Friday, April 12
Berkeley, CA
3:00 PM
Oregon State
at
California
Beavers Battle Golden Bears in Three-Game Series
April 10, 2019 | Softball
THIS WEEK:
• Oregon State travels to Berkeley, Calif. to take on California.
• Oregon State has had an entire week off between games after hosting Stanford on April 5 and having games on April 6 and 7 cancelled due to rain.
SCHEDULE OF EVENTS:
Friday, April 12
Oregon State at California - 3 p.m.
Levine-Fricke Field, Berkeley, Calif.
Saturday, April 13
Oregon State vs. Stanford - 6 p.m.
Levine-Fricke Field, Berkeley, Calif.
Sunday, April 14
Oregon State at California - 12 p.m.
Levine-Fricke Field, Berkeley, Calif.
FOLLOW THE BEAVS:
• Live stats will be available this weekend through Statbroadcaster.com for all games.
• All three games will be on the Pac-12 Networks airing on Pac-12 Oregon and Pac-12 Bay Area on Friday and Saturday and Pac-12 Oregon on Sunday with Troy Clardy and Amanda Freed on the call.
• Links to live stats and to watch will be available on the softball schedule page at OSUBeavers.comÂ
BEAVER EXPERIENCE:Â
• Sophomore Missy Nunes has started all 33 games this season. Nunes is batting .289 with 28 hits, seven doubles and six home runs. Nunes has racked up 23 RBIs, 17 runs, and two stolen base. Nunes started the season with a home run in each of the first-three games of the season.
• Jessica Garcia is batting .277 with 26 hits, including one triple. Garcia has racked up 10 RBIs and 15 runs whiling only being walked three times. Garcia leads the Beavers with 12 stolen bases and a 1.000 fielding percentage after seeing time in 33 games and starting 32 of them.Â
• Redshirt senior Lovie Lopez has seen time in 29 games this season. Lopez is batting .274 with 11 runs, two doubles and three RBIs. Lopez has recorded 17 hits this season and walked eight times while stealing a base seven times.
• Shelby Weeks has recorded 12 stolen bases this season – bringing her career total to 55, just three away from holding the OSU Career Record. Weeks has tallied 27 hits, three doubles, one triple and one home run while scoring 27 runs. Weeks has 13 RBIs and has been walked 11 times.
• Kayleen Shafer has started in 22 games behind the plate and is batting .315 with 17 hits, five doubles and two home run. Shafer has 10 RBIs and eight runs scored while getting hit by a pitch once and walking seven times.
• Michelle Sass has made an appearance in 18 games this season. Sass is currently batting .276 with five doubles and one RBI. Sass has tallied four runs, four walks and gotten on base three times after being hit by a pitch.Â
• Camryn Ybarra has made 23 game appearances primarily at designated player. Ybarra has for doubles, six RBIs and three runs. Ybarra hit her first homerun of the season against Portland State. Ybarra also helped start the rally in the bottom of the seventh vs. Stanford with a single down the first-base line.
• Sophomore Mariah Mazon has been the main pitcher in the circle for the Beavers with a 10-9 record, 3.71 ERA with three-solo shutouts and 13 complete games. Mazon has struck out 120 batters in 116.1 innings.
• Meehra Nelson also returns to the circle for her senior season. Nelson has pitched 72.2 innings in 18 appearances with 86 strike outs and only 19 walks. Nelson has three-solo shutouts this season in six complete games and one save. Against Portland State, Nelson recorded 11 strike outs in six innings.
• OSU rounds out the upper classman with Chance Burden, Fallon Molnar and Nerissa Eason all seeing time in at least seven games.
GOING HAM-MOUDE:Â
• Frankie Hammoude has wasted no time making herself a permanent in the OSU lineup starting at first base and batting cleanup in the first 33 games.
• Hammoude hit a two-run homer in the first at bat as a Beaver in the first inning vs. CSUN and finished her first collegiate weekend at the Kajikawa Classic with six hits, three home runs and nine RBIs. Hammoude batted .545 with a 1.364 slugging percentage.
• The second weekend, Hammoude batted .500 with three home runs, 10 RBIs and three runs scored. Hammoude had a 1.063 slugging percentage that weekend and was on base .556 percent.
• Hammoude's third weekend, she hit one double and one home run with two RBIs and two runs scored. She was also walked four times over the course of four games.
