OSU Finishes Regular Season No. 8 In USA Today/ESPN Poll
CORVALLIS, Ore. - After wrapping up a second straight Pacific-10 championship over the weekend, Oregon State remained No. 8 in this week’s USA Today/ESPN baseball coaches poll. The Beavers (39-14 overall, 16-7 Pacific-10) split a pair of home games with UCLA to wrap up the regular season.
Oregon State will greet Kansas, Hawai’i and Wright State for the NCAA Corvallis Regional that will run Friday through Monday at Goss Stadium at Coleman Field. The opening day of games will have No. 1-seeded OSU (39-14 overall) meeting No. 4-seeded Wright State (32-25) at 5 p.m.; No. 2-seeded Kansas (42-23) will meet No. 3-seeded Hawai’i (43-15) at 12 noon.
The double-elimination tournament continues with games on Saturday at 1 p.m. and 6 p.m., on Sunday at 1 p.m. and 6 p.m. If necessary, the tournament would conclude with a game Monday at 2 p.m.
Full-tournament general admission tickets went on sale Monday for online purchase only at www.osubeavers.com; any remaining full-tournament general admission tickets and full-tournament reserved seat tickets will go on sale Tuesday at 8:30 a.m. for purchase online at www.osubeavers.com, by phone at 541-737-4455 or 1-800 GO BEAVS, or in person at the OSU athletic ticket office in Gill Coliseum Room 107. Complete ticket information is available at www.osubeavers.com.
Oregon State, which won its second straight Pacific-10 championship, did not receive one of the eight national seeds in the 64-team field. Should the Beavers win the NCAA Corvallis Regional, it would advance to an NCAA Super Regional against the winner of the NCAA Austin Regional, which includes host and No. 3 national seed Texas (40-19), North Carolina State (38-21), Stanford (30-25) and Texas-Arlington (29-34).
In the other national rankings released Monday, OSU remained No. 5 in the Baseball America magazine rankings, moved up one spot to No. 4 in the Collegiate Baseball newspaper poll, and climbed one spot to No. 5 in the National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association poll.
