Thursday, May 9
Corvallis, OR
5:00 PM
Oregon State
vs
Utah
Beavers Host Utah in Final Home Series
May 07, 2019 | Softball
THIS WEEK:
• Oregon State hosts Utah for the final Pac-12 series of the regular season.
• Oregon State will be honoring the six seniors on the roster prior to the start of Saturday's game.
• This series will also be OSU's Dam Worth It series to promote mental health awareness.
SCHEDULE OF EVENTS:
Thursday, May 9
Oregon State vs. Utah - 5 p.m.
OSU Softball Complex, Corvallis, Ore.
Promo: Dam Worth It - Orange Branded Sock giveaway to students.
Friday, May 10
Oregon State vs. Utah - 3 p.m.
OSU Softball Complex, Corvallis, Ore.
Promo: Spring Cleaning - extra giveaways for fans from throughout the year. Orange t-shirt giveaway to students. Faculty/Staff Friday with $5 GA tickets.
Saturday, May 11
Oregon State vs. Utah - 10 a.m.
OSU Softball Complex, Corvallis, Ore.
Promo: Senior Day - recognize six seniors in the program. Bark in the Park - dogs allowed at the game with souvenir tickets and treats. Foam chainsaw giveaway to students. Family Day - Family four pack - $20 for four tickets. Postgame - Run the bases and autographs.
FOLLOW THE BEAVS:
• Live stats will be available this weekend through Statbroadcaster.com for all games.
• Link to live stats will be available on the softball schedule page at OSUBeavers.comÂ
SENIOR/FRESHMAN COMBO:Â
• Senior Shelby Weeks and freshman Maia Rader have been the offensive charge for the Beavers this season. Weeks has been a consistent leadoff batter with Rader batting ninth.
• Weeks has started every game and is batting .309 with seven doubles, one triple and three home runs. Weeks has 22 RBIs while scoring 36 runs herself and stealing 16 bases.
• Rader is batting .311 after seeing time in 35 games this season. Rader has hit seven doubles and two triples while recording 12 RBIs. Rader has also stolen six bases and scored 14 times.
FROM THE CIRCLE:
• Mariah Mazon has been the primary force for the Beavers from the circle.
• Mazon has pitched 160.0 of the 270.1 innings this season with 153 strike outs, 18 complete games, four shutouts and only allowing a .236 opponent batting average.
• Mazon is ranked in the top-10 in six Pac-12 categories including: 4. Innings pitched (160.0), 4. Batters struck out looking (36), 6. Wins (15), 7. Batters struck out (153), 10. Opp. bat avg. (.236) and 10. ERA (2.84).
• Meehra Nelson returned to the circle for her senior season pitching 78.2 innings with 87 strike outs and six complete games with three shutouts and one save.
• Nerissa Eason rounds out the trio of pitchers for the Beavers after pitching 30.1 innings and holds a 3-1 record. Eason has made nine appearances and struck out 30 batters while throwing two complete games with one shutout.
BEAVER EXPERIENCE:
• Kayleen Shafer holds the third highest batting avg. on the team with a .307 after seeing time in 30 games behind the plate. Shafer has 23 hits including eight doubles and two home runs while scoring nine runs and 14 RBIs.
• Sophomore Missy Nunes has started all 42 games and is batting .276 with 34 hits including seven doubles and seven home runs. Nunes has batted in 27 runs and scored 23 herself. Nunes leads the team in hit by pitch with nine.
• Jessica Garcia has had a dominate senior season with 15 stolen bases while batting .274. Garcia has one double and two triples this season with 15 RBIs and 18 runs scored.
• Camryn Ybarra has primarily been OSU's designated player batting .244 (.368 in Pac-12 play). Ybarra has eight doubles and two home runs with 10 RBIs and six runs scored.
• Lovie Lopez has also seen time as the DP and as a pinch runner. Lopez is batting .258 with 17 hits including two doubles. Lopez mhas scored 17 runs and stolen seven bases.
