Generals one win from hockey title.

Byline: The Register-Guard

HELENA, Mont. - Eugene moved within one victory of the Cascade Cup with a 3-1 win over Queen City for a 2-1 lead in their best-of-five junior hockey series on Saturday.

The Generals can end the series in today's Game 4, which starts at 6 p.m. PST. If necessary, Game 5 will be Monday night at 6:30.

Garrett Bossert started the scoring in the second period with a power-play goal off assists from Michael Frei and Troy Mytinger. Frei also assisted on a goal by Kris Kranzky with a 2-0 lead in the third period before Ryan Schank added an unassisted goal.

The Cutthroats avoided the shutout on Pat Hood's goal with 44 seconds left.

Spencer Alvarez recorded 39 saves for Eugene.

OSU's Haruguchi swims

to All-America honor

ATHENS, Ga. - Freshman Saori Haruguchi capped her freshman season at Oregon State by earning All-America honors in the 200 butterfly when she finished sixth at the NCAA Swimming Championships on Saturday.

Haruguchi, OSU's fifth swimming All-American, finished in 1 minute, 57.98 seconds. The Beavers finished in 31st place at the meet, which was won by Auburn as four Pac-10 schools finished in the top 10.

UO falls in first Hawaiian women's lacrosse match

HONOLULU - Seven Ducks scored goals in Oregon's 15-7 loss to No. 3 Johns Hopkins in the first NCAA women's lacrosse match played in Hawaii.

Scoring for Oregon (3-4) were Jana Bradley, Cara Mead, Theresa Waldron, Erin Gaebe, Ilsa van den Berg, Sarah McDonald and Alicia Burhart.

Trojans bounce back

to even Pac-10 series

LOS ANGELES - USC outfielders Darin Vieira and Cyle Hankerd drove in three runs each in an 11-3 Pac-10 baseball win over 15th-ranked Oregon State that evened their weekend series at one game apiece.

Mike Lissman went 4-for-5 for the Beavers (12-6, 1-1) and Darwin Bailey added three hits and two RBIs. Mike Stutes (2-1) started on the mound for OSU and lasted only 2 1/3 innings as the Trojans (13-11, 1-1) stung four Beaver pitchers for 14 hits.

"We gave them a lot of extra opportunities," OSU coach Pat Casey said.

"They're a good club in their own yard, and we didn't play very well."

USC led 6-0 when Barney put the Beavers on the board with a two-run double in the fifth. However, the Trojans added five more in the sixth, including three on Hankerd's home run.

OSU's Mitch Canham homered in the top of the eighth for the game's final run.

Today's game begins at noon.

BYU takes five singles matches in win over UO

PROVO, Utah - No. 22 Brigham Young took five of six singles matches in a 6-1 women's tennis win over 24th-ranked Oregon on Saturday at the BYU Indoor Tennis Courts.

Carmen Seremeta defeated Sofia Holden 6-2, 7-6 for the Ducks' only singles point. Anna Leksinska and Claudia Hirt won their No. 2 doubles match for Oregon's only other win.

Dominika Dieskova was the only Duck to go three sets in singles. She fell 6-2, 6-7, 7-6 to Olga Bolytcheva, who pulled out a 7-5 tiebreaker after being down 4-1 in the final set.

Oregon's Blue Gray stay ends with loss to MSU 

MONTGOMERY, Ala. - Missisippi State took an abbreviated 4-1 win over the Oregon men at the Blue Gray Collegiate Classic tennis tournament on Saturday.

The Ducks took the first point by winning two of three doubles matches before the Bulldogs won the first four singles matches to end the tournament for Oregon.

Beacons earn softball split with Albertson

CALDWELL, Idaho - Northwest Christian College pitcher Darci Byrne took a no-hitter into the sixth inning of a 5-2 win over Albertson College for a split of their softball doubleheader on Saturday.

The Coyotes (7-8) won the first game 8-3 as A.J. Cavanaugh and Stacy Smith each drove in three runs. In the second game, the Beacons (7-5) scored in each of the first three innings. Byrne's gem was spolied in the sixth by Heather Kirtley's leadoff home run.

Kathy Richard had two hits and drove in a run for NCC. Kasey Sconce had an RBI double and Jenny Lipp drove in another run with a sacrifice fly.