Beaver Baseball recruiting news

Beaver baseball looks like it setting up the pitching staff of the future for next year and are taking them from UW's back yard. That's what I like to see.

On Campus | PortlandTribune.com

"Oregon State has signed four JC baseball players out of Washington, including three from the state’s top-ranked team, Lower Columbia — pitchers D.J. Lidyard and Kyle Foster and shortstop Drew George.

The Beavers also will regain the services of pitcher Josh Keller, who played for them a year ago but was sent to Lower Columbia to get more innings. Keller is 6-0 with an 0.90 ERA. The 6-4, 235-pound righty from Cleveland High, who redshirted at OSU last year, allowed two hits with 10 strikeouts and one walk in a 7-0 win over Grays Harbor on Sunday.

Lidyard, a 6-3, 230-pound right-hander, is 6-2 with a 1.76 ERA. “D.J. tops out at about 95 mph,” says L-C coach Kelly Smith, an assistant for Jack Dunn at Portland State from 1984 to ‘90. “It’s a tossup who is No. 1 for us, Josh or D.J. They’ve both been outstanding.”

The other JC signee is Columbia Basin first/third baseman Steve Marquardt."

Love to see those fireballers. Big series this weekend against UW. Gotta pull off the series victory. Get out and cheer on the Beavs!