Oregon State University NCAA News

Jordan Poyer took part in Oregon State's graduation on Saturday and flew to Philadelphia on Sunday, but he struggled to fall asleep that night in his airport hotel room.

Oregon St. backup quarterback Richie Harrington has announced he is leaving the Beavers, transferring to Southern Utah of the Football Championship Subdivision Big Sky Conference.

Oregon St.'s Max Gordon got both of Oregon St.'s big innings going, and was 2 for 2 with 2 RBIs and a run scored in the 4th inning to lead the Beavers to an 11-4 win over Louisville.

Ben Wetzler ran off 7 straight wins down the stretch in the regular season, and won both the Regional and Super Regional ending games for Oregon St. The Beavers need another effort on that level today against Louisville.

Oregon St.'s Michael Conforto went 4 for 4 plus a walk, reaching base all 5 trips to the plate, but it wasn't enough, as Mississippi St. pulled out a 5-4 win to open the CWS.

It's the first trip back to Omaha for both teams since 2007, when the Beavers won their second National Championship in as many years.

BeaverBeliever12 correctly picked the entire left side of the CWS bracket correctly to take the lead in the BTD Bracket Challenge Eight teams have survived the second weekend of the 2013 NCAA Baseball Tournament.

If the Dictionary of Phrases needs a demonstration of what "cautiously optimistic" sounds like, they might want to chat with Mark Banker about his Oregon State defense.

Hunter Renfroe leads Mississippi St. in both home runs and batting average. Oregon St. will need to keep Renfroe under control Saturday.

A capsule look at the eight teams competing in the College World Series, which starts Saturday at TD Ameritrade Park.

A report indicated the Steelers were throwing the ball deep more often in minicamp.

To come back and win a pair of elimination games after the heartbreak of losing the opener of a best-of-three super regional when within a strike of victory.

In 2011, Oregon State ranked seventh in the Pac-12 in scoring defense, surrendering 30.8 points per game.

Rookie receiver Tavon Austin returned a punt toward the right sideline Tuesday and broke into the clear, leaving punter Johnny Hekker as the last line of defense.

In 2011, UCLA ranked 10th in the Pac-12 in scoring offense with a measly 23.1 points per game.

The celebration and the trip to Omaha is going to have to wait just a little while longer for Kansas State.

I've never seen so much unneeded angst by a group of fans than this bunch at Oregon State, all nervous, all tense, all up in arms about the suddenly precarious footing of their baseball team.

Freshman All-American Andrew Moore has been called on numerous times to bail the Beavers out after a bad day this season.

Kansas State can advance to the final eight at the College World Series in Omaha, Neb., with a win Sunday night against Kavin Keyes and Oregon State.

Hello. Mailbag! Twitter ! Notes! Osu_beavs1987 from Corvallis, Ore., writes: You and Kevin have been promoting the QB battle at OSU which is understandable since Riley refuses to say who the starting QB will be and neither QB really had a remarkable spring.