Oregon State baseball sweeps Washington Huskies, sits alone atop Pac-12 standings

The Oregon State baseball crew will enter the ultimate week of April sitting in a well-known and fascinating place:

Alone on the high of the Pac-12 Convention standings.

The Beavers dismissed the Washington Huskies 7-1 Sunday afternoon at Goss Stadium, incomes their tenth consecutive victory within the sequence with a commanding three-game sweep in Corvallis.

The profitable weekend, mixed with Oregon’s sequence loss to Washington State, catapulted the second-ranked Beavers (31-8, 13-5 Pac-12) into sole possession of first place within the convention, 1 1/2-games forward of Arizona (13-8) and two video games forward of the Geese (11-7) and Stanford (11-7).

The ultimate rating would recommend the Beavers breezed to a different straightforward Sunday win, but it surely took a couple of late-inning fireworks from the OSU offense to push previous the pesky Huskies (16-20, 6-14). The sport was tied 1-1 heading into the underside of the seventh, because the Beavers managed simply 4 hits and one run — because of a Gavin Logan RBI single within the fourth — in opposition to a pair of Washington pitchers.

However that modified with one out within the seventh, when Wade Meckler stepped to the plate with the bases loaded. The Beavers’ red-hot leadoff hitter ripped an reverse subject double to left, driving in Greg Fuchs and Jake Dukart to offer Oregon State a 3-1 lead.

The clutch hit prolonged Meckler’s hitting streak to eight video games and put a bow on an electrical sequence for the 5-foot-10 junior outfielder, who sprayed the ball throughout Goss Stadium this weekend. He completed 7 for 14 with 4 doubles, a house run, six runs scored and 5 RBIs within the three-game sequence, tormenting Washington pitching. Meckler is the one participant within the Pac-12 to achieve base safely in each sport his crew has performed.

The 2-run seventh would have been sufficient on a day a trio of OSU pitchers allowed simply two hits and one run. However Oregon State added 4 insurance coverage runs within the eighth, as Meckler drew a bases-loaded stroll, Travis Bazzana was beaned with the bases loaded and Jacob Melton drove in two runs with a bloop single to heart.

Melton, Justin Boyd and Kyle Dernedde every had two hits, whereas Meckler (three) and Melton (two) every drove in a number of runs.

Ben Ferrer earned the win in reduction, putting out 5 and permitting only one hit in 5 1/3 innings. He relieved starter Jake Pfennigs, who gave up one run over 1 2/3 innings whereas working by means of a restricted pitch rely, as he builds his method again from a strained muscle in his shoulder.

Ryan Brown pitched the ultimate two innings to earn his fifth save, putting out 4 of the six batters he confronted.

Subsequent up: The Beavers go to the rival Geese Tuesday at 6 p.m. for a midweek sport in Eugene.

— Joe Freeman | jfreeman@oregonian.com | 503-294-5183 | @BlazerFreeman | Subscribe to The Oregonian/OregonLive newsletters and podcasts for the newest information and high tales.