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Joseph Young was named to the Pac-12 all-conference second team and Mike Moser earned honorable mention honors as the league’s annual awards were announced on Monday. Moser was also selected as the Pac-12’s player of the week for the second week in a row. Young, a junior from Houston, Texas, leads Oregon and ranks fifth in the conference in scoring at 18.2 points per game. The transfer from the University of Houston is also the conference leader in free throw percentage (.892), ranks third in three-pointers per game (2.2), seventh in three-point field goal percentage (.406) and fifth in steals (1.4 per game). Moser, a senior transfer from UNLV, leads Oregon and is seventh in the Pac-12 in rebounding at 8.2 per game. He also ranks 17th in scoring (13.7 per game), 10th in three-pointers per game (1.7) and 12th in steals (1.2 per game). Moser was also named the Pac-12 Men’s Basketball Player of the Week for play from Mar. 3-8, the Conference announced Monday.
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Roberto Nelson was named to the All-Pac-12 Second Team, Eric Moreland earned Pac-12 All-Defensive Honorable Mention for the second consecutive year and Hallice Cooke received Pac-12 All-Freshmen Honorable Mention as selected by a vote of the 12 conference coaches, Commissioner Larry Scott announced on Monday. Nelson received All-Pac-12 Honorable Mention last season after leading the conference in scoring in league games (19.1). He led the Pac-12 in scoring in league games (20.1) again this season and sits atop the conference in all games at 20.6. Nelson also leads the Beavers in assists, steals, three-point field goals and minutes played. Since 1955, there have only been two players who led the Pac-12 in scoring that didn’t receive All-Pac-12 First Team honors (Steve Puidokas of Washington State in 1975 and Brock Motum of Washington State in 2013).
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The No. 15 Oregon State gymnastics team posted its highest road score of the season as the Beavers trounced No. 18 Arizona, 197.050-196.275 at the McKale Center in Tucson. Three OSU all-arounders set career-highs led by Chelsea Tang’s 39.500, while Brittany Harris and Madeline Gardiner each scored 39.400. The Beavers (9-3) topped the 49-point plateau on all four events including a season-high tying 49.350 on the uneven bars and a season-best 49.325 on balance beam.