• Against No. 11 Arizona, Hammoude recorded four RBIs after she hit a grand slam in the bottom of the third inning. Hammoude was also walked twice.
• Against Stanford last weekend, Hammoude recorded a homerun in the bottom of the second inning.
• Hammoude holds a .276 batting average on the year and a .598 slugging percentage. She has 24 hits including one double, nine home runs and has been walked 21 times. Hammoude leads the team with 29 RBIs and has scored 13 runs.
• Hammoude was named one of the top freshman by Fast Pitch News on March 20 for being one of the most impactful freshman on a roster this season.
• Hammoude made the 2019 Junior Women's National Team roster prior to the start of this season.
NEWCOMER PRESENCE:
• Oregon State added seven newcomers during the offseason: Karla Calderon, Payton Goodrich, Hammoude, Bailey McLaughlin, Izzy Owen, Ashton Phillips and Maia Rader.
• Rader has started 30 games this season, all at shortstop. She is currently batting .282 with four doubles and two triple.
• Owen has seen time in 26 games. She is batting .197 with three RBIs and four runs scored. Owen has also tallied two stolen bases.
• Phillips has started in 14 games this season in right field. Phillips is batting .200 with one double, one RBI and six runs scored. She has also stole two bases.
• Calderon has seen time in 17 games as a pinch runner scoring six runs.
ALWAYS AWAY:
• Oregon State was on the road for the first six weeks of the season starting with five tournaments and finishing with a three-game series at ASU.
• Of the 33 games played to date, the Beavers have been listed as the home team on only nine occasions – three include the first home series the Beavers held against Arizona and one game against Stanford.
• OSU was scheduled to have 12 home games this season, spread over four Pac-12 series. This is the fewest home games the Beavers have had since 2016.
• With two-of-three games cancelled against Stanford due to rain, OSU will play 10 games on the OSU Softball Complex if no other games get cancelled.
RANKINGS:
• Pac-12 Rankings: No. 3. Batters SO looking (71), No. 3. Stolen bases (40) and No. 4 Batters SO (228).
• The Beavers broke into the Top 25 in week three – USA Today/NFCA at No. 25 and ESPN.com/USA Softball tied at No. 23.
• OSU was picked to tie for fifth in the Pac-12 Preseason Poll. Currently, the Beavers are ranked eighth in the Pac-12.
COACHING PROFILES:Â
• Head coach Laura Berg hung up her cleats after nearly 20-years of playing softball and spent a year with the LAPD in 2010-11 before returning to the game as an assistant coach for the 2012 season at Oregon State.
• Berg enters her seventh season at the helm of the Oregon State program in 2019, recording four NCAA Tournament appearances.Â
• Berg holds a 183-170-1 overall record and is 46-103 in Pac-12 play.
• Associate head coach Marcie Green also has experience with law enforcement. Green studied criminology at Fresno State and spent five years as a prison guard at Corcoran State Prison in California following graduation before starting to coach.
• Assistant coach Eric Leyba joins the staff after stints with the Northwest Bullets and being the head coach at Churchill High School for the past 15 years.
• Volunteer Assistant Coach Hannah Akamine is also new to the coaching staff, but not the Orange and Black. Akamine played for Berg and Green in 2015 as the starting catcher for the Beavers.
• Heather Smith also returns for her 18th season as Director of Operations.
NATIONAL SOFTBALL:
• Laura Berg has been announced as one of the Assistant Coaches for the Women's National Team by USA Softball. Berg will join Howard Dobson, Tairia Flowers and WNT Head Coach Ken Eriksen for the 2019 season.
• Freshman Frankie Hammoude has been named to the 2019 USA Softball Junior Women's National Training Team for the summer of 2019.
• Sophomore Mariah Mazon will be trying out for the Mexico National Team following the 2019 regular season.
• Recent OSU Softball signee, Grace Messmer, has made the Canadian Junior WNT.
NCAA TOURNAMENT:
• The 2018 season marked the fourth time the Beavers reached the NCAA Tournament under the direction of head coach Laura Berg, as well as the 14th time in program history.
• The Beavers are 32-29 all-time in their 14 tournament appearances following two wins and two losses at the Tuscaloosa Regional in 2018.
• The last time OSU won a regional was in 2006 when it played Nevada and No. 19 Baylor twice. OSU went on to play in the Women's College World Series that year.
• Berg and former head coach Kirk Walker (1995-2012) are the only head coaches in program history to reach the NCAA Tournament.
