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THIS WEEK: The Portland State softball team (21-21, 11-5 PCSC) heads to Oregon State (29-15, 6-8 Pac-12 Conference) for a midweek doubleheader before hosting league foe Weber State this weekend. Portland State and Oregon State play on Tuesday, starting at 2 p.m. The Vikings host Weber State (21-25, 10-6 PCSC) on Saturday with a doubleheader starting at 12 p.m. PDT and then again on Sunday with games starting at 11 a.m. Sunday will be senior day.
 
HOW TO FOLLOW THE VIKS THIS WEEK: Tuesday's doubleheader against Oregon State will feature a free live audio broadcast through GoViks.com, with Teri Mariani calling the action. Gametracker will also be provided through OSUBeavers.com.
 
PSU-OSU SERIES TIDBITS: PSU snapped a nine-game losing streak to the Beavers with a 1-0 victory on May 10, 2011, at Erv Lind Stadium. Ex-Beaver Karmen Holladay threw a complete-game for Portland State, holding OSU to just three hits ... the Vikings' last two victories in the series have both been by 1-0 scores ... Oregon State has won 11 in a row in Corvallis in the series. PSU's last win there came on April 18, 2006 (6-4). Seven on those 11 wins have been shutouts ... OSU took two of three from the Vikings last spring, winning twice in Corvallis on May 22 by scores of 4-3 in eight innings and 2-0 ... Jenna Krogh is 4-for-9 (.444) and Crysta Conn is 3-for-9 (.333) in three career games against OSU ... Carly McEachran is 4-for-15 (.267) in six career games against the Beavers ... in two career appearances, Anna Bertrand has held the Beavers to a .194 batting average and has struck out six in 11 innings.
 
A QUICK LOOK AT THE BEAVERS: Oregon State (29-15) is coming off an impressive week in which took two of three over Washington.  The Beavers became ranked for the first time since 2008, entering the ESPN.com/USA Softball poll at number 23, and the USA Today/NFCA poll at number 25 earlier this season after picking up three victories over top 15 teams in a week ... The Beavers took two of three from then-No. 15 Oregon, before earning a 7-5 win at then-No. 14 UCLA on April 1 ... Oregon State hadn't beaten three ranked teams in the same week in six years, since defeating No. 1 UCLA (2-0) and No. 14 Washington (3-2; 5-0) on three consecutive days in 2006 (April 21-23) ... the win over UCLA was exceptional in many respects. It was Oregon State's 11th all-time victory in the series and only their fourth win against the Bruins in Westwood. OSU last came away from Easton Stadium on top on April 21, 2006 in a 2-0 triumph over then-No. 1 UCLA ... it was also Oregon State's first Pac-12 road win of any sort since 2009 (4/11/09 vs. Oregon; W, 2-1) and was the program's first true road win against a top-15 team since it defeated No. 11 Washington, 2-0, on April 27, 2007 ... the victories against Oregon gave OSU its first back-to-back wins against the Ducks since 2008 and sealed only the Beavers' third Pac-12 series victory since that year ... Elizabeth Santana leads OSU with a .362 batting average and 32 RBIs ... Paige Hall, Dani Gilmore and Desiree Beltran all have six home runs this season ... the Beavers have already greatly surpassed their runs scored and home runs totals of last year. They have scored 244 runs and hit 33 homers, compared to 135 runs and 16 homers in 47 games in 2011 ... OSU has a four-pitcher staff that shares the workload. The foursome has a combined earned run average of 3.18 and opponents are batting .245 against them.
 
DOWN THE HOME STRETCH: The Vikings sit atop the PCSC Mountain Division with a one game lead over Weber State. Following games Tuesday in Corvallis, the Portland State will host Weber State for the de facto PCSC Mountain Division championship series. With the Vikings sitting one game up in the standings, the Wildcats would have to take three games of the four next weekend to overtake the Vikings and claim the division title.
 
BACK-TO-BACK: Junior pitcher Anna Bertrand threw back-to-back complete game shutouts in the same day against Seattle on April 22. It is the first time in her career that she has performed the feat on the same day. She threw all 31 innings on the weekend allowing only three earned runs for an earned run average of 0.68 on the weekend. Her back-to-back shutouts came after she threw a 10 inning one-hitter in a losing effort.
 
VIKINGS TAKE CARE OF REDHAWKS: The Vikings took care of business at home this past weekend when they took three of the four games from the Redhawks of Seattle University. The Vikings took the first game of the series, 5-3, thanks to home runs by Karmen Holladay and Alicia Fine. The Vikings could not manufacture a run in the second game of the series which went 10 innings before the Redhawks took the 1-0 lead in the top of the 10th inning thanks to international tiebreaker rules placing a runner on second. Bertrand threw a one-hitter in the 10 inning affair but came away with the loss. She then came back and threw two complete game shutouts of the Redhawks to take the series 3-1.