The Barometer Online

Issue date: 5/9/08 Section: Sports

Media Credit: Curtis Barnard Oregon State pulls out a Pac-10 win and moves closer to a .500 record. The Beavers wrap up the season hosting No. 3 UCLA on Friday and Saturday. Start times for those games are set for 3 p.m. and noon, respectively.

Senior Cambria Miranda hit a walk off home run, her 10th of the season, in the bottom of the seventh to boost Oregon State to a 3-2 win over No. 24 Washington Thursday afternoon at the OSU Softball Complex.

Oregon State (27-30, 5-14 Pac-10) was led by sophomore Dani Chisholm with a pair of singles of the team's six total hits. Washington (26-22-1, 5-13 Pac-10) earned seven hits behind Amanda Fleischman's couple of singles.

The Huskies started off the game scoring first with Bailey Stenson scoring on Jace Williams' two-out double down the left field line to give Washington a one-run edge.

But Oregon State answered in the bottom of the inning, gaining the lead on three hits by Chisholm, junior DeAnn Young and freshman Erin Guzy with Young and Guzy earning RBIs to put the team up 2-1.

Washington quickly tied things up in the second inning, scoring a run on Alicia Blake's two-out RBI single at two runs each.

Both teams were unable to score after the second Sophomore Kelly Dyer quickly retired the side in the sixth and allowing a single in the seventh before stopping the next three batters at the top of the Huskies' order. In the bottom of the seventh inning Miranda nailed a home run over the scoreboard in left field.

Dyer threw four strikeouts in the complete-game win, boosting her record to 18-24, while Washington's Aleah Macon was charged with the loss, leaving her record at 15-14.

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