Corvallis Gazette-Times

SAN LUIS OBISPO, Calif. — Oregon State pitchers Mike Stutes and Mark Grbavac combined on a three-hitter on Saturday night in a 6-0 victory at Cal Poly that extended OSU’s winning streak to 10 games in a row.

Junior first baseman Jordan Lennerton’s two-run double extended his hitting streak to a team-high eight games and was the key hit in a five-run fourth inning that gave the Beavers (21-3) an insurmountable advantage.

Stutes (6-0) allowed two hits in seven innings and struck out seven. Grbavac struck out three in two innings. It was OSU’s third combined shutout of the season; OSU pitching has alowed two or fewer runs in seven games in a row, in nine of the last 10, and 16 overall.

“I got a couple easy ground balls early and that kind of got me into a rhythm,” said Stutes, who has allowed one or fewer earned runs in five of his eight starts. “I just tried to keep that rhythm going for as long as possible. I felt like it was a pretty solid outing.”

The Beavers also played errorless defense for the eighth time in their last nine games. Center fielder Chris Hopkins and right fielder Scott Santschi both caught line drives that looked as though they could be headed for extra bases.

Lennerton was 2-for-3, Darwin Barney was 2-for-4 with two RBIs and Mitch Canham was 2-for-5.

OSU’s 10-game winning streak is their longest since a 10-gamer near the end of the 2005 season that clinched the first of back-to-back Pacific-10 championships.

The series continues at 1 p.m. today and concludes at 1 p.m. Monday. The Beavers then go to Arizona for their first Pacific-10 Conference series.

Oregon State 6, Cal Poly 0

OREGON STATE 100 500 000 — 6 11 0

CAL POLY 000 000 000 — 0 3 1

Stutes, Grbavac (8) and Canham; Nobriga, Reed (4), Massingham (9) and Thomas, Dorrell (9). WP: Stutes (6-0). LP: Nobriga (2-3). 2B: Hopkins, Canham, Lissman, Lennerton, OSU.

HIts: OSU 11 (Barney 2, Canham 2, Lennerton 2, Hopkins, Wallace, Lissman, Santschi, Wong), Cal Poly 3 (Schafer 2, Morel).

RBIs: OSU 5 (Barney 2, Lennerton 2, Lissman.