Beaver Batters Pound Out 13-8 Win
February 29, 2004 | Baseball
Feb. 29, 2004
RIVERSIDE, Calif. - Paul Richie and Aaron Mathews had four hits each to lead Oregon State's 19-hit attack as the Beavers beat Washington 13-8 Sunday afternoon in the Riverside Baseball Invitational. Richie also drove in four runs and Gunderson pitched three innings of two-hit, one-run ball to earn his third win of the season in relief for OSU (8-1 overall).
When host California-Riverside beat Sacramento State 5-3 in the final game of the tournament later Sunday afternoon, the Beavers won the tournament championship.
Oregon State now goes to the Hawai'i Tournament for five games. The Beavers open the tourney on Tuesday at 4 p.m. PST against The Citadel, and that game can be heard on www.osubeavers.com
Against Washington (6-3), the Beavers bounced back from their first defeat of the season, a poorly-played 10-3 loss to Sacramento State on Saturday, and beat their longtime Pacific Northwest rivals.
"We responded from yesterday - that was the most important thing," Richie said. "It tested our character a little bit. To come out and win against U-Dub is always a good win ... we wanted to come in today and show 'We're Oregon State, you're going to have to deal with us to get wins in the Pac-10'. We're a good club this year, we believe it, and we're going to go out and play like it."
Richie's four hits and four runs matched his career-highs in those categories, both reached last April 22 in a 14-4 win at Portland. That was also the last time the Beavers had as many hits as the 19 they collected against the Huskies; Washington had entered the game with a 3.44 team earned run average and was allowing an average of 5.8 hits per game.
After each team scored a pair of runs in the first inning, the Beavers took the lead for good with four runs in the bottom of the second inning against Husky righthander Keaton Everitt. All four runs scored with two out; Richie singled up the middle to drive in two runs, then Chris Campos followed with a triple to the wall in centerfield that scored Richie and Campos was awarded home when the relay throw went into Washington's third-base dugout.
The Huskies came back for three runs in the top of the third, but Jonah Nickerson struck out Ben Johnson to end the inning with the tying run at second base. The freshman righthander, making his first start, got the Beavers through three innings with the lead.
"That's exactly what we needed," Richie said. "He's getting better and better every time he comes out there. Jonah is going to be a real good guy for us; he just needs to get some experience, get some innings."
OSU bumped its lead to 7-5 on Richie's run-scoring single in the fourth inning, then tacked on four more runs to make it 11-5 in the bottom of the fifth. Mathews had a run-scoring triple in the fifth and Tony Calderon, Chris Kunda and Mike Lissman all had RBI singles.
Gunderson, a freshman lefthander, kept the Huskies at bay from the fourth through sixth innings, holding them scoreless as he improved to 3-0 this season. The only run he allowed came after he hit the first batter of the seventh inning and was relieved by Nathan Pendley.
"Gundy has come in in relief and done the job every time for us," Richie said. "He's getting those wins in relief; that's his role and he's doing it well."
The Huskies grabbed three runs in the seventh off Gunderson, Pendley and Nathan Buck to get within 11-8. But the Beavers picked up single runs in the seventh and eighth innings to make it 13-8, and OSU turned double plays behind Buck in the eighth and ninth innings to keep the margin there.
It was Buck's fourth save of the season, tying him for fifth place on OSU's all-time list of single-season leaders. Mathews extended his hitting streak to eight games while Jacoby Ellsbury's streak is now seven games, Mike Lissman's is six and Richie's is five.
Calderon, Kunda, Shea McFeely and Andy Jenkins all had two hits each for OSU as the Beavers got hits from nine different players.
OREGON STATE 13, WASHINGTON 8
Washington 203 000 300 - 8 12 3 Oregon State 240 140 11x - 13 19 0Everitt, Conover (4), Baysinger (5), Kasser (8) and Lane. Nickerson, Gunderson (4), Pendley (7), Buck (7) and Richie. W-Gunderson (3-0). L-Everitt (2-1). Sv-Buck (4). 2B-Otness (UW), B. Johnson (UW), Ellsbury (OSU), Jenkins (OSU), Kunda (OSU). 3B-Campos (OSU), Mathews (OSU).
