Tuesday, May 1
Corvallis, OR
2:00 PM
Oregon State
vs
Seattle
Photo by: Dave Nishitani/Oregon State Athletics
Beavers Welcome Seattle to Town for Midweek Game
April 30, 2018 | Softball
REWIND
• Oregon State returns to Corvallis after a tough weekend at No. 10/11 Arizona
• The Beavers dropped all three games of the series pushing their losing streak to five games
• The Beavers fell in game one by a score of 9-0
• McKenna Arriola was the only member to register a hit on the day
• Arriola also reached on a walk
• Mariah Mazon started in the circle for the Beavers throwing 3.2 innings in the loss with four strikeouts
• Game two was a tighter affair that saw Arizona get the best of Oregon State, 6-2
• Camryn Ybarra and Kayleen Shafer had one RBI each in the second inning
• All but two starters registered a hit in the second game of the series
• Shafer and Hope Brandner had one HBP each
• Meehra Nelson and Mazon each threw 3.0 innings with Nelson getting the start
• Nelson had one strikeout, while Mazon finished with three
• It was another tough outing in the final game of the series as the Beavers fell 9-1
• Brandner had the games only RBI for OSU hitting her team-leading 10th home run of the season
• Alysha Everett and Michelle Sass each picked up two hits in three at bats
• Mazon was pegged as the starter going 3.2 innings in the loss with two strikeouts
• Nelson came in relief tossing 1.2 innings with three hits and one strikeout
UPCOMING
• The Beavers welcome Seattle University to town for a midweek nonconference matchup
• Oregon State battles Seattle (32-21, 13-5) in a nonconference game on Tuesday afternoon
• Oregon State is perfect in the all-time series with Seattle, 8-0
• The Beavers have two wins already this season over Seattle; 5-0 (March 9), 9-0 (March 10)
• Seattle enters Tuesday having lost two of three games at New Mexico State
• Oregon State resumes Pac-12 action this weekend for the home-series finale against Washington (May4-6)
SCHEDULE OF EVENTS
Tuesday, May 1
Oregon State vs. Seattle - 2 p.m.
OSU Softball Complex, Corvallis, Ore.
FOLLOW THE BEAVS
• Oregon State's contests this week will not be broadcast by the Pac-12 Networks; live stats will be available through Statbroadcast.com
• Links to live stats and video will be available on softball schedule page at OSUBeavers.com
BEAVERS IMPRESSIONS
• Upperclassmen lead the way as McKenna Arriola, Alysha Everett and Jessica Garcia have started every game so far in 2018, with Meehra Nelson and Mariah Mazon anchoring the rotation
• Shelby Weeks has started in every game she has appeared in (43)
• Catcher Kayleen Shafer has made 39 starts all at catcher
• Camryn Ybarra has played in 45 games as a true freshman and started 44 of those. She hit her first career homerun at No. 4 UCLA on March. 26 and followed that up in the next game with a solo shot against No. 2/5 Oregon
• Arriola has showcased her speed on the base paths with the fifth-most stolen bases in the Pac-12 (14); she also leads the team with 10 doubles, good enough for 11th overall in the Pac-12
• Weeks is still the only Beaver to reach every base from the batter's box, with 34 hits, three doubles, a triple and two home runs in 2018
• Garcia has started every game in center field but one and holds a team-high in hits with 47
• Missy Nunes has started all 48 games at third base as a freshman, and is one of only two Beavers to start in every game (48) at the same position (Arriola, SS)
• Freshman Hope Brandner leads the Beavers in multiple categories: Batting Average (.299), Home Runs (10), Slugging Percentage (.530), RBI (29) and Fielding Percentage (.987)
• Brandner holds the season-long hitting streak for the Beavers at 11 games; which ended last weekend against Oklahoma
• Brandner also holds the most multiple RBI games this season with 6; 2 RBI (1), 3 RBI (2), 4 RBI (3)
• Nelson owns 360 career strikeouts with 96 on the year so far
• Five true freshman have seen extended action on the field for Oregon State, one of which has started in every game
• Meehra Nelson has pitched her way to the top of the rotation for the Beavers, Nelson leads OSU in ERA (2.63), Wins (13), Shutouts (4), Earned Runs (42), Opposing Batting Average (.232)
