NW Briefs | Cardinal baseball rallies past Huskies

The 16th-ranked Stanford baseball team scored three runs in the eighth inning to complete a comeback and likely end Washington's postseason chances with an 8-5 win Saturday at Husky Ballpark.

The loss dropped the Huskies to 32-22 overall and 10-13 in the Pac-10, with only one regular-season game remaining. The Cardinal clinched no worse than a tie for second place in the conference, improving to 33-20-2 and 14-9.

The Huskies led 4-2 in the eighth when Stanford rallied for its first lead. Cord Phelps and Joey August each had RBI singles, and Brent Milleville's sacrifice fly drove in Phelps to put the Cardinal on top 5-4. Stanford scored three more in the ninth.

Sean Meehan was 2 for 3 with three RBI for the Huskies.

Other baseball

Washington State's Jayson Miller gave up one run in 7-2/3 innings to lead the Cougars (30-25, 8-15 Pac-10) to a 4-2 win over USC in Pullman.

Miller (8-1) scattered 11 hits, walked one and struck out four. Travis Coulter was 2 for 3 with two RBI for the Cougars.

Track and field

Whitworth's Emmanuel Bofa won the 800-meter run at the NCAA Division III championships in 1 minute, 51.01 seconds, helping the Pirates to a third-place finish in the men's team standings in Oshkosh, Wis.

In other results, Pacific Lutheran's Faven Araya finished third in the women's 400 hurdles in 1:1.21.

• Western Washington had three strong performances on the final day of the NCAA Division II championships in Walnut, Calif.: Monika Gruszecki placed second in the women's javelin (152 feet, 3 inches); Heidi Dimmitt finished fourth in the women's 400 hurdles (1:00.52, second-fastest in school history); and Keith Lemay was sixth in the men's 800 (1:51.62).

Notes

• The Snohomish County Explosion fell 134-126 to the Edmonton Chill in International Basketball League action in Monroe.

• Led by senior Jeff Anderson, archers from the University of Washington placed high at the three-day U.S. Intercollegiate Archery Championships last weekend in the outskirts of Atlantic City.

Anderson placed second overall in the men's recurve division, earning a spot on the team representing the United States at the World University Archery Championships, July 7-10 in Taipei, Taiwan.

• Nick Varelia, a senior at Kentwood High School, has signed a letter of intent to play men's golf this fall at Western Washington.

Compiled from sports-information reports and other sources.