osu ROUNDUP

Gazette-Times

Seventeenth-ranked Oregon State ran its winning streak to six games as the Beavers swept a nonconference softball doubleheader with Northern Colorado on Wednesday.

The Beavers won 10-0 in five innings and 7-1.

Oregon State (26-10) opens Pacific-10 Conference play on Friday against No. 14 Stanford. Game time is 3 p.m. at the OSU Softball Complex.

Against Northern Colorado, a leadoff triple by senior Mia Longfellow set the tone for OSU in the first game.

Oregon State scored three runs in the first inning, helped in part by Brianne McGowan’s two-run single.

All nine Beavers in the line-up had a plate appearance in the first and second innings.

Oregon State extended its lead in the second with a two-run single by Stefanie Ewing and hits by Paige Lowe and Alana Ford.

McGowan had her second two-run single in the bottom of the third as the Beavers finished the scoring.

McGowan (15-5) struck out eight in her second straight complete game one-hitter. The victory was the 90th of her career and moved her within two of breaking the Oregon State career record held by Tarrah Beyster (1997-00).

Three Beavers had multiple hit games, as Longfellow went 2-for-2 with three runs scored; sophomore DeAnn Young was 2-for-3 with an RBI and McGowan was 2-for-4 with four RBIs.

Freshman Kelly Dyer (2-0) struck out a career-high 10 batters in five innings in the second game. The Eugene product struck out the side in both the first and second innings and retired 13 straight batters after allowing a run in the first.

The Beavers offense came alive in the bottom of the fifth inning as Lowe broke a 1-1 tie with a 2-out bloop single to shallow right. Ewing followed with a run-scoring single and Young capped the rally with her fourth home run of the season, a 3-run shot over the left field fence.

Junior Cambria Miranda batted 2-for-2 clip and scored twice.

Game 1

Oregon State 10, Northern Colorado 0 (5)

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OREGON STATE 343 0x n 10 11 1

Landorf, VanOtterloo (1) and Geist. McGowan and Ewing. WP: McGowan (15-5). LP: Landorf (1-6). 3B: Longfellow (OSU). 2B: Galvan (OSU).

Game 2

Oregon State 7, Northern Colorado 1

NORTHERN COLORADO 100 000 0 n 1 3 0

OREGON STATE 010 051 x n 7 9 0

Carpenter, VanOtterloo (6) and Lucero. Dyer, McGowan (6) and Black, Ewing (6). WP: Dyer (2-0). LP: Carpenter (1-11). HR: Young (OSU). 2B: Miranda (OSU), Miller (OSU).

Women’s golf

JUNCTION CITY — The women’s golf team finished third in the Oregon Duck Invitational on Tuesday at Shadow Hill Country Club.

The Beavers had the final round’s lowest team score of 301. Oregon State shot a 933 (313-319-301) for the tournament on the par-72, 6,096-yard course.

Martha Burkard led OSU in the final round with a 2-over-par 74. She had a stretch of 16 holes where she was under par that led to her 13th-place finish.

Jessi Gebhardt and Juliana Uhrik tied for OSU’s second best score in the final with a third-round score of 75.

Gebhardt finished in a tie for sixth with a final score and team best 231 (76-80-75) and Uhrik finished in a tie for 10th with a final score of 233 (80-78-75).

“All of our golfers played really well,” coach Rise Lakowske said. “That will definitely help our confidence ... When you are on a long golf course, and a tough golf course with weather like this, finishing third is good, especially after a couple rounds yesterday that we could have played better in.”

Team Scores

1. San Francisco 299-316-304=919, 2. Washington State 306-312-304=922, 3. Oregon State 313-319-301= 933, 4. Idaho 315-311-311= 937, 5. Oregon 320-315-308=943, 6. San Diego State 316-318-319=953, 7. Boise State 312-321-325=958, 8. Central Arkansas 310-335-327=972, 9. San Antonio 324-333-316=973, 10. Wyoming 324-331-334= 989, 11. Portland State 333-340-317=990, 12. Gonzaga 332-328-335=995, 13. Eastern Washington 331-331-334=996, 14. Montana State 328-342-337=1,007, 15. Idaho State 341-347-346=1,034

OSU Scores

T6. Jessi Gebhardt 76-80-75=(231), T10. Julianna Uhrik 80-78-75=(233), T13. Martha Burkard 78-82-74=234, T29. Jill Ferrante 85-79-77=241, T41. Brittany Stewart 79-86-81=246, T41. Po Yee Leung 82-81-83=246, T53. Lauren Archer 85-86-80=251, T74. Anna Rosvall 89-91-82=262

TV time

Saturday’s Pacific-10 Conference gymnastics championships, which involves ninth-ranked OSU, will be televised on Fox Sports on tape delay.

It will air at noon April 5 and 11:30 a.m. on April 7.

Academic honors

Women’s swimmers Felicia Castaneda, Julie McCauley, Erin Postma and Kayla Rawlings earned first-team Pacific-10 Conference All-Academic honors, and Ginny Connell took second-team.

Senior Sandy Hong, sophomore Agata Szewczuk and senior Erika Wirth earned honorable mention.