Huskies outlast Cougars

Zach Clem scored on a wild pitch in the bottom of the 13th inning as Washington rallied to beat Washington State 5-4 in Pac-10 baseball action Saturday in Seattle.

Clem singled to open the 13th. He moved to second on a sacrifice bunt and a wild pitch moved him to third. WSU intentionally walked the next two batters to load the bases, and after getting ahead of Brett Kaluza 0-2, Nick Cebula bounced his next pitch in the dirt and past catcher Zach Franklin, allowing Clem to score.

The Huskies (35-25, 10-13) scored twice in the bottom of the ninth to send the game into extra innings. UW scored once in the bottom of the tenth to tie the game again after WSU (26-22, 10-13) had scored.

•Jessie Mier had three hits and drove in three runs to help Lewis-Clark State knock off Saint Xavier in a loser-out matchup at the 50th NAIA World Series at Harris Field in Lewiston.

The Warriors, ranked No. 1 in NAIA all season but seeded third, got going early with three runs in the first inning, highlighted by Mier’s two-run double.

The Warriors (43-8) scored six times in the bottom of the sixth to put the game out of reach.

Softball

Tina Boutelle hit Texas’ first grand slam of the season as the third-ranked Longhorns routed No. 17 Washington 9-1 to win the best-of-3 NCAA Super Regional series 2-0 in Austin, Texas, and advance to the Women’s College World Series.

Cat Osterman allowed just two hits and struck out 12 for Texas (54-7).

Washington finished the season 35-25.

Rowing

Washington State’s varsity 8 finished third in its heat to advance to today’s grand final at the NCAA Championships in West Windsor, N.J.

The Cougars finished the 2,000-meter course in 6 minutes, 27.42 seconds, less than a second behind second-place Brown. Princeton won the heat in 6:20.86.

The grand final is set for today at 9 a.m.

WSU also placed boats in the grand finals of the second varsity 8 and varsity 4, one of only four schools to make grand finals with three boats.