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I guess all good things must really come to an end... Hello Beaver Nation! In the past years, I’ve been able to write in excess of 1,300 articles here at Building The Dam, chronicling all the comings and goings, the lows and the highs and the downright weird and wild that encompasses every bit of Oregon State athletics. However, on June 15th of this year, that’s all set to change.
In the past days, I was informed by our bosses here at ...
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Everything in the 2024 college baseball season leads up to the next 3 weeks. The Beavers fell short of the Pac-12 title but will have an opportunity to make that a footnote in this season’s storyline starting with a regional in front of Beaver Nation at a ballpark in which they have gone 24-2 this season. There is plenty of potential for offense, with all four teams bringing offensive firepower, and the weather for the first two days should...
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The Oregon State Baseball team got off to a slow start at the Pac-12 tournament, dropping the opener to freshman Joey Volchko and a Stanford club that got hot in pool play. That was enough to put the Beavers on the back foot of tiebreaker math and led to an early flight back to Corvallis.
Fortunately, the regular season resume was enough for OSU to earn the #15 overall national seed in the tournament that truly matters, and the Beavers wi...
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The regular season title passed over Brady Kasper’s head in the desert night on Sunday, but the Beavers have a chance to take home a title and potentially a top 8 national seed in the NCAA Tournament that would keep them in Corvallis for the first two rounds. That opportunity starts for OSU at 10:00 AM PT on Wednesday as they start pool play in the third and final iteration of the Pac-12 Baseball Tournament.
The games are kicking off as we speak thi...
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Series Recap
Thursday & Friday - The Beavers did everything they needed to do in the first two games, blowing out the Wildcats to the tune of 25-3 over Friday and Saturday to secure the series. You can read write ups of Thursday’s game here , and Friday’s game here . Those results set up the series finale as a winner-take-all matchup for the Pac-12 regular season title.
Saturday - That matchup lived up to the billing on Saturday. Arizona struck first...
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Oregon State’s hitting and pitching both put in dominant games in one of the Beavers biggest wins of the season. Thursday’s 9-2 win over the Wildcats was a good way for Oregon State , but no one would have been surprised if Arizona bounced back in game 2 to make the series interesting. That didn’t happen Friday night, as Oregon State exploited an error prone Arizona team for one of their biggest blowouts of the season. The 16-1 win moves the Beavers 4...
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Oregon State needs to sweep the Wildcats to win the conference, and they got off to a great start. Headed into the final series of the regular season, the 14th ranked Arizona Wildcats led the 6th ranked Oregon State Beavers by a game and a half in the Pac-12 Standings. That lead is now down to just half a game as the Beavers crushed Arizona 9-2 to move to 40-12 overall and 18-9 in the conference.
6 Beavers finished with 2 hits Thur...
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The season couldn’t be farther off, but we’re always thinking about hoops. 1. UCONN Huskies
Someone is going to have to knock UCONN off their perch before the Huskies hand over the title as college basketball’s best program. Dan Hurley’s crew was decimated by departures, but incoming transfer Aidan Mahaney (Saint Mary’s) and five-star recruit Liam McNeeley should cushion the blow. Some players will just have to make a huge leap for a potential th...
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