Softball Head to Arizona for Pac-10 Showdown with No. 1 Arizona State
April 28, 2011
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THIS WEEK - The Oregon State softball team (18-19 overall, 1-11 Pacific-10 Conference) heads to the Valley of the Sun this weekend to take on No. 1 Arizona State in a three-game set starting Friday. Friday and Saturday's games are slated for a 7 p.m. PDT first pitch with the final game of the series scheduled for 12 p.m. on Sunday. It is the final Pac-10 road trip for the Beavers.
FOLLOWING THE BEAVS - Live stats are available for all of the games through Gametracker. Gametracker can be found by accessing the 2011 Oregon State softball schedule.
TRACK THE TEAM ON TWITTER - Get frequent updates on the Oregon State softball team throughout the season by following @OregonStateSB on Twitter. Links to stories, pictures from the road and much more will be tweeted through the official Oregon State softball Twitter.
GAMES 38-40: NO. 1 ARIZONA STATE SUN DEVILS - Arizona State comes into the weekend as the unanimous No. 1 team in the country with a 42-5 overall record and a record of 9-3 in conference play. Katelyn Boyd has started every game for the Sun Devils and leads the team, and is fourth in the Pac-10, in batting average with a mark of .444. She has hit a team-high 14 home runs and has driven in a team best 50 runners. The Sun Devils lead the Pac-10 in team batting average with a mark of .356 on the season and have hit 65 total home runs.
The Sun Devils' pitching staff posts a team earned run average of 1.93 with Dallas Escobedo leading the way with a mark of 1.49. Escobedo is 21-3 on the season 19 complete games and has thrown 146 innings on the season and giving up only 31 earned runs. She leads the conference in struck out batters with 210.
ALL-TIME AGAINST ARIZONA STATE - Oregon State comes into play this weekend with a 29-67 all-time record against Arizona State. The Beavers took two out of three games last season from the then-No. 7 Sun Devils to take the Pac-10 series. After dropping the first game of the series 3-4, the Beavers took the second game by a score of 2-1 on a complete game from Paige Hall who gave up one earned run on five hits while striking out six. The Beavers then took the final game of the series on a walk-off single up the middle by Ally Kutz scoring Dani Chisholm from third with the bases loaded to take the 4-3 victory in the 10th inning.
LAST WEEKEND - The Beavers were swept last weekend in the Civil War Series against Oregon. The Beavers fell Thursday by a score of 7-0, Friday 7-4 and Saturday by a score of 8-1. Audrey Roderfeld hit her second home run of the season in the Saturday game for her fourth home run against Oregon in as many years.
HOT HITTING GUZY - Erin Guzy's bat has come alive as of late. She hit safely in all three games against Oregon last weekend going 7-for12 (.583) on the weekend with three doubles, two in one game setting a career-high, and her first stolen base of the season. She now leads the team in batting average on the season with a mark of .288 and is hitting .343 in conference play.
MILESTONES - In the final game of the Oregon series last weekend, Audrey Roderfeld played in her 200th game at Oregon State and is the active leader on the team. Other upcoming milestones include Paige Hall's quest for her 300th career strikeout, she sits at 292, while Erin Guzy is just four hits away from 100 for her career.
RECORD BOOK - With two home runs this season, Audrey Roderfeld now sits alone in third place all-time at Oregon State in home runs with 37 for her career. Her 10 RBIs this season has moved her into a tie for fourth in career RBIs with 121. Paige Hall's 292 strikeouts is ninth all time and is 10 away from tying Cheryl Reeder (1989-92) for eighth all-time at 302. Hall also now has 37 career wins which ties her for ninth with Kelly Dyer (2007-10).
STRIKEOUT CANCER - Next weekend's conference series against the California Golden Bears will be the annual Strike Out Cancer weekend presented by The Corvallis Clinic. There will be giveaways for pink pom-poms and pink beads as well as drawings for pink hats throughout the game. Admission is free for all softball games so come out and support the Beavers and a great cause.
WHAT'S NEXT FOR THE BEAVERS - The Beavers return home next weekend for a Pac-10 three game series against the California Golden. The series starts Friday, May 6 with first pitch slated for 3 p.m. It will be the annual Strike Out Cancer weekend presented by The Corvallis Clinic.