• Michelle Sass has seen time in both right field and at second base for the Beavers in 26 games. Sass is batting .200 with 10 hits, five of which have been doubles and two RBIs while scoring six runs.
• Chance Burden and Fallon Molnar round out the returners seeing time in at least 14 games, Burden in left field and Molnar as a pinch hitter.
NEWCOMER PRESENCE:
• Oregon State added seven newcomers during the offseason: Karla Calderon, Payton Goodrich, Frankie Hammoude, Bailey McLaughlin, Izzy Owen, Ashton Phillips and Rader.
• Hammoude is batting .270 and leads the team in homeruns with 10.  Hammoude has 30 hits with 31 RBIs, 17 runs and has been walked 26 times.
• Owen has seen time in 35 games and is batting .188. Owen has 16 hits with seven RBIs and nine runs scored while stealing two bases.Â
• 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 OUTING:
• Oregon State swept Oregon for the first time under the tutelage of Laura Berg. The sweep marked the first OSU series victory since 2012 and the first sweep since 2006.
• Game one: OSU run ruled the Ducks, 8-0, in five innings. This marked the first time OSU has won the first game of the series since 2009 and the first time the Beavers run-ruled Oregon since an 11-2 victory in 2001.
• Game two: The Beavers clinched the first series victory over the Ducks since 2012 with an 8-6 win.
• Game three: Oregon State and Oregon faced a back-and-forth battle before OSU took the game, 12-8.
• Maia Rader led the Beavers batting .750 on the weekend with six hits, three doubles, four RBI and two runs which helped her earn Pac-12 Freshman of the Week honors.
• Shelby Weeks hit two home runs while batting .636. Weeks scored four runs with four RBI and one stolen base.
• Five Beavers hit at least one home run: Weeks (2), Hammoude (1), Ybarra (1), Owen (1) and Nunes (1).
• Mariah Mazon picked up three wins with two complete games and one shutout whiling striking out eight batters. Mazon kept the Ducks at a .250 batting avg. to help her earn Pac-12 Pitcher of the Week.
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 42 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 (84) and No. 3. Stolen bases (53).
• 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 sixth 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 190-174-1 overall record and is 52-107 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 hosts Utah for the final Pac-12 series of the regular season.
• Oregon State will be honoring the six seniors on the roster prior to the start of Saturday's game.
• This series will also be OSU's Dam Worth It series to promote mental health awareness.
SCHEDULE OF EVENTS:
Thursday, May 9
Oregon State vs. Utah - 5 p.m.
OSU Softball Complex, Corvallis, Ore.
Promo: Dam Worth It - Orange Branded Sock giveaway to students.
Friday, May 10
Oregon State vs. Utah - 3 p.m.
OSU Softball Complex, Corvallis, Ore.
Promo: Spring Cleaning - extra giveaways for fans from throughout the year. Orange t-shirt giveaway to students. Faculty/Staff Friday with $5 GA tickets.
Saturday, May 11
Oregon State vs. Utah - 10 a.m.
OSU Softball Complex, Corvallis, Ore.
Promo: Senior Day - recognize six seniors in the program. Bark in the Park - dogs allowed at the game with souvenir tickets and treats. Foam chainsaw giveaway to students. Family Day - Family four pack - $20 for four tickets. Postgame - Run the bases and autographs.
FOLLOW THE BEAVS:
• Live stats will be available this weekend through Statbroadcaster.com for all games.
• Link to live stats will be available on the softball schedule page at OSUBeavers.comÂ
SENIOR/FRESHMAN COMBO:Â
• Senior Shelby Weeks and freshman Maia Rader have been the offensive charge for the Beavers this season. Weeks has been a consistent leadoff batter with Rader batting ninth.
• Weeks has started every game and is batting .309 with seven doubles, one triple and three home runs. Weeks has 22 RBIs while scoring 36 runs herself and stealing 16 bases.
• Rader is batting .311 after seeing time in 35 games this season. Rader has hit seven doubles and two triples while recording 12 RBIs. Rader has also stolen six bases and scored 14 times.
