Area roundup: Ernie Yake’s eighth-inning RBI lifts Gonzaga baseball to 5-4 win over Washington

Ernie Yake singled home Brett Harris in the bottom of the eighth inning and Michael Spellacy pitched a perfect ninth as Gonzaga topped Washington 5-4 in a nonconference game on Tuesday at Patterson Baseball Complex.

Yake finished with three hits and two runs scored for the Bulldogs (10-11), and first baseman Nick Nyquist drove in two runs.

Gonzaga struck first when Nyquist scored Yake on a sacrifice fly in the opening inning. The duo plated the Bulldogs’ second run in the third inning on Nyquist’s RBI single. Nyquist scored the first of his two runs on Austin Pinorini’s RBI double, putting GU up 3-0 through three.

Washington (14-6) tied the game with one swing of the bat in the fifth inning on Nick Kahle’s bases-clearing single.

Brett Harris’ RBI single gave Gonzaga the lead in the sixth, but UW’s Ben Baird answered back in the top of the eighth with a run-scoring single to tie the game at 4.

The Bulldogs used six pitchers, with reliever Nick Trogrlic-Iverson earning the win.

Gonzaga returns to West Coast Conference play at 6 p.m. Friday when San Diego visits for a three-game series.

College basketball

Chris Coffey notched a double-double of 16 rebounds and 10 points, leading top-ranked Georgetown (Kentucky) to a 68-48 victory over Carroll College in the NAIA championship game at Municipal Auditorium in Kansas City, Missouri.

Liberty High grad Match Burnham paced the Fighting Saints (29-8) with 17 points and seven rebounds. Ferris grad Shamrock Campbell grabbed six rebounds.

Burnham was named to the all-tournament team.