Beavers Beat Huskies, 10-1, In Corvallis

Friday, April 1

Corvallis, OR

3:00 PM

University of Washington

13-9, 4-3

Oregon State

18-6, 4-3

Washington

Oregon State

Photo by: Washington Athletics

April 02, 2016 | Baseball

Box Score

By: Washington Athletics

CORVALLIS, Ore. – Oregon State scored three times in the first and four times in the second and never looked back as they handed the visiting Huskies a 10-1 loss Friday afternoon at Goss Stadium in Corvallis, Ore.

The 11^th-ranked Beavers (18-6, 4-3 Pac-12) pounded out 14 hits and had two pitchers combine to shutout the Huskies for 8 2/3 innings, until a late run ruined the shutout for 3,205 Beavers' fans.

Washington (13-9, 4-3) had four base hits and did not score until two outs in the ninth inning on a fielder's choice groundout.

The 11^th-ranked Beavers (18-6, 4-3) set the tone early against Washington (13-9, 4-3) ace Noah Bremer. The Huskies had a disastrous start in the Beavers' half of the first inning, committing two errors and allowing a pair of unearned runs to fall behind, 3-0. Second baseman Nick Madrigal got things started for OSU with a double off the left-field wall against Bremer, who ended up throwing 36 pitches in the opening frame. The next batter KJ Harrison hit a hard grounder back to the mound that Bremer dropped and had roll behind him allowing everyone to reach safely on an error.

Catcher Logan Ice followed with a RBI single and after a walk loaded the bases, Kyle Nobach hit what could have been an inning-ending double play grounder, but instead, shortstop Chris Baker dropped the ball allowing everyone to reach safely. A run scored on the play and the bases remained loaded for Jack Anderson, who hit a sacrifice fly to center to give the Beavers the 3-0 lead.

The Beavers poured it on in the second inning scoring four more runs on five hits for a 7-0 lead. Harrison hit a two-run double, Ice a RBI double and Nobach a RBI single.

Oregon State scored again in the fourth to make it 8-0 and end Bremer's day. The sophomore had his shortest outing of the season, allowing career-highs in hits (10), runs (8) and earned runs (6). Bremer (3-1) also walked two, struck out three, threw 90 pitches in just 3 1/3 innings and picked up his first loss of the season.

Bremer's counterpart Travis Eckert (3-2) was cruising along in the game until the sixth inning when he had to leave with an injury. He struck out a career high nine, allowed three hits and walked three when he left with no outs and a runner on base.

No matter at Bryce Fehmel entered the game and picked where Eckert left off. He allowed just 1 hit and an unearned run over the final four innings.

Ryan Schmitten was strong out of the bullpen for the Huskies, throwing 3 2/3 shutout innings, striking out six, before running into trouble in the eighth. That's when OSU tacked on two more runs to reach 10 for the game.

AJ Graffanino drove in the Huskies only run of the game, and Baker (2 for 2, BB) reached base all three times he batted to pace the Huskies' offense.

The Huskies and Beavers face off in game two of the series Saturday at Goss Stadium with first pitch set for 4:00 p.m. The game will be carried on Pac-12 Washington and Oregon with Roxy Bernstein and Donnie Marbut calling all the action.

#11Oregon St. 10 (18-6, 4-3), Washington 1 (13-9, 4-3)

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OSU 340 100 02x –- 10 14 3

LOB: UW 9, OSU 10. Noah Bremer, Ryan Schmitten (4), Alex Hardy (8) and Joey Morgan, Willie MacIver (7); Travis Eckert, Bryce Fehmel (6) and Logan Ice. W – Eckert (3-2). L – Bremer (3-1). SV – none. HR – none. 3B – none. 2B – OSU, KJ Harrison, Logan Ice. Time – 3:20. Attendance – 3,205.