2011 Corvallis Regional -- Game 4
June 04, 2011 | Baseball
June 4, 2011
Oregon State 5, Creighton 1
June 4, 2011
Goss Stadium
Corvallis, Ore.
Oregon State Post-Game Notes
• The Beavers won their 40th game with the victory over Creighton. Oregon State has now hit the 40-win plateau for the fourth time in school history, joining the 2005 (46), 2006 (50) and 2007 (49) teams. Those three teams advanced to the College World Series.
• Oregon State improved to 37-22 (.627) all-time in the postseason, including a 17-3 (.850) mark in NCAA games played at home. The Beavers have won 10th consecutive postseason games at Goss Stadium. OSU is 11-2 (.846) in NCAA Regional home games.
• Oregon State's victory was their 22nd at home this season as they improved to 22-7 at Goss Stadium. The 22 wins is third-most in a season at home, trailing the 2005 (26) and 2007 (27) teams.
• Ryan Barnes extended his hit streak to four games by singling to lead off the game. His season-high is six games achieved April 22 to May 1.
• Oregon State has outscored its opponents 44-32 in the first inning of games this season. OSU is 23-6 this season when scoring first, including a 12-2 mark at Goss Stadium.
• The Beavers are 20-3 when holding opponents to two runs or less this season and 3-9 when they score five runs or less.
• Oregon State is 12-2 in games decided by two runs and 16-8 in games decided by two runs or less.
• Ryan Dunn made his 33rd consecutive start at shortstop, the longest starting streak by any Beaver at any position this season. He has batted in every spot of the order except third and fourth during that stretch. He has also reached base safely in all but six of the 33 games.
• Sam Gaviglio's victory was his 12th of the season, tying Mike Stutes (2007) and Dallas Buck (2005) for the fourth-most in a season at Oregon State.
• Gaviglio also finished with 11 strikeouts, which gives him 113, placing eighth in single-season history. He also has 213 strikeouts for his career, good for 10. The 11-strikeout game was the sixth of his career in double figures.
• Gaviglio's win was also the 25th of his career, placing him in a tie for eighth in team history with Scott Anderson (1981-84). Gaviglio's win percentage is .781, which is third, behind only Daniel Turpen (2005-07, .933, 14-1) and Leon Criner (1959-61, .917, 11-1).
• The crowd of 3,103 was the largest at Goss Stadium this season and the seventh-largest since the stadium was renovated during the 1999 season.
• Carter Bell tallied his 12th multiple-hit game of the season while Brian Stamps chalked up his ninth. Garrett Nash tallied his seventh.
• Garrett Nash homered for the second consecutive game, becoming the first Beaver to do so since Parker Berberet vs. Texas A&M-Corpus Christi (Feb. 26) and Indiana (Feb. 27) this season.
Creighton Post-Game Notes
• This was just the third meeting between Creighton and Oregon State, with the first two taking place in 1996 in Fresno, Calif.
• This was the first run allowed by Ty Blach in the first inning since May 6, 2011, and the first allowed by Creighton in the first inning of any game since May 8, 2011 vs. Wichita State.
• The Beavers put the lead-off runner on in the first two innings, both of which scored runs. In the opener against Georgia, the Jays only allowed the lead-off batter to get on once, in the fourth inning, but stranded the runner on a strike out and ground out to the left side.
• Creighton had committed just four errors in their last 10 games, going 9-1 over that stretch. In the game on Saturday night, Creighton's first inning error led to the first run of the game.
• Mike Gerber's home run was Creighton's first round-tripper since Michael Mutcheson homered vs. Bradley on May 25th in Creighton's first MVC Tournament game.
• Scott Thornburg's two passed balls tied a Creighton postseason record for one game, and matched his season total entering the contest.
• Georgia eliminated Arkansas-Little Rock (24-34), 7-3, in the first game on Saturday in Corvallis.
• Ty Blach recorded at least seven strikeouts for the seventh time in 18 starts.
• The homer by Garrett Nash was the first allowed by Creighton pitching since May 6th, when Tyler Grimes from Wichita State homered. Creighton had thrown 165.2 innings, spanning 598 at-bats and 692 plate appearances in between homers surrendered.
• Creighton will look to duplicate its MVC Tournament title run, where it won its first game, lost its second game, and won four more games through the loser's bracket to take the title.
• Ed Servais was denied in his first try for his 300th victory as head coach at Creighton.
• The run allowed by Kurt Spomer in the ninth was the first against the Bluejay closer since May 7th.
