NW Briefs | Ineligible player ends SU season

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Seattle University is ineligible for this year's NCAA Division II men's basketball tournament because of an ineligible player.

Senior reserve Michael Knight, who transferred from the University of Albany after last season, was ruled ineligible because he should have sat out this season. Knight, the team's fourth-leading scorer at 9.2 points per game, had played 21 games for the Redhawks (17-9), who were unlikely to qualify for postseason.

Seattle U. was Knight's fourth college in four years. The 6-foot-2 guard, a graduate of Seattle Prep, played 28 games for Maryland-Baltimore County as a freshman; was all-conference as a sophomore at St. Petersburg College, where he earned a two-year degree; and then played for Albany.

Seattle U. was contacted by a Great Northwest Athletic Conference official Feb. 15 questioning Knight's eligibility, and the Redhawks voluntarily held him out of the past five games. The school investigated and reported the violation to the NCAA, according to a GNAC news release and a university official.

Softball

Washington (12-6-1) beat Eastern Kentucky 4-0 and Idaho State 11-3 at the Malihini Kipa Aloha Tournament in Honolulu.

• Western Washington (12-5) split a doubleheader with Montana State Billings in Bellingham, losing 4-3, then winning 5-4.

Baseball

Cal Poly's Eric Massingham limited Washington to two hits over the first seven innings as the Mustangs beat the Huskies (4-5) 6-2 at Husky Ballpark.

• Washington State (8-2) split a doubleheader with Kent State in Pullman, dropping the opener 9-5, then winning 10-2.

• Marcus McKimmy went 3 for 5 to help Gonzaga (4-5) down Pacific 8-4 in Stockton, Calif.

Men's swimming

Washington (159 points) is sixth after Day 3 of the Pac-10 championships in Berkeley, Calif.

Gymnastics

Washington (1-10) posted a season-high score but fell 196.550-195.175 to fifth-ranked Louisiana State in Baton Rouge.

• Seattle Pacific (9-6) scored a season-high 190.075, but finished behind host Sacramento State, California and UC Davis.

Women's tennis

Washington took a 6-1 loss against No. 7 USC in Los Angeles.

• Washington State fell 7-0 to ninth-ranked UCLA in Los Angeles.

Men's tennis

Derek Drabble came through in crunch time for 28th-ranked Washington (9-4), securing the clinching point with a three-set win at No. 4 singles in a 4-3 victory over visiting Pepperdine.

Notes

• Utah State has hired Scott Barnes, formerly senior associate athletic director at Washington, as its athletic director.

• Golf course architect Ted Robinson, whose courses included Sahalee Country Club in Sammamish, site of the 1998 PGA Championship, has died of pancreatic cancer at age 84 at his home in Laguna Beach, Calif. Robinson also designed the Meridian Valley Country Club in Kent.

Compiled from wire and sports-information reports. Times staff reporter Craig Smith contributed to this report.