Beavers Beat Virginia, Will Play Michgan next week!

Great hitting, great pitching. Wow.



The Beavers beat Virginia to complete the improbable comeback. Since Michigan beat Vanderbilt (the #1 team in the polls) last night in 10 innings, we get to host! That means a mad rush for tickets.

Season ticket holders: call or visit the ticket office. Now is your chance to get tickets.

The rest of us: We have to wait until Thursday morning. 7am online (that will be interesting) or 8:30am at the ticket office (better get there an hour or two ahead)

Super Regional Ticket Information - OSUBeavers.com

Go Beavs!

It's on!

I've got the essentials. Beavers vs. Viginia NOW!

Scoreboard / gametracker

Chat

Reading Material:

RATCLIFFE: UVa drops the ball vs. Oregon State

Baseball America 1

Baseball America 2

Holy Cow! Beavs keep winning!

Today was a great day to be a Beaver!

Man, that 8th inning was simply awesome! Lead off HR and Wallace coming through HUGE! Even Lennerton broke out a bit with a HR. Seems like everyone is heating up a bit now. All we need is Mitch Canham to break out and start raking.

Turpen and Patterson are also huge. Great pitching. We need one more shut down performance tomorrow.

According to Mike Parker, it looks like Stutes tomorrow. Although Anton Maxwell is a possibility. At least he and Kunz should be nicely rested for the game.



9am PST tomorrow! Come on Beavs!

Beavers beat Rutgers

The Beavers made it past their first hurdle, Rutgers. They won 5-2 on great pitching from Reyes and Turpen. Plus, Lechelt bombed a HR late in the game to provide some breathing room. Good win, on to Virginia at 3pm.

Go Beavers!

Great game. Heart-breaker.

The Beavs almost pulled off a huge win last night, but couldn't get over the hump. Such a classic playoff game. Drama everywhere. When Mitch almost lost the game with two passed balls, but then came through to tie the game in the bottom of the inning. Or when Darwin smashed the home run right after Lissman had been called out for not touching second (should have been a two run HR and a game winning dang it). Or Stutes battling all game for one of his best performances and giving us a great chance to win. Such a good game. How could we not win?!

It's going to be a tough road to get back to having a chance to win this regional, but its possible with our pitching staff. Anton Maxwell, and Turpen could both start if necessary. And to win we need to go 5 games (beat Virginia twice). Sounds a bit like last season...


We play early this morning (10am) and hopefully we can win to get another shot at UVA.

EDIT @ 1pm PST: The game was (obviously) postponed until 3pm PST. To see how the weather is doing go here: WeatherBonk

or here: National Weather Service

UVA: Varsity Hall -- Click for live cam.

Here are a few UVA web cams too:

Rotunda Carr's Field Varsity Hall

Still looks wet.


Go Beavs!

Beavs win, on to UVA

Friday night was a perfect win for the Beavs. Not too much drama, lots of hitting, and some great pitching. John Wallace was the man. I think he has to play more now. He's got a huge amount of experience from last season's run. Plus, he needs to step up next year and be the next stud.



I just LOVE articles like this from the CSTV recap:

Oregon State Defeats Rutgers 5-1 in Game Two of Charlottesville Regional

Defending national champion Beavers rally from early deficit

I can't get enough of that national champion stuff. I just want it to last as long as possible.

Joe was a stud, huh? How big of a decision was it to start Joe Patterson? Great call by the coaches. Now Mike Stutes has a little less pressure and might just have something to prove against Virginia. He needs to come up BIG!

Virginia Info:

We are facing one of the best pitchers in the nation in Jacob Thompson (11-0, 1.35 ERA, 0.919 WHIP, 8.1 K/9, and .193 BAA).

Their huge park keeps the HR numbers down, but some hitters to be afraid of?

Jeremy Farrell - .394 ave, .563 slg, .500 obp in a half of a season.
Brandon Guyer - .369 ave, 8 hrs, 50 rbi, 19 2b, .997 ops
David Adams - .372 ave, 11 2b, 4 3b, 5 hrs, 42 rbi, .979 ops

Luckily Greg Miclat is hurt. He had 32 sbs and was batting .376.

Game time is 3pm Saturday.


Check out this video of pregame interviews from a local Virginia TV station WCAV: NCAA Baseball Regional Preview

And some more national regional breakdowns:

Regional Insider: Charlottesville Regional - Rivals.com

Charlottesville Regional Capsule - Baseball America

Vandy almost gets upset! - Baseball America Blog

Don't forget to listen to the Baseball America Podcast on the Regionals!