• Mazon has begun to blossom into her role in the circle grabbing a win against a top-10 opponent (Arizona State), and nearly a second in her next start
• Mazon has brought her ERA down to 2.68 and leads OSU in Appearances (31), Starts (20), Complete Games (14), Saves (4), Innings Pitched (162.0), Strikeouts (121)
• Mazon set the Oregon State record for innings pitched in a single game on April 8th against Arizona State (15.0 IP), breaking a 33 year old record set back in 1985
• Freshman Nunes has played a pivotal role in her inaugural season; Nunes is batting .265 with the second-most doubles on the team (8), second-most home runs (6) and second-best slugging percentage (.462)
• Nunes won her first Pac-12 Conference weekly honor following a breakout weekend at Stanford on April 13-15. She batted .889 going 8-for-9 at the plate. She had two doubles, two home runs, seven RBI and slugged for 1.778 with no strikeouts
• Ybarra has started 44 games at second base and is hitting .200 with nine walks, 13 RBI, 10 runs scored, two doubles and two home runs
• Kayleen Shafer has started 39 games behind the plate and has already thrown out a conference-leading 11 runners attempting to steal
• Shafer threw out eight base runners as a sophomore in 2017 and gunned down nine as a freshman in 2016
• Michelle Sass has seen time split between right field, second base, and most recently left field; Sass is batting .274 with 16 runs scored, two doubles, two homers and nine RBI
• OSU is ranked No. 21 in the RPI; the Beavers have sat as high as 15th this season
• The Beavers hold a 7-16 record versus ranked opponents this season with wins against Oklahoma State, California, BYU, and Oregon, and Arizona State
• OSU beat rival Oregon for the first time since March of 2012 with a thrilling 4-3 walk-off win on March 30th.
• Recently, Laura Berg was named a head coach for the USA Softball Women's National Team for the summer of 2018. Berg previously spent the summer as the head coach for the US Junior Women's National Team
2018 SCHEDULE NOTES
• The non-conference portion of Oregon State's 2018 schedule features a gauntlet of games over the course of five tournaments and four non-conference games
• OSU opens the year with the Kajikawa Classic where four opponents made an appearance in the 2017 NCAA Regionals: Oklahoma State, BYU, Georgia and Missouri
• The Purple and Gold Challenge in Baton Rouge, La., features 2017 WCWS participant LSU along with 2017 NCAA Regional foe Louisiana Tech
• The Mary Nutter Collegiate Classic has 2017 NCAA Super Regional foes Tennessee and Auburn along with Oklahoma State again
• The San Diego Classic features 2017 NCAA Regional participant Minnesota, while OSU wraps up the non-conference schedule against 2017 defending national champion Oklahoma
• The conference portion features seven opponents that made varying finishes in the 2017 NCAA Tournament
• Cal and Arizona State both made the regionals
• Arizona and Utah both ended 2017 in the super regionals
• Oregon, UCLA and Washington all made the WCWS
• In total, Oregon State will face 17 opponents from the 2017 NCAA Tournament
• 22 opponents had a top-100 RPI in 2017, 16 opponents had a top-50 RPI, 13 had a top-25 RPI, and six had a top-10 RPI
• 17 opponents were ranked at some point in either the ESPN.com/USA Softball poll or the USA Today/NFCA Coaches poll in 2017
• Currently, 14 of Oregon State's opponents are ranked inside the top-25 of the NCAA RPI
• Eight of those 14 teams are inside the top-10, with Oregon State having played six of the top six already and a series still to come with (No. 5) Washington
• Oregon State currently ranks No. 2 in Strength of Schedule in the NCAA
• The Beavers have:
- 1 Win vs. Top 5
- 2 Wins vs. Top 10
- 7 Wins vs. Top 25
- 23 Games vs. Top 25 Opponents
FOLLOW BERG
• Head coach Laura Berg is in her sixth season.
• Has guided OSU to three NCAA Tournament appearances.
• Holds a 161-148-1 overall record and 44-91 in Pac-12 games
SOCIAL MEDIA
• Follow the Oregon State softball team on Twitter and Instagram at @BeaverSoftball and Facebook at /BeaverSoftball.
