Sports in brief

Published 12:00 am Sunday, March 15, 2015

BASEBALL

Beavers lose on walk-off single — Arizona State’s Brian Serven hit a bases-loaded single in the bottom of the ninth inning off Sam Tweedt to hand Oregon State a 4-3 loss Saturday night in Phoenix. The loss snapped an 11-game winning streak for the Beavers (15-4 overall, 1-1 Pac-12). Zack Reser (0-1) pitched the first two outs of the ninth for the Beavers, who led 3-0 after the top of the second. Oregon State’s Joe Gillette had three hits.

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Oregon falls to Cal — A four-run sixth inning allowed California to pull away for a 6-2 Pac-12 victory over Oregon on Saturday night in Berkeley, California. The Golden Bears (15-3 overall, 2-0 Pac-12), were aided by three Duck errors. Brandon Cuddy had two of the five hits for Oregon (13-6, 0-2). Ducks starter David Peterson (2-1) struck out five.

SOFTBALL

Civil War game postponed — Saturday’s second game of a three-game series between Oregon State and Oregon in Eugene was rained out. A doubleheader will be played today beginning at 11 a.m.

SKIING

Pinturault wins GS, Hirscher takes title — Alexis Pinturault of France dominated a men’s World Cup giant slalom Saturday in Slovenia, while Marcel Hirscher came in second to take the season’s discipline title with a race to spare. The Austrian locked up his second GS title after also winning in 2012, holding an insurmountable 185-point lead over Pinturault with only one race remaining.

Shiffrin wins slalom — American Mikaela Shiffrin won her fourth World Cup slalom race of the season Saturday, beating Slovakia’s Veronika Velez Zuzulova by 1.41 seconds. The result means Shiffrin extended her lead over Sweden’s Frida Hansdotter in the overall slalom standings to 90 points with one race remaining. Shiffrin, who turned 20 on Friday, has won four of the past five World Cup slalom races.

DOG SLEDDING

Burmeister reclaims lead of Iditarod — Aaron Burmeister reclaimed the lead of the Iditarod on Saturday after leaving the checkpoint at Nulato, Alaska, ahead of Jeff King. Burmeister hasn’t taken his mandatory eight hour layover yet in the race. King has. Aliy Zirkle has also checked in at Nulato. Zirkle is trying for her first win after finishing second in the past three years. If the 45-year-old pulls in to the finish line at Nome first, she would be the first female Iditarod winner since 1990 when the late Susan Butcher finished first.

— From staff and wire reports

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