No. 8 OSU Drops CWS Opener To Miami - Oregon State University Athletics

OMAHA, Neb. – Cole Gillespie tripled home the only run of the night for Oregon State as the No. 8-ranked Beavers fell to No. 24 Miami (Fla.) 11-1 Saturday night in the opening round of the College World Series at Rosenblatt Stadium. The Beavers (44-15 overall) lost for the first time in their six postseason games this season as Miami (42-22) plated five runs in the first two innings.

Oregon State will play Georgia on Monday at 1 p.m. in a loser-out game. The contest can be seen on the ESPN cable network, and all of OSU’s games in the CWS can be heard on KEJO-AM (1240) in the Corvallis area, KUIK-AM (1360) in the Portland area, KKNX-AM (840) in the Eugene area, KRNR-AM (1490) in the Roseburg area, KMED-AM (1440) in the Medford area, KICE-AM (940) in the Bend area and KNPT-AM (1310) in the Newport area. The Beavers will practice Sunday from 1 p.m.-2 p.m. at Creighton before taking on the Bulldogs on Monday, when they’ll be looking for a greatly improved performance from their CWS opener.

“We are somewhat disappointed as a club,” OSU head coach Pat Casey said. “We didn’t play as well as we hoped. Miami played really tough. I never complain about losing in the College World Series because of the talent that is there.

“The nice thing is that this tournament is double-elimination. Next time out, I hope we play ball like we are capable.”

On Saturday, OSU junior righthander Dallas Buck saw his record drop to 12-3 on the season, allowing a season-high seven runs in five innings. He allowed four walks – all of which eventually scored – while striking out two and hitting one.

“This is probably the worst game I’ve ever pitched,” Buck said. “Sure a bad time for it.”

Gillespie did extend his hitting streak to 17 games when he lined a single to center in the fourth inning; that matches Darwin Barney for the longest streak of the season by a Beaver. When Gillespie tripled to score Chris Kunda from first base with one out in the eighth inning, it kept OSU from being shut out for the first time since the middle of the 2003 season – a string now at 186 straight games.

Miami lefthander Scott Maine earned the win, going seven innings and allowing four this and two walks while striking out three. Dennis Raben was 2-for-3 with a double, a homer and four runs batted in for the Hurricanes.

“He really got ahead of our batters,” Gillespie said of Maine. He did a good job of keeping us off-balance. We couldn’t get adjusted to it and he kind of coasted.”

Miami went up 2-0 in the top of the first inning against Buck. With two out, Jon Jay reached on a bunt single and Danny Valencia walked; Raben then drove Buck’s no-balls, two-strikes pitch to the fence in right-centerfield for a two-run double.

In the top of the second, the Hurricanes tacked on three more runs for a 5-0 lead. Buck walked the bases loaded with one out, then Tommy Giles doubled to left-center to drive in all three runners. OSU third baseman Shea McFeely saved another run when he made a diving stop of Valencia’s chopper to his left, got up and threw Valencia out to leave Giles stranded at third.

Miami made it 7-0 in the top of the fifth when Valencia doubled just inside the leftfield foul pole, then Raben homered into the rightfield seats. In the eighth, UM added four more runs as Jay hit a bases-loaded triple off OSU reliever Eddie Kunz and then was singled home by Valencia.

The game was delayed twice by rain – for four minutes in the middle of the fifth inning by a passing shower, then for 1 hour, 34 minutes at the end of the seventh inning due to heavy rain and lightning. The crowd of 25,417 was the 13th-largest for a single session in CWS history and was the largest ever to see an OSU baseball game.

Bill Rowe added a triple with two out in the ninth inning for the Beavers, giving OSU 29 triples on the season for a new school record, besting the 27 hit by the 2002 team.

Miami 11 (42-22) Oregon State 1 (44-15)

Player AB R H BI Player AB R H BI

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Jemile Weeks 2b............ 4 2 0 0 Barney, Darwin ss.......... 4 0 0 0

Tommy Giles rf............. 4 1 1 3 Kunda, Chris 2b............ 3 1 0 0

Jon Jay cf................. 4 2 2 3 Gillespie, Cole lf......... 4 0 2 1

Danny Valencia 3b.......... 4 2 2 1 Lissman, Mike dh........... 3 0 1 0

Dennis Raben dh............ 3 1 2 4 Wagner, Geoff ph.......... 1 0 0 0

Gus Menendez ph........... 1 0 0 0 Graham, Tyler cf........... 4 0 1 0

Yonder Alonso 1b........... 4 0 0 0 Canham, Mitch c............ 3 0 0 0

Roger Tomas ss............. 4 1 0 0 Ammon, Erik ph............ 1 0 0 0

Eddy Rodriguez c........... 3 1 2 0 McFeely, Shea 3b........... 2 0 0 0

Blake Tekotte lf........... 4 1 2 0 Rowe, Bill 1b.............. 4 0 2 0

Scott Maine p.............. 0 0 0 0 Gipson, Ryan rf............ 2 0 0 0

Jon McLean p.............. 0 0 0 0 Santschi, Scott rf........ 1 0 0 0

Andrew Lane p............. 0 0 0 0 Buck, Dallas p............. 0 0 0 0

Turpen, Daniel p.......... 0 0 0 0

Kunz, Eddie p............. 0 0 0 0

Paterson, Joe p........... 0 0 0 0

Grbavac, Mark p........... 0 0 0 0

Totals..................... 35 11 11 11 Totals..................... 32 1 6 1

Score by Innings R H E

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Miami............... 230 020 040 - 11 11 0

Oregon State........ 000 000 010 - 1 6 1

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E - Canham. DP - Miami 1. LOB - Miami 8; Oregon St. 8. 2B - Giles, T; Valencia, D;

Raben, D; Graham. 3B - Jay, J; Gillespie; Rowe. HR - Raben, D. HBP - Raben, D;

McFeely. SH - Tekotte, B. SB - Weeks, J. CS - Jay, J.

Oregon State IP H R ER BB SO

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Scott Maine W,12-3........ 7.0 4 0 0 2 3

Jon McLean ................ 1.0 1 1 1 1 1

Andrew Lane ............... 1.0 1 0 0 0 1

Oregon State IP H R ER BB SO

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Buck, Dallas L,12-3....... 5.0 7 7 7 4 2

Turpen, Daniel ............ 2.0 0 0 0 2 1

Kunz, Eddie ............... 0.2 3 4 4 2 0

Paterson, Joe ............. 1.0 0 0 0 1 0

Grbavac, Mark ............. 0.1 1 0 0 0 0

HBP - by Buck (Raben, D); by Maine, S (McFeely).

Umpires - HP: John Kleis 1B: Dave Guillie 2B: Tony Maners 3B: Randy Bruns

Start: 6:07 pm Time: 2:42 Attendance: 25417