Friday, April 26
Eugene, OR
2:30 PM
Oregon State
at
Oregon
Beavers Travel to Eugene for Civil War Series
April 24, 2019 | Softball
THIS WEEK:
• Oregon State travels to Eugene for a three-game series against In-state rival Oregon for the Civil War Series.
• The Beavers are looking to capture the first series victory since 2012.
SCHEDULE OF EVENTS:
Friday, April 26
Oregon State at Oregon - 2:30 p.m.
Jane Sanders Stadium, Eugene, Ore.
Saturday, April 27
Oregon State at Oregon - 6 p.m.
Jane Sanders Stadium, Eugene, Ore.
Sunday, April 28
Oregon State at Oregon - 5 p.m.
Jane Sanders Stadium, Eugene, Ore.
FOLLOW THE BEAVS:
• Live stats will be available this weekend through Statbroadcaster.com for all games.
• All three games will be broadcast on Pac-12 Oregon with Ann Schatz and Teri Goldberg on the call.
• Links to live stats and to watch will be available on the softball schedule page at OSUBeavers.comÂ
BEAVER EXPERIENCE:Â
• Jessica Garcia is batting .292 with 33 hits, one double and two triples. Garcia has scored 16 runs and stolen 14 bases. Garcia is the only player still holding a 1.000 fielding percentage.
• Sophomore Missy Nunes is batting .274 with a .496 slugging pct. Nunes has 31 hits including seven doubles and six homeruns. Nunes has recorded 24 RBIs and 18 runs while stealing two bases.
• Kayleen Shafer has started in 26 games behind the plate this season batting .303 with six doubles, two homeruns, 11 RBIs and nine runs.
• Mariah Mazon has started 22 games in the circle recording a 12-12 record with 16 complete games. Mazon has a 2.91 ERA while striking out 145 batters this season.
• Lovie Lopez returns for a fifth year and is batting .258 with 17 hits including two doubles. Lopez has three RBIs and 14 runs scored with seven stolen bases.
• Michelle Sass has seen time in 23 games making 16 starts. Sass is batting .220 with nine hits including five doubles with one RBI and five runs.
• Camryn Ybarra is batting .228 after seeing time in 29 games. Ybarra has 18 hits with eight doubles and one home run. Ybarra has eight RBIs and four runs scored.
• Meehra Nelson has appeared in 21 games in the circle with a 4.72 ERA and only walking 22 batters through 78.2 innings.
• The upperclassmen are rounded out by Chance Burden, Fallon Molnar and Nerissa Eason who have each seen time in at least eight games.
SHELBY WEEKS:
• Senior Shelby Weeks is on the cusp of greatness during her senior season.
• She currently has 15 stolen bases this season and 58 on her career - holding the OSU Career Program Record.
• Weeks set the OSU Season record last season with 22 stolen bases.
• Weeks is currently batting .281 with 36 hits, six doubles, one triple and one homerun with 18 RBIs and 32 runs.
• Last weekend against No. 2 UCLA, Weeks batted .500 going 4-for-8 with two stolen bases and three runs.
• At Cal, Weeks batted .455 going 5-for-11 with three doubles, five RBIs and two runs.
• Weeks holds spots in OSU record book in: Season stolen bases in 2018 (No. 1 - 22),  Season stolen bases in 2019 (No. 8, 15), Career stolen bases (No. 1 - 58), Career singles (No. 4 - 168) and Career runs scored (No. 6 - 134) while sitting just outside of the record book for: Career hits (has 196, 10. is 205), Bases on balls (has 67, 10. is 77) and if keeps current batting avg. for the year will be in the top 10 for career batting avg.
NEWCOMER PRESENCE:
• Oregon State added seven newcomers during the offseason: Karla Calderon, Payton Goodrich, Frankie Hammoude, Bailey McLaughlin, Izzy Owen, Ashton Phillips and Maia Rader.
• Hammoude is batting .257 and leads the team in homeruns with nine.  Hammoude has 27 hits with 29 RBIs and 13 runs.
