The Mariners are starting a big series against their division rival Texas Rangers tonight.

It comes after the M’s beat the Padres 5-2 last night to salvage their brief two-game series with a split.

Bryan Woo took a perfect game into the seventh inning before giving up two runs, but still earned the win to improve to 8-2 on the season.

Cal Raleigh and Luke Raley each hit RBI singles in the third inning to get Seattle off to an early 3-0 lead and they never looked back.

The Mariners now begin a series against the defending World Series champion Rangers, who have struggled in 2024.

The Rangers sit 8 games back from first place in the AL West, while the Mariners are four games behind the Astros, who already won today.

Bryce Miller is on the mound tonight as he looks to follow up the six-inning shutout gem he threw in his last outing.

Coverage begins at 5:30 and first pitch is at 6:40 on KPUG.

 

The Pac-12 may be back from the dead.

Boise State, Colorado State, San Diego State and Fresno State all announced today that they will join the conference for the start of the 2026-27 academic year.

The Pac-12 board of directors unanimously approved applications from the four Mountain West schools, 

They’ll join Washington State and Oregon State, who are the conference’s two remaining schools following the league’s collapse in the summer of 2023.

The six schools will now collaborate to decide which other schools to target for further expansion, as the conference still needs to add two more schools to reach the NCAA minimum requirement. 

 

The Seattle Storm beat the Los Angeles Sparks 90-82 last night.

Skylar Diggins-Smith scored a game-high 26 points for the Storm and all their starters hit double-digits in the win.

Seattle is right on the heels of Las Vegas for second place in the Western Conference, with the win bringing them within a single game of the defending-champion Aces.

There’s only four games left in the season for the Storm to improve their playoff positioning.

They now travel to Dallas for a match against the Wings at 4:30 p.m. tomorrow.

 

The biggest prep sporting event in Northwest Washington is coming to Whatcom County this weekend.

Sehome High School is hosting the Northwest XC Preview Invitational at Civic Stadium in Bellingham on Saturday.

50 teams from every state classification are scheduled to compete with over 1,500 athletes expected to participate in the 2-mile races.

Each race will be divided by high school classes for boys and girls.

The meet will include three defending state champion teams: the 2A Sehome girls and boys teams and 1A boys Cedar Park Christian (Bothell).

All the action starts with the first boys JV race at 10 a.m. and awards will be given out at 2:20 p.m.

 

And at the college level, Western Washington University is in for a pair of major tests tonight.

The Vikings’ boys soccer team is hosting #3 nationally ranked Cal State LA in Bellingham.

The boys will look to add another upset to their list after beating #18 Chico State last week in their season-opener.

Tonight’s match starts at 7 p.m. at Harrington Field.

Across the state, the Vikings’ volleyball team started the weekend-long Central Washington University Invitational.

They got swept by 16th nationally ranked Cal State San Bernardino this afternoon before facing two more nationally ranked opponents tomorrow and Saturday.