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With the Oregon State baseball team set to kick off the 2023 campaign against the New Mexico Lobos in Surprise (AZ), BeaversEdge previews the matchup!
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WHO, WHAT, WHEN, WHERE
Oregon State vs New Mexico
Surprise Stadium, Surprise, Ariz.
Friday - 11 a.m.
RHP Trent Sellers (0-0, 0.00) vs. RHP Riley Egloff (0-0, 0.00)
TV: Flosports (subscription required)
Radio: KEJO 1240/Varsity Sports Network
Quick Hits
- Oregon State is 5-0 versus New Mexico under Mitch Canham. The Beavers have scored 64 runs over those five games - an average of 12.8 per. Defensively, Oregon State has held New Mexico to just 11 runs over that stretch, an average of 2.2 per.
- OSU is 16-4 all-time against New Mexico.
- The Beavers opened the 2022 season with a 21-1 win over New Mexico. OSU followed that up with a 13-3 win two days later to stretch the Beavers’ win streak to nine versus the Lobos.
- Travis Bazzana and Kyle Dernedde each had two hits in the 21-1 win over UNM. Dernedde also scored three runs in the win.
- OSU is 82-31 all-time on opening days.
- Oregon State has won 12 of its last 13 season openers with the lone blemish a 3-2 loss to Kansas State in 2021. The ‘21 Beavers went on to win 10 straight after the loss.
- Mitch Canham enters the season needing 10 victories to reach 100 leading Oregon State.
- The Beavers return an All-American from 2022, Ben Ferrer, and three Freshmen All-Americans: Travis Bazzana, Jacob Kmatz and Ryan Brown. The Beavers lost All-Americans Cooper Hjerpe, Justin Boyd and Jacob Melton, who were all selected in the first two rounds of the MLB Draft.
- The Beavers are opening the season in Surprise for the eighth consecutive year. OSU also opened there in 2004 and 2006.
- Oregon State is 57-15 in Surprise since 2004.
- OSU is ranked 18th by Baseball America and 23rd by the NCBWA, Perfect Game and USA Today.
- Oregon State was selected to finish third per the Pac-12’s coaches in the conference’s annual poll.
- Garret Forrester is ranked as the No. 4 first baseman nationally by D1Baseball.com. Bazzana is ranked ninth at second base. Gavin Turley is rated 45th in the outfield. Kmatz is 103rd among starting pitchers. Ferrer is sixth among relievers while Brown ranks 21st.
- Oregon State was 25-10 in games that started prior to 5 p.m. last season.
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By The Numbers (2022)
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