Baseball

Beavers still unbeaten — Tyler Smith’s first home run of the season was a big one for Oregon State, lifting the Beavers to a 6-4 win over Texas State on Sunday and a sweep of the three-game series at Goss Stadium in Corvallis. The win hiked OSU’s record to 15-0 to open the season. Smith hit a three-run homer in the sixth inning that broke a 3-3 tie. Scott Schultz earned the pitching victory for the Beavers with 2 1⁄3 innings of scoreless relief. Oregon State stays at home for a two-game series against San Francisco that opens with a 5:35 p.m. game on Tuesday. The Beavers begin Pac-12 play with a three-game series at Arizona that opens on Friday night.

Ducks take one from Vanderbilt — Scott Heineman’s two-run single snapped a 5-5 tie in the bottom of the eighth inning Sunday and helped Oregon to a 7-5 win over Vanderbilt at PK Park in Eugene. Heineman’s clutch two-out single was the only hit in a five-run inning for the Ducks (11-5), who manufactured the runs with the help of three walks, two hit batters, a fielder’s choice, an error and a wild pitch. The loss was just the second of the season for Vanderbilt (15-2), which beat the Ducks on both Friday and Saturday. Oregon hosts Texas State on Tuesday and Wednesday (6 p.m. starts for both games), then travels to Los Angeles to start Pac-12 play Friday night with the opener of a three-game series against USC.

Winter sports

Former champ takes lead — A former winner of the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race took the lead early Sunday and held onto it as he pressed forward along the Bering Sea coastline. Another musher was just 15 minutes behind. With less than 250 miles to the finish line, Mitch Seavey was the first musher to leave Unalakleet, where he pulled into town earlier at 10:13 a.m. and was able to rest his team for about five hours.

Cycling

Horner finishes fifth — Chris Froome of Britain took the overall lead in the weeklong Tirreno-Adriatico race Sunday in Chieti, Italy, and Joachin Rodriguez of Spain won the fifth stage with an attack on the short but steep finishing climb. Bend’s Chris Horner finished fifth for team RadioShack. Rodriguez, with the Katusha team and the runner-up in last year’s Giro d’Italia, completed the 143-mile ride from Ortona to Chieti in 6 hours, 6 minutes, 43 seconds. Dutch rider Bauke Mollema finished second in the stage, eight seconds behind.

Porte wins Paris-Nice — Australian rider Richie Porte won the Paris-Nice race after a dominant victory on the final time trial stage in Col D’eze, France. Porte was in the leader’s yellow jersey overnight and needed only to protect his lead. But he attacked from the start and dominated his rivals on the uphill time trial, finishing 23 seconds ahead of American cyclist Andrew Talansky, who was also second overall.

Basketball

Stanford women top UCLA — Amber Orrange capped a career-high 20-point performance, scoring on a spinning drive with 8.3 seconds left, and No. 4 Stanford won its seventh-straight Pac-12 Conference tournament title, rallying past No. 14 UCLA 51-49 on Sunday night.

— From wire reports