KNOW WHAT IT TAKES:
• Oregon State's coaching staff is no stranger when it comes to the NCAA Tournament and WCWS.
• Both Berg and Green played at Fresno State in the '90s and gained plenty of experience in the path to the WCWS.
• Coach Berg played from 1994-95 and 1997-98 making it to the WCWS three times and won the national championship in '98.
• Coach Green played from 1990-93 and appeared in three WCWS, including a runner-up finish in 1990.
• Volunteer assistant coach Hannah Akamine made the WCWS as the catcher for Tennessee in its 2013 runner-up finish.
TICKETS ON SALE NOW:
• Tickets for Oregon State's six remaining home games are on sale now at BeaverTickets.com/softball.
• Single game tickets can be purchased at $7 for adults and $5 for youth.
2019 SCHEDULE:
• The non-conference portion of Oregon State's 2019 schedule featured a gauntlet of games over the course of five-tournaments and two non-conference games.
• OSU opened the season with the Kajikawa Classic for the ninth time in 10 years.
• The Stacy Winsberg Tournament in Long Beach and Los Angeles, Calif. featured two 2018 NCAA Regional teams, Long Beach State and Ole Miss.
• The Beavers went to Norman, Okla. to face 2018 WCWS participant, Oklahoma, and NCAA Regional qualifier Louisiana.
• Oregon State also made appearances at the UOP-Libby Matson Tournament and LMU Tournament before finishing out the non-conference schedule with a double-header at Portland State.
• The conference portion features six opponents that made varying finishes in the 2018 NCAA Tournament:
  - Cal - Regionals.
  - Arizona - Super Regionals.
  - Arizona State, UCLA and Oregon - WCWS.
  - Washington - 2018 WCWS Runner-Up.
• In total, Oregon State will face 11 opponents from the 2018 NCAA Tournament.
• 14 opponents finished with a top-100 RPI in 2018, 10 opponents had a top-50 RPI, eight had a top-25 RPI and five had a top-10 RPI.
FOLLOW US ON SOCIAL
For more information on the Oregon State softball team, visit OSUBeavers.com or follow the team @BeaverSoftball on Twitter and Instagram.
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OUR MISSION
Oregon State Athletics strives to Build Excellent Authentic Visionary Student-Athletes (Go BEAVS).
• Oregon State travels to Berkeley, Calif. to take on California.
• Oregon State has had an entire week off between games after hosting Stanford on April 5 and having games on April 6 and 7 cancelled due to rain.
SCHEDULE OF EVENTS:
Friday, April 12
Oregon State at California - 3 p.m.
Levine-Fricke Field, Berkeley, Calif.
Saturday, April 13
Oregon State vs. Stanford - 6 p.m.
Levine-Fricke Field, Berkeley, Calif.
Sunday, April 14
Oregon State at California - 12 p.m.
Levine-Fricke Field, Berkeley, Calif.
FOLLOW THE BEAVS:
• Live stats will be available this weekend through Statbroadcaster.com for all games.
• All three games will be on the Pac-12 Networks airing on Pac-12 Oregon and Pac-12 Bay Area on Friday and Saturday and Pac-12 Oregon on Sunday with Troy Clardy and Amanda Freed on the call.
• Links to live stats and to watch will be available on the softball schedule page at OSUBeavers.comÂ
BEAVER EXPERIENCE:Â
• Sophomore Missy Nunes has started all 33 games this season. Nunes is batting .289 with 28 hits, seven doubles and six home runs. Nunes has racked up 23 RBIs, 17 runs, and two stolen base. Nunes started the season with a home run in each of the first-three games of the season.
• Jessica Garcia is batting .277 with 26 hits, including one triple. Garcia has racked up 10 RBIs and 15 runs whiling only being walked three times. Garcia leads the Beavers with 12 stolen bases and a 1.000 fielding percentage after seeing time in 33 games and starting 32 of them.Â
• Redshirt senior Lovie Lopez has seen time in 29 games this season. Lopez is batting .274 with 11 runs, two doubles and three RBIs. Lopez has recorded 17 hits this season and walked eight times while stealing a base seven times.
• Shelby Weeks has recorded 12 stolen bases this season – bringing her career total to 55, just three away from holding the OSU Career Record. Weeks has tallied 27 hits, three doubles, one triple and one home run while scoring 27 runs. Weeks has 13 RBIs and has been walked 11 times.
