APRIL 15, 2025
CORVALLIS, Ore. – The Oregon State softball team will close the season’s longest homestand – seven games – as they will conclude the Rivalry Series and return the road for a league series at San Diego.
Each of the week’s four games can be seen on ESPN+
By The Numbers
4: Oregon State will head to California later this week for the fourth of five times this season.
6: Wednesday marks the sixth game against a ranked foe this season for OSU.
6: Following the win over Montana, OSU went 6-0 against members of the Big Sky (4-0 vs. Montana, 2-0 vs. Portland State)
7: Nicole Donahue drove in 7 runs across the DH against PSU and Montana.
19: After the weekend set, OSU and San Diego will have met 19 times.
35: Logan Hulon’s 35 looking strikeouts are leading the conference.
181: Oregon State pitchers pace the WCC with 181 combined strikeouts.
The Opposition
• The season finale – and rubber match – for the Rivalry Series against Oregon is on Wednesday.
• Oregon State returns to league play – and the road – this weekend against San Diego.
Rivalry Renewed
• Oregon State and Oregon will meet Wednesday evening in a rubber match to decide the winner of this year’s Rivalry Series.
• The Beavers will look to break the trend of road teams winning the matchups in the first two instances of the series this season.
• Two weeks ago, the fifth-ranked Ducks spoiled the homestand opener with a 9-1 triumph.
• Back in March, the Beavs upended a 12th-ranked Oregon by a 5-2 line in Eugene during the Jane Sanders Classic.
Beavs vs. Toreros
• OSU will head south to San Diego for their first league series of the season on the road.
• The Beavers will meet the Toreros for the 17th, 18th and 19th times in history this weekend.
• These sides will battle for the first time since February 2022.
• OSU has won the last seven in the series, including all four in the Laura Berg era.
On the Road Again
• For the first time in nearly a month, the Beavers will be back out on the road.
• OSU swept Montana in a three-game set in the last series away from the comforts of Kelly Field.
• The Beavers have won five consecutive true road games (including at #12 Oregon and Arizona State).
Beaver State to Golden State
• Oregon State is making their fourth trip of the season to California.
• The Beavers have played in San Luis Obispo (Feb. 7-9), Long Beach (Feb. 14-15) and Cathedral City (Feb. 20-23) in 2025.
• Following the series, the Beavers will have played 17 games in the state of California.
• OSU’s penultimate series of 2025 will take them to Stockton (May 3-4) against Pacific.
The Last Time Out
• Oregon State swept Portland State in a midweek doubleheader (11-1 (5) and 9-2) last Wednesday at Kelly Field.
• The Beavers finished off the sweep of the four-game season series against Montana on Monday afternoon.
Atop the WCC
• OSU is all over the top (or at least near it) in the stats for the WCC.
• The Beavers’ pitching staff has thrown a league-leading 181 Ks, led by Hulon’s 118.
• Ellie Garcia’s 62 Ks ranks fifth in the conference.
• Hulon paces the league in frames thrown with 116.1. Garcia follows in fifth with 87.2.
• Hulon’s 12 K outing against Montana marks the most strikeouts in a single game by a WCC pitcher.
• The Beavers’ .928 stolen base mark (26-for-28) is tops in the league.
• Jaeya Butler (8) is fourth in doubles.
• Nicole Donahue (23) and Lici Campbell (21) are second and third, respectively, in walks drawn.
Catching ‘em Looking
• Hulon leads the WCC in looking strikeouts with 35
• Garcia follows in fifth place with 12
• Oregon State is one of just two schools with two in the top-five in called Ks.
Welcome Welcome!
• 17 new student-athletes joined the Oregon State program for the 2025 campaign.
• The new Beavs are from all over the country, spanning from Hawai’i (Donahue – Honolulu) to the New York City suburbs of New Jersey (Weir – Wayne, N.J.) and everywhere in between.
• Donahue is the first Beaver from Hawaii since the 2016 season.
WCC Accolades
• Campbell and Donahue were tabbed to the preseason all-conference team by the WCC.
• Oregon State was selected by the league’s coaches to finish third in the six-team conference.
Tough Tests in the Noncon Again
• The Beavers have faced tests against teams in the initial top 25 of the 2025 season.
• Oregon State played #5 Tennessee, #12 Florida State (twice), #21 California and #24 Oregon in nonconference play.
• This eight-game homestand will include two matchups against ranked Oregon.
Beaver Staff Notes
• Familiar faces will be all over the Oregon State dugout in 2025.
• Entering her 13th year, Laura Berg will lead the Oregon State softball program.
• Marcie Green will direct the pitching staff for the second season of her second stint with the program. She ended her first with the trip to the Women’s College World Series in 2022.
• Working primarily with the fielders and hitters, Matt Lisle is on Berg’s staff for the second year. Lisle joined Oregon State following experience across college softball, baseball and even MLB’s Chicago White Sox.
• Starting his journey from student manager in 2018, Dominic Garcia enters his second year as a member of the coaching staff. The Beaver alumnus worked his way up to head student manager to video coordinator in 2023 and will oversee player development, technology and data.
• Entering her fourth 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.
Looking Ahead
• Oregon State will welcome Saint Mary’s (Calif.) for the penultimate series of the season at Kelly Field next weekend.
• Former members of the program will be welcomed back for the annual Alumni Weekend.
• Among those returning, the program’s all-time leader in home runs, Frankie Hammoude (’23), will make her return to Kelly Field. Hammoude is a member of the Saint Mary’s staff.
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