The Cougar baseball team ventured over the mountains to Seattle this week, and things got off to an inauspicious start, as Seattle University beat WSU, 7-4. Things didn't figure to get much better, as a weekend series with Washington, a team fighting for first place in the Pac-12. So of course the Cougs responded by taking the first two games of the series.
As with Friday night, WSU used one big inning to break the game open. Friday it was the sixth, when the Cougars plated seven runs. They didn't wait as long Saturday, jumping on UW starter Joe DeMers in the third inning, scoring five runs on six hits to take a 5-1 lead.