OSU finishes baseball win, gets loss
February 14, 1999
NORTHRIDGE, Calif. - Oregon State scored four runs in the top of the 10th inning to complete an 8-4 win over Cal State-Northridge in non-league baseball Sunday afternoon, finishing a game that had been suspended after eight innings Saturday due to darkness. The Beavers then lost an early lead in the series finale and fell 8-4 to the Matadors.
OSU (5-3 overall) now gets ready for the San Diego Classic next weekend. The Beavers will face Oklahoma State on Thursday, Texas Tech on Friday, San Diego on Saturday and St. Francis on Sunday.
Against CSU-Northridge (8-8), the Beavers secured the win in the suspended game with the help of two errors in the 10th inning by the Matadors.
Oregon State took a 5-4 lead when CSUN rightfielder Dan Phillips misplayed a ball hit by Jeff Sakamoto and Curtis Davis scored. After Corrie Willkie added a run-scoring single to make it 6-4, Joe Gerber reached on an error by first baseman Tom Arroyo and the final two Beaver runs scored.
Mike Boire, who had been on the mound for OSU when the game was suspended Saturday, picked up his second relief win of the season, combining with starter Pat Versluis on a five-hitter. Boire went 3 2/3 innings over the two days, allowing one run on two hits.
Gerber was 3-for-6 for the Beavers in the suspended game while Rod Gott was 2-for-4, including a two-run homer, and drove in three Beaver runs.
OSU kept rolling early in Sunday's regularly-scheduled game, scoring three times in the top of the first inning. Curtis Davis drove in one run on a fielder's choice and Josh Carter added a two-run single for Oregon State.
But CSUN came back immediately, scoring five runs in the bottom of the first as Craig Hays didn't make it out of the inning. The OSU freshman gave up five runs on four hits.
The Beavers did get within 5-4 with an unearned run in the top of the fifth. But the Matadors came back with a run of their own on three hits in the bottom of the fifth to make it 6-4, then added two insurance runs on Eric Horvat's homer in the bottom of the eighth.
Josh Carter was 3-for-4 with a double and two RBIs for OSU in that game.
OREGON STATE 8, CAL STATE-NORTHRIDGE 4
(Completion of suspended game from Saturday)
Oregon State 000 102 010 4 - 8 12 2 Cal State-Northridge 000 200 200 0 - 4 5 5Versluis, Boire (7) and Ingram, Sakamoto (7). Frick, Davidson (7), Sanchez (8) and Sickles. WP-Boire (2-0). LP-Sanchez (1-1). 2B-Horvat (CSUN). HR-Gott (OSU), Bumstead (CSUN).
HITS: Oregon State 12 (Willkie 2x5, Stark 1x2, Schader 1x6, Gerber 3x6, Dryden 1x1, Davis 2x2, Gott 2x4), Cal State-Northridge 5 (Grant 1x4, Horvat 1x4, Sickles 1x3, Gorman 1x3, Bumstead 1x1). RUNS BATTED IN: Oregon State 5 (Willkie 1, Sakamoto 1, Gott 3), Cal State-Northridge 4 (Grant 1, Horvat 1, Bumstead 2).
CAL STATE-NORTHRIDGE 8, OREGON STATE 4
Oregon State 300 010 000 - 4 8 1 Cal State-Northridge 500 010 02x - 8 12 2Hays, Hansen (1), Strode (6), Greenwald (8) and Sakamoto, Ingram (8). Grant, Gray (1), Davidson (8) and Sickles. WP-Gray (1-0). LP-Hays (0-2). SV-Davidson (1). 2B-Willkie (OSU), Schader (OSU), Carter (OSU), Sakamoto (OSU), Gorman (CSUN), Sickles (CSUN). HR-Horvat (CSUN).
HITS: Oregon State 8 (Willkie 1x3, Schader 1x3, Carter 3x4, Hedges 1x3, Dryden 1x1, Sakamoto 1x3), Cal State-Northridge 12 (Horvat 2x5, Gorman 1x4, Patrick 1x5, Sickles 2x4, Bumstead 1x3, Watkins 2x4, Synorst 1x2, Arroyo 2x3). RUNS BATTED IN: Oregon State 3 (Davis 1, Carter 2), Cal State-Northridge 8 (Horvat 2, Patrick 1, Bumstead 1, Synhorst 1, Phillips 1, Arroyo 2).