FROM THE CIRCLE:
• Mariah Mazon has been the primary force for the Beavers from the circle.
• Mazon has pitched 160.0 of the 270.1 innings this season with 153 strike outs, 18 complete games, four shutouts and only allowing a .236 opponent batting average.
• Mazon is ranked in the top-10 in six Pac-12 categories including: 4. Innings pitched (160.0), 4. Batters struck out looking (36), 6. Wins (15), 7. Batters struck out (153), 10. Opp. bat avg. (.236) and 10. ERA (2.84).
• Meehra Nelson returned to the circle for her senior season pitching 78.2 innings with 87 strike outs and six complete games with three shutouts and one save.
• Nerissa Eason rounds out the trio of pitchers for the Beavers after pitching 30.1 innings and holds a 3-1 record. Eason has made nine appearances and struck out 30 batters while throwing two complete games with one shutout.
BEAVER EXPERIENCE:
• Kayleen Shafer holds the third highest batting avg. on the team with a .307 after seeing time in 30 games behind the plate. Shafer has 23 hits including eight doubles and two home runs while scoring nine runs and 14 RBIs.
• Sophomore Missy Nunes has started all 42 games and is batting .276 with 34 hits including seven doubles and seven home runs. Nunes has batted in 27 runs and scored 23 herself. Nunes leads the team in hit by pitch with nine.
• Jessica Garcia has had a dominate senior season with 15 stolen bases while batting .274. Garcia has one double and two triples this season with 15 RBIs and 18 runs scored.
• Camryn Ybarra has primarily been OSU's designated player batting .244 (.368 in Pac-12 play). Ybarra has eight doubles and two home runs with 10 RBIs and six runs scored.
• Lovie Lopez has also seen time as the DP and as a pinch runner. Lopez is batting .258 with 17 hits including two doubles. Lopez mhas scored 17 runs and stolen seven bases.
• Michelle Sass has seen time in both right field and at second base for the Beavers in 26 games. Sass is batting .200 with 10 hits, five of which have been doubles and two RBIs while scoring six runs.
• Chance Burden and Fallon Molnar round out the returners seeing time in at least 14 games, Burden in left field and Molnar as a pinch hitter.
NEWCOMER PRESENCE:
• Oregon State added seven newcomers during the offseason: Karla Calderon, Payton Goodrich, Frankie Hammoude, Bailey McLaughlin, Izzy Owen, Ashton Phillips and Rader.
• Hammoude is batting .270 and leads the team in homeruns with 10.  Hammoude has 30 hits with 31 RBIs, 17 runs and has been walked 26 times.
• Owen has seen time in 35 games and is batting .188. Owen has 16 hits with seven RBIs and nine runs scored while stealing two bases.Â
• 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 OUTING:
• Oregon State swept Oregon for the first time under the tutelage of Laura Berg. The sweep marked the first OSU series victory since 2012 and the first sweep since 2006.
• Game one: OSU run ruled the Ducks, 8-0, in five innings. This marked the first time OSU has won the first game of the series since 2009 and the first time the Beavers run-ruled Oregon since an 11-2 victory in 2001.
• Game two: The Beavers clinched the first series victory over the Ducks since 2012 with an 8-6 win.
• Game three: Oregon State and Oregon faced a back-and-forth battle before OSU took the game, 12-8.
• Maia Rader led the Beavers batting .750 on the weekend with six hits, three doubles, four RBI and two runs which helped her earn Pac-12 Freshman of the Week honors.
• Shelby Weeks hit two home runs while batting .636. Weeks scored four runs with four RBI and one stolen base.
• Five Beavers hit at least one home run: Weeks (2), Hammoude (1), Ybarra (1), Owen (1) and Nunes (1).
• Mariah Mazon picked up three wins with two complete games and one shutout whiling striking out eight batters. Mazon kept the Ducks at a .250 batting avg. to help her earn Pac-12 Pitcher of the Week.
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 42 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 (84) and No. 3. Stolen bases (53).
• 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 sixth 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 190-174-1 overall record and is 52-107 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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