• Cougar baseball continues to struggle at the plate and on the mound. Wazzu fell to No. 18 Stanford (11-8, 3-5 Pac-12) Saturday afternoon by a final of 7-1. Heck, the Cougs (9-13, 1-7 Pac-12) would have been shut out were it not for Kodie Kolden who singled home a run in the ninth.
  Quinn Mathews (W, 3-1) started for the Cardinal and was at the top of his game allowing just three hits and striking out eleven over seven innings of work. His counterpart was Cole McMillan (1-2) was left out on the mound for six and a third innings, surrendering nine hits and seven earned runs along the way to another conference loss for WSU.
  The final game of the series is set for Sunday afternoon with the first pitch scheduled to be thrown at 1:05pm. Wazzu will try to avoid being swept for the second consecutive Pac-12 series.
  https://wsucougars.com/news/2022/3/26/baseball-cougars-fall-to-no-18-stanford.aspx

• The Washington State men's golf team wrapped up The Goodwin in Palo Alto, California by finishing 16th on the team leaderboard, as the Cougars posted a three-round score of 846 (+6).
  WSU had two golfers finish inside the top-40 on the player leaderboard at The Goodwin. Sophomore Jaden Cantafio carded 1-under par; 209 to end the tournament tied for 35th. The Tustin, California native concluded his three-day stay at the Stanford Golf Course by shooting 1-over; 71 in the third round.
  Junior Pono Yanagi carded a team-best even-par; 70 in Saturday's third round. It was the third-straight round that Yanagi shot even par, as he concluded the tournament with a score of 210 (E) to finish tied for 40th. Redshirt senior Max Sekulic ended The Goodwin in a tie for 57th by posting a three-round score 2-over par; 212.

• The Washington State men's and women's track and field team continued their excellent start to the outdoor season by winning 10 total events at the Buc Scoring Invitational. In total, 23 Cougar athletes placed inside the top three across the two-day meet at Whitworth University in Spokane, Washington.
  Along with all the wins, two Cougs had record-breaking performances. Junior Skyler Walton ran the sixth-fastest women's 100m dash in WSU history with a personal record of 11.76 seconds and won the event. Freshman Ronald Gueso-Mosquera set a Boppell Track record at the Whitworth Pine Bowl in the men's discus with a toss of 54.09m to claim his first event win as a Coug.
  Sophomore Audrey Hughes had herself a day by winning the women's discus throw event with a personal record mark of 46.03m, and then placed second in the women's shot put event with a throw of 13.99m.
  Both the men's and women's 4x100m relay teams took first place in their races. The men's team consisting of junior De'antae Choates, freshman Yanai Macon, junior Blake Deringer, and redshirt junior Jamaal Palmer recorded a time of 41.26 seconds. The women's team consisted of juniors Mackenzie Fletcher, Skyler Walton, Jasneet Nijjar, and Elise Unruh-Thomas, who completed their race in 45.58 seconds.
  Choates would also claim first place in the men's 400m with a personal record time of 49.58.
  In the women's hammer throw event, Cougs claimed the top-five places. Sophomore Carolina Ulloa-Daza won the event with a personal record mark of 56.06m. Freshman Alexandra Payne (53.97m), sophomore Tara Koonce (53.20m), senior Sasha Korolenko (51.37m), and junior Amy Kramer (50.97m) rounded out the top-five in that order.
  Cougars also leaped their way to first place in the men's and women's pole vault events. Sophomore Lucas Tailin won the men's event by clearing the 4.52m height, and senior Emily Coombs won the women's event with a mark of 3.92m.
  Junior Elena Willems won the women's 800m dash by setting a new personal record time of 2:11.92 in the event.

• Seniors Savanna Ly-Nguyen and Michaela Bayerlova provided the lone highlights for Washington State (6-10, 1-4 Pac-12) as the Cougars fell to No. 45 Oregon (10-5, 2-3 Pac-12), 5-2, Friday afternoon at the UO Student Tennis Center.
  Ly-Nguyen and Bayerlova each dropped their first sets before rallying to capture the only two points for the Cougars on the afternoon. After trailing 6-2 to Oregon's Myah Petchey, Ly-Nguyen rallied back to win the second, 6-3, forcing a third set. With the team match outcome already decided, the third set consisted of a 10-point tiebreaker, with Ly-Nguyen using some late heroics to win 2-6, 6-3, 1-0 (11-9). The win improved Ly-Nguyen's record to 18-9 on the season and was the 70th of her career.
  Bayerlova needed three tiebreakers to secure her 13th singles victory of the season against just one loss. After falling 11-9 in the first-set tiebreaker to Sophia Luescher, Bayerlova, the nation's 91st-ranked player, rallied from 5-6 down to win the second, 7-6 (7-5). In a 10-point breaker to decide the match, it was all Bayerlova as she captured some early mini-breaks and pulled away, winning 10-4.
  Oregon (10-5, 2-3 Pac-12) jumped out quickly to take a 1-0 lead following doubles. The Ducks posted convincing wins on Courts 2 and 3 when Ares Teixido Garcia and Karin Young opened things up with a 6-1 win over Washington State's (6-10, 1-4) Ly-Nguyen and Elyse Tse. That was followed by Petchey and Allison Mulville's 6-2 win over the Cougar duo of Yang Lee and Fifa Kumhom at No. 2. The No. 1 match was stopped with the doubles point in hand, with WSU's Bayerlova and Maxine Murphy leading Oregon's Luescher and Uxia Martinez Moral, 3-2.

Go Cougs!!!