SOFTBALL

Beavers square series with Ducks — McKenna Arriola scored from second base on Hope Brandner’s two-out single in the bottom of the seventh inning, giving No. 25 Oregon State a dramatic 4-3 Pac-12 victory over No. 5 Oregon on Friday in the second game of a three-game Civil War series at the OSU Softball Complex in Corvallis. For the Beavers, the win ended a streak of 16 straight losses to the rival Ducks. The Beavers (3-5, 20-14) led 3-0 after a three-run fourth inning highlighted by Sara Lillie’s two-run single. The Ducks (3-2, 26-6) got within one run in the fifth on a solo home run by Mary Iakopo and an RBI double by Mia Camuso. Oregon tied it in the top of the seventh on Gwen Svekis’ one-out solo homer, but OSU rallied for an unearned run in the home half to even the series at a game apiece. Reliever Meehra Nelson (11-6) was the winning pitcher for OSU, while Ducks ace Miranda Elish (11-1) absorbed her first loss of the season.

BASEBALL

OSU rallies past Utah — After losing two in a row for the first time this season, top-ranked Oregon State came from behind Friday night to beat Utah 9-5 in the middle game of a three-game Pac-12 series in Salt Lake City. The Beavers trailed 5-2 after six innings but scored six times in the seventh to take the lead for the first time in the game. Adley Rutschman hit a two-run single and Tyler Malone followed with a three-run double to highlight the pivotal rally. Luke Heimlich allowed five runs (two earned) over 6 1/3 innings to earn the victory for Oregon State with relief help from Dylan Pearce and Jake Mulholland. Malone was 3-for-5 to lead the Beavers (6-2 Pac-12, 21-3 overall). The series concludes Saturday at Utah’s Smith’s Ballpark.

Oregon falls to No. 3 Stanford — A night after handing third-ranked Stanford just its third loss of the season — a 10-1 rout — Oregon went cold at the plate in a 5-1 Pac-12 Conference setback Friday at the Cardinal’s Sunken Diamond in Stanford, California. The Ducks (3-5 Pac-12, 15-10 overall) scored an unearned run in the second inning for a short-lived 1-0 lead, but that would be all they would get on a night when Oregon collected just four hits and struck out 12 times. Kyle Kasser was 2-for-4 for the Ducks. The finale of a three-game set is Saturday.

Football

Former QB Mark Rypien says he attempted suicide — Former Super Bowl MVP Mark Rypien said he has attempted suicide, hired prostitutes and suffers from persistent depression. Now, he is wondering if he sustained brain injuries while playing football. The 55-year-old former quarterback is worried about his future even as he revealed some lurid elements of his past. “There were behaviors that were just bizarre,” Rypien said in an article published Friday in The Spokesman-Review newspaper and also broadcast on KHQ-TV of Spokane. Rypien was a record-breaking high school quarterback in Spokane and then a star at nearby Washington State. He was drafted by the Washington Redskins in 1986 and played until 2002.

— From staff and wire reports