Beavs Return Home, Welcome Gaels to Kelly Field

CORVALLIS, Ore. – The Oregon State softball team will return home for their penultimate home series of the 2025 season when they will host Saint Mary's (Calif.) this weekend.

The entirety of the series can be seen on ESPN+

By The Numbers
3: Jada Lewis is on her third hitting streak of 5 or more games. Entering the weekend, it's 8 of 9.
10: Lewis' 10 stolen bases rank third in the category in the WCC.
27: Entering the series, Oregon State and Saint Mary's have met 27 times.
38: Logan Hulon's 38 looking strikeouts are leading the conference.
108.2: Oregon State is the only WCC school with two pitchers who have thrown at least 108.2 IP.
Hulon - 136.1 IP and Garcia – 108.2
90.6: Oregon State's 90.6% in stealing efficiency leads the WCC. The Beavs are 29-for-32 in attempts in '25.
201: Oregon State pitchers pace the WCC with 201 combined strikeouts.

The Opposition
• The penultimate weekend at Kelly Field will pit Oregon State and Saint Mary's (Calif.) on Saturday and Sunday.
• A twinbill is slated for Saturday with games scheduled for 3 p.m. and the second for approximatley 5:30 p.m.
• Sunday's series finale is set for noon.

Beavs vs. Gaels
• OSU and Saint Mary's have met 27 times entering the weekend.
• Saint Mary's took the last game in the matchup, a 1-0 win in a pitcher's duel in Fresno, Calif. last February.
• Oregon State has won two of the three meetings in the Berg era, taking wins in 2015 and 2022.
• Frankie Hammoude ('23), Oregon State's all-time home run record holder, is in her first season as the Gaels' assistant coach.

Welcome Home
• Oregon State will welcome back program alumnae to Kelly Field for the annual alumni weekend.
• Among those expected to return is Mariah Mazon ('22), an All-American who helped lead OSU to the 2022 Women's College World Series. She was recently drafted to the AUSL's Volts ahead of their inaugural season this summer.

The Last Time Out
• Oregon State finished off a five-game week with a 3-2 mark that included single games against Montana and fifth-ranked Oregon and then a road series at San Diego.
• The Beavers split the home games against the Grizzlies and Ducks before taking two-of-three against the Toreros on the road.

Loving the Long Ball
• Oregon State powered their way to the series win over San Diego last weekend.
• Of the eight runs scored in the wins, five of those runs came off home runs.
• Tristian Thompson launched two homers (4 RBI) and Jaeya Butler had a solo shot.

Atop the WCC
• OSU is all over the top (or at least near it) in the stats for the WCC.
• The Beavers' pitching staff has thrown a league-leading 201 Ks, led by Hulon's 128.
• Ellie Garcia's 72 Ks is good enough for fourth in the league.
• Hulon paces the league in frames thrown with 136.1. Garcia follows with 108.2, which is second.
• Hulon's 12 K outing against Montana marks the most strikeouts in a single game by a WCC pitcher.
• The Beavers lead the league in stolen base efficiency with a 90.6% (29-of-32) rate.
• Jaeya Butler (8) is ninth in doubles.
• Nicole Donahue (26) and Lici Campbell (22) are second and fourth, respectively, in walks drawn.

Catching 'em Looking
• Hulon leads the WCC in looking strikeouts with 38
• Garcia follows in fifth place with 14
• Oregon State is one of just two schools with two in the top-five in called Ks.

Welcome Welcome!
• 17 new student-athletes joined the Oregon State program for the 2025 campaign.
• The new Beavs are from all over the country, spanning from Hawai'i (Donahue - Honolulu) to the New York City suburbs of New Jersey (Weir - Wayne, N.J.) and everywhere in between.
• Donahue is the first Beaver from Hawaii since the 2016 season.

WCC Accolades
• Campbell and Donahue were tabbed to the preseason all-conference team by the WCC.
• Oregon State was selected by the league's coaches to finish third in the six-team conference.

Tough Tests in the Noncon Again
• The Beavers have faced tests against teams in the initial top 25 of the 2025 season.
• Oregon State played #5 Tennessee, #12 Florida State (twice), #21 California and #24 Oregon in nonconference play.
• This eight-game homestand will include two matchups against ranked Oregon.

Beaver Staff Notes
• Familiar faces will be all over the Oregon State dugout in 2025.
• Entering her 13th year, Laura Berg will lead the Oregon State softball program.
• Marcie Green will direct the pitching staff for the second season of her second stint with the program. She ended her first with the trip to the Women's College World Series in 2022.
• Working primarily with the fielders and hitters, Matt Lisle is on Berg's staff for the second year. Lisle joined Oregon State following experience across college softball, baseball and even MLB's Chicago White Sox.
• Starting his journey from student manager in 2018, Dominic Garcia enters his second year as a member of the coaching staff. The Beaver alumnus worked his way up to head student manager to video coordinator in 2023 and will oversee player development, technology and data.
• Entering her fourth year with the program is Sarah Hoechlin, who serves as the Director of Operations. The OSU alumna spent two years as a student manager before a stint with the Corvallis Knights.

Looking Ahead
• Oregon State will close the road portion of the schedule when they head south to Stockton, Calif.
• The penultimate weekend of the inaugural WCC season will have the Beavers match up with Pacific for a three-game set.
• The Beavers will meet the Tigers for the first times since the 2019 season.
• In the Laura Berg era, Oregon State is 4-0 against the Tigers.

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Players Mentioned

Jaeya Butler

Lici Campbell

Nicole Donahue

Ellie Garcia

Logan Hulon

Jada Lewis

Tristian Thompson