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SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. – The Oregon State baseball team enters the 2022 NCAA postseason as the nation’s No. 3 national seed, the NCAA announced Monday. The Beavers are a national seed for the sixth time, following 2005 (8th), 2013 (3rd), 2014 (1st), 2017 (1st) and 2018 (3rd). Oregon State is hosting a regional for the ninth time, and fourth time since the 2017 season. The NCAA Corvallis Regional gets underway Friday, and scheduled action continues through Sunday. An if necessary game may be played on Monday. The Beavers will open play Friday against New Mexico State, the fourth-seeded team at the regional. The Aggies went 24-32 overall this season, and went 4-0 in the Western Athletic Conference Tournament, defeating Abilene Christian on Saturday. The Beavers lead the all-time series, 7-2, last winning 7-0 in 2011. No. 2 Vanderbilt and No. 3 San Diego will get the regional underway Friday. The Beavers last played the Commodores in the 2018 NCAA Corvallis Super Regional, sweeping Vanderbilt en route to the National Championship. Vanderbilt leads the all-time series, 3-2. Vanderbilt enters the postseason with a 36-21 overall record. The Commodores finished fourth in the SEC’s Eastern Division, posting a 14-16 mark. San Diego holds a slight 10-9 advantage in the all-time series, but the Beavers have won the last four games. OSU swept a pair of games in 2018, 23-6 and 19-6. San Diego enters the regional with a 36-18 record. The Toreros finished West Coast Conference play with a 17-10 record, tying for second.
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CORVALLIS – The Oregon State softball team will open their Women’s College World Series run on Thursday, when the Beavers take on Florida at 4 p.m. PT. The game is slated to air on ESPN. The Beavers and Gators will be joined in their double-elimination bracket by Oklahoma State and Arizona. The winners of Thursday’s contests will advance to play on Saturday, while the losing teams will play in an elimination game on Friday. Oregon State advanced to the WCWS by virtue of sweeping the first two games of a three-game series vs. Stanford in the Super Regional round this weekend. The Beavers advanced to Supers by winning the Knoxville Regional. OSU is headed to the World Series for the second time in program history and the first time since the 2006 campaign.
