BASEBALL

Beavers take series from Cougars — Jace Fry pitched eight innings of three-hit ball and received plenty of run support Sunday in leading Oregon State to an 8-1 win over Washington State in the final game of a three-game Pac-12 series in Pullman, Wash. Scott Schultz pitched a shutout ninth to earn the save. Michael Conforto had three hits and drove in three runs for the Beavers (11-4 Pac-12, 27-7 overall). Jeff Hendrix, Andy Peterson and Dylan Davis added two hits each and combined for five RBIs for Oregon State.

Ducks hang on, complete sweep — Oregon scored three runs in the seventh inning to break a 3-3 tie, then held off a UC Riverside rally in the ninth Sunday to claim a 6-5 win and a sweep of the three-game nonconference series in Eugene. The Ducks (27-10) trailed 3-1 before scoring twice in the sixth inning, one on a solo home run by Tyler Baumgartner. Kyle Garlick’s two-run double highlighted Oregon’s go-ahead rally in the seventh. Garlick scored what proved to be the decisive run on a squeeze bunt by Shaun Chase. Darrell Hunter got the victory for a shutout inning of relief. Francisco Tellez hit a two-out, two-run homer in the ninth for the Highlanders (14-17).

SOFTBALL

Oregon drubs Oregon State — After spotting Oregon State a 1-0 lead in the first inning, top-ranked Oregon rallied for seven runs in the third and scored three more in the sixth en route to a 10-2 Pac-12 victory Sunday in Corvallis. The win gave the Ducks a 2-0 edge in the three-game series. Janelle Lindvall homered for Oregon (10-1 Pac-12, 36-5 overall), and Dani Gilmore homered for the Beavers (3-9, 13-22). Karissa Hovinga pitched a complete-game win for the Ducks.

TENNIS

Fernando Verdasco wins U.S. Men’s Clay Court — Fernando Verdasco won the U.S. Men’s Clay Court Championship on Sunday for his sixth ATP World Tour title and first since 2010, beating Spanish countryman Nicolas Almagro 6-3, 7-6 (4). The 30-year-old Verdasco ended a six-match losing streak in tournament finals. The third-seeded Almagro reached set point five times against Verdasco’s serve in the ninth game of second set, but couldn’t convert. He also up a mini-break in the tiebreaker before Verdasco rallied.

Cornet wins Katowice Open — Alize Cornet saved a match point before beating Camila Giorgi of Italy 7-6 (3), 5-7, 7-5 Sunday in a three-hour final for her fourth career WTA title. The Frenchwoman led 5-3 in the second set before dropping four straight games against Giorgi, who was playing her first career tour final. Cornet bounced back by taking a 3-0 lead in the decider but then had another mini-slump as Giorgi won five of the next six games to take a 5-4 lead. The Italian had a match point in the next game, but missed a backhand return as Cornet held and then won the next two games as well.

Garcia-Lopez wins Grand Prix Hassan II — Eighth-seeded Guillermo Garcia-Lopez won his first title in nearly four years after rallying to beat fourth-seeded Marcel Granollers 5-7, 6-4, 6-3 in an all-Spanish final on clay at the Grand Prix Hassan II on Sunday. The previous title for the 30-year-old Garcia-Lopez was on indoor hard courts in Bangkok back in 2010, and he had lost his previous two finals. Granollers, who was bidding for his fifth career title, dropped his serve five times and was less consistent. The 28-year-old Granollers won only 60 percent of first-serve points compared to 76 percent for Garcia-Lopez, who won their only previous meeting in the second round of the same tournament in 2010.

MOTOR SPORTS

Mike Conway wins wild IndyCar race at Long Beach — Mike Conway has won the Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach, grabbing the lead when Scott Dixon was forced to stop for fuel two laps from the finish. Conway was the surprise winner of a race that took a dramatic turn when leader Ryan Hunter-Reay triggered a seven-car accident 24 laps from the finish. Hunter-Reay had dominated but was chasing Josef Newgarden after Newgarden exited pit road ahead of Hunter-Reay and James Hinchcliffe. Hunter-Reay tried to make an aggressive pass in the fourth turn and instead hit Newgarden. The accident wiped out Hunter-Reay, Hinchcliffe and Newgarden, damaged Helio Castroneves’ car, then collected Takuma Sato, Tony Kanaan and Jack Hawksworth. It opened the door for Dixon to win, but he conceded to Conway when he had to stop for fuel.

Robert Hight wins NHRA Four-Wide Nationals — Robert Hight became the first two-time Funny Car winner in the NHRA Four-Wide Nationals on Sunday, beating John Force, Alexis DeJoria and Tim Wilkerson in the final. Antron Brown won the Top Fuel division, Jimmy Alund topped the Pro Stock field to become the first European winner in the Mello Yello Drag Racing Series, and Andrew Hines won in Pro Stock Motorcycle in the event that features racing in four lanes instead of the traditional two.

— Staff and wire reports