OSU Beavers baseball Wins game 1 in front of 3,200 in their 14th regional appearance by beating the UTSA Roadrunners tonight 5-4. The Beavers will now face the Gouchos from UC Santa Barbara tomorrow night at 5:00 pm on ESPN2/ESPNU/ESPN3 at Goss Stadium.
OSU starter Matt Boyd had another good outing throwing 114 pitches, striking out 8 batters, allowing only 4 hits and only allowing 2 runs in 6.2 innnings pitched.
The Beavers Started off slow offensively, and fell behind early 1-0 in the first inning. Their first run came in the 4th inning on a fielders choice hit with the bases loaded by third baseman Kavin Keyes, which allowed Dylan Davis to score.
In the 5th inning Pat Casey was asked about what adjustments needed to be made offensively to get the bats going. "Our guys need to be more patient, and wait for the pitch you want, and we just need to start swinging at better pitches."
The Roadrunners took the lead again in the 6th with Mike Warren's RBI Single. Beavers immediately answered with 2 runs in the bottom of the 6th to regain the lead. The first coming from a Sac fly from Kavin Keyes. The second came when UTSA pitcher Matt Sims walked Tyler Smith with the bases loaded and 2 outs scoring Ryan Barnes.
The Roadrunners answered by scoring a single run in each of the next 2 innings and they ended up taking the lead into the bottom of the 9th.
The Beavers now 3 outs away from becoming the 12 national seed in history to lose in a regional game one, and would be the second team to do so in the last 4 years.
Tyler Smith advanced to second on a sac bunt by second baseman Andy Peterson, putting the tying run on second and the PAC 12 player of the year in Michael Conforto at the plate with one out. Conforto is hit by a low and inside pitch just above the ankle by pitcher Matt Sims.
The winning run is now on first with Dylan Davis at the plate. Davis jumps on the first pitch he sees and connects sending the ball into the gap in right center field scoring both Smith and Conforto with a walk off double. This became the first hit for the beavers with runners in scoring position and the game winner as well, Davis ended the night 3-5 and the 2 RBI's in the bottom of the 9th that secured their spot tomorrow against #3 seed UCSB.
Pat Casey commented on Davis's at bat after the game saying, "We felt that we had the right people up, certainly Dylan (Davis) is locked in and I don't think there is anyone else that we would want up there in that kind of situation."
#3 seeded UCSB upset #2 seeded Texas A&M 6-4 at Goss Stadium early this afternoon.
Also University of Oregon Ducks won game one of there regional beating SDSU by a score of 3-2 they will face off against Rice University tomorrow at 6:00 pm.
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