HITS: Washington 12 (Isaacson 2x3, Clem 1x2, Lillisbridge 2x4, Larsen 1x4, Batkoski 2x4, Lane 1x2, Otness 1x4, B. Johnson 2x5), Oregon State 19 (Ellsbury 1x4, Richie 4x5, Campos 1x3, Lissman 1x2, Jenkins 2x5, McFeely 2x3, Calderon 2x5, Mathews 4x5, Kunda 2x5). RUNS BATTED IN: Washington 8 (Isaacson 1, Clem 1, Batkoski 1, Lane 2, Otness 2, B. Johnson 1), Oregon State 12 (Richie 4, Campos 1, Lissman 1, Jenkins 1, McFeely 1, Calderon 1, Mathews 2, Kunda 1).
Washington 8 (6-3) Oregon State 13 (8-1)Player AB R H BI Player AB R H BI --------------------------------------- --------------------------------------- Greg Isaacson 2b........... 3 2 2 1 Jacoby Ellsbury lf/rf...... 4 2 1 0 Taylor Johnson cf.......... 3 0 0 0 Paul Richie c.............. 5 2 4 4 Zach Clem ph/lf........... 2 0 1 1 Chris Campos rf............ 3 1 1 1 Brent Lillibridge ss/cf.... 4 2 2 0 Mike Lissman ph/lf........ 2 0 1 1 Kyle Larsen 1b............. 4 1 1 0 Andy Jenkins 1b............ 5 2 2 1 Nick Batkoski rf/ss........ 4 1 2 1 Mike Hass dh............... 1 1 0 0 Matt Lane c................ 2 1 1 2 Shea McFeely 3b............ 3 0 2 1 John Otness 3b............. 4 0 1 2 Bryan Stone pr............ 0 0 0 0 Tyler Mach dh.............. 5 0 0 0 Chad Schroeder 3b......... 2 0 0 0 Ben Johnson lf/rf.......... 5 1 2 1 Tony Calderon ss........... 5 1 2 1 Keaton Everitt p........... 0 0 0 0 Aaron Mathews cf........... 5 2 4 2 Josh Conover p............ 0 0 0 0 Chris Kunda 2b............. 4 2 2 1 Trent Baysinger p......... 0 0 0 0 Jonah Nickerson p.......... 0 0 0 0 Matt Kasser p............. 0 0 0 0 Kevin Gunderson p......... 0 0 0 0 Nathan Pendley p.......... 0 0 0 0 Dallas Buck p............. 0 0 0 0 Totals..................... 36 8 12 8 Totals..................... 39 13 19 12
Score by Innings R H E ------------------------------------------- Washington.......... 203 000 300 - 8 12 3 Oregon State........ 240 140 11X - 13 19 0 -------------------------------------------
E - Isaacson; Clem; Lillibridge. DP - Oregon St. 2. LOB - Washington 10; Oregon St. 8. 2B - Otness; B.Johnson; Ellsbury; Jenkins; Kunda. 3B - Campos; Mathews. HBP - Isaacson 2; Lane 2; Ellsbury. SH - Hass; Kunda. SF - Lane. SB - Isaacson 2. CS - Stone.
Washington IP H R ER BB SO ------------------------------------------------ Keaton Everitt L,2-1...... 3.1 9 7 6 2 1 Josh Conover .............. 1.0 4 4 4 1 0 Trent Baysinger ........... 2.2 3 1 0 0 1 Matt Kasser ............... 1.0 3 1 1 0 1
Oregon State IP H R ER BB SO ------------------------------------------------ Jonah Nickerson ........... 3.0 6 5 5 2 2 Kevin Gunderson W,3-0..... 3.0 2 1 1 1 2 Nathan Pendley ............ 0.2 2 2 2 0 0 Dallas Buck S,4........... 2.1 2 0 0 1 2
WP - Conover; Nickerson. HBP - by Nickerson (Isaacson); by Gunderson (Lane); by Gunderson (Isaacson); by Gunderson (Lane); by Baysinger (Ellsbury). PB - Lane.
Umpires - HP: Bob Simmons 1B: Scott Daniel 3B: Bob Lamb Start: 11:03 am Time: 3:06 Attendance: 211
Gunderson faced 1 batter in the 7th.
