Sports in brief
Published 12:00 am Monday, April 9, 2018
- Ducks and Beavers
LACROSSE
Bend United downs Sherwood — Joren Fettig scored three goals and Madeline Meade and Emma Beaver added two apiece to lead Bend United to a 10-7 victory over Sherwood in a girls nonconference match Sunday at Mountain View High School. Fettig added three draw controls and Beaver had four caused turnovers. Also for Bend United (6-1 overall), Patricia Grever had five caused turnovers, Mary Theobald and Zoe Wydra had three ground balls apiece, and goalkeepers Martha Schwarz and Kami Doyle combined for nine saves.
BASEBALL
Ducks no-hit in WSU series finale — Scotty Sunitsch tossed a no-hitter for Washington State, leading the Cougars to a 7-0 Pac-12 Conference win over Oregon in the final game of their three-game series Sunday at PK Park in Eugene. Sunitsch, a senior left-hander, struck out nine and walked two as WSU avoided a series sweep. Dillon Plew hit a two-run triple and Robert Teel hit a three-run double for the Cougars (3-9 Pac-12, 10-17 overall). Washington State’s Justin Harrer, a junior from Sisters who homered in the Cougars’ doubleheader loss to the Ducks on Friday, scored a run for the winners on Sunday. Oregon (5-7, 18-12) hosts the University of Portland on Monday night.
Beavers drop another at Arizona — Oregon State’s 5-2 lead got away when Arizona scored three runs in the bottom of the eighth inning of a Pac-12 Conference game Sunday at Hi Corbett Field in Tucson, Arizona, and the Wildcats won it 6-5 on Alfonso Rivas’ bases-loaded single with one out in the ninth. The loss was the second in a row for the fourth-ranked Beavers after winning the series opener Friday. Andy Armstrong, Steven Kwan and Cadyn Grenier all had two hits apiece for Oregon State (7-5 Pac-12, 24-6 overall). Arizona (4-5, 19-11) used seven pitchers in the game. The Beavers are back on the road for a nonconference series against Missouri State, a three-game set that opens with a doubleheader on Friday in Springfield, Missouri.
SOFTBALL
Oregon State falls in 15 — Arizona State’s Breezy Wise scored on Nichole Chilson’s sacrifice fly to break a tie in the top of the 15th inning, and the seventh-ranked Sun Devils held on Sunday to claim a 2-1 Pac-12 Conference win over No. 25 Oregon State at the OSU Softball Complex in Corvallis. Jessica Garcia was 3-for-6 with a double against ASU pitcher Giselle Juarez (17-1), who struck out 15 and allowed nine hits in the compete-game victory. Mariah Mazon pitched the distance for the Beavers (4-8 Pac-12, 21-17 overall), striking out 11 while allowing 10 hits. The Sun Devils (7-3, 33-5) scored a run in the third inning, and OSU answered with Alyssa Pelegrin’s RBI single in the seventh. The Beavers play a nonconference game at Portland State on Tuesday.
Oregon sweeps series from Arizona — Fifth-ranked Oregon scored six unearned runs in an 8-0 win over No. 9 Arizona on Sunday in the completion of a game suspended by rain Saturday at Jane Sanders Stadium in Eugene. Later Sunday, the Ducks capped a sweep of the three-game Pac-12 Conference series as Mary Iakopo hit a game-ending three-run homer in the sixth inning of Oregon’s 10-0 victory. In Sunday’s earlier game, Elish Miranda completed a three-hit shutout in which she struck out 13 and walked none to improve to 13-1. Miranda also pitched a perfect inning of relief against the Wildcats (6-6 Pac-12, 27-9 overall) in the final game to preserve the win for starter Megan Kleist, who allowed one hit and struck out 10 over five innings. The Ducks (7-2, 32-6) open a three-game series at Arizona State on Friday.
HOCKEY
Panthers spoil Bruins’ bid — Roberto Luongo came off the bench to shut down Boston in the third period, and the Florida Panthers dashed the Bruins’ hopes of getting the top seed in the Eastern Conference playoffs with a 4-2 win Sunday night in Boston. The Bruins trailed Tampa Bay by a point heading into the regular-season finale but could not top a Panthers team that was eliminated from postseason contention Saturday. Boston will host Toronto in the first round beginning Thursday night. Florida starter James Reimer left in the third period with an injury, and Luongo came in and stopped eight shots over the last 8:07. The pair combined to make 41 saves. Henrik Borgstrom, Frank Vatrano, Maxim Mamin and Evgenii Dadonov scored for Florida. David Backes and David Pastrnak had a goal each for Boston, with Pastrnak cutting it to 3-2 shortly before Reimer was hurt. Tuukka Rask made 22 saves. Florida is headed home despite an impressive 25-8-2 run to end the season, including winning its last five.
— From staff and wire reports