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WSU’s Alissa Brooks-Johnson wins her second Pac-12 heptathlon championship

Washington State’s Alissa Brooks-Johnson won her second Pac-12 Combined Events Championships title in three years Sunday, scoring a season-high 5,638 points in the heptathlon at Oregon State in Corvallis.

Brooks-Johnson, a junior from Doty, Washington – who held the lead after the first day – long-jumped a wind-aided 18 feet, 7 inches, threw the javelin a season-best 138-6 and ran the 800 meters in 2 minutes, 19.57 seconds on Sunday.

“It was at first a little nerve-racking due to the fact I didn’t compete indoors and got a late start,” Brooks-Johnson said in a school press release. “Overall, I came back competing pretty well, but not where I want to be yet. There’s still a lot of track to be run.”

Teammate Liz Harper was second heading into Sunday but fell in the 800 meters and dropped to ninth. Lindy Schauble of WSU placed 11th.

Oregon’s Kara Hallock was second at 5,551.

Mitch Modin of Oregon won the decathlon with 7,530 points.

Baseball

Washington State 6, Oregon 5: Justin Harrer’s two-out, two-run double in the bottom of the ninth gave the Cougars (22-22, 8-13 Pac-12) a series-clinching win over Oregon (26-17, 9-12) in Pullman.

The Cougars rallied from a 5-0 deficit with one run in the seventh, three in the eighth and two in the ninth, finishing with 14 hits.

Harrer finished with three hits and three RBIs. Blake Clanton also had a two-run double. Andres Alvarez and Shane Matheny had two hits each.

Ryan Walker (5-5), the seventh WSU pitcher, got the win, entering with one out in the ninth to quell a two-on rally.

Arizona 12, Washington 11: The 19th-ranked Wildcats (31-15, 12-12 Pac-12) scored five runs in the bottom of the ninth to beat the Huskies (24-20, 10-11) in Tucson, Arizona.

A throwing error by pitcher Leo Nierenberg (1-4) brought in the final two runs of the game.

Softball

Washington 10, Stanford 2: Taylor Van Zee slugged a three-run home run in a five-run first inning and the seventh-ranked Huskies (40-11, 13-8 Pac-12) went on to a five-inning victory over the Cardinals (19-29, 2-19). Morganne Flores drove in five runs.

Football

University of Idaho guard Mason Woods was the No. 10 overall pick in the Canadian Football League, with Toronto taking Woods with its first pick, which came in the second round.

Woods is from Port Coquitlam, British Columbia.