Clear your schedules Beaver Nation, the Oregon State Beaver baseball team have made it to the Super Regional and it’s hosted at home.

Game times are set for June 6 at 3 pm, June 7 at 6 pm, and June 8 TBD if necessary against the Florida State University Seminoles.

After an unexpected loss in the first game of the Corvallis Regional, the Beavers fought back, outscoring their opponents in the final four games 50 to six total. 

“Last weekend was some of the craziest baseball,” sophomore Trent Caraway said. “We have so much momentum going into the Super Regional… all of us are so excited to get out here and put on a show for everyone.”

Caraway led the charge offensively, earning himself the Most Outstanding Player of the Corvallis Regional. Caraway had five home runs in five games, batting .529, with 10 RBIs. 

Caraway broke the Beaver baseball postseason home run record, which includes regionals, super regionals, and the College World Series. 

“I feel like people are pretty scared of me right now,” Caraway said. “I’m going to be ready for (pitches) in the zone, and if it’s not, I’m going to walk.” 

Caraway wasn’t the only one with a hot bat. 

Easton Talt, Aiva Arquette, Gavin Turley, Tyce Peterson and Wilson Weber were selected to the Corvallis All-Regional Team in their respective positions. 

The boys in orange and black put up a combined total of 63 hits that weekend.

“With how many hits we had and runs we put up last weekend, it’s like ‘oh, that’s how it should be,’” Weber said. “That’s how it should have been all year for us, but this is the right time to actually get everything clicked and going.” 

Like head coach Mitch Canham has been saying all season, the Beavers haven’t been playing their best baseball yet. They are now at the most important time. 

“We’re a totally different caliber team in all facets when we’re doing things right,” Caraway said. “We have some of the best potential in college baseball if we’re playing right.” 

Freshman pitcher Dax Whitney was also one of two pitchers selected for the All-Regional team. He threw six innings and struck out 12 batters. 

“I’ve told Dax multiple times, ‘Hey, your stuff is better than these guys in the box, so just get ahead and challenge them to hit it, cause guess what? They’re not,’” Turley said. “‘I don’t care if you tell them what’s coming. I’m not hitting it, no one’s hitting you.’”

After a first inning disaster against Saint Mary’s College of California on May 30, Eric Segura was pulled from the game, only getting one out and tacking on three runs. 

However, in the regional finale, Segura threw three innings in relief and recorded five strikeouts. 

Kellen Oakes, AJ Hutchenson, Nelson Keljo and James DeCremer all threw up zeros during their time on the mound last weekend. 

“They continued to find ways to shut them down, get ground balls, double plays, pitch with confidence, and not let the emotions get to them, especially when you’re win or go home,” Canham said about his pitching staff last weekend. 

After allowing six runs in the first game, the Beaver pitching brigade allowed six runs over a four-game stretch. 

“We just showed the whole country that we have the arms to really make a run here,” Turley said. “That’s huge when you’re trying to do something like win a national championship.”

The Beavers aren’t the only team with an impressive pitching resume. The Seminoles kept their opponents to seven runs through their three games of the Tallahassee Regional. 

The Seminoles come into Beaver territory carrying a heavy arsenal of lefty pitchers, including all three of their starters. 

“(Florida State) has good starting pitching with some low-slot lefties coming at us,” Turley said. “We faced a guy at Iowa, Cade Obermuller, who has a similar type of arm that we’ll see, and we handled him well.”

The pair of lefties, Jamie Arnold and Wes Mendes, both received Tallahassee All-Regional Team honors. Arnold threw seven innings with 13 strikeouts and received Most Outstanding Player of the tournament. Mendes threw eight innings with nine strikeouts. 

“Seeing (Arnold) and knowing he’s a good arm makes it that much more fun to go get a play against somebody of that status,” Weber said. “I’m excited to get to face him in a big game, it just makes the game that much more fun.” 

Unfortunately for the Beavs, they have struggled at the plate against left-handed pitchers all year. 

Their bats last weekend, however, proved otherwise, scoring 19 runs off the seven lefties they faced.

“We finally started to make the approach that we need to against those (lefties) and we started to handle them well,” Weber said. 

College baseball fans across the country can expect a gritty series against the No. 8 Beavs and No. 9 Seminoles.

Will the home field advantage and energy from Goss Stadium be enough to send Beaver baseballto their eighth College World Series appearance and fourth national title?