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Deven Hunter posted her third double-double of the season with a career-high 19 points and 11 rebounds, Sydney Wiese added 17 and Ruth Hamblin set the tournament’s blocks record, but USC rallied past Oregon State 71-62 in the Pac-12 Tournament Championship at KeyArena in Seattle on Sunday night. The loss was OSU’s first in more than five weeks and snapped a string of 11 consecutive victories, tied for the second-longest streak in school history and best since 1982-83.
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Oregon ended the Pac-12 regular season Saturday in Eugene with a 64-57 upset of No. 3 Arizona. It was the Duck’s (22-8, 10-8 Pac-12) seventh straight win. Oregon finishes in a five-way tie for third in the league and will be the No. 7 seed in the Pac-12 Tourney, which begins Wednesday night, against 10th seeded Oregon State in Las Vegas.
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Oregon State honored its seniors in a big way on Saturday afternoon, taking down Arizona State in overtime, 78-76 in front of a rowdy Gill Coliseum crowd. The Beavers (16-14, 8-10 Pac-12) will face Oregon in the first round of the Pac-12 Tournament at 6 p.m. on Wednesday at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas, Nev.
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Sophomore first baseman Gabe Clark drove in four runs and junior reliever Zack Reser earned his second win of the season as fifth-ranked Oregon State defeated Northern Illinois 10-0 on Sunday before a crowd of 2,064 at Goss Stadium. The Beavers (14-3) swept the four-game series and stretched their winning streak to seven in a row. They are 10-1 in their last 11 starts and now lead the all-time series against Northern Illinois 7-0.
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This time, A.J. Balta got all of it. And the Oregon baseball team left PK Park on a Sunday afternoon feeling much better about itself. One week ago, Balta’s potential walk-off home run was caught just short of the fence, ending a three-game sweep of the Ducks by Cal State Fullerton. Against Ohio State on Sunday, Balta’s eighth-inning blast cleared the fence for a grand slam that capped No. 14 Oregon’s 20-4 victory. The victory gave the Ducks (12-4) two wins in three games with the Buckeyes (8-5), ended a 4-1 week for Oregon and put the demoralizing series with the Titans safely in the rearview mirror.
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Junior Dani Gilmore went 2-for-2 with three RBIs and a run, as the Oregon State softball team defeated Grand Canyon 6-3 in the first game of the day Sunday in Northridge, Calif. The Beavers (9-13) proceeded to fall to Cal State Northridge 6-2 in the afternoon contest.