University of Washington
Oregon State
Beavers Take Series With 7-1 Win Over UW
May 07, 2006 | Baseball
May 7, 2006
CORVALLIS, Ore. - Oregon State starter held the Washington baseball team to one unearned run on only three hits in eight innings as the fifth-ranked Beavers beat the No. 22 Huskies, 7-1, Sunday at Goss Stadium.
The game started nearly three hours late due to rain and featured a 57-minute delay in the bottom of the six because of the precipitation.
Oregon State, which won the final two games of the series after a loss Friday, improved its record atop the Pac-10 standings to 34-11 overall and 11-4 in conference play. The Huskies fell to 31-19 on the season and 9-9 in the Pac-10.
The Huskies' six remaining Pac-10 games come next weekend vs. Stanford and May 28- 30 vs. Washington State, all at Husky Ballpark. To finish over .500 in conference play (usually the benchmark for an NCAA tournament berth), the UW would have to win four of those six games.
Stutes (5-2), a sophomore from Lake Oswego, Ore., struck out eight and walked four. He threw the six innings prior to the rain delay and then came back out and worked two scoreless innings before walking the leadoff man in the ninth and being relieved.
UW starter Elliott Cribby (6-5) gave up five runs (four earned) on seven hits over five innings to take the loss.
The Beavers got off to a quick start with four runs in the bottom of the first. With runners at second and third with one out, Cole Gillespie hit a hard grounder that was snared by UW third baseman Matt Stevens, whose throw to first was low. The Beavers followed with back-to-back doubles from Mitch Canham, who drove in one runner, and Shea McFeely, who knocked in two, sending home three more runners to give the Beavers a 4- 0 lead.
In the fifth, the Beavers added one run to their total with a two-out rally. Gillespie drew a two-out walk and Canham followed with an infield single. Gillespie then scored from second on a single from McFeely, increasing the lead to 5-0.
In the sixth, the Beavers had runners at second and third with two outs before rain delayed the game for nearly an hour. After the break, UW reliever Bryce Mooney walked Darwin Barney to lead the bases and Gillespie followed with a two-run single that stretched the lead to 7-0.
Washington loaded the bases in the ninth on a walk, an error and a single. With one out, Matt Stevens drove in the Huskies' lone run of the game with a sacrifice fly before closer Kevin Gunderson came on to record the final out.
The UW returns to Seattle for a pair of non-conference games vs. Portland Monday at 6:30 p.m. and Tuesday at 3:00 p.m. Live video and live stats for each game will be available at gohuskies.com. Next weekend, the Huskies play host to Stanford in a three- game, Pac-10 series.
LINESCORE Pac-10 Conference Game #5 Oregon State 7, #22 Washington 1 Washington 000 000 001 -- 1 4 2 Oregon State 400 012 00x -- 7 9 1 Elliott Cribby, Bryce Mooney (6), Nick Haughian (8), Matt Kasser (9) and Matt Lane. Mike Stutes, Joe Paterson (9), Eddie Kunz (9), Kevin Gunderson (9) and Mitch Canham. W - Stutes (5-2). L - Cribby (6-5). 2B - OSU, Canham, Shea McFeely. T - 2:38. A - 811.
