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The Oregon State Baseball team defeated the Grand Canyon University Antelopes 6-4 on Friday afternoon at Goss Stadium.
The Beavers, now on a seven-game winning streak, are currently ranked No. 8 in the nation, according to the D1baseball.com Top 25 poll.
The game opened with GCU at-bat with right fielder Josh Wakefield doubling, before Beavers’ starting pitcher Nelson Keljo retired the next three batters in succession.
OSU responded in the bottom of the first with Trent Caraway striking out and Aiva Arquette grounding out. Tyce Peterson then singled up the middle and advanced to second after Antelope pitcher Isaac Lyon walked OSU’s Gavin Turley. Peterson was left stranded on second after Canon Reeder struck out swinging.
The game remained scoreless until the bottom of the third. After Arquette and Peterson both singled, standing on first and second bases, respectively, Turley struck out swinging. Reeder then singled to load the bases and Jacob Krieg launched a fly ball that sent Arquette home and Peterson to third.
When OSU’s Easton Talt stepped up to bat he faced two outs with Reeder on second and Peterson on third. Talt then singled to right field when a throwing error allowed Reeder and Peterson to make it home and extend the Beavers’ lead to 3-0 to close the third inning.
Keljo pitched six complete innings, allowing five hits, struck out four batters, and kept the Antelopes from scoring during his outing.
“The first two starts I walked too many guys, so definitely getting ahead in the count, that’s when I work best,” Keljo said in the postgame interview.
Starting Antelope pitcher Lyon left the game after 4.1 innings, having given up seven hits and four runs. He was relieved by Elijah Higginbottom.
Little improved for GCU afterward, as Higginbottom completed the game and allowed three hits and two runs in 3.2 innings.
The Beavers resumed their scoring in the bottom of the fifth when a double from Turley sent Peterson in for his second run of the day. The Beavers extended the lead to 6-0 in the bottom of the sixth with a homerun from Caraway, sending AJ Singer to home base as well.
The Antelopes attempted a comeback in the top of the eighth when Wakefield and Carson Ohland singled. Zach Yorke followed suit by walking to first and having the bases loaded. From there, Beavers relieving pitcher Eric Segura walked Eddy Pelc and Wakefield scored, cutting the Lopes deficit to 6-1.
After the Wakefield walk, Segura was relieved by Matthew Morrel, who gave up three runs to close out the eighth before retiring the Antelopes and sending the Beavers to the bottom of the inning clinging to a 6-4 lead.
After a scoreless bottom of the eighth, the Beavers ended the game when Yorke’s deep hit to center field was caught on a diving catch to earn the walk-off.
“Right on…totally excellent,” head coach Mitch Canham said as Yorke’s hit was caught. “You knew it was going to hang up there, but whether or not it was going to go [for a home run], he hit about as good as you possibly can.”
For the game, Peterson led the Beavers offensively with three hits and two runs in four at-bats, while Caraway, Arquette, Reeder and Singer all logged one hit and one run. Caraway and Talt had two RBI each.
The Beavers improve to 13-3 on the season and play two more games at home against the Santa Clara Broncos on Saturday at 5:35 p.m. The Beavers will see the Antelopes again on Sunday at 1:05 p.m.