• Kayleen Shafer has started in 22 games behind the plate and is batting .315 with 17 hits, five doubles and two home run. Shafer has 10 RBIs and eight runs scored while getting hit by a pitch once and walking seven times.
• Michelle Sass has made an appearance in 18 games this season. Sass is currently batting .276 with five doubles and one RBI. Sass has tallied four runs, four walks and gotten on base three times after being hit by a pitch.Â
• Camryn Ybarra has made 23 game appearances primarily at designated player. Ybarra has for doubles, six RBIs and three runs. Ybarra hit her first homerun of the season against Portland State. Ybarra also helped start the rally in the bottom of the seventh vs. Stanford with a single down the first-base line.
• Sophomore Mariah Mazon has been the main pitcher in the circle for the Beavers with a 10-9 record, 3.71 ERA with three-solo shutouts and 13 complete games. Mazon has struck out 120 batters in 116.1 innings.
• Meehra Nelson also returns to the circle for her senior season. Nelson has pitched 72.2 innings in 18 appearances with 86 strike outs and only 19 walks. Nelson has three-solo shutouts this season in six complete games and one save. Against Portland State, Nelson recorded 11 strike outs in six innings.
• OSU rounds out the upper classman with Chance Burden, Fallon Molnar and Nerissa Eason all seeing time in at least seven games.
GOING HAM-MOUDE:Â
• Frankie Hammoude has wasted no time making herself a permanent in the OSU lineup starting at first base and batting cleanup in the first 33 games.
• Hammoude hit a two-run homer in the first at bat as a Beaver in the first inning vs. CSUN and finished her first collegiate weekend at the Kajikawa Classic with six hits, three home runs and nine RBIs. Hammoude batted .545 with a 1.364 slugging percentage.
• The second weekend, Hammoude batted .500 with three home runs, 10 RBIs and three runs scored. Hammoude had a 1.063 slugging percentage that weekend and was on base .556 percent.
• Hammoude's third weekend, she hit one double and one home run with two RBIs and two runs scored. She was also walked four times over the course of four games.
• Against No. 11 Arizona, Hammoude recorded four RBIs after she hit a grand slam in the bottom of the third inning. Hammoude was also walked twice.
• Against Stanford last weekend, Hammoude recorded a homerun in the bottom of the second inning.
• Hammoude holds a .276 batting average on the year and a .598 slugging percentage. She has 24 hits including one double, nine home runs and has been walked 21 times. Hammoude leads the team with 29 RBIs and has scored 13 runs.
• Hammoude was named one of the top freshman by Fast Pitch News on March 20 for being one of the most impactful freshman on a roster this season.
• Hammoude made the 2019 Junior Women's National Team roster prior to the start of this season.
NEWCOMER PRESENCE:
• Oregon State added seven newcomers during the offseason: Karla Calderon, Payton Goodrich, Hammoude, Bailey McLaughlin, Izzy Owen, Ashton Phillips and Maia Rader.
• Rader has started 30 games this season, all at shortstop. She is currently batting .282 with four doubles and two triple.
• Owen has seen time in 26 games. She is batting .197 with three RBIs and four runs scored. Owen has also tallied two stolen bases.
• Phillips has started in 14 games this season in right field. Phillips is batting .200 with one double, one RBI and six runs scored. She has also stole two bases.
• Calderon has seen time in 17 games as a pinch runner scoring six runs.
ALWAYS AWAY:
• Oregon State was on the road for the first six weeks of the season starting with five tournaments and finishing with a three-game series at ASU.
• Of the 33 games played to date, the Beavers have been listed as the home team on only nine occasions – three include the first home series the Beavers held against Arizona and one game against Stanford.
• OSU was scheduled to have 12 home games this season, spread over four Pac-12 series. This is the fewest home games the Beavers have had since 2016.
• With two-of-three games cancelled against Stanford due to rain, OSU will play 10 games on the OSU Softball Complex if no other games get cancelled.
RANKINGS:
• Pac-12 Rankings: No. 3. Batters SO looking (71), No. 3. Stolen bases (40) and No. 4 Batters SO (228).
• The Beavers broke into the Top 25 in week three – USA Today/NFCA at No. 25 and ESPN.com/USA Softball tied at No. 23.
• OSU was picked to tie for fifth in the Pac-12 Preseason Poll. Currently, the Beavers are ranked eighth in the Pac-12.
