Bears end Ducks' win streak at three games.

Byline: The Register-Guard

BERKELEY, Calif. - The 20th-ranked Oregon softball team lost at California 4-2 on Saturday in the final regular-season game, ending the Ducks' three-game winning streak.

Cal's Vernae Sevilla hit a two-run single down the left-field line with the bases loaded to score the game-winning run in the sixth inning, when the Bears scored three runs.

Junior Joanna Gail led off the top of the seventh with a home run, but the Ducks were unable to score again off Cal starter Lauren Frankiewicz.

Alicia Cook, who took over in the fourth for starter Melissa Rice, dropped her record to 21-4 on the season.

Cook also batted in the fifth, and with Kristi Leiter on second, singled to center field. Leiter scored on an error when the throw was wide of third base, tying the game at one run apiece.

Cal scored its first run in the third inning after Rice loaded the bases on two hits and a walk, before allowing the Julie Meyer to cross the plate on a wild pitch.

In the bottom of the second, Oregon turned a 6-4-3 double play, the team's 33rd of the season, breaking the previous record set in 2004.

The two teams finished tied at the bottom of the Pac-10 Conference at 7-14. The NCAA Regional selections will be announced at noon today on ESPNews. The team will gather in the Pittman Room - located in the Casanova Center - to watch the broadcast beginning at noon.

The Ducks finished the regular season with a 42-17 overall record - tied for the second-most victories in the program's history. They equaled that total in 2004 and the record is 54 wins, set in 1989.

Oregon, which won the first two games against Cal, takes the season series over the Bears for the first time since 2000. The Ducks have won three season series against Pac-10 competition this year, also defeating No. 15 Oregon State 2-1 and No. 16 Stanford 2-1.

Bowns gives UO soccer

win over semi-pro team

Sophomore Theresa Bowns scored the game-winner in the 75th minute as Oregon overcame an early mistake to defeat the Seattle Sounders 2-1 in the soccer team's spring exhibition finale Saturday at Pape Field.

Ducks junior Darcie Gardner tied the score at the 50th minute after deflecting a pass from Dani Oster off a Seattle defender and into the net.

Former Duck Chalise Baysa (1998-2001) led the Sounders, a semi-professional team composed of former collegiate stars that advanced to the W-USA semifinals last season, with five shots.

Just 37 seconds into the contest, Seattle's Erica Swanson crossed the ball in on the Oregon net and goalkeeper Nicole Garbin misplayed the pass, deflecting the ball through her legs and into the Ducks' goal for a 1-0 Sounders lead.

Garbin, who finished her career last fall as Oregon's all-time leader in goals (34), assists (15) and points (83), filled in as an emergency goalkeeper for much of the spring with starter Jessie Chatfield out with a broken left wrist and reserve goalkeeper Emily Zaler sidelined with a dislocated kneecap. The Wailuku, Hawaii, native made three saves on Saturday.

LCC men win NWAACC 

regional track meet

GRESHAM - Lane Community College won the men's team title at the NWAACC Southern Region track and field championship meet Saturday at Mount Hood Community College.

University of Oregon-bound Jordan McNamara won the 800 in 1:53.31 for the Titans, while Southern Region decathlon champion Collin Cram cleared 15 feet to win the pole vault.

Lane picked up wins in four other events as it tallied 210 points, 15 more than second place Mt. Hood.

The Titan women came in second behind Mt. Hood. Heather Bishop won the 100, Crystal Bradford won the 100 hurdles and Molly Sedlacek was first in the triple jump for Lane.

Stampede defeat

Chargers, 143-133

SALEM - The Salem Stampede defeated the Eugene Chargers 143-133 in an International Basketball League game on Saturday.

Lamar Harris had 21 points and 16 rebounds for the Chargers (5-4), and Rod Stephenson added 21 points.

The Stampede improved to 10-0.

Lennerton powers OSU past Washington State

CORVALLIS - Oregon State's Jordan Lennerton had a bases-loaded double and a triple as the 11th-ranked Beavers beat Washington State 11-5 in a Pac-10 baseball game Saturday at Goss Stadium at Coleman Field.

OSU (36-12 overall, 8-9 Pac-10) also got a three-run homer from Mike Lissman during a five-run seventh inning. The Beavers and Cougars (24-22, 7-13) wrap up their series today at 1 p.m.

Torgerson qualifies

for Oregon Amateur

BANKS - Eugene's Davis Torgerson qualified for the Oregon Amateur golf tournament by tying for fourth at the final qualifier on Saturday at Quail Valley Golf Course.

Tigard High School sophomore Arthur Kim earned medalist honors with a 2-under 70 to earn a spot in the Amateur, held June 18-23 at Columbia Edgewater Country Club in Portland.

OSU's Johnson leads

golf tournament

PORT ST. LUCIA, Fla. - Oregon State golfer Vincent Johnson leads the Men's Independent Division at the 21st PGA Minority Collegiate Golf Championship after two rounds of play.

Johnson shot an even-par 72 during the second round at the PGA Golf Club. Steven Frazier of Houston is three strokes back at 145.

Titans sweep Chemeketa

in doubleheader

Lane Community College swept a baseball doubleheader from visiting Chemeketa on Saturday to lift the Titans into a three-way tie for second place in the NWAACC Southern Region.

The Titans (16-30, 13-15 South) won the opener 5-4 on Nick Nading's bases-loaded double in the bottom of the 10th inning.

In the second game, Scott Jacobson drove in two runs and Scott Carpenter pitched out of a bases-loaded jam in the fifth to earn the save in a 5-1 victory, Lane's fifth in its last six games.