Miller (7-1) tied his career high with nine strikeouts as the Cougars bounced back from a lop-sided loss to UW on Friday. The teams will play a third game at 1 p.m. today.

Washington State (27-21 overall, 6-11 Pacific-10 Conference) scored three runs in the third inning. After Travis Coulter and Scott Suttmeier opened with back-to-back singles, Paul Gran drove in a run with a sacrifice fly and Jim Murphy followed with a two-run home run, his 13th this year.

A single by Suttmeier, an error and Murphy’s double made it 4-0 in the seventh, and the Cougars added on their final run on Coulter’s bloop RBI single.

Miller lost his shutout in the ninth. A pair of singles and pinch hitter Ty Rasmussen’s RBI double produced the only run for Washington (30-17, 9-8).

Track & field

Moe runs sizzling mile: Washington senior Carl Moe produced a rousing home finale, racing around the Husky Stadium track in 4 minutes, 1.53 seconds to win the mile in his last Seattle appearance. The Auburn Riverside High graduate’s performance came at the wind at the Ken Shannon/Ken Foreman Invitational.

Running by himself, with many of the remaining spectators lining the backstretch to urge him on, Moe just missed breaking the four-minute mile barrier. He has been one of the West’s top 3,000-meter steeplechase runners all spring, and is scheduled to run that event next weekend at the Pac-10 meet.

Elsewhere

Washington ended the softball season with a whimper, bowing to Oregon and Alicia Cook’s four-hit pitching, 3-0, in Eugene. UW finished 28-23-1 and 7-14 in Pac-10 play. ... The season ended for the Washington men’s tennis team after losing to Wisconsin, 4-1, in the first round of the NCAA championships at Los Angeles. ... In another NCAA match, Eastern Washington concluded the best men’s tennis season in school history by playing well despite losing to No. 3-ranked UCLA, 4-0. Eastern finished with an 18-7 record.