Closer Brian Pearl walked in the winning run during the Washington baseball team’s first game against Washington State Friday, giving the Cougars a 6-5 win in 10 innings.

Troy Scott recorded the only hits and only run the Huskies managed in their 7-1 loss during Saturday’s game against WSU.

Kyle Conley capped off oh-fers in his previous two games with another one in the third, assuring that he will likely never break the UW’s home run record. He would have to settle for a tie and another loss, giving the Cougars a sweep of the Dawgs with a 10-5 drubbing in Pullman, Wash.

It was just one of those weekends for the Huskies, but to get swept at the end of their season — against their biggest rival — further cemented the Dawgs’ underwhelming season.

“Our execution was not good,” said UW head coach Ken Knutson. “We couldn’t execute our offensive plan, which is swing at strikes and lay off balls, basically. On the mound we were okay, but we hurt ourselves. For me, it was just so glaring that we struck out well over 30 times. It’s just too much.”

Nothing could have been more emblematic of how Washington (25-30, 13-14 Pac-10) finished its season than Conley’s futility at the plate against Washington State this weekend.

The slugging right fielder was tied on the UW’s all-time home-run list with Ed Erickson entering the Huskies’ final series of the season, looking to blast his 43rd homer of his career and 20th of the season.

But instead, Conley struggled at the plate throughout the series, going 0-for-14 with eight strikeouts, flailing away at pitches and leaving four runners stranded on base.

“I think he was pressing,” Knutson said. “Kyle’s not concerned about the record as much as he is about getting hits and driving in runs. But after losing Friday, mentally it’s hard to bounce back after knowing you can’t make the postseason. I think that was the frustration: trying to do too much, chasing a lot of pitches outside the zone.”

Much of the team chased pitches out of the zone, and the result was 37 strikeouts and just 11 runs in the three games against Washington State (31-23, 19-8 Pac-10).

“The Friday game could have gone either way, but it ended up going WSU’s way,” Scott said. “And that filtered into the rest of the games, and that kind of affected how we played. We didn’t play really well Saturday and Sunday — didn’t deserve to win those two.”

It was not that they didn’t try to win, though.

Freshman Andrew Kittredge pitched better Sunday than his seven runs through 6 1/3 innings might indicate, Knutson said. The Huskies had a five-run lead after three innings, on their way to a victory in their final game of the season, but several fatal errors and misplays cost them.

“We couldn’t make enough plays, gave up a couple big innings and couldn’t stop the bleeding,” Knutson said. “It’s very disappointing.”

It was disappointing for several reasons, but none perhaps more so than losing to your rival when it mattered most.

“It’s easier to get up for these games,” Scott said. “It’s WSU, the last series; it just feels like we were the better team, but it just didn’t happen this weekend.”

Reach reporter Allen Wagner at sports@dailyuw.com.