Beavers baseball team defeated West Coast leaders in 12 innings

Beavers baseball team defeated West Coast On Monday night in Corvallis, the No. 3-ranked Oregon State baseball team defeated West Coast Conference-leading Gonzaga 4-3 after going into extra innings.

Wilson Weber, a Barlow High graduate, singled to the right-field gap in the 12th inning to drive home the winning run for Oregon State. A walk in the following at-bat placed him into scoring position. Three batters later, Easton Talt hit an infield single, bringing Weber home for the victory.

Oregon State had an opportunity to win the game in the tenth inning when Canon Reeder took a lead-off walk and Wilson Weber singled over the middle, putting him in scoring position with no outs. But Gonzaga countered the danger with a double play and a strikeout.

Beavers baseball team defeated West Coast: Gonzaga ended with seven hits, but did not get any in extra innings.

Weber led the Beavers’ offence, going 3-for-6, and OSU reliever A.J. Hutcheson closed out the final two innings to earn the win. He retired six of the seven batters he faced and struck out two.

During the early stages, the teams swapped leads twice, with Easton Talt hitting an RBI triple in the third inning to put the Beavers up 2-1.

Gonzaga rallied for a 3-2 lead in the fifth, but Oregon State tied the game in the sixth on a Canon Reeder double to centre field.

Oregon State pushed the winning run in scoring position in the ninth inning, but back-to-back strikeouts halted the danger.