OUR MISSION
Oregon State Athletics strives to Build Excellent Authentic Visionary Student-Athletes (Go BEAVS).
• Oregon State returns to Corvallis after a tough weekend at No. 10/11 Arizona
• The Beavers dropped all three games of the series pushing their losing streak to five games
• The Beavers fell in game one by a score of 9-0
• McKenna Arriola was the only member to register a hit on the day
• Arriola also reached on a walk
• Mariah Mazon started in the circle for the Beavers throwing 3.2 innings in the loss with four strikeouts
• Game two was a tighter affair that saw Arizona get the best of Oregon State, 6-2
• Camryn Ybarra and Kayleen Shafer had one RBI each in the second inning
• All but two starters registered a hit in the second game of the series
• Shafer and Hope Brandner had one HBP each
• Meehra Nelson and Mazon each threw 3.0 innings with Nelson getting the start
• Nelson had one strikeout, while Mazon finished with three
• It was another tough outing in the final game of the series as the Beavers fell 9-1
• Brandner had the games only RBI for OSU hitting her team-leading 10th home run of the season
• Alysha Everett and Michelle Sass each picked up two hits in three at bats
• Mazon was pegged as the starter going 3.2 innings in the loss with two strikeouts
• Nelson came in relief tossing 1.2 innings with three hits and one strikeout
UPCOMING
• The Beavers welcome Seattle University to town for a midweek nonconference matchup
• Oregon State battles Seattle (32-21, 13-5) in a nonconference game on Tuesday afternoon
• Oregon State is perfect in the all-time series with Seattle, 8-0
• The Beavers have two wins already this season over Seattle; 5-0 (March 9), 9-0 (March 10)
• Seattle enters Tuesday having lost two of three games at New Mexico State
• Oregon State resumes Pac-12 action this weekend for the home-series finale against Washington (May4-6)
SCHEDULE OF EVENTS
Tuesday, May 1
Oregon State vs. Seattle - 2 p.m.
OSU Softball Complex, Corvallis, Ore.
FOLLOW THE BEAVS
• Oregon State's contests this week will not be broadcast by the Pac-12 Networks; live stats will be available through Statbroadcast.com
• Links to live stats and video will be available on softball schedule page at OSUBeavers.com
BEAVERS IMPRESSIONS
• Upperclassmen lead the way as McKenna Arriola, Alysha Everett and Jessica Garcia have started every game so far in 2018, with Meehra Nelson and Mariah Mazon anchoring the rotation
• Shelby Weeks has started in every game she has appeared in (43)
• Catcher Kayleen Shafer has made 39 starts all at catcher
• Camryn Ybarra has played in 45 games as a true freshman and started 44 of those. She hit her first career homerun at No. 4 UCLA on March. 26 and followed that up in the next game with a solo shot against No. 2/5 Oregon
• Arriola has showcased her speed on the base paths with the fifth-most stolen bases in the Pac-12 (14); she also leads the team with 10 doubles, good enough for 11th overall in the Pac-12
• Weeks is still the only Beaver to reach every base from the batter's box, with 34 hits, three doubles, a triple and two home runs in 2018
• Garcia has started every game in center field but one and holds a team-high in hits with 47
• Missy Nunes has started all 48 games at third base as a freshman, and is one of only two Beavers to start in every game (48) at the same position (Arriola, SS)
• Freshman Hope Brandner leads the Beavers in multiple categories: Batting Average (.299), Home Runs (10), Slugging Percentage (.530), RBI (29) and Fielding Percentage (.987)
• Brandner holds the season-long hitting streak for the Beavers at 11 games; which ended last weekend against Oklahoma
• Brandner also holds the most multiple RBI games this season with 6; 2 RBI (1), 3 RBI (2), 4 RBI (3)
• Nelson owns 360 career strikeouts with 96 on the year so far
• Five true freshman have seen extended action on the field for Oregon State, one of which has started in every game
• Meehra Nelson has pitched her way to the top of the rotation for the Beavers, Nelson leads OSU in ERA (2.63), Wins (13), Shutouts (4), Earned Runs (42), Opposing Batting Average (.232)
