Area roundup: Tyler Harvey, Venky Jois picked to all-district team

Eastern Washington guard Tyler Harvey and forward Venky Jois were selected for the National Association of Basketball Coaches All-District 6 first team, it was announced Friday.

Harvey was a second-team selection last year. Harvey, a junior, led NCAA Division I with a 23.1 scoring average, and closed the year with Big Sky and EWU single-season records for 3-pointers with 128. His 738 points were a school record and ranked fourth in league history.

Jois set the school’s single-season blocked shots record with 69 and averaged 16.7 points and 7.7 rebounds.

Baseball

Reliever David Bigelow (0-2), working in his third inning, hit Billy Wilson with the bases loaded in the 10th, giving Loyola Marymount (15-11, 5-2 West Coast Conference) a 6-5 victory over Gonzaga in Los Angeles.

Sam Brown and Taylor Jones both had three hits for Gonzaga with Brown driving in three.

• UCLA (19-5, 6-1 Pac-12) scored three runs in the sixth inning on two hits, a walk, a fielder’s choice and interference on a Washington State infielder during a rundown and went on to claim a 4-3 victory over the Cougars (12-12, 1-6) in Pullman. Matt Bower (4-1), who came in to relieve to start the sixth, took the loss.

• Chris Baker’s three-run home run, his first homer since he played in Little League, helped give Washington a 5-1 victory over No. 8 USC (20-6, 2-2 Pac-12) in Seattle.

Baker’s homer in the sixth inning broke open the game as the Huskies (15-10, 2-5) snapped a four-game conference losing streak.

Softball

CC Spokane (13-1, 5-0 Northwest Conference) swept a doubleheader at Wenatchee Valley, 2-1 and 9-5. Lindsie Scholwinski didn’t give up an earned run in the first-game victory, striking out eight. Lexi Miller’s two-out double drove in what proved to be the winning run in the sixth inning.

In the second game, Katelyn Geyer and Berkley Fisher each had three hits as the Sasquatch overcame a 5-0 deficit with three runs in the third and five in the fifth. Scholwinski came in to relieve in the second inning and pitched six shut-out innings.

Wenatchee Valley fell to 13-5, 3-3.

• Cheridan Hawkins threw a five-inning perfect game in leading second-ranked Oregon to an 8-0 victory over No. 19 Washington in Eugene.

Hawkins was perfect in the circle but committed a gaffe after teammate Nikki Udria drove the ball over the center-field fence in the fourth inning. Hawkins led the charge to greet Udria at the plate but crossed into fair territory too soon and Udria was called out.

Hawkins struck out three Huskies (30-8, 2-4) in her 56-pitch performance.

Hawkins, asked what she would remember most about the game, said with a laugh: “Probably running across home plate and ruining my roommate’s first home run. Obviously I’m happy to throw a perfect game, but yeah, that’s my roommate and she hits her first home run, and I’m a ding-dong and run across home plate – jump actually. I don’t know what I was thinking. But I’m happy all around. We played a great game; 8-0 win, good defense – what more can you ask for?”

The Ducks (29-3, 7-0) hit two homers.

Track and field

Three Eastern Washington athletes reached Big Sky Conference qualifying standards at the Texas Relays in Austin.

Friday, Emma Murillo threw the javelin 144 feet, 5 inches. Thursday, Olivia Midles had a mark of 186-7 in the women’s hammer to finish fourth with Jordan Arakawa finishing 10th in the men’s hammer at 195-8.