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FIRST PITCH
Portland State heads south to Corvallis Tuesday for a midweek non-conference match up with the Oregon State Beavers. First pitch is slated for 1 p.m. PT.
The Vikings and Beavers have a home-and-home scheduled this season with the teams playing a single-game in Corvallis Tuesday. Oregon State will pay a return visit to the Gordon Faber Recreation Complex in Hillsboro on May 3.
Portland State is coming off a disappointing Big Sky Conference weekend. The Vikings dropped all three games to the Weber State Wildcats, suffering first series sweep of the season. Weber State outscored Portland State 36-4 over the three games and out-hit the Vikings .513-to-.273.
One bright note out of the weekend was the play of senior IF
Celena Carrisosa. She led the Vikings with a .571 average, going 4-for-7 with a run scored. She also played error-less defense at second base.
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SENIOR CAMPAIGN
Senior IF
Shae Nelson continues to thrive in her final season at Portland State. She leads the team, and is fifth in the Big Sky Conference, with a .377 batting average. She is on pace to finish in the top 10 all-time at PSU for single-season batting average. She leads PSU in on-base percentage (.421), runs scored (15), Hits (40), and is second in runs batted in (12).
COMING ON STRONG
Senior IF
Celena Carrisosa has come on strong in conference play. She entered league play hitting .118 with just four hits on the year. Since that time, She has raised her batting average over 100-points and is currently hitting .237 with four multi-hit games on the year. She hit safely in all three games at Weber State going, 4-for-7.
STREAKS
Senior IF
Shae Nelson has hit safely in each of the last five games and 12 of the last 13 for the Vikings. Over that 13-game stretch, she is hitting .405 (17-for-42) with six runs scored, a double, triple, and five runs batted in.
SERIES WIN
Portland State picked up its first Big Sky series win of the season, taking 2-of-3 from the Northern Colorado Bears at home last weekend. The Vikings hit .290 as a team against the bears but the big story was the Vikings' pitching staff. Freshman
Emma Detamore and Sophomore
Alyssa Burk combined for a 1.84 ERA over the three games, allowing just five earned runs over 19.0 innings pitched. Detamore recorded her first complete-game shutout and tallied a career-high nine strikeouts in the series opener. Burk followed with a complete game win of her own in game two to take the series.
4 FOR SHAE
Senior IF
Shae Nelson posted the team's first four-hit game of the season, going a perfect 4-for-4 with a double, two runs scored, and a run batted in against Seton Hall. She added her second four-hit game of the year, going 4-for-4 with a run scored and two driven in against Northern Colorado (3/31).
FIRST WIN
Portland State picked up its first win of the season with a 4-3 win over Rhode Island in the final game of the GCU Invitational on Feb. 26 in Phoenix, Ariz. Not only did the Vikings get their first win of the year, but it was the first NCAA Division I win for first-year Head Coach
Meadow McWhorter.
YOUNG SQUAD
Portland State added 11 freshman to the roster heading into the season. The 11-member freshman class is tied for the largest in the country this year.
UP NEXT
Portland State hosts conference-leading Montana April 22-23 for a three-game set at the Gordon Faber Recreation Complex in Hillsboro, Ore. The series will open with a doubleheader on Saturday beginning at 1 p.m. The series finale is slated for Sunday at 1 p.m.
OREGON STATE BEAVERS
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Team: Oregon State is 21-18 overall and 4-8 in Pacific-12 Conference play and is coming off its biggest win of the year. OSU trailed #8 UCLA, 5-3, entering the bottom of the seventh before tying the game at 5-5. Natalie Hampton hit a three-run home run to give the Beavers the walk-off, 8-5, win and their first-ever series win over the Bruins, 2-1. It was their third win over a top 10 team in the last two weeks. Oregon State is hitting .302 as a team and has five starters hitting over .300 for the year. The Beavers are 30-for-32 in stolen base attempts.
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Hitting: McKenna Arriola leads the team with a .374 batting average on the year. She also leads the team with 49 hits and 28 runs scored and is a perfect 7-for-7 in stolen base attempts. Arriola has started all 39 games and has committed 26 of the team's 60 errors. Hampton is hitting .303 and is second on the team with five home runs and 33 runs batted in.
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Pitching: Taylor Cotton leads the team with an 8-4 record and a 2.35 ERA. She has allowed 48 runs, 33 earned, over a team-high 98 1/3 innings pitched. She has walked 47 and struck out a team-high 86. Nerissa Eason is 9-11 on the season with a 4.30 ERA. She has allowed 81 runs over 94 1/3 innings. She has walked 74 and struck out 64.
vs. OREGON STATE
All-Time: Oregon State leads the all-time series 89-35-1, dating back to the 1977 season. The Beavers are 49-18 at home in the series. Portland State's last win in the series was a 9-1 win in five innings in 2015. The last road win for the Vikings was a 6-4 victory in 2006.
Last Time: Portland State and Oregon State met just once last season with the Beavers taking the game 9-1 in five innings in Corvallis. The Vikings scored the first run of the game after
SheaLee Lindsey walked and scored in the top of the first. Oregon State scored nine unanswered runs over the next three innings, including six unearned runs in the bottom of the second, to take the game via the run-rule.