• Mazon has begun to blossom into her role in the circle grabbing a win against a top-10 opponent (Arizona State), and nearly a second in her next start
• Mazon has brought her ERA down to 2.68 and leads OSU in Appearances (31), Starts (20), Complete Games (14), Saves (4), Innings Pitched (162.0), Strikeouts (121)
• Mazon set the Oregon State record for innings pitched in a single game on April 8th against Arizona State (15.0 IP), breaking a 33 year old record set back in 1985
• Freshman Nunes has played a pivotal role in her inaugural season; Nunes is batting .265 with the second-most doubles on the team (8), second-most home runs (6) and second-best slugging percentage (.462)
• Nunes won her first Pac-12 Conference weekly honor following a breakout weekend at Stanford on April 13-15. She batted .889 going 8-for-9 at the plate. She had two doubles, two home runs, seven RBI and slugged for 1.778 with no strikeouts
• Ybarra has started 44 games at second base and is hitting .200 with nine walks, 13 RBI, 10 runs scored, two doubles and two home runs
• Kayleen Shafer has started 39 games behind the plate and has already thrown out a conference-leading 11 runners attempting to steal
• Shafer threw out eight base runners as a sophomore in 2017 and gunned down nine as a freshman in 2016
• Michelle Sass has seen time split between right field, second base, and most recently left field; Sass is batting .274 with 16 runs scored, two doubles, two homers and nine RBI
• OSU is ranked No. 21 in the RPI; the Beavers have sat as high as 15th this season
• The Beavers hold a 7-16 record versus ranked opponents this season with wins against Oklahoma State, California, BYU, and Oregon, and Arizona State
• OSU beat rival Oregon for the first time since March of 2012 with a thrilling 4-3 walk-off win on March 30th.
• Recently, Laura Berg was named a head coach for the USA Softball Women's National Team for the summer of 2018. Berg previously spent the summer as the head coach for the US Junior Women's National Team
2018 SCHEDULE NOTES
• The non-conference portion of Oregon State's 2018 schedule features a gauntlet of games over the course of five tournaments and four non-conference games
• OSU opens the year with the Kajikawa Classic where four opponents made an appearance in the 2017 NCAA Regionals: Oklahoma State, BYU, Georgia and Missouri
• The Purple and Gold Challenge in Baton Rouge, La., features 2017 WCWS participant LSU along with 2017 NCAA Regional foe Louisiana Tech
• The Mary Nutter Collegiate Classic has 2017 NCAA Super Regional foes Tennessee and Auburn along with Oklahoma State again
• The San Diego Classic features 2017 NCAA Regional participant Minnesota, while OSU wraps up the non-conference schedule against 2017 defending national champion Oklahoma
• The conference portion features seven opponents that made varying finishes in the 2017 NCAA Tournament
• Cal and Arizona State both made the regionals
• Arizona and Utah both ended 2017 in the super regionals
• Oregon, UCLA and Washington all made the WCWS
• In total, Oregon State will face 17 opponents from the 2017 NCAA Tournament
• 22 opponents had a top-100 RPI in 2017, 16 opponents had a top-50 RPI, 13 had a top-25 RPI, and six had a top-10 RPI
• 17 opponents were ranked at some point in either the ESPN.com/USA Softball poll or the USA Today/NFCA Coaches poll in 2017
• Currently, 14 of Oregon State's opponents are ranked inside the top-25 of the NCAA RPI
• Eight of those 14 teams are inside the top-10, with Oregon State having played six of the top six already and a series still to come with (No. 5) Washington
• Oregon State currently ranks No. 2 in Strength of Schedule in the NCAA
• The Beavers have:
- 1 Win vs. Top 5
- 2 Wins vs. Top 10
- 7 Wins vs. Top 25
- 23 Games vs. Top 25 Opponents
FOLLOW BERG
• Head coach Laura Berg is in her sixth season.
• Has guided OSU to three NCAA Tournament appearances.
• Holds a 161-148-1 overall record and 44-91 in Pac-12 games
SOCIAL MEDIA
• Follow the Oregon State softball team on Twitter and Instagram at @BeaverSoftball and Facebook at /BeaverSoftball.
OUR MISSION
Oregon State Athletics strives to Build Excellent Authentic Visionary Student-Athletes (Go BEAVS).
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