Greg Peavey Turns in Solid Start in Beavers Series Clinching Win Over Georgia.
March 4, 2008Future Knights Jason Ogata and John Wallace Lead OSU Offense
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Peavey pitched last summer for the Corvallis Knights. Greg made 12 appearances and went 0-1 while recording 4 saves and posting a 1.14 ERA. He struck out 26 over 23 2/3 innings pitched and was named the West Coast Collegiate Baseball League's #1 prospect by Baseball America and All-WCCBL honorable mention.
Oregon State opened its 2008 season vs. #3 ranked Vanderbilt Friday, Feb. 22 in the DeMarini Invitational in Tempe, Arizona. Vandy beat the defending champs 8-1. Three-year Knight Erik Ammon started at catcher and 2007 Knights' centerfielder Braden Wells led off and started in leftfield.
The Beavs went 1-2 in Arizona beating Miami of Ohio 8-3 and losing to #1 ranked and host Arizona State 11-0.
Peavey debuted vs. the Sun Devils. The frosh struggled and didn't make it out of the first inning. But Greg rebounded with an impressive outing vs. Georgia in a critical rubber game this past Sunday at PGE Park.
The hard throwing right-hander tossed 6 2/3 innings allowing 7 hits and 4 runs while walking none and striking out 7 Bulldogs. Greg was relieved by his 2007 Knights' teammate southpaw Blake Keitzman of Roseburg, Oregon. Keitzman got Peavey out of the inning and OSU rallied with 2 runs in the bottom half of the inning and the winning run in the eighth to beat Georgia 5-4 before a Pac-10 record crowd of 11,166.
"I think the key was the fact that Peavey stayed with it and our club continued to find a way to get some guys on base and manufacture a couple runs," said OSU head baseball coach Pat Casey.
Keitzman has now made 3 scoreless relief appearances and has struck out 6 over 4 innings pitched.
Future Knights Jason Ogata and John Wallace led the Beavers offense vs. UGA.
Ogata hit a game-winning three-run inside the park homer in Friday's 6-4 win and homered and delivered a game-tying, two-out RBI single in Sunday's series clinching victory. The junior infielder/designated hitter from Westview High School in Beaverton, Oregon went 5 for 11 with a homerun and 6 RBI. Wallace, a junior outfielder from Reno, Nevada, went 5 for 8 with a double, homer and 2 RBI. Wallace leads the team in hitting with a .444 batting average, Ogata is second at .429. Jason leads the team in RBI with 10.
Oregon State's three-game set at PGE Park drew 29,332.
OSU is now 6-1 vs. University of Georgia over the past three years going back to the Beavs 2006 College World Series 5-3 win over the Bulldogs.
Future Knight pitcher Taylor Starr from Longview, Washington made his OSU debut in Saturday's game vs. Georgia. The frosh right-hander tossed two scoreless innings of relief.
Oregon State improved its record to 4-3 with a 16-0 whitewashing of University of Portland this afternoon at Joe Etzel Field.
Knights alums Brett Casey ('06-07), Erik Ammon ('05-07), Josh Keller ('06) and Brad Kidd ('07) all had great days. Casey collected a double and 2 RBI; Ammon was 1 for 1; Keller tossed 3 hitless innings of relief and struck out 5 Pilots; and Kidd, a sophomore transfer from BYU, threw a scoreless inning of relief.
Future Knight left-hander Josh Osich from Boise, Idaho threw a scoreless frame in relief, striking out 3. Ogata hit a two-run double to extend his hitting streak to 7 games and Wallace hammered his second homer and collected 3 RBI.
OSU heads to San Diego for four games (LMU, Santa Clara, USD and San Diego State) starting this Friday.