Sports – The Daily Evergreen

Baseball wins game four, ties series

VASILI VARLAMOS, Evergreen baseball reporter

February 25, 2020

The Cougar baseball team won a thriller against the University of Hawai’i Rainbow Warriors 6-5 on Sunday. WSU (3-5) came back from a 4-0 deficit in the 8th inning and outscored Hawai’i (7-3) 6-1 in the final two innings. The Rainbow Warriors started the game with four runs in the first three innings...

Tennis falls to Columbia, defeats Fordham

Nick Oldham, Evergreen tennis reporter

February 25, 2020

The WSU tennis team split the first two matches of their road trip by losing to Columbia University on Sunday and beating Fordham University on Monday. WSU (7-2) ended its four-match win streak in a close match that came down to the final point. Columbia (9-2) upset the 34th ranked Cougars to win i...

Pac-12 Power Rankings

CODY SCHOELER, Evergreen sports columnist

February 25, 2020

Arizona State Finally, a new team at the top of the rankings. The Sun Devils extended their winning streak to seven games with another weekend sweep. They started out with an upset win over Oregon for their second win over a ranked opponent. Junior guard Alonzo Verge Jr. led the team in scoring ov...

Baseball falls in game two

Donovan Blas, Evergreen baseball reporter

February 24, 2020

WSU baseball lost game two to the University of Hawaiʻi 4-2, giving up more runs than hits allowed to the Rainbow Warriors. The Cougars (2-4) had five players go 2-4 from the plate but struggled bringing runs in, leaving a total of seven runners on base. Freshman pitcher Ethan Ross s...

Nostalgia on the court

CARSON BROWN, Evergreen women's basketball reporter

February 24, 2020

The WSU women’s basketball team fell short against the University of Southern California Trojans 66-60. Another slow start held the Cougars (11-17, 4-12) back as they trailed by 18 points at the half, but they managed to win the second half by 12. A career day from freshman forward Alissa P...

Track and field sees many individual successes

JAN RAC, Evergreen track and field reporter

February 24, 2020

The WSU men and women’s track and field squads traveled this weekend to Texas and Seattle. They competed in the Matador Qualifier at the Sports Performance Center in Lubbock, Texas, and the Last Chance College Elite at Dempsey Indoor in Seattle. Leading the Cougar squad in Lubbock was sophomore Cha...

Bows beat WSU baseball

VASILI VARLAMOS, Evergreen baseball reporter

February 24, 2020

The Cougar baseball team's comeback attempt ended with a strikeout and a loss to the University of Hawai’i Rainbow Warriors 4-3 Saturday. WSU (2-5) won the first game of the series against the Rainbow Warriors (7-2) but have lost the two games since then. Senior pitcher A.J. Block went the dist...

Final home game ends in defeat

RYAN ROOT, Evergreen men's basketball reporter

February 24, 2020

WSU men’s basketball fell to the Stanford Cardinal 75-57 in its last home game of the 2019-20 season. Senior forward Jeff Pollard and senior guard Jervae Robinson played their final home games. Sophomore forward CJ Elleby led the Cougars (14-14, 5-10) in scoring once again with 22 points. He al...

WSU takes game one against Hawai’i

Donovan Blas, Evergreen baseball reporter

February 22, 2020

WSU baseball beat the University of Hawai’i Rainbow Warriors in Les Murakami Stadium 6-2, taking game one of this four-game series in Honolulu, Hawaii. The Cougars (2-3) secured their second win of the season with the help of Collin Montez’s two home runs and five RBIs at the plate. The pitche...

Cougars unable to stun Bruins

CARSON BROWN, Evergreen women's basketball reporter

February 22, 2020

The Washington State women’s basketball team lost to the No. 8 UCLA Bruins 70-62 Friday night in Pullman. UCLA freshman guard Charisma Osborne had 32 points for the Bruins (23-3, 12-3). She shot 11-21 from the field and had 11 rebounds. Senior forward Borislava Hristova poured in 29 points in ...

Differences equal success for tennis team

Nick Oldham, Evergreen tennis reporter

February 21, 2020

WSU’s tennis players have traveled an average of almost 5,000 miles from their hometowns to Pullman in order to form a roster that has gone 6-1 so far this season. The nine players on the roster are each from a different country that are spread out across three different continents: North America, Eur...

WSU faces Stanford for senior night

RYAN ROOT, Evergreen men's basketball reporter

February 21, 2020

WSU men’s basketball will face the Stanford University Cardinal at 5 p.m. on Sunday in Beasley Coliseum for their last home game of the 2019-20 season. Last time WSU (14-13, 5-9) faced Stanford (16-9, 5-7) it was an 88-62 loss on the road for WSU; the Cougars’ largest margin of loss this seas...