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WSU baseball opened a three-game series with cross-state rival Washington Friday night in Seattle. It was a dreary evening on Montlake and for Cougar fans it was equally gray. The Cougs fell to the Huskies 3-2 despite a couple of blasts off the Wazzu bats in the ninth inning. Elijah Hainline got a hold of a fastball that appeared to be the tying run only to be caught in left-center off the top of the wall. Warning track power won't win games at home or on the road.
Grant Taylor went five and a third innings and was tagged with the loss. Taylor deserved better as he limited UW to three earned runs on eight hits, while striking out five. His teammates were limited to just four hits including a solo homer by Kyle Russell in the eighth to close the score to 3-2.
The Cougs will get a chance to even the series tonight with the first pitch scheduled for 5:05pm. You can watch the game on Pac-12 Washington.
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Wazzu men's hoops will take on SMU in the second round of the NIT Sunday at 2pm on ESPN+. The Mustangs are a perfect 17-0 at home this season and the game will be on their court. WSU is coming off a game in which is set team NIT records with 10 three-pointers (7 from Tyrell Roberts whose 23 points was the 4th most in an NIT game for the Cougs) and 10 team blocks (4 from Dishon Jackson tying a team record for an NIT game).
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WSU women's hoops begin their run in the NCAA tournament Saturday morning at 8:30am as the No. 8 seed when they face the No. 9 seed Kansas State Wildcats. The Cougs traveled across the country with an at-large bid to play in the Eastern Regional in Raleigh, NC. You can watch the game on ESPN2.
Washington State will be playing in its third NCAA Tournament game in program history. WSU is 0-2 all-time in NCAA Tournament games. -
Fifa Kumhom provided the clinching victory as Washington State defeated Gonzaga, 5-2, in a women's tennis match Friday afternoon at the Stevens Center on the Gonzaga campus. With the win, the Cougars improve to 6-9 while Gonzaga falls to 6-6.
DOUBLES
No. 1 Michaela Bayerlova/Maxine Murphy (WSU) def. Cate Broerman/Adrianna Sosnowska (GU) 6-4
No. 2 Yang Lee/Fifa Kumhom (WSU) def. Tiegan Aitken/Kianna Oda (GU) 6-2
No. 3 Frederikke Svarre/Jenna Sloan (GU) def. Savanna Ly-Nguyen/Elyse Tse (WSU) 6-2
Order of Finish: 3,2,1
SINGLES
No. 1 Michaela Bayerlova (WSU) def. Cate Broerman (GU) 5-7, 7-6 (5), 6-4
No. 2 Savanna Ly-Nguyen (WSU) def. Adrianna Sosnowska (GU) 6-1, 6-1
No. 3 Maxine Murphy (WSU) def. Jenna Sloan (GU) 3-6, 6-0, 6-3
No. 4 Fifa Kumhom (WSU) def. Kianna Oda (GU), 7-6, 3-6, 6-2
No. 5 Tiegan Aitken (GU) def. Yang Lee (WSU) 6-3, 6-4
No. 6 Caroline Wernli (GU) def. Elyse Tse (WSU) 1-6, 6-2, 6-3
Order of Finish: 2,5,6,5,4,1
- The No. 19-ranked Washington State women's rowing team is set to open the 2022 spring season this Sunday, March 20, as the Cougars will head to Dexter Lake to battle Oregon State for the Winchell Cup and the Crawford Plate. The regatta is set to begin at 9 a.m. WSU will finally kick off its 2022 spring schedule this weekend after the Las Vegas Invitational was canceled on March 5 due to high winds.
Go Cougs!!!
- It seems fitting to put together a list of coaches who branch off of the Mike Leach coaching tree. Perspective on his football genius can easily be determined by a cursory glance:
Dave Aranda/Baylor head coach – Graduate assistant coach under Leach from 2000-02 at Texas Tech
Neal Brown/West Virginia head coach – Played under Leach in 1998 when Leach was offensive coordinator at Kentucky
Sonny Cumbie/Louisiana Tech head coach – Played under Leach at Texas Tech from 2000-03 and later served as a graduate assistant coach under Leach
Sonny Dykes/TCU head coach – Coached wide receivers and later was the co-offensive coordinator at Texas Tech under Leach from 2000-06
Josh Heupel/Tennessee head coach – Played under Leach at Oklahoma in 1999 when Leach was the offensive coordinator for the Sooners
Dana Holgorsen/Houston head coach – Coached alongside Leach as assistants at Valdosta State from 1993-95, then served as a wide receivers coach and offensive coordinator under Leach from ...
- The news of former WSU Coach Mike Leach passing at the young age of 61 is very, very sad. I had the pleasure of writing about the Cougs when Leach was at the helm. To say that he was a unique person doesn't begin to describe the multi-faceted dimension of the man.
In terms of coaching football, Leach led his teams in a way that had most other coaches scratching their heads. His offensive creativity gave a multitude of defensive coordinators ulcers. To say that his techniques for molding student-athletes into football players were unusual would be accurate. Making guys run sprints in a sand pit named "Leach Beach" is a prime example. Crazy as that sounds, his players had fewer ankle injuries over the course of the season than any team in football. Only Mike Leach could get players to hit the beach. And if you look at the coaching tree that branches out from Leach, you'd find a myriad of men who owe him for their start in the profession.
When you examine the way Leach represented the schools ...
- Close only counts in horseshoes and hand grenades, so Wazzu's loss yesterday to UNLV by a score of 74-70 was just that, a loss. However, there were plenty of reasons to applaud both the performance and the progress the Cougs are making over the past few games. Let's get the bad observation out of the way. WSU turned the ball over a ridiculous 22 times. No one is going to beat many teams with such wreckless play, especially against a team that posted a 9-0 record going into the contest. Some of those errors might be attributed to Coach Kyle Smith going with a different lineup almost every game because of player injuries. Facts are facts and when there isn't a steady lineup, players struggle to play team ball. On the bright side, Wazzu shot a respectable 54.2% from the field, coupled with a very nice 56.5% from behind the arc. On defense, WSU held UNLV to just 30.4% from behind the arc and 50.9% overall. The Cougs outrebounded the Rebels by a margin of 33-20. Despite being down by ...
