2012_Oregon_State_Beavers_baseball_team

2012 Oregon State Beavers baseball team

2012 Oregon State Beavers baseball team

American college baseball season


The 2012 Oregon State Beavers baseball team represented Oregon State University in the 2012 NCAA Division I baseball season. The team participated in the Pac-12 Conference. They were coached by Pat Casey and assistant coaches Marty Lees, Pat Bailey, and Nate Yeskie.[2] They played home games in Goss Stadium at Coleman Field. The Beavers finished the season with a 40–20 overall record, and came in fourth (tied with Arizona State and Stanford, just two wins behind first) in the Pac-12 Conference Championship with 18 wins and 12 losses.[3]

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The team was selected as the #2 seed to participate in the Baton Rouge Regional in the 2012 NCAA Division I baseball tournament, where they lost to #1 seed and #7 national seed Louisiana State 56 in the finals during extra innings.

Previous season

Oregon State finished the 2011 regular season with a 4117 overall record, and came in third in the Pac-12 Conference Championship with 17 wins and 10 losses. 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 Vanderbilt Commodores in the Nashville Super Regional, where they lost 111.

Highlights

  • On May 25, 2012 Pat Casey became the Oregon State University program's all-time winningest coach after winning against rival Oregon 7–3.[4]
  • Having participated in the Baton Rouge Regional they have now participated in the NCAA tournament a school record 4 consecutive years.
  • This was their second consecutive and fifth all-time season with at least 40 wins.
  • Michael Conforto, a freshman, set a new single-season RBI record of 76.[5][6]

Roster

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Rankings

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^ Collegiate Baseball ranked 40 teams in their preseason poll, but only ranked 30 teams weekly during the season.
NCBWA ranks 35 teams in their preseason poll, but only ranks 30 teams weekly during the season.
* A 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-12. Retrieved May 28, 2012.
  2. "OREGON STATE OFFICIAL ATHLETIC SITE - Baseball". Archived from the original on May 1, 2011. Retrieved May 1, 2011.
  3. "Michael Conforto sets career RBI mark as No. 1 Oregon State sweeps UCLA". NCAA.com. May 12, 2014. Retrieved January 26, 2023.
  4. "USA TODAY/ESPN Top 25 coaches' baseball poll". USA Today. Archived from the original on November 11, 2015. Retrieved January 6, 2023.
  5. "NCAA DIV I POLL - Current - Collegiate Baseball Newspaper". Archived from the original on May 8, 2012. Retrieved May 7, 2012.

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