• Owen has seen time in 32 games and is batting .171. Owen has 13 hits with three RBIs and six runs scored while stealing two bases.
• Rader is batting .268 after swwing time in 32 games. Rader has 22 hits, 12 runs and eight RBIs.
• Phillips has started 19 games in right field while batting .191. Phillips has nine hits, eight runs, one double and one RBI. Phillips has also stolen four bases.
LAST WEEKEND:
• Oregon State dropped all three games to No. 2 UCLA.
• The Beavers scored 3 runs off 12 hits. Two of those were doubles and one was a triple.
• Oregon State batted .176 as a team with three RBIs.
• OSU stole four bases over the course of the three games while only allowing UCLA to steal two.
• Mazon held UCLA scoreless in game one of the series until the fifth inning while recording at least one strike out in each of those innings including the final out being a strike out.
ALWAYS AWAY:
• Oregon State was on the road for the first six weeks of the season starting with five tournaments and finishing with a three-game series at ASU.
• Of the 39 games played to date, the Beavers have been listed as the home team on only nine occasions – this includes two Pac-12 three-game series and one game against Stanford.
• OSU was scheduled to have 12 home games this season, spread over four Pac-12 series. This is the fewest home games the Beavers have had since 2016.
• With two-of-three games cancelled against Stanford due to rain, OSU will play 10 games on the OSU Softball Complex if no other games get cancelled.
RANKINGS:
• Pac-12 Rankings: No. 3. Batters SO looking (81), No. 3. Stolen bases (49) and No. 4 Batters SO (259).
• The Beavers broke into the Top 25 in week three – USA Today/NFCA at No. 25 and ESPN.com/USA Softball tied at No. 23. OSU is not currently ranked.
• OSU was picked to tie for fifth in the Pac-12 Preseason Poll. Currently, the Beavers are ranked eighth in the Pac-12.
COACHING PROFILES:Â
• Head coach Laura Berg hung up her cleats after nearly 20-years of playing softball and spent a year with the LAPD in 2010-11 before returning to the game as an assistant coach for the 2012 season at Oregon State.
• Berg enters her seventh season at the helm of the Oregon State program in 2019, recording four NCAA Tournament appearances.Â
• Berg holds a 187-174-1 overall record and is 48-107 in Pac-12 play.
• Associate head coach Marcie Green also has experience with law enforcement. Green studied criminology at Fresno State and spent five years as a prison guard at Corcoran State Prison in California following graduation before starting to coach.
• Assistant coach Eric Leyba joins the staff after stints with the Northwest Bullets and being the head coach at Churchill High School for the past 15 years.
• Volunteer Assistant Coach Hannah Akamine is also new to the coaching staff, but not the Orange and Black. Akamine played for Berg and Green in 2015 as the starting catcher for the Beavers.
• Heather Smith also returns for her 18th season as Director of Operations.
NATIONAL SOFTBALL:
• Laura Berg has been announced as one of the Assistant Coaches for the Women's National Team by USA Softball. Berg will join Howard Dobson, Tairia Flowers and WNT Head Coach Ken Eriksen for the 2019 season.
• Freshman Frankie Hammoude has been named to the 2019 USA Softball Junior Women's National Training Team for the summer of 2019.
• Sophomore Mariah Mazon made the Mexico National Team and will join them following the 2019 season.
• Recent OSU Softball signee, Grace Messmer, has made the Canadian Junior WNT.
NCAA TOURNAMENT:
• The 2018 season marked the fourth time the Beavers reached the NCAA Tournament under the direction of head coach Laura Berg, as well as the 14th time in program history.
• The Beavers are 32-29 all-time in their 14 tournament appearances following two wins and two losses at the Tuscaloosa Regional in 2018.
• The last time OSU won a regional was in 2006 when it played Nevada and No. 19 Baylor twice. OSU went on to play in the Women's College World Series that year.
• Berg and former head coach Kirk Walker (1995-2012) are the only head coaches in program history to reach the NCAA Tournament.
KNOW WHAT IT TAKES:
• Oregon State's coaching staff is no stranger when it comes to the NCAA Tournament and WCWS.
