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Beavers To Open Pac-12 Tournament Play

CORVALLIS, Ore. With the regular season behind Oregon State, they will return to the Bay Area to open action in Stanford for the second annual Pac-12 Softball Tournament on Wednesday against Arizona State in the First Round.

Opponent Day/Time TV
No. 9 Arizona State May 8 / 7 p.m. Pac-12 Networks



Leading Off
  • The Beavers will open their run at the Pac-12 Tournament against Arizona State.
  • Oregon State is looking for its first win in the Pac-12 Tournament after falling 1-0 to Washington in the quarterfinals of the inaugural event last year.
  • The last time the Beavers played on The Farm in the postseason, they swept Stanford in the Super Regionals to punch their ticket to the '22 WCWS.

By the Numbers
2: OSU had two Madi Simon (Puerto Rico; silver) and Grace Messmer (Canada; bronze) medal in the fall's Pan-American games in Chile.
2: Oregon State is making its second appearance in the Pac-12 Tournament.
3: The Beavers are looking to win their third consecutive postseason game on The Farm.
5: Oregon State will play in its fifth California locale this season. Earlier, the Beavs played in Fresno, Cathedral City, Fullerton and Berkeley.
5: Lici Campbell's career-high five RBI in the finale helped the Beavs win over No. 19 California in the series finale.
6: OSU has six top 25 wins since last April. Wins have come over No. 8 Stanford, No. 9 Washington, No. 12 UCLA, No. 19 California, No. 20 Oregon and No. 21 Arizona.
7: The Beavers and Sun Devils will meet for the seventh time in just over 53 weeks (5/5-7/23, 3/15-17/24).


The Opposition
  • OSU and Arizona State will meet for the 133rd time in a series that dates back to 1977, the third year of the program.
  • Arizona State is coming off a home series against UCLA in which the Bruins took all three.
  • In the regular season, the Beavers clinched the series from the Sun Devils in Tempe by taking the first two.
  • Lici Campbell and Eliana Gottlieb's late solo homers helped the Beavs pull away in the opener by a 5-3 score.
  • With two outs and trailing by one, the Beavs exploded for 6 runs in the 7th for a 10-5 win to claim the series.
  • This will be the seventh meeting between these sides in just over a calendar years' time. In that stretch, OSU holds a 4-2 mark over the Sun Devils.
  • Oregon State took the series by a 2-1 margin in last season's series, which took place before the inaugural Pac-12 Tournament in Tucson.


Pac-12 Tournament Time
  • OSU will venture to the other side of the Bay Area from Berkeley to The Farm after the regular season finale for the second edition of the tournament.
  • Washington used a solo homer to defeat the Beavers, 1-0, in last year's Pac-12 Tournament quarterfinal in Tucson


Round Tripper Tidbits
  • Oregon State improved to 4-0 on the season when they hit at least two home runs following Sunday's win.
  • Both Madi Simon (6th inning) and Lici Campbell (7th inning [walkoff]) launched (two-run) homers over the left field wall to help push the Beavers to the win over the Cardinal.
  • All four of these instances have happened in Pac-12 play (3/8 v. Arizona (game 1), 3/15 at Arizona State, 3/16 at Arizona State and 4/14 vs. Stanford)
  • Campbell slugged two two-run homers in a four at-bat stretch (4/14 vs. STAN, 4/19 at ORE)


Made 'Em Look
  • OSU was the only team in the Pac-12 with three pitchers record at least 21 looking strikeouts.
  • Hulon leads the staff with 25 punchouts while Haendiges follows with 24 and Garcia rounds it out with 21.


Top of the Pac for Logan
At the conclusion of her first season in orange and black, Hulon found herself in the upper portion of the Pac-12 in numerous categories.
  • 10th in strikeouts - entire season (89)
  • 9th in strikeouts - Pac-12 games (44)
  • 8th in strikeouts looking (25)
  • 6th in strikeouts looking - Pac-12 games (14)
  • 10th in innings pitched - Pac-12 games (58.1)
  • 9th in opposing batting average - Pac-12 games (.253)
  • 4th in catching runners stealing (7)


Beaver Staff Notes
Beaver fans will see a mix of familiar and new faces inside the dugout this season.
Marcie Green makes her return to Oregon State where she will lead the pitching staff. She was previously in Corvallis from 2013-2022 where she capped it off with a trip to the Women's College World Series in her final season.
Working primarily with the fielders and hitters, Matt Lisle joins Berg's staff with years of experience in college softball, baseball and even Major League Baseball.
Starting his journey from student manager in 2018, Dominic Garcia enters his first year as a member of the coaching staff. The Beaver alumnus worked his way up to head student manager to video coordinator last season and will oversee player development, technology and data.
Entering her third year with the program is Sarah Hoechlin, who serves as the Director of Operations. The OSU alumna spent two years as a student manager before a stint with the Corvallis Knights.

Softball America Accolades
Kiki Escobar was tabbed by the publication as the sixth-best second baseman in their preseason rankings.
In their Top 100 List, she was ranked 95th while Sarah Haendiges placed a few spots ahead at 87th.


OUR MISSION
Oregon State Athletics strives to B uild E xcellent A uthentic V isionary S tudent- A thletes (Go BEAVS)