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 record41–17 (17–10 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 18–9 .667  35–24 .593
No. 11 Arizona State  ‍‍‍y 17–10 .630  42–16 .724
No. 16 Oregon State  ‍‍‍y 17–10 .630  41–17 .707
Arizona  ‍‍‍y 15–12 .556  39–21 .650
No. 21 Stanford  ‍‍‍y 14–12 .538  35–20 .636
California  ‍‍‍y 13–13 .500  35–21 .625
USC  ‍‍‍ 13–14 .481  25–31 .446
Oregon  ‍‍‍ 11–16 .407  33–26 .559
Washington State  ‍‍‍ 10–17 .370  26–28 .481
Washington  ‍‍‍ 6–21 .222  17–37 .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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