• Both Berg and Green played at Fresno State in the '90s and gained plenty of experience in the path to the WCWS.
• Coach Berg played from 1994-95 and 1997-98 making it to the WCWS three times and won the national championship in '98.
• Coach Green played from 1990-93 and appeared in three WCWS, including a runner-up finish in 1990.
• Volunteer assistant coach Hannah Akamine made the WCWS as the catcher for Tennessee in its 2013 runner-up finish.
TICKETS ON SALE NOW:
• Tickets for Oregon State's three remaining home games are on sale now at BeaverTickets.com/softball.
• Single game tickets can be purchased at $7 for adults and $5 for youth.
2019 SCHEDULE:
• The non-conference portion of Oregon State's 2019 schedule featured a gauntlet of games over the course of five-tournaments and two non-conference games.
• OSU opened the season with the Kajikawa Classic for the ninth time in 10 years.
• The Stacy Winsberg Tournament in Long Beach and Los Angeles, Calif. featured two 2018 NCAA Regional teams, Long Beach State and Ole Miss.
• The Beavers went to Norman, Okla. to face 2018 WCWS participant, Oklahoma, and NCAA Regional qualifier Louisiana.
• Oregon State also made appearances at the UOP-Libby Matson Tournament and LMU Tournament before finishing out the non-conference schedule with a double-header at Portland State.
• The conference portion features six opponents that made varying finishes in the 2018 NCAA Tournament:
  - Cal - Regionals.
  - Arizona - Super Regionals.
  - Arizona State, UCLA and Oregon - WCWS.
  - Washington - 2018 WCWS Runner-Up.
• In total, Oregon State will face 11 opponents from the 2018 NCAA Tournament.
• 14 opponents finished with a top-100 RPI in 2018, 10 opponents had a top-50 RPI, eight had a top-25 RPI and five had a top-10 RPI.
FOLLOW US ON SOCIAL
For more information on the Oregon State softball team, visit OSUBeavers.com or follow the team @BeaverSoftball on Twitter and Instagram.
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OUR MISSION
Oregon State Athletics strives to Build Excellent Authentic Visionary Student-Athletes (Go BEAVS).
• Oregon State travels to Eugene for a three-game series against In-state rival Oregon for the Civil War Series.
• The Beavers are looking to capture the first series victory since 2012.
SCHEDULE OF EVENTS:
Friday, April 26
Oregon State at Oregon - 2:30 p.m.
Jane Sanders Stadium, Eugene, Ore.
Saturday, April 27
Oregon State at Oregon - 6 p.m.
Jane Sanders Stadium, Eugene, Ore.
Sunday, April 28
Oregon State at Oregon - 5 p.m.
Jane Sanders Stadium, Eugene, Ore.
FOLLOW THE BEAVS:
• Live stats will be available this weekend through Statbroadcaster.com for all games.
• All three games will be broadcast on Pac-12 Oregon with Ann Schatz and Teri Goldberg on the call.
• Links to live stats and to watch will be available on the softball schedule page at OSUBeavers.comÂ
BEAVER EXPERIENCE:Â
• Jessica Garcia is batting .292 with 33 hits, one double and two triples. Garcia has scored 16 runs and stolen 14 bases. Garcia is the only player still holding a 1.000 fielding percentage.
• Sophomore Missy Nunes is batting .274 with a .496 slugging pct. Nunes has 31 hits including seven doubles and six homeruns. Nunes has recorded 24 RBIs and 18 runs while stealing two bases.
• Kayleen Shafer has started in 26 games behind the plate this season batting .303 with six doubles, two homeruns, 11 RBIs and nine runs.
• Mariah Mazon has started 22 games in the circle recording a 12-12 record with 16 complete games. Mazon has a 2.91 ERA while striking out 145 batters this season.
• Lovie Lopez returns for a fifth year and is batting .258 with 17 hits including two doubles. Lopez has three RBIs and 14 runs scored with seven stolen bases.
• Michelle Sass has seen time in 23 games making 16 starts. Sass is batting .220 with nine hits including five doubles with one RBI and five runs.
