Beavers Split DH With Utah, Take Series

Friday, April 22

Salt Lake City, UT

5:00 PM

Oregon State

26-10, 8-7

Utah

14-22, 9-6

Oregon State

Utah

Photo by: Dave Nishitani/Oregon State Athletics

April 23, 2016 | Baseball

Box Score

By: Athletic Communications

SALT LAKE CITY – Michael Gretler hit his first career home run and Nick Madrigal tallied his second four-hit game of the season but 14^th-ranked Oregon State dropped a 7-6 decision to Utah Friday night at Smith's Ballpark.

The game was the second of a doubleheader, with the Beavers taking game one, 7-2. Oregon State wins the series after a 10-4 victory on Thursday ibn the series opener.

Gretler deposited the first pitch he saw in the fourth inning for his first home run, a two-run shot. He ended the night with two hits and a run scored.

Madrigal, meanwhile, tallied his second four-hit game of the season, and first since the season opener against Ball State. He singled three times and tripled once in six at bats to give him his 13^th multi-hit game of the season.

Christian Donahue posted his 14^th of the year with a 3-for-5 night, and the Beavers (26-10 overall, 8-7 Pac-12 Conference) tallied 12 hits. Oregon State finished with 36 hits over the three-game series.

The Beavers, however, left 14 on base in Friday's, tying a season high.

The game was a seesaw battle from the start, with Utah taking a 3-0 lead in the first before OSU scored on singles by Trever Morrison and Donahue.

The Utes managed to get the two runs back in the bottom half of the inning, and held a 5-2 lead until the Beavers' four-run fourth inning that was punctuated by Gretler's first career home run, a two-run blast. Madrigal opened the inning's scoring with a triple to right, the team's fourth of the series and 27^th of the year.

Utah, however, was not done offensively when Andre Jackson's double past KJ Harrison at first in the fifth scored two and pushed the Utes to a 7-6 advantage. Jackson's double marked the game winner, with the two runs charged to Bryce Fehmel, who took his first loss of the season and is 6-1.

The win went to Utah's Dylan Drachler, who improved to 2-0 after holding the Beavers scoreless over 5 1/3 innings. He struck out seven and walked five.

Neither starter worked long, and both Oregon State's Jake Thompson and Utah's Josh Lapiana did not figure in the decision.

Thompson was chased after a 1/3 innings. He struck out three but walked three and gave up five runs on three hits.

Lapiana, meanwhile, exited after throwing 96 pitches in 3 2/3 innings. The lefty allowed 10 hits and six runs – four earned – to go along with two walks and a strikeout.

Game One Recap

Luke Heimlich tossed a career-long 8 1/3 innings and Jack Anderson and Andy Atwood each drove in two to pace the Beavers in the doubleheader opener in a 7-2 win over Utah at Smith's Ballpark on Saturday.

Heimlich surpassed his previous long stint of 7 2/3 innings earlier this season against Central Arkansas. The lefty scattered six hits and a run – his lone blemish a home run in the ninth inning – and struck out four to earn his fifth win of the season.

Trevor Larnach's sixth-inning double broke a scoreless stalemate, and Anderson drove in two with a double in the eighth to extend Oregon State's (26-9 overall, 8-6 Pac-12 Conference) lead to 3-0. A four-run ninth, punctuated by a pinch hit single from Atwood that drove in two, gave the Beavers their final offensive tally.

Anderson, Larnach, Logan Ice and Trever Morrison all finished with two hits for the Beavers, who collected 11 overall.

Utah (13-22, 8-6) starter Dalton Carroll took the loss after allowing eight hits and three runs in 7 1/3 innings. He dropped to 3-5 on the year.

Oregon State returns to action Wednesday when visiting Oregon at PK Park in a non-conference game. First pitch is at 7:05 p.m. PT and the game can be seen live on the Pac-12 Network and Pac-12 Oregon.

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