Beavers Beat No. 9 Arizona State, 12-6
February 06, 2005 | Baseball
Feb. 6, 2005
An eight-run fifth inning keyed Oregon State to a 12-6 win over ninth-ranked Arizona State on Sunday afternoon in the Bill Schaefer Memorial Baseball Tournament at Packard Stadium. OSU (3-1 overall) had 15 hits - including seven for extra bases - and Kevin Gunderson pitched 6 1/3 innings of one-run relief for the Beavers.
OSU returns to the Phoenix area next weekend for the Oakland Athletics Tournament, meeting Missouri on Friday, Kansas State on Saturday and Northwestern and Missouri on Sunday.
Against Arizona State (3-3), the Beavers beat the Sun Devils on their home field for the first time since 2000. The tourney game does not count in the Pacific-10 standings. OSU trailed 5-2 after three innings before coming back for the win.
"We were hoping to get a little further into the game before we went into our bullpen," OSU head coach Pat Casey said. "They scored a couple of runs and we felt it was time to go to Gundy (Gunderson), and he had some short innings because he was so sharp, and we were able to stay with him."
Gunderson allowed one run on three hits and no walks in his career-high 6 1/3 innings, striking out eight.
"Watching him front centerfield, you could see him keep everybody off-balance," OSU centerfielder Jacoby Ellsbury said of the sophomore lefthander. "They didn't know what was coming, they didn't know what to expect. Hats off to Kevin; he did a tremendous job."
Said OSU head coach Pat Casey: "To come down here and go 3-1 out of the gate and play some quality clubs, and to open on the road against Arizona State (on the first weekend of the season), you'll take that any time you can. We played great defense the whole time down here - we really played well. And we swung the bat well."
The Beavers committed two errors in the tournament, and OSU scored in double digits in all three of its wins.
"It's exciting to know we can play with a top-10 team like this," Ellsbury said. "It's a big boost for our team."
OSU's comeback began in the top of the fourth, when rightfielder Danny Anderson's homer to rightfield got the Beavers within 5-3.
"It was big," Casey said of the senior transfer from San Jose State. "He made a good swing and hit the ball out, and I thought that lifted us."
In the fifth, the Beavers went in front for good against ASU lefthander Brett Bordes and reliever Tony Barnette. With one out, OSU got four straight doubles from Ellsbury, Mike Lissman, Andy Jenkins and Shea McFeely to make it 6-5; Chris Kunda added a two-run single, Darwin Barney a run-scoring double and Ellsbury a two-run single to give OSU an 11-5 advantage.
"We made some little adjustments at the plate and they paid off," Ellsbury said. "It's great to know we can score against lefthanded pitching, righthanded pitching - we had a lot of guys hit, and our pitching was excellent."
The Beavers had gone in front 2-0 with a pair of unearned runs in the second inning, only to see ASU respond with four runs in the bottom of the second off starter Anton Maxwell and then another run in the third before Gunderson came into the game.
OREGON STATE 12, NO. 9 ARIZONA STATE 6
Oregon State 020 180 100 - 12 15 1 Arizona State 041 000 010 - 6 8 5Maxwell, Gunderson (3) and Munich, Priseman (4). B. Bordes, Barnette (5), Bresnehan (5) and Gosewisch. W-Gunderson (1-0). L-B. Bordes (0-2). 2B-Barney (OSU), Ellsbury (OSU), Lissman (OSU), Jenkins (OSU), McFeely (OSU), Larish (ASU), Biancamano (ASU), Sferra (ASU). 3B-Lissman (OSU). HR-Anderson (OSU), Gosewisch (ASU).
HITS: Oregon State 15 (Barney 1x6, Ellsbury 3x5, Lissman 2x4, Jenkins 1x3, Canham 1x2, McFeely 3x5, Anderson 1x4, Graham 2x3, Kunda 1x3), Arizona State 8 (Curtis 2x5, Larish 1x3, Gosewisch 1x4, Biancamano 1x2, Romine 1x2, Sferra 1x4). RUNS BATTED IN: Oregon State 11 (Barney 1, Ellsbury 2, Lissman 2, Jenkins 1, McFeely 1, Anderson 1, Gipson 1, Kunda 2), Arizona State 6 (Curtis 1, Gosewisch 2, Zinicola 1, Laguna 1, Sferra 1).
Oregon State 12 (3-1) Arizona State 6 (3-3)Player AB R H BI Player AB R H BI --------------------------------------- --------------------------------------- Darwin Barney ss........... 6 1 1 1 Colin Curtis lf............ 5 0 2 1 Jacoby Ellsbury cf......... 5 2 3 2 Joey Hooft 3b.............. 4 0 0 0 Mike Lissman dh............ 4 1 2 2 Willy Fox 3b.............. 1 0 0 0 Andy Jenkins 1b............ 3 1 1 1 Travis Buck rf............. 4 1 0 0 Mitch Canham 1b........... 2 0 1 0 Jeff Larish 1b............. 3 2 1 0 Shea McFeely 3b............ 5 2 3 1 Tuffy Gosewisch c.......... 4 1 1 2 Danny Anderson rf.......... 4 1 1 1 Zechry Zinicola dh......... 3 0 1 1 Tyler Graham lf............ 3 2 2 0 Rocky Laguna ph........... 1 0 0 1 Billy Munich c............. 1 0 0 0 Vinny Biancamano 2b........ 2 1 1 0 Cole Gillespie ph......... 1 0 0 0 Joe Persichina ph/2b...... 1 0 0 0 Casey Priseman c.......... 2 1 0 0 Andrew Romine ss........... 2 0 1 0 Ryan Gipson 2b............. 2 0 0 1 Seth Dhaenens ph/ss....... 1 0 0 0 Chris Kunda ph/2b......... 3 1 1 2 J.J. Sferra cf............. 4 1 1 1 Anton Maxwell p............ 0 0 0 0 Brett Bordes p............. 0 0 0 0 Kevin Gunderson p......... 0 0 0 0 Tony Barnette p........... 0 0 0 0 Pat Bresnehan p........... 0 0 0 0 Totals..................... 41 12 15 11 Totals..................... 35 6 8 6
Score by Innings R H E ------------------------------------------- Oregon State........ 020 180 100 - 12 15 1 Arizona State....... 041 000 010 - 6 8 5 -------------------------------------------
E - McFeely; Curtis; Hooft 2; Biancamano 2. LOB - Oregon St. 7; Arizona St. 6. 2B - Barney; Ellsbury; Lissman; Jenkins; McFeely; Larish; Biancamano; Sferra. 3B - Lissman. HR - Anderson; Gosewisch. HBP - Priseman; Buck; Larish. SH - Anderson; Romine. SB - Ellsbury; Larish; Romine. CS - Ellsbury; Gipson.
Oregon State IP H R ER BB SO ------------------------------------------------ Anton Maxwell ............. 2.2 5 5 5 1 0 Kevin Gunderson W,1-0..... 6.1 3 1 1 0 8
Arizona State IP H R ER BB SO ------------------------------------------------ Brett Bordes L,0-2........ 4.1 6 6 4 2 2 Tony Barnette ............. 0.1 5 5 5 0 1 Pat Bresnehan ............. 4.1 4 1 1 1 7
HBP - by Maxwell (Larish); by Maxwell (Buck); by Barnette (Priseman).
Umpires - HP: Kevin Daugherty 1B: Paul Arreola 3B: Travis Katzenmeier Start: 2:05 pm Time: 3:16 Attendance: 2099
