The University of Washington baseball team pulled off a rousing comeback win Friday night at Husky Ballpark, overcoming an early six-run deficit to beat 23rd-ranked Oregon 7-6.
AJ Guerrero provided the go-ahead RBI in the seventh inning on a single that scored Avia Arquette.
The Ducks (32-16, 14-11 Pac-12) led 6-0 going into the bottom of the fourth inning, when the Huskies (19-23-1, 10-15) scored four runs. Jeter Ybarra hit a two-run home run in the inning, and Colin Blanchard and Sam DeCarlo added RBI singles.
The Huskies’ Cooper Whitton hit a two-run homer in the sixth to tie it at 6.
• Heiser Grant went 3 for 5 with a home run, a triple and two runs batted in, but Seattle University fell to Texas-Arlington 13-10 at Bannerwood Park in Bellevue. Seattle U (14-34, 7-18 WAC) again hosts the Mavericks (20-3, 14-11) on Saturday in the second game of the three-game set.
College SOFTBALL
• Sixth-seeded Utah will face top-seeded UCLA on Saturday in the championship game of the Pac-12 softball tournament (7 p.m., ESPN2).
Utah upset the No. 2 seed Stanford 2-1 in the semifinals at Boyd & Jill Smith Family Stadium in Stanford, Calif., while UCLA beat fifth-seeded Arizona 6-5.
MINORS
• The visiting Tacoma Rainiers scored six runs in the seventh inning to take the lead and held on to best the Reno Aces 12-10.
Nick Solak drove in five runs for Tacoma (20-17).
Andres Chaparro had six RBI for the Aces (18-19).
• The visiting Everett AquaSox (12-18) failed to hold on to a late lead and lost 4-3 to the Vancouver Canadians (13-13).
Jared Sundstrom hit a solo homer for the AquaSox.
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