Baseball

OSU holds off Oregon — Reliever Jake Mulholland worked out of a ninth-inning jam to earn his 11th save, and No. 6 Oregon State made it two straight over Oregon with a 2-1 win Friday in the second game of a three-game Civil War series at Goss Stadium in Corvallis. Mulholland came on with two runners on and no outs in the ninth and struck out two, including Ray Soderman to end the game. Jakob Goldfarb’s sacrifice fly was the second out of the inning and produced the Ducks’ only run. The Beavers got on the board first on Tyler Malone’s solo home run to lead off the fifth inning. Adley Rutschman plated Cadyn Grenier with a sacrifice fly in the sixth for a 2-0 OSU lead. Oregon’s Spencer Steer had two singles and was the only player on either team with more than one hit. Bryce Fehmel pitched 7 1/3 strong innings for the win, improving to 5-1. Oregon (6-11 Pac-12, 19-17 overall) and Oregon State (9-5, 28-6) conclude their series Saturday.

SOFTBALL

Beavers blanked by No. 2 Sooners — Oregon State played second-ranked Oklahoma to a scoreless tie through five innings, but the Sooners broke through with a run in the sixth and then broke it open in the seventh to claim a 4-0 nonconference victory over the Beavers on Friday at the OSU Softball Complex. Kelsey Arnold’s RBI single ended Mariah Mazon’s shutout bid in the sixth inning, and Jocelyn Alo’s two-run homer highlighted a three-run seventh inning for Oklahoma (40-3), whose 30-game winning streak ended Thursday with a 5-1 loss at Oregon. Two Sooners pitchers limited Oregon State to five hits, two of them by Jessica Garcia. The two teams meet again Saturday in Corvallis.

Ducks take series opener from Cardinal — D.J. Sanders’ three-run double capped a six-run second inning, and Oregon went on to beat Stanford 8-4 on Friday night in the opener of a three-game Pac-12 series in Eugene. Sanders finished 3-for-4 to lead the Ducks (10-3 Pac-12, 36-7 overall), who beat the Cardinal (2-11, 22-21) for the 17th straight time dating back to 2012. Combined with UCLA’s win over Washington earlier Friday, the Ducks, Bruins (13-3) and Huskies (12-3) are now tied in the loss column atop the conference standings. Miranda Elish pitched a complete game, allowing six hits with 12 strikeouts to improve to 15-1. The series continues Saturday at Oregon’s Jane Sanders Stadium.

FOOTBALL

Ex-Ohio State coach Bruce dies at 87 — Former Ohio State football coach Earle Bruce has died at his home in central Ohio. The College Football Hall of Fame member was 87. His four daughters released a statement Friday on the loss of “a wonderful husband, father, grandfather and a respected coach to many.” Bruce followed the legendary Woody Hayes as coach of the Buckeyes and compiled an 81-26-1 record. His teams won or shared four Big Ten titles in between 1979 and 1987. He also coached at Tampa, Colorado State, Iowa State and of Northern Iowa. His career record was 154-90-2.

— From staff and wire reports