After giving up four runs in the bottom of the first inning, only to see his team get three of them back in the top of the second, Oregon State starter Tanner Robles must have felt like the game had virtually restarted when he went out for the bottom of the second inning.

The first batter popped up for the first out. That ended the positive feelings for Robles.

The Washington State Cougars plated seven more runs in that bottom of the second inning and went on to an 11-4 Pacific-10 Conference baseball victory over the the two-time defending NCAA champion and 23rd-ranked Beavers Sunday at Bailey-Brayton Field.

Robles proceded to walk the next batter, hit the next two batters with pitches to load the bases, and then issued two more bases-loaded walks before being removed from the game. Reliever Greg Peavey came on and walked the first batter he faced, bringing in another run, before second baseman Micheal Weber cleared the bases with a grand slam to right field to make it 11-3.

Peavey would retire the next two batters to get out of the inning and would throw six more shutout innings of relief, strking out three.

Weber drove in four runs, while Jared Prince, Scott Suttmeier and Greg Lagreid drove in two apiece for the Cougars (24-19, 5-9).

Ryan Ortiz led Oregon State (20-18, 8-9) with four hits.

•Derek Poppert broke open a close game with a three-run homer to left field that gave the San Francisco Dons (28-21, 10-8) a 9-6 West Coast Conference victory over the Gonzaga Bulldogs (28-20, 8-9) at Patterson Baseball Complex.

Jason Chatwood’s sacrifice fly with no outs in the bottom of the eighth brought Gonzaga to within 6-5, but Poppert sealed the victory with his ninth-inning heroics.

•Andy Lentz was 5 for 5 and the Washington Huskies (28-16, 8-7) completed a three-game Pacific-10 Conference sweep with an 11-4 win over the Southern California Trojans (21-25, 7-11).

Track and field

Kristen Dormaier turned in career-best performances in the long jump (17-7) and the high jump (5-1) on her way to 4,313 points to win the Whitworth Multi Event Invitational at Whitworth’s Boppel Track.

Her point total surpassed the NCAA Division III provisional qualifying mark of 4,100.

•Camille Moseley set an Eastern Washington University record while finishing second in the 1,500 meters at the Steve Scott Invitational at Irvine, Calif.

Her time of 4 minutes, 30.33 seconds bested Hannah Lohrmann’s mark of 4:31.93 set in 1999.

Softball

Taryne Mowatt struck out 11 and walked two in pitching a no-hitter in the Arizona Wildcats (33-16, 10-8) to a 3-0 Pacific-10 Conference victory over the Washington Huskies (26-21-1, 5-12) at Seattle.

Rowing

The Gonzaga women’s rowing team earned two golds and two silvers to wrap up the WIRA Championships at Rancho Cordova, Calif.

The Varsity Eight boat earned a one-second victory over Western Washington. The Second Varsity Eight also won their race.

Finishing in second place were the Varsity Four and Novice Eight boats.

Women’s golf

Katie Sorenson shot a 79 to take medalist honors and lead the Community Colleges of Spokane to the team title at the NWAACC Eastern Regional tournament at Horn Rapids GC in Richland.

Chelsea Kenner of CCS tied for fourth with an 83.