COACHING PROFILES:Â
• Head coach Laura Berg hung up her cleats after nearly 20-years of playing softball and spent a year with the LAPD in 2010-11 before returning to the game as an assistant coach for the 2012 season at Oregon State.
• Berg enters her seventh season at the helm of the Oregon State program in 2019, recording four NCAA Tournament appearances.Â
• Berg holds a 183-170-1 overall record and is 46-103 in Pac-12 play.
• Associate head coach Marcie Green also has experience with law enforcement. Green studied criminology at Fresno State and spent five years as a prison guard at Corcoran State Prison in California following graduation before starting to coach.
• Assistant coach Eric Leyba joins the staff after stints with the Northwest Bullets and being the head coach at Churchill High School for the past 15 years.
• Volunteer Assistant Coach Hannah Akamine is also new to the coaching staff, but not the Orange and Black. Akamine played for Berg and Green in 2015 as the starting catcher for the Beavers.
• Heather Smith also returns for her 18th season as Director of Operations.
NATIONAL SOFTBALL:
• Laura Berg has been announced as one of the Assistant Coaches for the Women's National Team by USA Softball. Berg will join Howard Dobson, Tairia Flowers and WNT Head Coach Ken Eriksen for the 2019 season.
• Freshman Frankie Hammoude has been named to the 2019 USA Softball Junior Women's National Training Team for the summer of 2019.
• Sophomore Mariah Mazon will be trying out for the Mexico National Team following the 2019 regular season.
• Recent OSU Softball signee, Grace Messmer, has made the Canadian Junior WNT.
NCAA TOURNAMENT:
• The 2018 season marked the fourth time the Beavers reached the NCAA Tournament under the direction of head coach Laura Berg, as well as the 14th time in program history.
• The Beavers are 32-29 all-time in their 14 tournament appearances following two wins and two losses at the Tuscaloosa Regional in 2018.
• The last time OSU won a regional was in 2006 when it played Nevada and No. 19 Baylor twice. OSU went on to play in the Women's College World Series that year.
• Berg and former head coach Kirk Walker (1995-2012) are the only head coaches in program history to reach the NCAA Tournament.
KNOW WHAT IT TAKES:
• Oregon State's coaching staff is no stranger when it comes to the NCAA Tournament and WCWS.
• Both Berg and Green played at Fresno State in the '90s and gained plenty of experience in the path to the WCWS.
• Coach Berg played from 1994-95 and 1997-98 making it to the WCWS three times and won the national championship in '98.
• Coach Green played from 1990-93 and appeared in three WCWS, including a runner-up finish in 1990.
• Volunteer assistant coach Hannah Akamine made the WCWS as the catcher for Tennessee in its 2013 runner-up finish.
TICKETS ON SALE NOW:
• Tickets for Oregon State's six remaining home games are on sale now at BeaverTickets.com/softball.
• Single game tickets can be purchased at $7 for adults and $5 for youth.
2019 SCHEDULE:
• The non-conference portion of Oregon State's 2019 schedule featured a gauntlet of games over the course of five-tournaments and two non-conference games.
• OSU opened the season with the Kajikawa Classic for the ninth time in 10 years.
• The Stacy Winsberg Tournament in Long Beach and Los Angeles, Calif. featured two 2018 NCAA Regional teams, Long Beach State and Ole Miss.
• The Beavers went to Norman, Okla. to face 2018 WCWS participant, Oklahoma, and NCAA Regional qualifier Louisiana.
• Oregon State also made appearances at the UOP-Libby Matson Tournament and LMU Tournament before finishing out the non-conference schedule with a double-header at Portland State.
• The conference portion features six opponents that made varying finishes in the 2018 NCAA Tournament:
  - Cal - Regionals.
  - Arizona - Super Regionals.
  - Arizona State, UCLA and Oregon - WCWS.
  - Washington - 2018 WCWS Runner-Up.
• In total, Oregon State will face 11 opponents from the 2018 NCAA Tournament.
• 14 opponents finished with a top-100 RPI in 2018, 10 opponents had a top-50 RPI, eight had a top-25 RPI and five had a top-10 RPI.
FOLLOW US ON SOCIAL
For more information on the Oregon State softball team, visit OSUBeavers.com or follow the team @BeaverSoftball on Twitter and Instagram.
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OUR MISSION
Oregon State Athletics strives to Build Excellent Authentic Visionary Student-Athletes (Go BEAVS).
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