Baseball

Ducks win — Ryon Healy hit a three-run home run and four Oregon pitchers combined to hold Arizona to just one run for the second straight day as the Ducks won 5-1 at PK Park in Eugene on Saturday. With the Ducks (17-6,4-1 Pac-12) leading 2-1 in the eighth inning, Healy broke open the game with a line drive over the left field wall. Tyler Baumgartner went two for three for the Ducks on offense. Tommy Thorpe worked 6 2⁄3 innings, scattering six hits and giving up Arizona’s run while walking four and striking out three. Three Duck relievers — Darrell Hunter, Garrett Cleavinger and Jimmie Sherfy — combined to hold the Wildcats without a hit the rest of the way. Oregon goes for a three-game sweep today at noon.

Beavs get no-hit— Ryan Kellogg threw a no-hitter Saturday as Arizona State defeated Oregon State 4-0 on Saturday at Goss Stadium in Corvallis. Kellogg struck out three in the no-hitter. The Beavers (20-2, 4-1 Pac-12) managed two runners in the game, both via errors. Jake Peevyhouse produced all the offense ASU needed when he hit a solo home run off OSU starter Andrew Moore in the fifth. Moore took the loss and dropped to 5-1 after allowing four hits and two runs in 5 2⁄3 innings. The two teams conclude their series today at noon.

Cards’ closer to DL? — St. Louis Cardinals closer Jason Motte probably will start the season on the disabled list because of a mild muscle flexor strain in his pitching arm. The Cardinals said Saturday that the right-hander had stopped throwing following the results of an MRI a day earlier.

Gymnastics

OSU takes Pac-12 — The Oregon State women’s gymnastics team held off UCLA for the Pac-12 Conference Championship on Saturday night in Corvallis. The Beavers finished with 197.850 points, while the Bruins took second with 197.375 points. Utah (197.075) and Stanford (196.625) finished third and fourth, respectively.

Wrestling

OSU eighth at NCAAs — The Oregon State wrestling squad completed its best finish at the NCAA Championships since 1996 after finishing eighth on Saturday night in Des Moines, Iowa. No wrestlers for the Beavers made it to the championships of their weight classes, but the team finished with 48.5 points with three top-five wrestlers. Those from Oregon State in the top five were Scott Sakaguchi (149-pound junior), R.J. Pena (157, junior) and Taylor Meeks (197, sophomore). Penn State won its third national championship (123.5) by holding off Oklahoma State (119.5).

Cycling

Porte leads — Australian rider Richie Porte won the individual time trial on Saturday to take the overall lead in the Criterium International in France.Two weeks after winning Paris-Nice for his biggest career victory, Porte is in a good position to win another race heading into today’s third and final stage. Porte won the 4.3 mile time trial around Porto-Vecchio in a time of 9 minutes, 10 seconds — one second faster than Italian rider Manuele Boaro and Tejay van Garderen of the United States, who are also second and third in the standings. Tour de France runner-up Chris Froome is one second behind the pair in fourth place overall.

Winter sports

Locals win at Bachelor — Santi Ocariz and Karen Kenlan, both of Bend, won the men’s and women’s 25-kilometer Cascade Crest nordic ski races at Mt. Bachelor ski area on Saturday. Ocariz finished first in 1:04.59, while Kenlan was the first female finisher, and 21st overall, in 1:21:31. For full results, see scoreboard, D2.

Ligety takes title — World Cup star Ted Ligety won the slalom Saturday in the U.S. Alpine Championships, in Squaw Valley, Calif., sweeping both runs for a 1.48 second victory. Ligety, from Park City, Utah, won his seventh U.S. title and first since 2007 when he won the giant slalom and combined. Will Brandenburg of Spokane, Wash., was second, and Colby Granstrom of Lake Stevens, Wash., finished second.

Northug nears XC title — Petter Northug closed in on the overall cross-country World Cup title by finishing fourth Saturday in a 15-kilometer mass start race won by fellow Norwegian Eldar Roenning. The Norwegian is 80 points ahead of Russia’s Alexander Legkov and 87 in front of Switzerland’s Dario Cologna and will start ahead of both in the pursuit race today. Norway swept the podium in the women’s 10K race, with Marit Bjoergen clocking 28:06.7 to beat Therese Johaug and Heidi Weng. Justyna Kowalczyk of Poland, who has already clinched the overall title, was fourth.

Motor sports

Busch triumphs — Kyle Busch earned Joe Gibbs Racing’s ninth consecutive Nationwide Series victory at Fontana on Saturday in Fontana, Calif., comfortably beating Sam Hornish Jr. for his third win in five races this season. Joe Gibbs Racing’s Toyotas haven’t lost a Nationwide race on their unofficial home track since 2007. Busch pushed ahead late in a back-and-forth duel with Nationwide points leader Hornish’s Ford to win his second straight Nationwide race.

— From wire reports