• Camryn Ybarra is batting .228 after seeing time in 29 games. Ybarra has 18 hits with eight doubles and one home run. Ybarra has eight RBIs and four runs scored.
• Meehra Nelson has appeared in 21 games in the circle with a 4.72 ERA and only walking 22 batters through 78.2 innings.
• The upperclassmen are rounded out by Chance Burden, Fallon Molnar and Nerissa Eason who have each seen time in at least eight games.
SHELBY WEEKS:
• Senior Shelby Weeks is on the cusp of greatness during her senior season.
• She currently has 15 stolen bases this season and 58 on her career - holding the OSU Career Program Record.
• Weeks set the OSU Season record last season with 22 stolen bases.
• Weeks is currently batting .281 with 36 hits, six doubles, one triple and one homerun with 18 RBIs and 32 runs.
• Last weekend against No. 2 UCLA, Weeks batted .500 going 4-for-8 with two stolen bases and three runs.
• At Cal, Weeks batted .455 going 5-for-11 with three doubles, five RBIs and two runs.
• Weeks holds spots in OSU record book in: Season stolen bases in 2018 (No. 1 - 22),  Season stolen bases in 2019 (No. 8, 15), Career stolen bases (No. 1 - 58), Career singles (No. 4 - 168) and Career runs scored (No. 6 - 134) while sitting just outside of the record book for: Career hits (has 196, 10. is 205), Bases on balls (has 67, 10. is 77) and if keeps current batting avg. for the year will be in the top 10 for career batting avg.
NEWCOMER PRESENCE:
• Oregon State added seven newcomers during the offseason: Karla Calderon, Payton Goodrich, Frankie Hammoude, Bailey McLaughlin, Izzy Owen, Ashton Phillips and Maia Rader.
• Hammoude is batting .257 and leads the team in homeruns with nine.  Hammoude has 27 hits with 29 RBIs and 13 runs.
• Owen has seen time in 32 games and is batting .171. Owen has 13 hits with three RBIs and six runs scored while stealing two bases.
• Rader is batting .268 after swwing time in 32 games. Rader has 22 hits, 12 runs and eight RBIs.
• Phillips has started 19 games in right field while batting .191. Phillips has nine hits, eight runs, one double and one RBI. Phillips has also stolen four bases.
LAST WEEKEND:
• Oregon State dropped all three games to No. 2 UCLA.
• The Beavers scored 3 runs off 12 hits. Two of those were doubles and one was a triple.
• Oregon State batted .176 as a team with three RBIs.
• OSU stole four bases over the course of the three games while only allowing UCLA to steal two.
• Mazon held UCLA scoreless in game one of the series until the fifth inning while recording at least one strike out in each of those innings including the final out being a strike out.
ALWAYS AWAY:
• Oregon State was on the road for the first six weeks of the season starting with five tournaments and finishing with a three-game series at ASU.
• Of the 39 games played to date, the Beavers have been listed as the home team on only nine occasions – this includes two Pac-12 three-game series and one game against Stanford.
• OSU was scheduled to have 12 home games this season, spread over four Pac-12 series. This is the fewest home games the Beavers have had since 2016.
• With two-of-three games cancelled against Stanford due to rain, OSU will play 10 games on the OSU Softball Complex if no other games get cancelled.
RANKINGS:
• Pac-12 Rankings: No. 3. Batters SO looking (81), No. 3. Stolen bases (49) and No. 4 Batters SO (259).
• The Beavers broke into the Top 25 in week three – USA Today/NFCA at No. 25 and ESPN.com/USA Softball tied at No. 23. OSU is not currently ranked.
• OSU was picked to tie for fifth in the Pac-12 Preseason Poll. Currently, the Beavers are ranked eighth in the Pac-12.
COACHING PROFILES:Â
• Head coach Laura Berg hung up her cleats after nearly 20-years of playing softball and spent a year with the LAPD in 2010-11 before returning to the game as an assistant coach for the 2012 season at Oregon State.
• Berg enters her seventh season at the helm of the Oregon State program in 2019, recording four NCAA Tournament appearances.Â
• Berg holds a 187-174-1 overall record and is 48-107 in Pac-12 play.
