2011 Oregon State Beavers baseball team

The 2011 Oregon State Beavers baseball team represented Oregon State University in the 2011 NCAA Division I baseball season. The team participated in the Pacific-10 Conference. They were coached by Pat Casey and assistant coaches Marty Lees, Pat Bailey, and Nate Yeskie.[3] They played home games in Goss Stadium at Coleman Field. The Beavers finished the season with a 41–17 overall record, and came in third in the Pacific-10 Conference Championship with 17 wins and 10 losses.

2011 Oregon State Beavers baseball
ConferencePacific-10 Conference
2011 record4117 (1710 Pac-10)
Head coach
Assistant coaches
Pitching coachNate Yeskie (3rd season)
Home stadiumGoss Stadium at Coleman Field
2011 Pacific-10 Conference baseball standings
Conf  Overall
TeamW L PCT  W L PCT
No. 18 UCLA  y 189 .667  3524 .593
No. 11 Arizona State  y 1710 .630  4216 .724
No. 16 Oregon State  y 1710 .630  4117 .707
Arizona  y 1512 .556  3921 .650
No. 21 Stanford  y 1412 .538  3520 .636
California  y 1313 .500  3521 .625
USC   1314 .481  2531 .446
Oregon   1116 .407  3326 .559
Washington State   1017 .370  2628 .481
Washington   621 .222  1737 .315
Conference champion
Pac-10 Conference champion
y Invited to the 2011 NCAA Division I Baseball Tournament
As of June 8, 2011[1]; Rankings from Coaches' Poll[2]

The team was selected to host a Regional in the 2011 NCAA Division I Baseball Tournament, and as such were seeded #1 in the Corvallis Regional. The Beavers won all three of their games in the Corvallis Regional and went on to play the #6 national seed Vanderbilt in the Nashville Super Regional, where they lost 1–11.

Previous season

Oregon State finished the 2010 regular season as the #8 team in the Pacific-10 Conference, and lost to the Florida Gators in the Gainesville Regional. Many players returned from last year's team to play for the 2011 team.

Highlights

  • The pitching staff finished the season with a team ERA of 3.14 in 2011, which is the lowest since 2005 and the second-lowest since 1979.[4]
  • Six pitchers were selected in the first nine rounds of the Major League Baseball First-Year Player Draft, the most ever in Beavers' history.[5]


Rankings

Ranking movements
Legend: ██ Increase in ranking. ██ Decrease in ranking.
NR = Not ranked. RV = Received votes. т = Tied with team above or below. ( ) = First place votes.
Week
Poll Pre 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 Final 
Coaches' RV RV* RV* RV RV 22 20 19 15 8 9 7 7 7 10 16  
Baseball America NR NR NR NR NR 23 23 19 9 3 3 3 2 2 6 15  
Collegiate Baseball^ RV NR NR NR 23 26 29 20 10 7 6 4 3 2 6 13  
NCBWA RV RV RV RV 30 26 27 27 17 15 12 8 10 10 13 18  
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^ Collegiate Baseball ranks 40 teams in their preseason poll, but only ranks 30 teams weekly during the season.
NCBWA ranks 35 teams in their preseason poll, but only ranks 30 teams weekly during the season.
* New poll was not released for this week so for comparison purposes the previous week's ranking is inserted in this week's slot.


See also

References

  1. "Baseball standings". Pac-10. Retrieved June 8, 2011.
  2. "USA TODAY/ESPN Top 25 coaches' baseball poll". USA Today. Retrieved June 1, 2011.
  3. https://web.archive.org/web/20110501031846/http://www.osubeavers.com/sports/m-basebl/mtt/orst-m-basebl-mtt.html
  4. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2012-06-04. Retrieved 2012-06-04.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  5. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2012-06-04. Retrieved 2012-06-04.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
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