NW Briefs | UW pounds five home runs in 17-6 win over Portland

Washington freshman Troy Scott homered twice as the Huskies overpowered Portland 17-6 in a nonleague college baseball game Tuesday at Husky Ballpark.

Doug Cherry, Sean Meehan and Julien Pollard also homered as Washington (18-8) overcame a 3-0 deficit against the Pilots (14-15).

Scott, a 6-foot-5 first baseman from Auburn, finished 2 for 3 with three runs batted in. He hit a towering solo homer to right field in the fifth inning and a two-run shot to center in the sixth. Scott has four homers this season.

Another freshman, Forrest Snow (1-0), earned the victory in relief. The 6-6 right-hander from Seattle's Lakeside School allowed one earned run over three innings in only his second appearance this season.

Joey Dunn and Brian Pearl hit two-run doubles and David Bentrott had a two-run single for the Huskies, who made the most of their 13 hits against five Portland pitchers.

Cherry's homer was a two-run shot and Meehan's was a pinch-hit, three-run blast.

The Huskies open a three-game Pac-10 series against 18th-ranked Arizona at 6:30 p.m. Friday at Safeco Field. The final two games of the series are scheduled for 2 p.m. Saturday and 1 p.m. Sunday at Husky Ballpark.

Soccer

• New Seattle Pacific men's coach Mark Collings announced the signings of five high-school players to letters of intent — forward Ryan Brand of Portland, midfielder Drew Williams of Bend, Ore., midfielder Joshua Hensley of Taos, N.M., goalkeeper Hunter Huffman of Colorado Springs, Colo., and defender Elliot Morton of Tacoma (Bellarmine Prep).

• The Seattle Sounders will play Seattle Pacific in an exhibition game at 7 p.m. Saturday at Lake Stevens High School. Tickets cost $10.

Golf

• Jake Koppenberg, a junior from Everett, tied for second in medalist play as Western Washington's men placed fourth among 21 teams at the Grand Canyon University Thunderbird Invitational in Goodyear, Ariz. Koppenberg shot a final-round 6-under 66 to finish at 208, three behind the medalist.

• Washington State's Amy Eneroth, a junior from Spokane, had the only subpar score to win a women's invitational tournament in Lincoln, Calif., hosted by Sacramento State. Her second-round, 4-under 68 gave her a two-shot victory at 6,018-yard Lincoln Hills Golf Club. Her 1-under 215 is the lowest three-round total of her career.

Sports Medicine

The Mike Utley Foundation has awarded a grant of $110,000 to Craig Hospital in Englewood, Colo., for construction of the Mike Utley Terrain Park. The terrain park will provide physical therapy for patients learning to walk or control a wheelchair in a variety of outdoor terrains. Utley, a former Washington State football player who suffered a paralyzing injuring while playing in an NFL game, went through rehabilitation at Craig Hospital.

Compiled from sports-information reports and other sources.