• Associate head coach Marcie Green also has experience with law enforcement. Green studied criminology at Fresno State and spent five years as a prison guard at Corcoran State Prison in California following graduation before starting to coach.
• Assistant coach Eric Leyba joins the staff after stints with the Northwest Bullets and being the head coach at Churchill High School for the past 15 years.
• Volunteer Assistant Coach Hannah Akamine is also new to the coaching staff, but not the Orange and Black. Akamine played for Berg and Green in 2015 as the starting catcher for the Beavers.
• Heather Smith also returns for her 18th season as Director of Operations.
NATIONAL SOFTBALL:
• Laura Berg has been announced as one of the Assistant Coaches for the Women's National Team by USA Softball. Berg will join Howard Dobson, Tairia Flowers and WNT Head Coach Ken Eriksen for the 2019 season.
• Freshman Frankie Hammoude has been named to the 2019 USA Softball Junior Women's National Training Team for the summer of 2019.
• Sophomore Mariah Mazon made the Mexico National Team and will join them following the 2019 season.
• Recent OSU Softball signee, Grace Messmer, has made the Canadian Junior WNT.
NCAA TOURNAMENT:
• The 2018 season marked the fourth time the Beavers reached the NCAA Tournament under the direction of head coach Laura Berg, as well as the 14th time in program history.
• The Beavers are 32-29 all-time in their 14 tournament appearances following two wins and two losses at the Tuscaloosa Regional in 2018.
• The last time OSU won a regional was in 2006 when it played Nevada and No. 19 Baylor twice. OSU went on to play in the Women's College World Series that year.
• Berg and former head coach Kirk Walker (1995-2012) are the only head coaches in program history to reach the NCAA Tournament.
KNOW WHAT IT TAKES:
• Oregon State's coaching staff is no stranger when it comes to the NCAA Tournament and WCWS.
• Both Berg and Green played at Fresno State in the '90s and gained plenty of experience in the path to the WCWS.
• Coach Berg played from 1994-95 and 1997-98 making it to the WCWS three times and won the national championship in '98.
• Coach Green played from 1990-93 and appeared in three WCWS, including a runner-up finish in 1990.
• Volunteer assistant coach Hannah Akamine made the WCWS as the catcher for Tennessee in its 2013 runner-up finish.
TICKETS ON SALE NOW:
• Tickets for Oregon State's three remaining home games are on sale now at BeaverTickets.com/softball.
• Single game tickets can be purchased at $7 for adults and $5 for youth.
2019 SCHEDULE:
• The non-conference portion of Oregon State's 2019 schedule featured a gauntlet of games over the course of five-tournaments and two non-conference games.
• OSU opened the season with the Kajikawa Classic for the ninth time in 10 years.
• The Stacy Winsberg Tournament in Long Beach and Los Angeles, Calif. featured two 2018 NCAA Regional teams, Long Beach State and Ole Miss.
• The Beavers went to Norman, Okla. to face 2018 WCWS participant, Oklahoma, and NCAA Regional qualifier Louisiana.
• Oregon State also made appearances at the UOP-Libby Matson Tournament and LMU Tournament before finishing out the non-conference schedule with a double-header at Portland State.
• The conference portion features six opponents that made varying finishes in the 2018 NCAA Tournament:
  - Cal - Regionals.
  - Arizona - Super Regionals.
  - Arizona State, UCLA and Oregon - WCWS.
  - Washington - 2018 WCWS Runner-Up.
• In total, Oregon State will face 11 opponents from the 2018 NCAA Tournament.
• 14 opponents finished with a top-100 RPI in 2018, 10 opponents had a top-50 RPI, eight had a top-25 RPI and five had a top-10 RPI.
FOLLOW US ON SOCIAL
For more information on the Oregon State softball team, visit OSUBeavers.com or follow the team @BeaverSoftball on Twitter and Instagram.
Â
OUR MISSION
Oregon State Athletics strives to Build Excellent Authentic Visionary Student-Athletes (Go BEAVS).
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