Lazaro Montes homers again, but AquaSox drop home opener to Hops

Lazaro Montes hit one of three home runs for Everett, but the AquaSox gave up five runs in the seventh inning and dropped their home opener, 7-6, to the Hillsboro Hops on Tuesday night.

Josh Caron and Carson Jones also homered, and Michael Arroyo added a double for Everett (2-2)

• Blake Hunt went 2 for 3 with a home run, but the Tacoma Rainiers fell to the visiting Sacramento River Cats 6-1.

Reliever Troy Taylor allowed three runs on two hits and a walk and didn’t record an out in the fourth inning.

Ben Williamson had a double for Tacoma (5-5).

COLLEGE BASEBALL

• Malakhi Knight’s RBI groundout scored the go-ahead run following an RBI single from Casen Taggart as host Washington rallied with two runs in the bottom of the eighth inning to beat Seattle U 4-3.

The Huskies improved to 17-17 and the Redhawks fell to 12-20.

GOLF

Washington’s Vivian Lu shot a second straight 1-under 71 and sits in a tie for sixth place heading into the final round of the Silverado Showdown on Tuesday in Napa, Calif.

Seattle U’s Rivekka Jumagulova shot a 2-over 74 and is tied for 24th in a tightly contested field.

As a team, Washington is tied for ninth and Seattle is in 15th place out of 16 schools.

• Seattle U’s Kevin Lishot a two-round total of 3-under 141 on Tuesday and finished at 4-under par overall and in fifth place at the conclusion of the UCSB Gaucho Invite in Santa Barbara, Calif.

As a team the Redhawks finished in sixth place out of 11 schools in the final match of the regular season.

HOCKEY

• Lukas Kaplan scored just over 13 minutes into the second overtime, and the Everett Silvertips beat the Seattle Thunderbirds 1-0 late Monday night to win the opening-round playoff series 4-2.

Raiden LeGall had 57 saves for the Silvertips, who advanced to the Western Conference semifinals to face the Portland Winterhawks in a best-of-seven series beginning Friday night in Everett.